Bible. Rvices matthew a building that was built in the 1730s, 40 years before there was any such thing as the United States of america and that that time, pennsylvania was a british colony and this was its capitol building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies had its own government and these are the issues that will lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room because the countys as time goes forward, or many people of the political classes colonies will start to grow the satisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally, and one of the other side issues is s living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. When the parliament makes laws for americans, the most infamous being the taxes you learn about in school, we are going to say this is taxation without representation and it is that idea that you are not getting the voice. Thomas jefferson would write in t
Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is, as madison prepares himself for the convention in the weeks just before it was due to meet in midmay 1787, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what had taken place in the mid1770s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776 by watching how the system functions. He takes a step back, and when he takes a step back, what he really does is to think abstractly, and what we can see at least implicitly again theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that, because states have different interests and different interests wit
To put them on before i do the introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law and professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Edward thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. Jeffrey well, it
Exciting conversation with the head of the center for history and one of our historians on a brandnew book the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of an american institution. Ordinarily we would be doing this at the Historical House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park at as we are all working from home and we are joining you in your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting that were historical initiative. As you know we were founded in 1961 by Jaclyn Kennedy who had the vision at such a young age and a short period of time to create organizations like the White House Historical association. We were talking about today actually selected piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. While creating educational materials and content, it is a core part of the mission and that is what we do every day with the books we publish and our programs around the country. And our online social media content. Thi
Up next on the presidency, a talk about the marital and Political Partnership between james and dolly madison. We hear from the Vice President for museum programs, and curator for montpelier, she discusses their early lives, their marriage, and how Dolley Madisons political skills bolster the career of James Madison. Hello, again. Is the sound good . Ok. Im not going to introduce myself. [laughter] i will just kind of start talking. What i am planning to do today is to talk about james and Dolley Madisons lives before they were james and Dolley Madison. Then consider their partnership and how it worked to both of their great advantage, because of it being such a wonderful partnership. So these are the Gilbert Stuart portraits of james and dolley painted when james was secretary of state. Its actually my favorite portraits of the two of them, i think they capture the sort of sense of personality that i see in them. And they have, i think, in large measure sort of created images that we