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Federalism and the Constitution with Anastasia Boden | Constitution Day Live 2025

Grade: 8–12
Duration: 4 min
Topics: Constitution
Published: Sep 17, 2025

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How do state governments, federal power, and the courts shape our constitutional rights? In this Constitution Day conversation, Bill of Rights Institute’s Kirk Higgins sits down with Anastasia Boden, Senior Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, to discuss federalism, individual liberty, and the critical role of the judiciary in protecting our rights.

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The Constitution was written in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by delegates from 12 states, in order to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new form of government. It created a federal system with a national government composed of 3 separated powers, and included both reserved and concurrent powers of states.