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Darren Staloff is a history professor at the City College of New York and the author of two books: Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding and The Making of the American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts.

He talks to us today about the ideas at the core of our Constitution, the people who fought for it, and the results of those political conflicts. What is so special Want to explore more?

• Louis Michael Seidman on the Constitution, an EconTalk podcast.
• Martha Nussbaum on Alexander Hamilton, an EconTalk podcast.
• Is There a Role for a Monarchy in a Free Society? A Liberty Matters forum at the Online Library of Liberty.
• John Bitzan on the Culture at Universities, a Great Antidote podcast.
• Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Benefits of the American Revolution: An Exploration of Positive Externalities, at Econlib.

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