The discussion features the books author New York University Law School Professor richard epstein. They debate the power of the federal government outlined in the constitution. This is American History tv. Each week reel america rings you archival films to tell stories of the 20th century. Up next, the city. Predicting the postworld war ii growth of suburbs. The view is that modern cities are unhealthy and land. Ommunities are a better option 56 of the u. S. Population lives in urban areas when it was made. A century or two ago, we build our church. Say we could have our say about the taxes. We know our rights and duties and no harm if we disagree. We neighbors hold together in all that matters. Sunork from son to dark to dark. Something foreign that we look at in a case. It is in the locks and hinges that the blacksmith shapes. It is in the woven baskets. Betterterwheels are fitted to do the work than human hands, we rig up the machines. A while ago, that corn was on the stock above t
Of the national archives. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up next on American History tv, a conversation about the book the Classical Liberal constitution the uncertain quest for limited government. Featured is the books author Richard Epstein and theodore ruger. They debate the ideas put forth in the book about the powers of the federal government outlined in the constitution. This hour and 15 Minute Program was hosted by the National Constitution center and was moderated by its president jeffrey rosen. Welcome to the National Constitution center. I am jeffrey rosen, president and ceo. It is so great to welcome you back to the keynote Opening Event of our blockbuster fall season. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america started by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And we are about to be transformed by the opening at the end
So what happens i know the magistrate judge or the judge below here said that it was preposterous to think that this prisoner could hide anything in his half inch beard. Assuming that his half inch beard was not thickly grown, but some are, and some you cant see the skin. Should that half inch issue be applied to that prisoner . Wouldnt it be a different set of facts in that case to consider . Well, a state might be able to show thats a different set of facts. You know, but the question is not just is it conceivably imaginable that some prisoner somewhere could hide something in a half inch beard. But could he hide something there that he couldnt much more easily and more securely hide in the hair on top of his head, in his shoe, in the lining of his clothes . For all half inch beards, right . Yes. We have to assume all half inch beards are okay if god tells you to grow them, right . Well, you know, i think thats right, and again subject to somebody producing evidence that were wrong a
This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Ok. So in getting ready for this, i wanted to do like a little background work on the socalled semicentennial of the civil war, which was of course 1911 to 1915. I found this quote. Ill tell you where it comes from in a little bit, but it seems to me to encapsulate the feeling of the early 20th century. The days of the civil war now belong to the historians, the poets, the writer of romance, in the dramatist. Now i think you would add the reenactor there, probably. But of course, this is a period at which the civil war is still very much a part of living memory. Right . There are livingductions of the there are living veterans of the war, people involved in combat who are still alive. In 1912, the state of pennsylvania issued an invitation to honorably discharged veterans of the civil war to come to gettysburg for a reunion of sorts. And you probably have already seen pictures of this or read about it. I want to spend a little time talking a
About how they had to change their methods to capture ted kaczynski. Tv visitsn history museums and historic places. Next, we visit the National Archives in college park, maryland, to learn about the kennedy assassination records collection. The warren report was released to the public 50 years ago on september 27, 1964. We will see video recorded by the National Archives of many of the wellknown artifacts of the investigation including Lee Harvey Oswalds rifle, the socalled magic bullet, and the originals of the zapruder film. Our guide is Martha Wagner murphy. The president john f. Kennedy assassination records collection was created because of the john f. Kennedy assassination records act of 1992. Since the time of the assassination, there have been numerous official investigations starting with the Warren Commission. Some congressional investigations. The Church Committee looked into it. In the early 1990s, there was a movie that came out by oliver stone. At the end of the movie, h