Next Supreme Court justices john roberts and Stephen Bryer talk about the magna carta and a look at the dre d scott case and the origins of the civil war. Later a discussion about former Supreme Court Justice Roger toney, his role in the scott case and the civil war. Up next, u. S. Supreme court chief Justice John Roberts joins igor judge, the former lord chief justice of england and wael withes to discuss the magna carta on its 800th anniversary and the importance for the american and british judicial systems. They spoke at the library of congress where a copy is on display. King john signed the document under pressure from barons. American revolutionaries look to the rights guaranteed by the magna carta as they repelled against the english crown. Good afternoon, everyone. Im the law librarians of congress. On behalf of dr. James billing ton the librarian i want to welcome you to the beautiful members room in the Thomas Jefferson building of the library of congress. We are fortunate a
Deliver west point to the british offers insights. He talks about british and american participants after the plot was uncovered. This was hosted by colonial williamsburg. Its about an hour. Thanks so much for that warm welcome. Im really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from Northern Virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately thats not the case. You have to keep checking your assumptions. If your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. I would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous, although somewhat ribald as well. Heres the story. The smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye, said, well, im off nowment the man will be here soon. Half an hour later, just by chance, a baby photographer happe
To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose to give the agency more power to actually select the definition that they wanted because they could have more power not on the hill at that point but with the agency defining it. Yeah. Well, i mean but if youre saying that the agency has the power, youre really saying that the groups that influence the congress to write those three different definitions were expecting some advantage from one or m
Nothing this this room can change. To my left down the block is the colorado river. This is an important site in the citys history. This is where waterloo was. It was a cluster of cabin occupied by four or five familieses including j. Carol. Im standing at the spot where the cabin was. This is where Mirabella Mar was when he and the rest got word of a big buffalo herd in the vicinity. They jumped on the horses congress avenue wasnt the avenue. It was a muddy ravine then that led north to the hill where the capitol sits. The men galloped on the horse s. They stuffed their belts full of pistols and rode into the midst of the buffalo firing and shouting. Lamar at 8th and Congress Shot this enormous buffalo. From there he went to the top of the hill to where the capitol is. He told everybody this should be the seat of a future empire. Watch our oh eventses from austin saturday at noon eastern on c arespan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan 3. During thi
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