Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"

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Amy Coney Barrett is a judge on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2019, Judge Barrett delivered the James Madison Program's Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism. The lecture was entitled "The Constitution as Our Story."
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