US vs: Constitutions

<p>The United States Constitution gets a lot of credit for being the first of its kind. The progenitor of democratic constitution making. The spark that started a global fire. Is that the long and short of it, or is there more to the story? </p><p><a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/linda-colley">Linda Colley, author of The Gun, The Ship and the Pen</a>, weaves a longer, more complex narrative in this episode. We explore why constitutions (governmental limits, citizens rights and all) became necessary and who put pen to paper before 1787. </p>