1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
Partisanship on those changes. That starts tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Causes my mind to go back to the truth we learned at home, beliefs would shake my paths and their guidance of their children. Love of god, fairness in human relations, independence, and responsibility concern for the welfare of others and conviction that each free individual could, through his own efforts, achieve a full life. It is a firm duty of each of our free citizens to make the cause of his country before the comforts of himself. We must be ready to dare all for our country, for history does not trust the freedom to the weak, we must be willing individually and as a nation to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles. These men came here to storm these beaches, not to gain anything for ourselves, but just to preserve freedom, systems of selfgovernment in the world. Many thousand
Friday schools will remain open but otherwise people will be allowed out of their houses for only a limited number of reasons for an hour a day frances military has begun moving critically ill patients from regions where hospitals are at their limit. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden has voted in his home state of delaware he joined more than 74000000 other americans including his rival donald trump who have cast their ballots ahead of election day next tuesday the number of early voters already represents more than half of the entire turnout in the 2016 election. This is d w news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or a visit our website w dot com. Core. Porn. Germany was able to flatten the coronavirus curve in april it will have to do it again in november beginning next monday a partial lockdown will take effect in all of germany 4 weeks of no dining out no Domestic Travel and no nightlife a november of shutdowns and shut ins that will hopefully shut out
[ applause ] good evening, mr. President , senator kerry. As determined by a coin toss, the first question goes to you, senator kerry. You have two minutes. Do you believe that you could do a better job than president bush in preventing another 9 11type terrorist attack on the United States . Yes, i do. But before i answer further, let me thank you for moderating. I want to thank the university of miami for hosting us, and i know the president will join me in welcoming all of florida to this debate. Youve been through the roughest weeks anybody could imagine. Our hearts go out to you, and we admire your pluck and perseve perseveran perseverance. I can make america safer than president bush has made us. And i believe president bush and i both love our country equally, but we just have a different set of convictions about how you make america safe. I believe america is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances. Ill never give a veto to any cou
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