We hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. Quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans new series landmark cases. Tonight and the next 11 weeks were going to be looking at cases that developing the development. Its also interesting because it all came about after two Founding Fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. We have guests to help us understand the story. A Yale University luprofoaw pro and hes the author of several books including americas constitution, a biography. To start were going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. And then after we hear his point of view well like to hear from both of you on why this case is
Landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas between 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest hernandez, Petitioner Versus roe v. Wade. The quite often, and many of our famous decisions, there once that the court took quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped skip world together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening. Welcome to cnns new series, landmark cases. Tonight, and for the next 11 weeks, will be looking at 12 cases that have affected the country and affected the development of the horton society. Now we focus on marbury v. Madison, one of the earliest cases, and its interesting because it came about between the two Founding Fathers who developed and empathy after the election of 1800 and different vie
Good evening everyone. One of the some people are still coming on but it is time to get on with it. I am david welch the inaugural director of the body civil filled institute for civil political communications. As Sheppard University. Unwelcome [applause]. Welcome to our first installment of the american conversations series public forum. An evening with donna brazil and mercedes lap in the state of political discourse in todays america. Moderated by sheppard universi university, mary hendrix. Throughout the academic year, there will be several more forum so please go to Facebook Page and website updates. The mission of the institute is to study and promote how intelligent authentic and civil political discourse can play an essential role in our nation his ability to better meet challenges and solve problems and to offer a platform on how opposite viewpoints and be respected and legitimized in ways that avoid negative labeling and alienation. Moreover, we see to demonstrate the civil P
founding fathers in a story there was a debate between three of the most prominent founding fathers doctor benjamin rush, thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. they were debating what was the world s oldest profession. [laughter] doctor rusher was a physician. and so he said the world s oldest profession is a proficient address was eight physician per eve was cut out of the rib of adam. jefferson said no i don t think that is right. jefferson was an architect he designed monticello felt something near and dear he said the world oldest profession is the architect. after all, who do you think created the order out of all the chaos? franklin said no you are wrong. the oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place. [laughter] and unfortunately policy has mattered probably more than ever over the last few years. i am pleased to say on issue after issue florida has led the way. and i will talk about some of the statistics and some of t
[cheering] [background noises] thank you. it is wonderful to be here. they cannot cancel me i m going to speak my mind. you know, i saw there was a little bit of opposition to me coming here. all i can tell you is this, when the left is having a spasm that just tells you that in florida it we are on the issues that are matter. [applause] and after all i was not going to let some protest determing to coming to speak in front of a lot of florida future voters in the state of florida. i want to thank roger for the introduction. happy to share some of the florida story with you here today. when i think about where florida is, how florida has handled the last couple of years, i look at some other states where it is a lot different story. i actually think back to the founding fathers in a story there was a debate between three of the most prominent founding fathers doctor benjamin rush, thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. they were debating what was the world s oldest profess