Sometimes we start gravelly, then we east into it. We hope you have your breakfast in hand. Will my man told me hit the Snooze Button one too many times. He is not yet to the mountain dew, the first energy drink of the day. I know this is slow morning for pete hegseth. Pete i go up to my office during one of the commercial breaks to get my mountain dew. Will i know your routine. Pete it wasnt going to happen. The alarm went off. I said not today. Here we are. Will here is it what were following several big stories. Covid19 cases spread from team to team. First the Denver Broncos in unprecedented jam after all of its quarter back are declared ineligible today for the game today with the saints. One of the quarterbacks tested positive. Pete the Baltimore Ravens have 18 players on the coach cove reserve lives. The game against the steelers is in more doubt but scheduled for tuesday night. Jedediah San Francisco 49ers faces its own issue after county imposed ban on Contact Sports. They are
He argues thaw failures and reinventions we use the constitution as a tool to create our modern core values. The Smithsonian Associates hosted the event. Good evening, everyone. Can you all hear me in the back . My name is ruth robbins and it is a pleasure to welcome you to our program, before we start a couple of quick things. If you have electronic devices, now is a good time to turn them off. As usual in our programs, there is no photography and no filming. Also, if youre wondering what our equipment is in the back of the room, its cspan. So make show your nicest smile, brush your hair, in case you get a cameo and when we get to the q and a part, there is a meeker phone in the back of the room that will let you know when its time for that and youll get time to ask your questions. In the rest of times it is always worthwhile to visit the documents that set us apart from british rule and created the framework of the government. Today our guest speaker Kermit Roosevelt explains these d
Hughes. The issues were large. They included the problems of a peoples industry, its people, its agriculture, its agriculture, its resources. But the immediate battlefield of the struggle was the constitution with its checks and balances. Its division of power between executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. This is the struggle known as the Court Packing fight. On august 14th 1935, president franklin d. Roosevelt signed the Social Security act. Its provisions included old age benefits and payroll taxes to help finance them. The president made a brief statement. Pres. Roosevelt to millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits and unemployment age pensions old and increased services for the protection of children narrator the payroll taxes were to start in 1937. But months before that in boston, massachusetts, in Federal District court, an action was begun for attorneys for george davis, a shareholder in the Edison Company in boston. He was suing for an injun
Of things. Its both available on amazon prime, a video series called a more or less perfectunion. As well as a companion book. If i can ask you judge ginsburg what was it that made you want to do this . Thank you tony for asking. This is addressed to what i think is a real crisis in our Education System in the us now. In that civics is not being taught as nearly and widely as it should be. Even American History is often neglected. So we have millions of students graduating each year from high school who have never been exposed to how our government works, what our constitution says. What our National Values are even. The younger person is these days, the more ignorant they are likely to be on these topics and we simply cannot have a functioning democratic republic with a completely ignorant population but we are heading in that direction. And i am, what im doing is part of a broader reaction to that in civics education. I think Sandra Day Oconnor started the ball rolling a dozen years
As mentioned earlier today, chief adams serves on preservation virginias board of trustees. It was at his urging that this symposium came to be. The chief served as a strong advocate for the federal recognition of the upper mattaponi. In the lead up to 2007, chief adams actively participated in the Jamestown Committee and activities associated. I can say we spent a lot of time together. At various events around the state. His leadership and persistence ensures that commemorative events reflected the respective Indigenous People, their culture, and governments long before the ships arrive to jamestown. He brought the lack of a permanent memorial on virginia capitol grounds, as did other cabinet leaders, to the attention of governor kane, resulting in the formation of the virginia Indian Commemorative commission, in 2018. Chief adams has generously dedicated himself to numerous causes and organizations across the commonwealth. It is an honor to introduce chief adams. Chief adams thank yo