Constitutional Oaths

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution requires Senators and Representatives, members of state legislatures, and all state and federal executive and judicial officers to swear or affirm fidelity to the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech," and the Supreme Court's litigation over the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act each highlight a fundamental question related to that oath: "What does it mean to be faithful to the Constitution?"

Om Podcasten

The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.