
Ep. 274 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Jeffry Morrison | 250 Years Ago: The Second Continental Congress at Work
Constitutional Chats Presented By Constituting America · Constituting America
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Show Notes
Our country owes a lot of gratitude to the generation of men and women who were the Founders of this country and wrote its founding documents. Too often we forget they were walking in uncharted territory: they were the first group of colonies to successfully break away from an empire, we were the first post-colonial country and the first nation founded on moral principles. What they accomplished was unprecedented. Today, we examine the role of the Second Continental Congress in achieving this success. To explain why he calls them the "greatest generation," we are pleased to welcome Jeffry Morrison, Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, and Director of Academics at the federal government's James Madison Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia.