Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
Lets pick up where we left off on wednesday. The main argument i was trying to make then focused on James Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. How washington functions. He takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each st
New hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage chairman ray fosly. We have a message for christopher sununu. 2018 is coming. Yesterday, we launched a project to keep sununu accountable for his out of touch policies that are favoring his family, his friends, and corporate special interests. Instead of average staters. Were tired of his phony double speak and his aw schucks act, so were calling him out. Our focus is five key issues. Where his policies are hurting New Hampshire. Education, the economy, health care, the environment, and ethics. And we cant hold him accountable alone. We need your help. So follow sununureality, on twitter. Like sununu reality check on facebook. Go to our website, www. Sununurealitycheck. Com to learn more about sununus record and share it to hold him accountable. Folks, chris sununu won by 2 in 2016. So lets get to work and make sure he loses by far more than 2 in 2018. So is everyone clear . Everyone clear what our focus is . For the next 11 months.
Local independent bookstore. We are excited to have our guest tonight. Technically the store closes at 8 00 p. M. But we will keep a register open and you will be able to exit the building out the back parking lot here. A perk. On to tonights guest, the taylor professor and he has served as the science consultant on movies such as watchman and the amazing spider man. His latest book, the physics of everyday things, was published by crown last week and that welcome be in joining james kakalios. We will be back with more live coverage from the eighth annual gaithersburg book thank you very much. Joe. Thank you to the University Bookstore for hosting this event and thank you everyone for coming indoors on a beautiful may day to sit inside and listen to talk about physics. You are my kind of, nerds. [laughter] we live our lives surrounded by the most amazing technologies such as, usb drives that can store entire libraries, are smart phones which far exceed the capabilities of anything imag
Local independent bookstore. We are excited to have our guest tonight. Technically the store closes at 8 00 p. M. But we will keep a register open and you will be able to exit the building out the back parking lot here. A perk. On to tonights guest, the taylor professor and he has served as the science consultant on movies such as watchman and the amazing spider man. His latest book, the physics of everyday things, was published by crown last week and that welcome be in joining james kakalios. We will be back with more live coverage from the eighth annual gaithersburg book thank you very much. Joe. Thank you to the University Bookstore for hosting this event and thank you everyone for coming indoors on a beautiful may day to sit inside and listen to talk about physics. You are my kind of, nerds. [laughter] we live our lives surrounded by the most amazing technologies such as, usb drives that can store entire libraries, are smart phones which far exceed the capabilities of anything imag