Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution

Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. The National

Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit. of constitutional debate. The National Constitution

centers a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to

increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution

among the American people. This week at the NCC I sat down with Justice Stephen Breyer as part of the

launch of his new book reading the Constitution, Why I Chose Pragmatism, not Textualism.

In his book Justice Breyer deconstructs the textual's philosophy of the current

Supreme Court majority and makes a case for what he argues is a better way to interpret the Constitution

based on pragmatism and

purpositism. It was a meaningful conversation that I'm delighted to share with you.

Enjoy the show. Hello friends.

Please join me once more in welcoming Justice Breyer back to the National Constitution Center.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

It's good.

Thank you.

It is always an honor to welcome our honorary co-chair here to the NCC and it's

extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading the Constitution why I chose

pragmatism not textualism. Justice, it is clear from this powerful book which

better than any other sums up the central methodological

debate on the Supreme Court today between pragmatism of which you're the

leading spokesperson and textualism which is the leading spokesperson

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