Schenk starting from 1918, can be convicted with arime under the espionage act of 1917. And that the First Amendment isnt absolute. And then 9 30, from the 1934 case, holding the internment camps dont violate the constitution as they were needed in world war ii. Watch landmark cases tonight, on cspan three or anytime on cspan. Org. All persons having business for the Supreme Court are required to give their attention. Landmark cases, cspan special history series, produced in collaboration with the constitutional center. 12 historiciz Supreme Court decisions. Number 759. Petitioner. Well hear arguments from number 18. Quite often in our most famous decisions, the court took unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society, of 310 million different people, who helped to stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan the landmark cases. Our series explores 12 landm
We hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. Quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans new series landmark cases. Tonight and the next 11 weeks were going to be looking at cases that developing the development. Its also interesting because it all came about after two Founding Fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. We have guests to help us understand the story. A Yale University luprofoaw pro and hes the author of several books including americas constitution, a biography. To start were going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. And then after we hear his point of view well like to hear from both of you on why this case is
All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonish to give their attention landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12th historic Supreme Court decisions mr. Chief justice, former mayor please the court quite often, in our most famous decisions, theyre one that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Hello and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 historic Supreme Court cases that we will look at this season. Mcculloch v. Maryland is our case tonight, and we will learn more about this significant case in the people and issues behind it and why it is so important in our American History process. Later,
I was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently, and my favorite one was from last week. This is the headline. This is true, not fake news. It is an actual headline. It said this. Can republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes that they dont like . [laughter] thats what the Washington Post was wondering last week. The more notorious headline was , joel alluded to this, was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader. Did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Albaghdadi,was austere religious scholar at the head of the islamic state, dies at 48. That was of actual headline in the Washington Post. I dont know your experience, but that was like the best day ever on twitter. Because everybody started inventing their obituary headlines. There was one that said noted great, noted for his special interest in small children, died at 77. Do you know the author brad thor, the novelist . He put up this one, john wilkes booth, renowned thespian, theat
American presidency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of virginia press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as an assistant professor in the Political Science and Public Administration programs at the university. Michigan at flint. Steven is the author of indian and the Administrative State in 19th century, which was published in 2010. How government won the west published 2013 and