00:00 "The Shadows of the Constitution" is a podcast episode that explores the impact of the Constitution on people's lives and how it has both protected and abandoned them.

05:52 Heidi Schreck's play "What the Constitution Means to Me" explores how the Constitution has both protected and failed her and others in the country.

10:49 The Constitution can be seen as a boiling pot in which we are thrown together in conflict to discover our true beliefs, and Heidi Schreck's personal experiences with abuse in her family made her question her initial belief in the greatness of the Constitution.

15:53 Heidi Schreck's exploration of the Constitution in her play forced her to reckon with her own family history of violence and question whether the Constitution is truly designed to protect citizens.

20:31 The due process clause of the 14th Amendment falls under the category of negative rights, which protect citizens from the government, while positive rights are active rights that the government or other people have to provide, and Heidi Schreck discovered that our Constitution, which is the oldest active constitution in the world, is primarily made up of negative rights and failed to protect women in her family and others in the Supreme Court case Castle Rock versus Gonzalez.

25:00 The Supreme Court case Castle Rock versus Gonzalez demonstrated how the due process clause of the 14th Amendment failed to protect women from physical and sexual violence, leading some scholars to call it the death of the 14th Amendment for women.

30:33 The Ninth Amendment has been used in Supreme Court cases like Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade to locate rights, such as the right to privacy, in the "shadows" of the Constitution, which allows for interpretation and flexibility but can also leave basic rights hanging in the balance.

35:24 Heidi Schreck's play, "What the Constitution Means to Me," has forced her to confront the imperfections and original sin of the Constitution, while also acknowledging its potential for growth and change.

40:19 The speaker emphasizes the importance of criticizing and facing the failings of the Constitution in order to create a future that is good for everyone and to ensure the truth is known for the sake of a hopeful future.