Over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfillment and happiness of the individual that we could all be our best selves but also the good of the whole are the twin goals of this period of about creation of the republic now what were not going to talk about today is the confederation because that was a sideshow. That was the National Government was not of interest to these contemporaries. They put a very little you know philosophy Political Science and consideration into its construction in many ways. They just took the existing congress they had and and you know gave it some some rights and powers, but all the kind of philosophical ideas all the ho
Welcome to history 3011 the American Revolution. Hope all of you had a great spring break last weekend and look forward to hearing a little bit more about. What you did . In our upcoming discussions now we spent the last two weeks talking about the war of independence the actual war. And the amazing thing about the revolution is that while war was raging american drove constitutions and debated how to construct a government that would protect the peoples rights and in facilitate their happiness. I mean this word happiness is not just appear in the declaration of independence. It appears over and over and over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfi
Over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfillment and happiness of the individual that we could all be our best selves but also the good of the whole are the twin goals of this period of about creation of the republic now what were not going to talk about today is the confederation because that was a sideshow. That was the National Government was not of interest to these contemporaries. They put a very little you know philosophy Political Science and consideration into its construction in many ways. They just took the existing congress they had and and you know gave it some some rights and powers, but all the kind of philosophical ideas all the ho
Happiness. I mean this word happiness is not just appear in the declaration of independence. It appears over and over and over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfillment and happiness of the individual that we could all be our best selves but also the good of the whole are the twin goals of this period of about creation of the republic now what were not going to talk about today is the confederation because that was a sideshow. That was the National Government was not of interest to these contemporaries. They put a very little you know philosophy Political Science and consideration into its construction in many ways. They just took the existing
Highlighting programs from our archives with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assassinated. Why would the government at that time have protection for them . It wasnt done. Why would the government have a pension . Their pensions for Army Officers and pensions for everybody else but no pension for president. In fact to very little money. Had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean atchison cosine, to pay for