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Built to Last - In this last episode, Sagal travels to Iceland, where after the country’s economic collapse, leaders decided to create a new constitution, looking to the U.S. Constitution for inspiration. This prompts Sagal to consider why our own founding document has lasted more than 225 years.

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Built to Last

Consider the systems that have kept the Constitution healthy for more than 225 years.

Created Equal

Learn about the far-reaching changes created by the Fourteenth Amendment.

It's a Free Country

Examine what most consider the Constitution’s most important feature: the Bill of Rights.

A More Perfect Union

Explore the Constitution’s most striking feature: its resilient brand of federalism.

About Constitution USA with Peter Sagal

Peter Sagal, host of NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!" travels across the country to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn't, how it unites us as a nation, and how it has nearly torn us apart.

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