She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the first lady. The problem was of course, that he died only one month into his presidency, and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate, he and his wife laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class, weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is, weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american whig patriots. And that debate has really in many ways come down to one issue which is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . And more specifically even the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . And over the course of about 12 years between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 176768 the townsend acts and then the tea act and then the coercive acts and then in 1775 the prohibittory act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legisl
Nothing that must be. Right . The fact of the matter is that in 1776 at least a third of all american colonials at that time were self identified loyalists. And the third hadnt made up their mind. So how is it that the americans argue that it is now necessary. So the question is why necessary. So why not say when in the course of human events, it is optional to dissolve our political bans. Why necessary . Im going to come back to that at the end of the time. I think it tells us something deeply important about the logic of those who signed the declaration of independence. Let me break down what are the philosophic ideas, the enlightenment, that are contained in that first paragraph. So the declaration has a meta physics that it draws on. Summed up in one word, which is nature. And we see that when we talk about the laws of nature and natures god. So in the 17th and 18th centuries, natural well call it at the time, natural philosophers, what we would today call natural scientists, they
Leave tap city says this dystopian future. Some of you may have recently streamed on netflix a movie called the gate from new york where manhattan was going to be a penal colony. Thats how bad things were getting. They were more than 2000 people murdered in two new york city , more than 2000 the same that time that was happening with war and courts have obliterated the proper reading of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. He amendment was strong in some areas under siege and other areas. We are talking about a situation that was very serious. How did we respond to the many challenges . One of the things that happened was the crime rate. From Civic Leaders to rudy giuliani. His finest battle 9 11 or in which he is a local leader actually helps new yorks crime rate so much that a chop the National Crime rate. So you look at these challenges and American History and what you begin to see is when you have these massive challenges and increased in liberty and the energy of local go
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