Heather Cox Richardson

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126 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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What A Day · Amending The Constitution For The 21st Century With Heather Cox Richardson · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And that, I think, is where the rubber is meeting the road on the moves of the Trump administration toward an authoritarian takeover of our election system. voice-verified

A hundred percent. voice-verified

But what we've been celebrating in the last 250 years is the Declaration of Independence, which is not a body of laws, but it's important because it sets out unalienable rights. voice-verified

It sets out the idea that there are natural laws that give human beings rights. voice-verified

at the time, of course, a very limited set of human beings, but the principle that we have these rights and they cannot be taken away from us. voice-verified

And among those rights that is enumerated, not the only ones, they say these are only some of them, but that's enumerated in the Declaration, is the right to have say in our government, the right to consent to the government that we have put in power. voice-verified

The Constitution is a really strong document that is based in tripwires, really. voice-verified

I mean, we call them checks and balances, but the idea is to prevent the rise of somebody like Donald Trump. voice-verified

And I hear people say, voice-verified

We need to throw out the Constitution. voice-verified

And my answer to that is, no, we need to enforce the Constitution. voice-verified

You know, the emoluments clause, the idea that you shouldn't be able to accept anything from a foreign government. voice-verified

You look at the extraordinary corruption of the Trump White House, which is, you know, as economist Paul Krugman says, what they are doing in the White House is the equivalent of teapot dome every day. voice-verified

We need to enforce the laws that we have, which, by the way, is what Mamdani is doing in New York City. voice-verified

I asked him once, you know, how are you gonna get all this stuff through? voice-verified

And he said, I don't have to get anything through. voice-verified

I have to enforce the laws that are on the books. voice-verified

And I think that's a really important lesson to take nationally. voice-verified

We have to enforce the laws that are on the books. voice-verified

Now, that being said, we also now know that there are weaknesses in the Constitution that need to be fixed. voice-verified

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