Akhil Reed Amar

How did the Supreme Court get so supreme? On this episode of More Perfect, we go all the way back to a case that, in a lot of ways, started it all.

Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar looks at the way U.S. geography and the individual states have affected key Supreme Court rulings on civil rights and presidential politics.

Akhil Reed Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By, looks at the text and the context of the U.S. Constitution.

As Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar notes in the introduction to his new book, "America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By," our founding docu...