Tomorrow on q a, former defense secretary and cia director robert gates discusses his book a passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. The program airs at 7 00 p. M. Eastern this week on q a, Boston College Law School Professor mary sarah builder discusses madisons hand which takes a critical look at the notes James Madison wrote during and after the convention of 1787. Mary sarah builder, you have a book out called madisons hand revising the Constitutional Convention. Whats it about. Its a biography of the notes , of madisons notes notes and madison was the only framer who we know of who took complete notes that summer. The book argues that the notes were written in their entirety the summer they wrote the constitution but madisons record is the most important account of that summer. When did you get this idea . Guest i thought i would write a narrative, a story of what it mightve been like from madisons perspective and as i began i began to
Out that im in the head and i had this problem and illness and might require me to miss a day of work now and again and that its better that im at home in those days than in the office because, you know, i promise them that i will be a poor influence on those days and they really dont want me around. Id also suggest that you do that you have a routine, routine seems to be very helpful with people with depression and manic depression including exercise and i guess i tell you the word to vote for progressives because theyre more openminded than others. [laughter] i will turn it over to doctor. These are manageable illnesses. You know, you have people are born susceptibilities to different conditions, cardiovascular, theyre managed. The example that i always give is aids. The first cases of aids and people started with horrible infections and they couldnt culture the organism or find out the pause and they die and really, really mysterious and highly stigmatize but happening to people who
Bureaucracy, and our internal system designed to keep up with these small foes. Are we as a legacy industry ready to keep up the startups that are going to be challenging us and trying to kill our citizens . Thank you mr. Watts. My final point would be what we wanted terms of counterterrorism. This comes and and goes. We had al qaeda, before them, after then we have the Islamic State, today were talking about europe, i think we are likely to be talking about north africa six months or year from now. Yemen is on the rise as well. We go through these accelerated peaks and valleys where we get very mobilized around counterterrorism, we go flush it out and then we get upset again a year later when it comes back. So what is our objective and what is our tolerance for risk for terrorism . I dont we have a good handle on that. We get these emotional points right now where we react strongly and we take aggressive action. But what are the four by things we can do in counterterrorism over the ho
Thats a valid interest, correct . Correct. Well, if in a case like this where theres a 45 deviation, something of that order, then why isnt texas required at that point to to recognize that these interests that are legitimate under the constitution which are voterbased should not be accommodated and so that you should at least give some consideration to this disparity that you have among voters . Well, first off, the court in gaffney upheld the use of population while recognizing that there could, there was in new york at least, a different state a 29 voter definition. Yet the court said it was quite sure that a prime prima facie cd not been made out. To while a state does consider representational quality and electoral quality, the equal protection clause as general language doesnt mandate that either must take precedence over the other. So, of course, it would be legitimate for the state to look at that data. At the same time, and we have federal census data which is the most row bes
Anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Justice scalia was a grand friend of both the Marshall Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society. I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues, allow the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us, and we are grateful. At this juncture, normally, i would have a few remarks to introduce our distinguished host for the evening. But it seems that chief Justice Roberts is on a tight schedule this evening, we are lucky to get him here. He has asked that his introduction be as brief as possible. Since we are so grateful to chief Justice Roberts for hi