Important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the lead up to the constitution. Thank you. All right. I need two seconds to get my powerpoint up because you cant do anything
Montpelier president s day celebration. We have a tradition of hosting speakers for a special president s day weekend program. And this year, we thought it would be a nice change and important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in museum study from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new
Brian noah feldman, what are the three lives of James Madison that you wrote about . Noah the first life is the one that is most famous. That is where he created the constitution. Not only in our country but also the greatest constitutional genius and the world. In his second life he discovered the constitution was not perfect. He thought he had thought against political parties, he actually founded the Republican Party to fight the Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton. He became a partisan very much against his own wishes. In his third life he got to be secretary of state for eight years and president for eight more created he got to take on all of the decisions when you are running the show, and faithfully taking us into the first war. Very much against the principles of his lifetime. Which was against the Standing Army and the navy. Brian talk about him as a person, size and health problems, and all that. Noah he was very different than the other founders. He was very much in his
Announcer this week on q a, author and Harvard Law School professor noah feldman. Professor feldman discusses his book the three lives of james and madison genius, partisan, president. Brian noah feldman, what are a the three lives of James Madison that you wrote about . Noah the first life is the one that is most famous. In an minute is where he invented the constitution. Not only in our country but also the greatest constitutional genius in the world. In his second life, he discovered the constitution was not perfect. He thought he had fought against political parties, he actually founded the Republican Party to fight the Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton. He became a partisan very much against his own wishes. In his third life, he got to be secretary of state for eight years and president for eight more. He got to take on all of the decisions when you are running the show, and faithfully taking us into the first war. Very much against the principles of his lifetime. Which was
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