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[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. my name is kendra and i m a member of the archive staff here and on behalf of the library museum i would like to welcome you to the 2016 reading festival. franklin d. roosevelt planned for it to become premier research institution for the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all presidential libraries and this year s group of authors reflects variety on here. you look the reading festival and want to support the programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a member and please consider joining us our 75th anniversary programming later this month. you can learn more about membership and events at wwfdr library.org. let me quick i will go over the format for the festival s session, a session begins with 30-minute author talk followed by ten-minute question and answer period. then the authors will move to the tables in the lobby next to the new deal store where you can purc ....
i really could, like, walk into a grocery store and probably i really could like walk into a grocery store and probably finde five in a single like outing to walmart, so is very rich with students who had lived that experience and from various perspectives.at i reall the thing i realize when i i started interviewing was that there are so made different perspective there can ever thought about what life might look like for a kid who was five when the schools closed, so when i met those students i thought i should passed a wider net. it was amazing to meet someone that was not able to start their education until they were 10 years old and was pushed throug school in seven years and frustrated many teachers. that was a totally different experience from these kids who quit to school at 13 or 14 through no fault of their own, but because of school closures, so i did my best to cast a wide net and figure out what some of the main themes of the stories were and i have to say t ....
now, landmark cases. tonight looks at the 1873 slaughterhouse cases. lead marquesas, c-span special history series produced in cooperation with the national constitution center exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic decisions. number 759, ernest miranda petitioner versus arizona. argument 18, rule against roe versus wade. quite often, famous decisions took to that the court be quite unpopular. let s 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 helped stick together because they live in a rule of law. landmark cases. of series will look at some the supreme court s most interesting and impactful historic decisions. tonight, we are talking about a case you might not know very much about. it is called the slaughterhouse cases. it was the first time that the supreme court reviewed the newly enacted for to them in the to the constitutio ....
most famous decisions, are ones the court took that were quite unpopular. this decision changed our lives. let s go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. good evening and welcome to c-span and the national constitution center s landmark cases. our 12-part series that looks at the supreme court s most interesting and impactful, historic decisions over the course of our country s history. tonight, we re going to be talking about a case you might not know much about. it s called the slaughterhouse cases. it was the first time that the supreme court reviewed the newly enacted 14th amendment to the constitution. let me introduce you to our terrific guests tonight, here to tell you more about the history and importance of this case. paul clement, a law authority who served during the bush 43 administration. he has argu ....
let me introduce you to our guests. he has argued more than 75 cases before the supreme court. paul, welcome. michael is a legal historian and the author of a biography of a justice you are hearing about tonight. i will have you make the case to the audience. why is this on our list? why did the slaughterhouse cases matter? this case belongs in any list of great landmark supreme court cases and it is the first opportunity the supreme court has to interpret the 14th amendment and the reason that is so important is the 14th amendment is what essentially takes big erin t of the bill of rights eventually and constraints the actions of state government and if you think about the bill of rights, all of them by their terms were designed to restrict the federal government. it is really only at the point that we go through a civil war were people realize it s not just a federal government they have to be concerned about but state governments. there is a process of adding the 1 ....