The Constitution begins with three words: We the People. But in 1787, who counted as “the people”? And what did it mean to take part in the political life of a brand-new nation? Host Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey talks with Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri, professor of history at George Mason University and author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic and The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776–1850. They trace the shift from subjects of a king...
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