But they were very small part of the navy. Host the marine corps is completely separate from the navy now . Guest they are. They are a separate Service Inside the department of the navy, but this became can tensions throughout the history. The core would claim when they served aboard ships that they should follow the rules of the navy, regulations of the department the navy. And eventually in 1832 to become properly a separate Service Inside the department. Host how did their Mission Change . Guest domitian didnt change so much that. They remained all the way to the 20th century, but they were something of a jack of all trades. They would do other jobs as well, most often serving as landing parties when the navy would send sailors and marines ashore in punitive expeditions. The marines for anticipating that. And the start of the 20th century they took on a variety of other nations, calling out infantry in haiti, philippines and nicaragua and just before world war ii, they started creat
You can read all the detail in the book. My assessment of this coming away is that on balance, we are better off if the members, the sober and the mature members of the community have the choice of owning firearms for self protection. It doesnt mean they dont have the costs and i think we are at a stage where hopefully we can have a less visceral and more of a koln conversation about whether there is a role for that tradition in the modern era and we can move away from the reflux that we have had over the last certainly 20 years that says well, these are legal instruments that we need to get away and out of the community. So the 40 of the folks that entered in the poll that they thought it was more important to a poll of the individual right to arms, this book in some ways gives voice to those people and concerns and hopefully will cause others in the community to at least engage in the question at a more serious level than just the reflex reaction against guns that is a sort of charac
Guest the biggest take away you would want people to take away from their book. The core of a couple of things a really resonated with me that were scenes that carried over from when i had written my book on privacy. And it really struck me again. Eat your tie back to the founding father, the constitution, to personal rights what would be one or two things you would want somebody listening today or when they read your book, what would you want them to take away from this conversation . Guest i want people to be aware that when you read this book the zero case studies drawn from recent media events. These are not conspiracy types made up of events to where i am alleging that we are on this police state track and it is just a crazy ten foil hat argument. You know, these are things that you can flip on the evening news and look through the newspaper and see happening every day. Federal, state, and local government encroaching all aspects of human activity. The biggest take away is that th
And all of that thinking to have shown through the world. Its what people but they dont realize how much we have to do remembering as a judge to every decision that you make there is a winner and there is a loser. People forget all losers because if they like the decision they think they are smart. [laughter] if they dont like what weve done they dont think we are smart. They think we are lazy. How could they get this wrong or they think we are doing it based on policy. We want to do it our way he and its so far from the truth. It is a skill. You are trained to look at issues in a legal way. Its based not on your personal likes or dislikes but on the tools interpretation so the process can seem boring to an outsider, to someone is completely. And the other half were interacting with the public. The Supreme Court gets visitors from around the world. I have met with School Children as young as second grade, grammar school, high school, college, professional, not just small school. Studen
Meetings at conferences and still operate about three days a week. That sounds great. Individually write another book . Chip davis and fer marty makara the book is unaccountable and we appreciate you taking the time today. Good to be with you. That was after words of which nonfiction authors letter interviewed by legislators and others familiar with their material. After words airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p. M. On saturday, 12 p. M. And 9 p. M. On sunday and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words on line. Go to booktv. Org and click on after words in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. University of pennsylvania professor stephen hahn discusses his book the political world of slavery and freedom. Thats next on booktv. He argues historians have presented an incomplete picture of African American emancipation and struggle for civil rights that followed. Professor hahn was interviewed at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia a