Constitution USA with Peter Sagal

Why have an "indivisible union"?

Clip: Season 1 | 2m  | Video has closed captioning.

Yale Professor Akhil Amar gives us a quick background of *why* founders were interested in creating an "indivisible union" in the first place. Why the "United States" instead of the Articles of the Confederation.

Aired: 02/12/13

Rating: NR

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