This is Democracy – Episode 320: Is the U.S. Constitution Broken?

This week, Jeremi and Zachary host historian Mark Peterson to discuss his book, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History , and to rethink the Constitution as a long-evolving relationship among people, government institutions, land, and written instruments rather than a single 1787 text. Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of three major books: The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England ; The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 ; and, most recently, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History .

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This episode is 00:40:26 long.

This episode was published on Apr 13, 2026.

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