Key Constitutional concepts : a conversation

Resource Information

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Label

Key Constitutional concepts : a conversation

Title remainder

a conversation

Statement of responsibility

PJ Productions ; produced in Association with the National Constitution Center ; the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands

Contributor

• National Constitution Center (U.S.)
•  Unknown Label
• PJ Productions
• PJ Productions
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
• National Constitution Center (U.S.)
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
• Dellums, Erik Todd, 1964-

Subject

• Constitutional history -- United States
• Sawyer, Charles, 1887-1979 -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Steel industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- United States
• trueGideon, Clarence Earl -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Korean War, 1950-1953 -- United States
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company -- Trials, litigation, etc
• United States.
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government
• Constitutional conventions -- United States -- History
• trueUnited States -- Politics and government
• Truman, Harry S, 1884-1972
• War and emergency powers -- United States
• trueWainwright, Louie L. -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Right to counsel -- United States
• trueUnited States.

Genre

• trueTrials, litigation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

2007-0531 This documentary begins by introducing the Constitution and why it was created. It then examines key Constitutional concepts -- separation of powers and individual rights -- by focusing on two landmark cases: Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to put the steel mills under government control, and Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court establishes the right to be represented by an attorney

Member of

• Sunnylands seminars

Cataloging source

SGR

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Written and produced by Robe Imbriano

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

"Subtitled in English and Spanish"--Container. Closed captioned in English

PerformerNote

Narrator, Erik Todd Dellums ; host, Dan Harris

Runtime

61

Series statement

Sunnylands seminars

Technique

live action