The Federalist Society is founded on the freedoms that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to tell you what the law is, not what it should be. The society seeks to promote both an awareness of these principles and to further their application. Now, you may notice i have an adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. He was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. And marcus witcher, you have seen throughout the day, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. I first met marcus several years ago at an institute, or you may say a conference, i spoke, and then he followed me. He later told me, and i mean years later, that he was so relieved that i went first, because i did not do such a good job, i made it so much easier for him to follow. [l
The Federalist Society for law and Public Policy studies at montgomery, alabama posted this event. Good morning. Is Federalist Society founded on the freedoms that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to tell you what the law is, not what it should be. The society seeks to promote both an awareness of these principles and to further their application. An, you may notice i have adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. He was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. And marcus witcher, you have seen throughout the day, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. I first met marcus several years you mayn institute, or say a conference, i spoke, and then he followed me. He later told me, and i mean years later, that he was so relieved that i
Dr. Mendenhall good morning. Good morning and welcome to the montgomery lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society is founded on the freedoms that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to tell say what the law is, not what it should be. The society seeks to promote both an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. Now, you may notice i have an adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. He was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. And marcus witcher, you is speaking to us today, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. I first met marcus several years ago at an Institute Study conference, i spoke, and then he followed me. He later told me, and i mean years later, that h
An awareness of the principles and to further their application through activities. Now, you may notice i have an adam smith tie on today, and that is not because we have an economic historian coming to speak to us, but it is because adam smith was principally an educator. He was a professor and a private tutor, and he was beloved by his students. And marcus witcher, you have seen throughout the day, is known as a very exuberant, enthusiastic educator. I first met marcus several years ago at an institute for humane studies conference. I spoke, and then he followed me. He later told me, and i mean years later, that he was so relieved that i went first, because i did not do such a good job, i made it so much easier for him to follow. [laughter] i was an easy act to follow. He was very pleased by this. But marcus has spent the last five years writing this book on Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan has become a symbol, an icon for conservatives. We have the president ial debate within the Re
Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found