President s day. First, sir, explain the significance of that moment thats portrayed over your shoulder there, the swearing in of George Washington. You see the first president being sworn in at federal hall in new york city. This would have been in 1789 in april. How well were the duties and the powers of the office that he was about to step into . How well were they defined at that moment when he was sworn in . They werent defined at all. There was nothing like it in america and really in the world. It was a new experiment of an elected magistrate who would at one point be the head of state like a king but at the same time also sort of the chief executioner of the laws, the chief executive in this case, the chief policymaker. And it wasnt exactly clear where the powers of the legislature and where the powers of the president would be defined. Washington created that office and many of the precedents, many of the things we come to think of as president ial really come down from his ex
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So thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our location. We also have a beautiful store in the building in San Francisco if youve never been there. Its a beautiful store. Go in by a few books and go have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. We bring to you probably a thousand author readings every year if you can believe that. In addition we also have all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes. We have a group simply of childrens classes and finally im proud to say we are going green. We have been introducing a paper newsletter which i know some of the received in the mail starting in march. We are going to do email only so if we dont have your email and you arent getting our email letters please sign up. You can register at all the re
Emphasis on a decentralized government. Prof. Martinez good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for the semester. About to talk today Economic Policy and social events tied to the economy. I titled this feeding the confederacy. We will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure your soldiers and civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me, that historians of the confederacy point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. Of the unionrity and confederacy live on farms. We are dealing with a population overwhelmingly living on farms. Yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. This is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big ironing is secession documents before they founded the confederacy said we want
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