The Importance of State Constitutions  | The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions

The Importance of State Constitutions | The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions

Author: The Federalist Society May 18, 2022 Duration: 1:04:17
How important are state constitutions today? In this episode of the FedSoc Films Podcast, Samantha interviews Jeffrey Sutton, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who appears in our film The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions, a short documentary about the extraordinary decade from 1776 to 1787 which marked the most substantial period of constitution writing in the history of the world.

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