, the National Constitution Center Hosted a discussion on how the bill of rights applies to todays debates on freedom of speech, the right to privacy and other issues. Speakers include the constitution center, also, the American Enterprise institute, and also the Aspen Institute. Welcome to the greatest assembly of the defenders of freedom ever. We have peter goettler, arthur brooks, Walter Isaacson, neera tanden, and Anthony Romero of the aclu. A big round of applause. [applause] jeffrey the National Constitution center is indeed a convening space of the greatest thinkers on freedom and called its usual liberties. It is impossible to imagine more distinguished, engaged of a group than the one you have today. I will plunge in. We have on the side of the stage a beautiful document. There are many documents here at the National Constitution center. I hope you are able to see the gallery as he came in the copy of the bill of rights and the declaration of independence. This is a very speci
Leaving cuba. My dad, he owned the lumber mill which he worked hard at. That is where i learned my work ethic from. Get up at 5 00 in the morning and work until 5 00 in the evening. But it was a good, comfortable life. Then all of a sudden, things changed. It was kind of topsyturvy. All of a sudden you thought was yours is no longer yours. It has been deemed to be taken over and shared with others, and that happens in all industries, all private property disappears. Then as i was even the schools, the schools that i was going to, they got shut down because they were changing the curriculum from the curriculum that we had to one that was more communistoriented. For a two year. A two year period, i did not have much to do except intentionally get in trouble. Potentially get in trouble. That is when my parents decided i needed to get out of cuba. Walter what age . Mike the process started when i was 15. It took about a year to get everything going. I brother and sister were much older tha
This is about do unto others as youd have them do unto you, this is about turning the other cheek. This is about whether or not americas a country that believes in the value of redemption and whether each one of us should be judged for the rest of our lives for the worst act weve done on our worst day of our life. And if we dont believe that rule should apply to us, then it ought not apply in our criminal justice context. Thats why i think the opportunities are enormous and i look forward to working with anyone else with whom i might disagree on other fronts. Well just park those issues, peter, arthur, and others, and well Work Together where we can and get some things done. But thank you very much. [applause] jeffrey this has been a superb constitutional conversation. My expectations were high and you have surpassed them. I have heard, i would not say rancor, but engaged debate and i have also heard some important agreement on fundamental issues , like the moral foundation of american
Thats why i think the opportunities are enormous and i look forward to working with anyone else with whom i might disagree on other fronts. Well just park those issues, peter, arthur, and others, and well Work Together where we can and get some things done. But thank you very much. [applause] jeffrey this has been a superb constitutional conversation. My expectations were high and you have surpassed them. I have heard, i would not say rancor, but engaged debate and i have also heard some important agreement on fundamental issues , like the moral foundation of american liberty, the importance of opportunity, and the dangers of massive operation. As for the National Constitution center, we will be the Central National hosting platform for precisely this kind of constitutional conversations, on the web here in philadelphia and around the country and we will educate the citizens of the United States about the u. S. Constitution, hearing the best arguments on both sides as we have today so
What goes on the brain activity is just many fold in terms of the connections that are being made, the synopsis being connected, so we are using that Brain Research to demonstrate that if we can get or not to demonstrate, but to convey to parents that are too busy to have this information that they are brain builders from the minute that that babys born. A lot of things we as parents have taken for granted, the way we raise our kids, there are a lot of parents, the parents that we are trying to reach, that dont have that information. They havent they themselves have not been brought up that way. So they feel like theres nothing i can do. The babies will learn when they go to school at 5 years old. By then its way too late. Thats where the gap, the huge gaps we have, actually theyre finding out that the gaps begin when they are 18 months old. In terms of the number of words. But its not the number of words. Its the quality of the words that are spoken. And the interactions whether youre