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Good morning, weve been talking about the effects of the American Revolution and framing that around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kind of changes could it negotiate in american society, american law . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than a war for independence . And we talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure, and the last time we met were talking about the impact of the revolutionary on African Americans and on the institution of slavery. We saw in that case, the legacy was quite mixed. The revolution said the institution of slavery on the path of destruction in the northern states but was instrumental and ....
Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So, we talked about weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talked about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in revolution. On the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery. We saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institution of slavery on the path to destruction in the northern states but was instrumental in kind of deepening and strengthening the institution in the southern states. Today i want to talk about two topics that were closely interrelated and that are really two sides ....
Now, a conversation on the history of gun regulation and how the Second Amendment has been interpreted over the centuries. We will hear from a historian, and a law professor in this discussion from the National History center. Good morning and welcome. It is a pleasure to welcome you to this briefing hosted by the National History center. Im karen wolf, the executive director of the institute of Early American History and culture at william and mary, and also a professor of history at william and mary. I will be introducing todays speakers and moderating the cuban afterwards. Please note that we have distributed cards. They are on your chairs. The purpose is to facilitate the q a. Jeff is standing by. There is. Jeff he will collect those cards for any ....
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats why they pay us the remarkably modest bucks at the end of the day. But that is, in essence, one of the major problems okay. Just continuing on this question of contextualizing, i want to ask you a very specific question about infringed and abridged and how those two words differ if their implication and whether there is a Historical Context to that or whether we only need concern ourselves with our contemporary conception of the distinction between those two words . Well, i mean it depends on whether you think were doing a linguistic exercise where the meaning interchangeable. You know, you could say infringed means just the same thing as to violate. Its one of the definitions. It could be a binary. Either its on or off. You infringed or you vichavent a spectrum, a diminution, an infringement and theres ....