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
Important. The fact that that has never been there just shows that aboute the disagreements what the correct answer to these thetions is, about interpretation of the appointments clause, they have worked it out. Now they found a way of raising it that they could not. This is a case you will see. Jefferson said one thing. Handle may have said another hamilton said another thing. Several president s have said one thing. Congress wrote a report in 1860 saying the opposite. When the president from it was from a different party, you got something different. People switch sides. The president may fill vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. What does that mean . What does they have mean . There are al qaeda of complexitys. All kinds of complexities. But then it could not be we have to decide it. When you are looking at the constitution and trying to answer a question like this, hes are questions that have divided the lower courts and public opinion. The purpose ofde a prov
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If you are looking at the First Amendment, that is the cobwebs of speech. The Fourth Amendment is consequent as of privacy. All judges use posix tools, but judges very in the emphasis that the give one or the other. I probably give more weight to the purpose and the consequence. My fellow judge would take into account the history, and i would give the language. The tradition, the precedent that is the same with this case today. That is why people do i look at history . Look at the Second Amendment. Guns. With the basic purpose i could not figure out the basic turbos, without looking at history. We got into a detailed discussion, and they will look into more history than i am willing to. This was the Supreme Court decision in 2008. For the first time in our nation history, the Supreme Court said what the Second Amendment means. You talk about history, the court is divided 54, so history does not always provide the answer . Some judges on our court thought that the Second Amendment but w
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