An American Journey: 3. Establishing Justice

James Naughtie continues his look at the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States, asking how 'justice' has been understood by different generations of Americans. In this third episode, James travels to Alabama in the American South, to understand how the Civil Rights movement sought to connect American reality with the promises in its founding documents. He hears from people in Texas on both sides of the debate about abortion, revealing how a movement built to oppose abortion rights brought millions of Christians into politics and dramatically shifted the politics of America's highest court. And in Midwestern Wisconsin, he hears how political division has come to the administration of justice itself. Producer: Giles Edwards

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An American Journey: 3. Establishing Justice is an episode from Understand: The Economy by BBC.

This episode is 42:28 long.

This episode was published on Feb 9, 2026.

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