Narrator over 12 million men, women, and children passed this way, passed through rooms and corridors haunted with a special stillness which remains only in places once noisy with human life. Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey. [bird caws] woman you never know how hard it was to leave her. That was the hardest thing i think i ever had to do. [bells toll] man she said if you leave, why, i dont ever want you to come back again. Woma
Unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Hello, and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 Historic Supreme Court cases well be looking at this season. Mcculloch versus maryland, our case tonight. And for the next 90 minutes well learn more about this significant case, and the people and issues behind it, and why its so important in our American History process. Later on well take your calls, well also take your questions on facebook and twitter, and make you a part of this conversation. We have two guests at the table tonight to help us understand what mcculloch versus maryland is all about. Let me introduce them to you, farah peterson, and mark killenbeck. The first question, of course, why does this belong on the list of landmark cases . Well, one of the most dominant controversies in the interpretation of the
Narrator over 12 million men, women, and children passed this way, passed through rooms and corridors haunted with a special stillness which remains only in places once noisy with human life. Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey. [bird caws] woman you never know how hard it was to leave her. That was the hardest thing i think i ever had to do. [bells toll] man she said if you leave, why, i dont ever want you to come back again. Back
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Almost never his litigated in the this is an area of law and there is lots of learning based on opinions and the posturing of congress. These debates rarely it in the court. The george w. Bush administration. And both the administrations refuse to enforce the statute on the grounds they are constitutional power rendered that statute again person born in jerusalem commenced litigation that first went to the court three years ago. The court said no and direct the dc circuit to decided on the merits. Some some people thought the court was depriving itself an escape route. Would not be able to use the political question if they concluded it would have been desirable seem to be a lot disconcerting noises they were being forced to decide something that had a lot of Foreign Affairs and political visibility. Obviously obviously taking sides owns and controls yours is politically loaded question. In the court did address the merits and so he was right. Justice kennedy writing for the majority i