Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 i used to tell the students on the advice of counsel i will not answer that. I talk to Justice Brandeis on campus every day. That should not make you nervous. When i tell you hes talking back to me that should make you nervous. When questions emerge as to the constitutionality of the search of a cell phone i am confident Justice Brandeis with would not ask what James Madison thought about the use of a cell phone. I am equally confident with regard to what jeffrey said with regard to business business, i think it is important the power of big business in 1905 was not because they were providing substantial amounts of money to fund campaign, the power of big business came because they were paying off ledgislators through patronage. That was the means by which big business, there was enormous business, the names mentioned today are museums in new york, melon, guggenheim, enormous concentration of wealth which we are once again re
Brian noah feldman, what are the three lives of James Madison that you wrote about . Noah the first life is the one that is most famous. That is where he created the constitution. Not only in our country but also the greatest constitutional genius and the world. In his second life he discovered the constitution was not perfect. He thought he had thought against political parties, he actually founded the Republican Party to fight the Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton. He became a partisan very much against his own wishes. In his third life he got to be secretary of state for eight years and president for eight more created he got to take on all of the decisions when you are running the show, and faithfully taking us into the first war. Very much against the principles of his lifetime. Which was against the Standing Army and the navy. Brian talk about him as a person, size and health problems, and all that. Noah he was very different than the other founders. He was very much in his
Announcer this week on q a, author and Harvard Law School professor noah feldman. Professor feldman discusses his book the three lives of james and madison genius, partisan, president. Brian noah feldman, what are a the three lives of James Madison that you wrote about . Noah the first life is the one that is most famous. In an minute is where he invented the constitution. Not only in our country but also the greatest constitutional genius in the world. In his second life, he discovered the constitution was not perfect. He thought he had fought against political parties, he actually founded the Republican Party to fight the Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton. He became a partisan very much against his own wishes. In his third life, he got to be secretary of state for eight years and president for eight more. He got to take on all of the decisions when you are running the show, and faithfully taking us into the first war. Very much against the principles of his lifetime. Which was
Nominated boston attorney Louis Brandeis to the u. S. Supreme court on january 28th, 1916. In june of that year, he became the first jewish person to sit on the nations highest court. He served until 1939. Up next on American History tv, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his nomination, a Panel Including u. S. Supreme Court Justice ruth bader begins fwurg discusses his contributions to american democracy. This program at Brandeis University in massachusetts is about two hours. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome lisa m. Lynch, interim president of Brandeis University. Good evening. It gives me great pleasure to welcome everyone, students, faculty, alums, trustees, staff and distinguished panelists and friends to this remarkable gathering here at Brandeis University. I want to welcome in particular some of our special guests, Massachusetts Attorney general mara healey. Congresswoman katherine clark. State senators michael barrett, James Eldridge and k
That grew up here and americans we should welcome that if we start broadening that which is exactly what he did in his 2014 executive order that essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally, so thats not an option. And that is why the courts struck down or stayed implementation of the 2014 executive order. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. Next a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Its part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include author Francis Fukuyama and former banking regulators sheila bair. This is an hour. Hello and welcome back. I am michael rich president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session of course was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally bear also the middle east of courses or region several hundred Million People. Hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, a