Yale Law School’s Akhil Reed Amar returns to the Salisbury Forum to discuss the origins of America’s Constitution in the late eighteenth century, and the link between this document and the jurisprudential earthquake that occurred at the end of the 2021 Supreme Court term in landmark cases involving abortion, guns, and religion.

Are we now at the dawn of a new era of “originalism” on the Supreme Court? If so, what kind of originalism? What relationship does any of this have to the Constitution’s own origins—origins explored in Amar’s latest book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.