Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with Yale University law professor akhil amar, author of americas unwritten constitution, the precedents and principleses we live by. When you look at the thing, the bill of rights t says Congress Shall make no law a bridging free speech but what if the president tries to sensor speech or d call rourts or states, do we notave freepee bere t fir amendment was adopted, the first year and a half or so of the constitution . So my claim is that we have to honor this written text but much of our actual constitutional experience requires us to go beneath and behind the words, while staying faithful to the words them selves that is the trick, going beneath and behind and yet staying faithful. We conclude this evening with julie taymor whose credits include lion king an spiderman. One thing that i do enjoy doing,hether its in opera eatre or film, is to push e enlope i like to do things that havent been done before. I like to take chances. I lik
Rose the United States constitution is over 225 years old. Though our nation has transformed since the document was ratified, this text has remained largely unchanged. Some scholars question relevance of the constitution in the modern day, others insist we must strictly adhere to the words of our founders, akhil amar suggests that we look beyond the text. He is the sterling professor at Yale Law School and a constitutional law scholar. His new book is called americas unwritten constitution, the precedence and principleses we live by. I am pleased to have him at this table. Welcome. Thank you. So what about this love affair with the constitution that you have, did it come from undergraduate z it come from law school, did it come from some sense of america and its it came from the day that i was born and because the day im born in ann arbor, michigan, my parents are not u. S. Citizens. They evers students, theyre, they were here to do their medical training. They met in ann arbor and bec
Rose the United States constitution is over 225 years old. Though our nation has transformed since the document was ratified, this text has remained largely unchanged. Some scholars question relevance of the constitution in the modern day, others insist we must strictly adhere to the words of our founders, akhil amar suggests that we look beyond the text. He is the sterling professor at Yale Law School and a constitutional law scholar. His new book is called americas unwritten constitution, the precedence and principleses we live by. I am pleased to have him at this table. Welcome. Thank you. So what about this love affair with the constitution that you have, did it come from undergraduate z it come from law school, did it come from some sense of america and its it came from the day that i was born and because the day im born in ann arbor, michigan, my parents are not u. S. Citizens. They evers students, theyre, they were here to do their medical training. They met in ann arbor and bec
Credits include lion king an spiderman. One thing that i do enjoy doing, whether its in opera theatre or film, is to push the envelope. I like to do things that havent been done before. I like to take chances. I like to, to i dont particularly like to repeat myself. So you may recognize things that oh, that looks like work that shes done before. But on the other hand, the joy of creating is to do something youve never done before. And itses to bring things to people and this is really a mantra for me. I want to take people to places they didnt know they wanted to go. Akhil amar and julie taymor coming up. Funding for charlry rose was provide odd by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose the United States constitution is over 225 years old. Though our nation has transformed since the document was ratified, this text has remained largely unchanged. Some scholars question relevance of the constitution in the
Spiderman. One thing that i do enjoy doing, whether its in opera theatre or film, is to push the envelope. I like to do things that havent been done before. I like to take chances. I like to, to i dont particularly like to repeat myself. So you may recognize things that oh, that looks like work that shes done before. But on the other hand, the joy of creating is to do something youve never done before. And itses to bring things to people and this is really a mantra for me. I want to take people to places they didnt know they wanted to go. Akhil amar and julie taymor coming up. Funding for charlry rose was provide odd by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose the United States constitution is over 225 years old. Though our nation has transformed since the document was ratified, this text has remained largely unchanged. Some scholars question relevance of the constitution in the modern day, others insist we