This is 45 minutes. All right. Good morning. Good to be here with you today. I have the privilege of being with the panel here to discuss what i think is one of the defining issues of our time, and that is where are we going to set the line as a country between the government that rightfully protects us against some very serious threats, terrorism, for an attorney, and the government that has a capability to invade our privacy and potentially infringe on our liberties. The panel we have today will do a great job of exploiting those issues for you. I will introduce them in a second, but i wanted to make one other mention here. Those have an important argument to make, and we live in a troubling time that will challenge us to think more about this than just today. That may get right to the panel. The honorable jim gilmore served as the 68th governor of virginia. Today he works as the president of Free Congress and american opportunity. He builds Healthy Communities that bring innovative
Marriage . I believe the 13th amendment incorporates the bill of rights to all states and that the freedom of association through marriage, as the Supreme Court a,s set in loving v. Virgini we dealt with this issue with interracial marriage different question. The fact of the color of ones skin is a coincidence. The difference between a male and female a something that is self evident and obvious that we need to deal with. That is part of the human condition. Part of liberty is figuring out how we as humans who disagree and have the passions and a governor along ourselves. That is where we have constitutionalism, to figure out how we do this. We dont force people to live the way we want to live. I am suggesting to that the way the federal government what the federal government is doing now, rapidly because of judges, will upend every social institution in this country, and that kind of revelatory change is something the conservatives and libertarians should all be opposed to because it
It is a good morning in america. We are getting to stand in the presence of american patriots. [cheers and applause] i am reminded this morning of words that speak to the american soul. Words spoken by thomas jefferson, who said a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Our country is in peril. Our deficit is at a record amount. Our economy, the economic recovery is stagnant. Our place in the world is weakened. So i have a simple solution. It is time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas. [cheers and applause] instead of looking to washington to find the front lines of the battle, i ask you to look to the states. Where we find the laboratories of innovation. 50 different experiments in democracy are taking place. Among the states, we see two visions for america. There is the vision common in blue states where the state plays an increasing role in the lives of citizens. Taxes are on the rise, pensions are out of control, and jobs are leaving by the truckloads. Then t
A panel on a Civil Liberties and security is next on book tv. Robert higgs author of dilutions of power and Anthony Gregory author of the power of habeas corpus in america talked about the protection of Civil Liberties in the u. S. Since 9 11. Its about an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning everybody. Welcome. It is a tremendous honor to share the stage with bob and anthony who are two of my favorite people and i admire their work enormously. This is a huge topic we have to cover tonight. There are a lot of aspect and its going to be a challenge to be able to cover some of those. I have warned both bob and anthony that i will be holding them to tight schedules so we can get through it and we will have plenty of time for your questions and we want to have a good discussion following. In your Association Goes back many years and its been fruitful starting with the production of this book crisis and the episodes in the growth of American Government pity it was First Published by Oxford Uni