Tomorrow on q a, former defense secretary and cia director robert gates discusses his book a passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. The program airs at 7 00 p. M. Eastern this week on q a, Boston College Law School Professor mary sarah builder discusses madisons hand which takes a critical look at the notes James Madison wrote during and after the convention of 1787. Mary sarah builder, you have a book out called madisons hand revising the Constitutional Convention. Whats it about. Its a biography of the notes , of madisons notes notes and madison was the only framer who we know of who took complete notes that summer. The book argues that the notes were written in their entirety the summer they wrote the constitution but madisons record is the most important account of that summer. When did you get this idea . Guest i thought i would write a narrative, a story of what it mightve been like from madisons perspective and as i began i began to
I want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. It is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. I dont read quickly. The reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort. And second, it is wonderfully , when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. All good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. A story you might have thought was already told to death. Of twook is a reflection things. One, really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind we dont see as much as we used to. And the second thing is, it is indicative of the emergence of what i think is a new sort of history writing or a new kind of history research. In ways itossible was not possible 20 years ago to andarch t
And the former russia and eurasia Intelligence Officer looks at russias military operations in syria. You can join the conversation on facebook and. Washington journal, live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Sunday on q and a, National Supreme correspondent and author orrowndmark cases, tony m on the case. Tony one of the judges he did not get his office because of this, sued. And the Supreme Court dealt with it. It was called marbury versus madison. Marbury was one of these judges. And the court said that basically, he probably deserves some remedy. But the remedy that congress has provided for this goes beyond the power of congress. The authority of congress. And so the Supreme Court was going to strike down that law. This wasme court, something they had never done before. Congress an act of unconstitutional. That is sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q a. As the Supreme Court starts a new term, we give you our new series landmark cases. We take a look at the real story behind marbury versus
Center this goes to the. I see familiar faces in the audience. Many of you know we are live on cspan all day today such as want to share this information that we have with our cspan viewers, and that is this. The National Constitution center is a private nonprofit but it was created by congress on the bicentennial of the constitution to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And that means that we are the only place in america in these polarized times that invites people from all sides of the spectrum, left, right anyway between, to debate not political questions but constitutional questions, and let citizens make up their own minds. And as part of this Inspiring Mission i cant imagine a more exciting and momentous event than the one were celebrating today on bill of rights day book festival been of the new exhibit at the National Constitution center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. Basically George Washington on
That front. Guest part of the challenge in wrapping this management arms around the challenge is that it has, it is been at this odd quirk of the way it was set up. Is legally prohibited from investigating its own workers misconduct. Investigate your coworkers misconduct. Instead, because of the way that they had anp, argument for doing it this way. All of those have to go to the Inspector General for the department of homeland security. Is the dhs igs who is never had the resources to police the police force as large as cvp, does the rest of dhs and has never been able to devote the resources that they need to investigate corruption. You have seen at least hundreds if not thousands of cases of reported corruption within cvp that is never investigated because of this weird bureaucratic quirk. It is played out in recent years. They are beginning to fix that challenge. The commissioner has made some tweaks to that system to try to allow cvp to be able to investigate its work force workfo