Stations and cspan. Org cities to her. Youre watching cspan, all we can come every weekend. This is American History tv on cspan three. You can watch us every saturday and sunday, and holidays, too. Congress passed the 13th amendment formally abolishing slavery the United States on january 31, 1865. Next we discussed lincolns legacy in the 13th amendment 150 years later. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this event. It is about one hour and a half. [applause] welcome to the National Constitution center. Im the president of this wonderful institution. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Thank you. Excellent. [laughter] weve party achieved our educational mission. In fact, we can all go home. We cant go home. We are launching a thrilling initiative. We are calling this the second founding here we are celebrating the 150th anniversary
Documentable influence of large contributor networks on Office Holders comes at the agendasetting stage of the process. Not on final roll call votes. Thats why its hard to do the research. We have tons of exampled evidence of bills being especially kept off, not passed. Its especially the negative power of stopping a bill from moving forward, but also amendments to create special breaks for people. I dont think theres much doubt that this happens. The question is can you document that it doesnt happen in a clean election state. I havent done that work. But i do know that a traditionallyfunded state, especially working through Party Leaders, the agendasetting states thats quite important. Second, on the question of whether clean elections produces more extreme Office Holders, i want to get again, this time i wont get in the weeds. We have have a private conversation later. I just want to say that i strongly disagree with the paper that, the unpublished article. I have a different interp
You were stuck with the counter problem of do you keep them in the u. S. In some kind of not very legal limbo rather than dispersing them . Thank yous going to be a fascinating little problem that congress has taken upon itself that it will have to resolve in the next year. By the way should beyond the list . You what i would say is again i am not in any sense a specialist on any of these groups. Would the her them on the list . What i would say is define your criteria of groups, of what the category, the behavior of groups that you want to authorize force against and then allow the executive to designate groups that meet those criteria subject to congressional. Im asking you a direct question. I mean look i think it is always appropriate to use military force to defend your diplomatic so they so i have no problem with the idea that if a group attacks and american consulate and kills the ambassador you might respond to that and even preemptively respond to that with military force. Tha
Fight for racial equality, with people in the streets among a pandemic, and lets not forget with a president ial election under 90 days away, this might be the most critical time in decades to teach and encourage civics, our duties and rights as american citizens, how our government works, what should work, what needs work. By the time the young people of the year 2020 will become leaders they will be hardened veterans who know a thing or two because theyve seen a thing or two. The civics Spring Project launched by the Organization Formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson foundation is providing organizations with grants, money to establish incentives this summer to help young people build their own Civic Knowledge and capabilities and better their own communities. The six youth organizations all led by young people, all approach that engagement in different ways. There they are across the cro country. Things like getting young voices heard in our government, getting involved in our govern
Dont much about science books. The great sam koch singing in a movie that never gets cold. Im smerconissmerconis michael philadelphia. The test for naturalized citizens. The test is longer and harder. Questions were asked ten questions and had to answer six correctly to pass. Now, the testing score has changed 12 out of 20. According to the the New York Times its also more complex. Eliminating simple geography and adding dozens of questions some nuanced and involving complex phrasing who could trip up applicants who do not consider them carefully. Here are three examples of the new questions. Who does a u. S. Senator represent . The previous answer was all people of the state. The new test answer is, citizens of the state. Second question, why does each state have two senators . Acceptable answers are equal representation meaning for small states, or the great compromise, meaning the connecticut compromise. How about this one. What are three rights of everyone living in the United Stat