restaurants. michael r. you say that the current supreme court is out of touch with present today country? no offense intended to medieval times. yes, our constitution was designed in our courts have always interpreted as being something for a modern, growing, changing country. now we are, saying no, the only way we should interpret the constitution is to say what did it mean in 1791 at the time it was ratified. and that is the interest in views of property owning white man from a very different era. black people were enslaved women could not vote. that is how the supreme court over many many centuries now has ever interpreted the constitution. it is explicitly reactionary and explicitly tries to turn back the clock. we saw that in the dobbs case overturning roe v. wade. we saw that in a really significant second amendment case. where they said they could not
what do you make of that argument? so interesting because the plaintiffs who wanted to buy the guns argued that, hey we should look at this in modern times. in modern times we think of adults as 18-year-olds. it was the government opposing handgun striking down these handgun laws that said, no, no. we need to go back to 1791 and look at it in terms of what we thought was an adult then, which was a 21-year-old. think about that. when it comes to conservative and liberal views, normally, it s the conservative judge who is going back to 1791 and looking at the way things were back then. this is a rare departure from the usual state of argument but the way adversarial situations are. you take advantage of the best situations you have. let s talk again soon as we know this is not the ends of this story. the food and drug administration has finalized a new rule that will allow more
states with stand your ground laws on the books. it was also one of the states that enslaved black people before the end of the civil war. and if you re wondering what those two maps have to do with each other, it turns out they have a lot to do with each other. the right to armed self-defense like stand your ground stems from the second amendment, which says a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed that amendment has been the nra s rallying cry for years the six amendment was ratified when southern states enslaved black people and that amendment did not apply to enslaved people instead historians argue it was created because of them. the militia s reference in the second amendment were primarily there to aid slave patrols and shutdown slavers revolts they were worried about up risings. in 2021 historian carol anderson described the event in 1791 that was behind that fear
people had to dig deep to understand where their own knowledge fell short and how they may be able to advance the conversation. from partners.com wrote in the u.s. it is not illegal to own a flamethrower. we talked about president biden and he has said that the second amendment and the ownership of cannons in 1791. that has been debunked. there s a lot of misinformation that gets in some of these debates and when you are kind of moderating these things, it is tough to get both sides in. this is why we have to have conversations with each other because nobody trusts the other person s sources. nobody trusts the other person s preferred politicians. when we are when we are looking each other in the eye, we give ourselves the opportunity to actually bump up against each other s rally in real time and if there s trust there, if there s goodwill, there s the opportunity to open some ears and to open some eyes and that is what we do. trace: that is key because you have to listen to the o
native peoples on whose ancestral homelands we gather today. in the greater washington, d.c. area we acknowledge that the piscataway tribe and the descendents. why stop there? what about the maryland plantation owners and the slaves who work the land? george washington who selected the site of the national national mall in 1791 or pierre lafond who designed the mall. for them it was wilderness park how far back are we going to go? anyway? first lady jill biden was at the american history museum to donate some inauguration outfits to the first lady exhibit. both outfits feature something that will no doubt set them apart from the other displays at the museum. matching masks. they are just pieces of small cloth, but they represent the