SCOTUSblog on camera: Jeffrey Rosen (Part five)

We all as citizens have an obligation to educate ourselves about the Supreme Court, about the Constitution, so that we can participate in the great conversationthat is the Constitution.

Jeffrey Rosen is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, as well as a law professor at the George Washington University LawSchool, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a legal journalist and author. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, Oxford University (wherehe was a Marshall Scholar), and Harvard College.

In this five-part interview, Rosen discusses his background and his work at the National Constitution Center; the importance andaccessibility of our founding documents; the Constitution, historical understanding and facing new technological questions; admiring Justice Louis D. Brandeis; andexhorting citizens to explore constitutional rather than political questions.

Part Five: Expertise & accessibility

Dont be deterred by the footnotes.

The breadth and technicality of modern law and how a citizen can live up to the duty to understand constitutional law; and the essential andempowering distinction between constitutional questions and political issues.