A member of the National Constitution centers scholarly advisory board, central to the creation of this beautiful narl treasure founded during the bicentennial to bring people together to debate the constitution and celebrate it, and thanks to his inspiration and the guidance of others, today we are thrilled to announce the launch of a new interactive constitution that you see behind you, that we believe will transform constitutional education in america. And with the help of the federal society and the american constitution society, the leading lawyers organizations, we commissioned the top scholars in america to write about every clause of the constitution, describing what they agree and disagree about so citizens can make up their own minds. This morning the president of the College Board and i announced the College Board will make this the center of the new ap history and government exam and will help students learn about the founding documents for the s. A. T. And we want to get i
Making decisions about our own. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the situation in syria had u. S. And Russian Military officials talking today, at least by long distance. They discussed ways to avoid confrontations between warplanes crisscrossing syrian skies. Meanwhile, the war on the ground raged on. Woodruff rebels in Northern Syria fought using americanmade antitank weapons today, trying to slow a government offensive in hama province. The assad regime is taking advantage of rus
Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the situation in syria had u. S. And Russian Military officials talking today, at least by long distance. They discussed ways to avoid confrontations between warplanes crisscrossing syrian skies. Meanwhile, the war on the ground raged on. Woodruff rebels in Northern Syria fought using americanmade antitank weapons today, trying to slow a government offensive in hama province. The assad regime is taking advantage of russian air strikes currently hitti
[applause] among his many books he has written at the National Constitution Center Advisory board central to the creation of this Beautiful National treasure rich was founded during the bicentennial to bring together people of different perspectives to debate the constitution and to learn about it. Thanks to his inspiration and we will announce the launch of a do interactive constitution and the you can see behind me that the american Fourth Amendment had a very direct influence on japan with General Macarthur tracked drafted the japanese constitution he bitterly cut and pasted so the words are almost exactly the same 53 percent of the text matches by contrast look at the russian constitution it is up provision that spouses cannot testify against one another and it is only 3 similar. So this would inspire citizens to engage in foreign constitutions some Justice Beyer how can they use this tool to learn about the relevance of the interNational Constitution . Take you for inviting me for
Trouble. Whats that from . Guest that was my earlier subject, Antonin Scalia who said it kiddingly after justice on the sotomayor shook up a party by getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. I use it to set the scene of a contrast its been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution thats a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. The rhythms frankly our salsa. She did this wonderful display that shut everybody up at this end of term party and Justice Scalia who watched it come a summit usually shakes people up, right . Said i knew she would be trouble. He said it kiddingly but its a perfect line for all a bit of what greeted her. Host were you allowed to go to the party . Guest no, no. It was tough to get the information. You know, peter, how secretive this court is. A lot of people arent aware of how we never know what goes on in a conference on cases. Journalists are never invited to the end of the term party. In fact, when chie