CONSTITUTION USA is a multi-media project for PBS from tpt National Productions in association with Insignia Films that explores the Constitution and its role in the American story – from its creation, to the crises that challenged and reshaped it, to contemporary debates over rights and the role of government. CONSTITUTION USA will bring our nation’s essential document vividly to life for 21st century Americans.
The national primetime 4 hour PBS television series, CONSTITUTION USA will search out the relevance and meaning of our founding document in America today. At the helm of the series is Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s popular Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!. Sagal was specifically chosen to host the series because of his combination of intelligence, wit, freshness, and appeal to younger audiences.
While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union could be used to prop up nascent communist states in a similar way that the money from the Marshall Plan was attempting to rebuild western-style democracies.
The only true option from the list would be that "<span>In time a fifth group was added to the caste system--the untouchables," since this was a later development and not an initial part of the system. </span>
