A signing of the declaration of independence, all sorts of things. One of the silent vignettes was Lincoln Douglas debates and my fourth grade teacher told me you cant be Abraham Lincoln, youre not tall enough. To add insult to injury, she said, you have to be Steven Douglas. So i swore by all that was sacred that i was going to study Abraham Lincoln for the rest of my life and try to make a contribution. Now, i grew up right across the river in alexandria, virginia. Im a product of the virginia public schools, and i can tell you that very little about Abraham Lincoln was said flatteringly in the state of virginia as i was growing up. But those comments were glowing compared to what i encountered when i first came to South Carolina in 1984. So one of my proudest accomplishments is the fact that for 32 years now, i just finished my 32nd year, ive been teaching courses to packed classrooms on Abraham Lincoln in the state of South Carolina, which i dont think is a small accomplishment wha
They should be struck down as violations of a natural right. The right that lincoln understood as the right to free labor. The right that was, of course, at the core of the slavery crisis. It is the unenumerated but surely implied constitutional right to economic liberty. Laws survive and proliferate today because courts have long since, since the new deal stopped doing their duty to defend this economic liberty against the rent seeking enemies. In a sense, the problem began in louisiana 16 years before the monks monastery was founded. It began across from the monastery in new orleans. That city had rewarded some rent seeking butchers a lucrative benefit. The city had created a cartel for them by requiring that all slaughtering be done in their slaughterhouses. Some excluded butchers went to court. All the way to the u. S. Supreme Court Challenging this law. They lost when in the 1873 slaughterhouse cases the court in a 54 decision upheld the law that created the cartel. In doing so, t
That the party disputing the acts constitution bears the heavy burden of demonstrating the acts unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt. The contrary principle that i will call judicial engagement is that the judiciarys principle duty is the defense of liberty and that the government, when challenged, bears the burden of demonstrating that its action is in conformity with the constitutions architecture, the purpose of which is to protect liberty. The federal government can dispatch this burden by demonstrating that its action is both necessary and proper for the exercise of an enumerated power. A state or local government can dispatch the burden by demonstrating that its act is within the constitutionally prescribed limits of its police power. The Texas Supreme Court has addressed and dissolved the counterimagi countermajorityian difference. He begins as judicial review began in 1803 with marberry v. Madison in which Justice Marshall wrote the powers of the legislature are define
Relationships with your friends, undermine your family or take a plea . If a movie does well at the beginning it spreads out. Go see it this week or this coming weekend. If you see it now you are putting fuel into our rocket. What you should do is use your influence. Most of a few little of our actual influence. I only have 300 friends on facebook but they have 300 friends, you are like a little publisher and if you use influence to get information out you are to change the way people think. The beauty of a movie changes you a little on the inside. Movies have the power to do that. Books have the power to change minds by providing information and information is power. I urge you to be not apathetic but be very dangerous americans and go out there, change society. Thank you very much. [applause] you are watching the tv on cspan2, top Nonfiction Book and doctors every weekend, booktv, television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend for the mississippi book festival that start
I am a history buff. I do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things how they work and how they are made. I love American History tv. I had no idea they did history. Thats probably something i would really enjoy. With American History tv, it gives you that perspective. I may cspan contrast betwee southerners and native americans. Historian edward ayers looks at the end of the civil war and the dawn of the reconstruction era. Reconstruction began as early as the summer and fall of 1864. He points to the Republican Party expanding to include democrats who supported the union war effort. He talks about Union Victories on the battlefield, including the fall of atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley campaign. This hour long talk was part of a day long symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Now, let me introduce our first speaker. Weve charged him with playing the role of keynote speaker to offer something of a history course in reconstruction. To highlight some of the