Resources

Podcasts

• Global Reach: How Constitutional Ideas Travel

  President Bill Clinton, Chairman of the National Constitution Center, discusses how the American constitutional experience has influenced political thought abroad and the challenges of nurturing constitutionalism in the developing world.

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• National Security in an Age of Globalization

  The University of Pennsylvania Law School and the National Constitution Center welcome Harold Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, to deliver the 51st Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture.

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• Founding Principles: The French Connection

  The Center’s Visiting Scholar A.E. Dick Howard discusses how the U.S. constitutional experience shaped debates on the first French Constitution, as well as the divergence of French and American constitutionalism since then.

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• Can Perestroika Survive?

  As a special companion program to the 2008 Liberty Medal, awarded to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jack Matlock, Jr., U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., 1987 - 1991, and Leon Aron, Director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, examine Gorbachev’s reforms, the direction Russia was heading when he left office in 1991, and how his vision compares to Vladimir Putin’s today.

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• Voices for Liberty

  As a special companion program to the 2007 Liberty Medal, awarded to Bono and DATA, distinguished guests discuss fighting poverty and disease on the African continent.

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• How a Democracy Confronts Genocide

  How does genocide happen, and what is the role of the United States and other democracies in stopping it? The National Constitution Center presents a conversation about genocide and the democratic system.

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• Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

  Pulitzer Prize winning author Lawrence Wright discusses the history of al Qaeda and its attacks against America.

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Video

• Global Reach: How Constitutional Ideas Travel

  President Bill Clinton, Chairman of the National Constitution Center, discusses how the American constitutional experience has influenced political thought abroad and the challenges of nurturing constitutionalism in the developing world.

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Websites

• Liberty Medal

  The Liberty Medal is awarded annually by the National Constitution Center to men and women of courage and conviction who have strived to secure the blessings of liberty for people the world over.

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Press Releases

• 08/04/2009 Steven Spielberg to Receive 2009 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center

• 07/13/2009 National Constitution Center to Launch International Photography Exhibition Featuring Work of Students in Philadelphia and Afghanistan

• 05/01/2009 National Constitution Center announces Year-Long Exhibition Lineup with International Focus

• 04/24/2009 National Constitution Center to Present Live Webcast of President Bill Clinton Discussing Constitutionalism and Democracy Abroad

• 02/13/2009 Journalists from Afghanistan to Speak About Executive Power Abroad During the 2009 Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution

• 12/10/2008 National Constitution Center Launches International Engagement Project