Jim, and he raised his head and walked away. And only one time, when he was kind of forced into saying he looked down and said, hello mr. Brady, and walked off. And there was never any kind of friendliness. Cspan the picture on the cover of the book is what year . Guest early probably 82 i mean, 92. Cspan were out of time. Its called a good fight. Sarah brady is the author. Thank you very much for joining us. Guest thank you. It. Slavery and to new york in 1827 but there is a strong sentiment in favor of the itself for longterm after that. Why is that . What is this connection with new york and the Southern States . This is something not emphasized. Im a new yorker as you well know and we dont emphasize this in the view of our own history. New yorkers pride yourself on being a basket of liberalism, of tolerance, multicultural city. It wasnt like that in the first part of the 19th century. First of all slavery was a vigorous presence in new york in the colonial era and it lasted as you
Cspan sarah brady, can you remember when you decided to write a book . Guest it was just a little bit over a year ago, right around christmas time. Cspan why did you do it . Guest actually, i swore id never do a book unless it was a great mystery novel. And some members of my board suggested it to me, and i thought about it, and i had been reflecting on for the last nine months i had been diagnosed with cancer, and all of a sudden had a chance to reflect on my life. And for the first time, i guess i thought, well, maybe i do have a few things i can impart to people. Ive been through a few unusual fights in my life. Maybe ill tell this story. Cspan what was it like . Guest actually it was a wonderful exercise in going back through your life. Life gets so hectic day in and day out, going from one thing to another. The last especially the last 20, 21 years, 22 years, have just gone so fast, i havent been able to catch up with them and going back and reflecting over all those years has bee
Fight with you all. God bless you. Thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] speeches from this years annual meeting of the conservative Political Action conference continue now with remarks from nra executive Vice President and ceo wayne lapeerapierre lapierre. This is 20 minutes. Thank you very much. Its great to be here at cpac again. Tell me, are you all having a great conference . [ applause ] are you ready to leave here and go out and make a difference for your country and your freedom . You know in novembers elections, we made a difference in this country. We really did make history. But i know right now its the future thats on your minds. We as americans are wary. Were despairing, and were sad. Because so much that we care about, we see slipping away. I know you feel it, the threats are all around us. Russias advancing. The Islamic State is consolidating power with beheadings, rapes, murders and atrocities. Theyre carving a bloody trail that leads to our doorstep. Theyre alr
Even where states have a common interest, you will have this repetitive net draft from the federal system. So, the federal system is not going to function efficiently. Madison says this will never failed to render federal measures he comes to a conclusion what needs to be done, you need a system that can operate by law not by recommendations. Then you can have much Greater National government that functions more like a russian like a functioning government. It needs to have an independent legislature, an independent judiciary. Once you are in this position, you start drawing from these various lessons americans have been accumulating. He has been highly active in both national and state politics. Indeed, many of the things i think he brought to the constitution project came out of being a member of two member bodies, the congress of philadelphia, and then later also the virginia General Assembly which starts in richmond in the middle of the 1780s. There is one other point at the very e
Professor rakove the subtitle is myths about the elections and we will go into those. Lets talk about the myths. Madisons role as the agenda maker for the convention, and the particular point i want to make, as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism, with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons this, he does this in an empirical way. He looked at the lessons that americans like him had learned since 1776. Then he takes this stuff back, and then he thinks abstractly, and what we can see, i theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea theres always some incentive to run against washington. Even where states have a common interest, you will have this repetitive net draft from the federal system. So, the federal system is not going to function efficiently. Madison says this will never failed to render federal measures