Review of the first time in history the Supreme Court has broadcast arguments live here i am the president of the National Constitution center, and we have been beginning these meaningful sessions in Public Education by reciting together the inspiring mission, which comes from the u. S. Congress, so here we go. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the american people. That is just what we are trying to do in collaboration with cspan, as we have invited you to join us in a listening to these important oral arguments and then convening afterwards with some of americas most thoughtful scholars who have filed briefs and are taking positions on both sides of the case to help us unpack the arguments we just heard. Friends, this has been an extraordinary morning. We are three cases along the pre
Here to indian territory. We began the removals starting in 1829 and they culminated in our large old our larger removal here to indian territory in the summer and fall months of 1836 with our arrival to indian territory here in late december, 1836, and throughout january of 1837, when we arrived at port at fort gibson in indian territory. For about 20 years or so, beginning at about 1840, prior to settling at our place in the capital here, we met at the grand council of our tribal towns until about 1861. 1861 was the arrival of the statesar for the united and pretty much everyone. Post the civil war, we had to sign the treaty, as many other tribes who found themselves involved in the civil war. We signed that treaty in 1856. 18 57, we developed our new tribal constitution, which was really the foundation for Government Operations that established themselves in this area. Once we established that new tribal government, we had a to have a place for that. The place the muscogee people se
Elmoeanor roosevelt had a lo trip home. Then down to the beat of muffled drums. It was 12 years his official home. The passing of fdr from the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly unashamed of their grief. The draped flag was brought to the east room. The body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. The guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on a man of destiny known around the world at fdr. We turn back to Franklin Roosevelt. He broke the powerful republican machine that rules duchess county for 28 years. Emerging as a national figure, president wilson and the asis ta assistant secretary of the navy. Fdr at the age of 38 was the youngest Vice President candidate in history. Married on st. Patricks day to anna eleanor roosevelt, he founded a dynasty typical of his fo forebeare forebears. It was at a vacation cottage that fdr sailed with his friends and family after the strenuous campaign. And it was in the bay of bundy where he was str
Podcasts. Im dr. John wettenhall, director of the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum here on the campus of George Washington university in the heart of washington, d. C. Norman rockwells four freedom exhibition is a major traveling International Show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell museum, the 75th anniversary of dday and putting on the road the great images that Norman Rockwell painted that really created a National Concept of the four freedoms that made visible, tangible and real the ideological concepts that president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 1941. The first is freedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which translated in the world terms means economy understandings which will secure through every nation a healthy, peacetime life for its inhabit ants, everywhere i
Podcasts. Eleanor roosevelt began the long trip home. Slowly the long, black funeral train pulls up then down the pennsylvania avenue to the beat of muffled drums the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped casson was brought to the white house and carried into the great east room where 80 years before almost to the day the body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. At hyde park his ancestral home in duchess county, new york the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man of destiny known around the world as f. D. R. To measure something of his greatness we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign. To the time when only 28 years of age he was elected new york state senator