Candra Cuminika, a Correction

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It takes almost a tury, in a massively bloody civil war, after the bill of rights, before black people become citizens. It also takes a hundred and 30 years for women, white women, to get the right to vote, despite the bill of Rights. What's actually changing laws and transforming the country is people going to jail breaking the law, and actually also people dying and shedding blood. That season's msong the underside of power, by algiers.

In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems were the framers trying to solve? Was the Constitution designed to advance democracy, or to rein it in? And how can the answers to those questions inform our crises of democracy today?

By producer/host John Biewen with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Woody Holton, Dan Bullen, and Price Thomas. The series editor is Loretta Williams.