Power & Politics: Unraveling History

In this, the Sixth Episode of Power & Politics: Unraveling History, we look at The Constitutions and Assize of Clarendon. These were two documents which came about during the reign of Henry II of England, but to understand how he got to the throne, you need to first understand The Anarchy, when King Stephen and Empress Mathilda fought each other for the throne of England.The concepts introduced in the Constitutions and the Assize touch upon our Freedom of Religion, Trial by Jury, the concept of

For this Episode of Power & Politics: Unraveling History, I am happy to welcome Professor Deborah Anthony from the University of Illinois at Springfield as my guest. We will be discussing the First, Fourth, Fifith, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution and how those are being treated by the current Trump Administration.The Constitution of the United States is among the most unique documents in the history of the world. Some may claim that religious texts fall into this

in this, the third episode of Power & Politics: Unraveling History, we look at the second half od the Bill of Rights and the importance of these last five Amendments. We examine how they came about and some of the history surrounding them. We also see how they are surviving the current times.

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 2 of the Power of Politics: Unraveling History. This Episode will be looking at the first five Amendments to the Constitution, the first half of the Bill of Rights. We will examine the history behind them, and we will see how they were developed. In a future episode we will do a deeper dive into a few of these Amendments, but for today, we will introduce them and the history which backed them up.

In this episode, we look at the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and why we had a formal declaration for separating from the United Kingdom. It is the first step toward understanding the United States Constitution.