Pleasure to introduce a panel of three of americas most distinguished historians of the Early Supreme Court to teach us about significant justices that we may not have learned about before. Gerard mallioka is the Samuel R Rosen professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H Mckinney school of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the
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 took place in the 1770 s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. how washington functions. he takes a step back, and then he thinks abstractly, and what we can see at least implicitly against theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each state, we will always have some incentive to run against washington. to run against national directives, national policies. even where states have a common interest, if you mistrust what other states are going to do, you will have this repetitive reaction from the federal system. so, the federal sy
To a creator, a supreme judge, or Divine Providence. He also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. It was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today
The Judiciary Committee will coom to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country in your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis imparti
The Judiciary Committee will come to order. And without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regardin