Consider the Constitution
Hosted by Katie Crawford-Lackey and Katie Crawford Lackey and Dr Katie Crawford-Lackey · The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution
4.6from 12 ratings
- 93
- Episodes
- 36
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 204K
- YouTube views
About Consider the Constitution
Consider the Constitution is a podcast from the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. The show provides insight into constitutional issues that directly affect every American. Hosted by Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey the podcast features interviews with constitutional scholars, policy and subject matter experts, heritage professionals, and legal practitioners.
- Publisher
- The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution
- Category
- education · government · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Sept 2023
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
36 of 93 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
You Can’t Defer the Maintenance on the Republic
7 Oct 2026
The Unfinished Constitution
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Declaration Is Our Inheritance
Inside a recent episode
You Can’t Defer the Maintenance on the Republic
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And right when they're thinking about how do you actually keep a republic? Their answer is education in a really simplistic way, educated, critical thinkers are not actually useful in certain kinds of governments. Totalitarian governments now, that means you're going to question it. In certain hierarchical societies, it was thought of as kind of a problem to have a population that was like a little too self-actualizing, too smart. But in the United States, the thinking becomes, well, if everything rests with the people, so much is going to turn on elections. who they vote for. So much is going to turn on what's being publicly said in the press, what's being said in state houses and Congress and how people are interpreting those things that it would behoove the country to ensure that the people who have just been empowered as sovereigns have the wherewithal and have the skills and attributes to actually do the things you need to do to govern yourselves, read, write, talk, comprehend. […]
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- Mark Boonshoft
- Jonathan Gienapp
- Douglas Ginsburg
- Matthew Goetz
- Frank Cogliano
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 204,409
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 11 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Consider the Constitution?
Katie Crawford-Lackey and Katie Crawford Lackey and Dr Katie Crawford-Lackey host the show. Published by The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution.
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