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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

It's long been normal for Americans to worship the Constitution as a sacrosanct text,

embodying everything that makes America exceptional.

Textual seeds planted during the nation's founding that have grown into an ever more perfect union.

A chosen nation marked not by its past sins, but by the blessing of having overcome them. By contrast, you as a dig listener,

you might think of the Constitution as the musty domain of legal scholars, or as the document

into which liberals invest so much misplaced faith in the face of MAGA authoritarianism.

But the Constitution is in fact the fundamental law

governing the basic political and economic organization of the United States, the most powerful

nation on earth. Popular deference to an adulation of the Constitution, as written by the 18th century

framers, has for a long time been a key mechanism

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