Supreme Court Justice sonya sotomayor. [applause] kathryn fitz. [applause] and Supreme Court publications director. Claire kurtzman. [applause] it is now my privilege to introduce the Board Certified cardiologist, jazz musician, and former president of Cornell University and university of iowa. He is interested in learning and most importantly, it he is a pescatarian. Thank you for the introduction and thank you on behalf of the American People for the great job you do. So innovative and creative. This is an amazing museum. [applause] and especially in such an interesting election year, we appreciate all you and your colleagues are doing to share so many aspects of america. Esteemed colleagues and friends, welcome to this unique opportunity to find out more about the highest court in the landing and how its members have worked together. The Supreme Court and the smithsonian have long had close ties. Since the 19 century, the chief justice is served as the smithsonian board of regents.
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Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. When we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. All platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. Plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. We must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. Since the greates
Television for serious readers. Im now happy to introduce you to tonights guest speaker. Robert house has been a visiting professor at, among other institutions harvard law school, tel aviv university, the Hebrew University of jerusalem and the university of paris. His books include the regulation of international trade, the wto system law, politics and legitimacy and outline of a femmenology of rights. Professor house has been a frequent consultant or adviser to agencies including the Interamerican Development bank. Professor house is also a member of the board of advisers of the nyu center for law and philosophy. He serves on the editorial Advisory Boards of the london review of International Law, the journal of World Investment and trade, transnational legal theory and legal issues of economic integration. He is cofounder of the new york City Working Group on International Economic law and is a former ihouse resident. Please join me in welcoming him to international house. [applause
Condolences to the community for the recent loss of a great lady and great scholar, ann, and id like to acknowledge, henry was a stall ward defender of American National sovereignty. I hope that he would have been pleased in presenting this award to me as pleased as i am in receiving it. Im going to proceed as follows. First, ill talk about what i call philadelphia sovereignty. Second, im going to examine the ideas of the Global Governance project which challenges philadelphia sovereignty, and third, move from ideas to action, and talk about the activities of the globalists, and then, fourth, examine the significance of the conflict between Constitutional Government and global govern nans. Now, sovereignty is define by most scholars and others as going back to 16 48, and thats true to an extent, but when i was working on the book and thinking of writing, coming up with concepts, i realized americans dont think of themselves as west americans think of sovereignty in the sense that we, t