Introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is
Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is professor of Political Science at loyola university, maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute wh
So up to this point in the course, weve been talking a lot about the degree to which the constitution did not simply take the form of a written legal document right but rather as a set of ideas about the structure and function of american governance. And among these key ideas was a reliance on union particularly those mutual bonds of nationhood between states often known as comedy and the production of compromise, right . The constitution is a commitment to compromise. And because compromise was baked into the constitution. So too was the evil of slavery. Because they were consistently compromises between slaveholding and nonslaveHolding States about slavery. Because the framers at the Constitutional Convention in philadelphia were so committed to the idea of compromise as part of the scaffolding of american governance. They had drawn a path forward that always was going to accommodate slavery particularly as the nation became more and more committed to slavery. So over the course of t
With penn state Professor Rachel sheldon. All right. So up to this point in the course, weve been talking a lot about the degree to which the constitution did not simply take the form of a written legal document right but rather as a set of ideas about the structure and function of american governance. And among these key ideas was a reliance on union particularly those mutual bonds of nationhood between states often known as comedy and the production of compromise, right . The constitution is a commitment to compromise. And because compromise was baked into the constitution. So too was the evil of slavery. Because they were consistently compromises between slaveholding and nonslaveHolding States about slavery. Because the framers at the Constitutional Convention in philadelphia were so committed to the idea of compromise as part of the scaffolding of american governance. They had drawn a path forward that always was going to accommodate slavery particularly as the nation became more a
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