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How have Americans over the centuries thought about issues such as corporate rights, campaign finance, religious and racial equality, gun control, government surveillance, and affirmative social rights? Two renowned constitutional scholars discuss four American Bills of Rights: The Founders’ Bill of Rights enacted in the late 18th century; the “Second Bill of Rights” generated by the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment; the Bill of Rights the Supreme Court generally enforces today; and a possible fourth Bill of Rights that future Americans deserve.

Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, is the author of The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic. Randall Kennedy, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. 

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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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