The second in a trilogy about America’s Constitution, Born Equal follows The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840; Amar asks us to consider 10 possible meanings of the word “equal.” A widely published and cited Constitutional scholar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale and winner of their DeVane Medal for excellence in teaching, he has spoken twice at the John Jay Homestead, about New York and the US Constitution, and in an interview with Albie Sachs, about the Constitution of South Africa. He is sometimes called a “liberal originalist,” and that is what he calls Lincoln.

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