Is causing huge problems, so, yes, oui is causing huge problems, so, yes, our constitution is being stress tested by the necessity to proceed with brexit. Do you agree with that, alison, and if it is being tested, almost to destruction, what do we need to do about that . Is that something the Supreme Court is going to address this week, potentially . |i do to address this week, potentially . do accept that it is being tested, andi do accept that it is being tested, and i think it is because you are in and i think it is because you are in a very difficult situation, you have an issue that is very divisive, very strong opinions on both sides, and you have a strict time limit set out by the legal requirements of the European Union, so i can see the pressure, but at the same time if you are going to start thinking about a new written constitution, you need to think very carefully about what those principles should be and how they should work, and i dont think that is a job for the Supreme
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[ bells tolling ] good morning. I am kirk cox, speaker of the Virginia House of delegates. Im absolutely delighted to welcome everyone here at jamestown settlement in the recreated church in james fort and those viewing these proceedings online or watching from beyond for the 400th anniversary today. Of the first and oldest continuous Representative Legislature body in the western hemisphere is our forefathers did on this very day 400 years ago, we assembled right here at the birthplace of american democracy, jamestown. Freedom in the form of Representative Democracy began here in virginia. The unforgettable and inspiring event that happened here, what began here has changed not only virginia and not only america, but much of the entire world. Special occasions, the commemorations like this offer us an opportunity to pause and reflect on history of 1619. As a retired schoolteacher, i taught government for almost 30 years. I know the year 1619 was pivotal, as well as complicated. That y
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Discusses Housing Solutions at an event hosted by the partisan Bipartisan Policy Center at 11 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan now or online at cspan. Org. D. C. Circuit court judge discussed the constitution. This is hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Yuval levin hi, everybody. Thank you for being here and for helping us remember walter burns and celebrate the constitution from director of social studies. It is my great pleasure to welcome what is the 12th annual constitutional day lecture held in honor of the great walter burns. We honor walter just the way he would like to be remembered become together to think about the constitution. And we do it each year with the help of some someone particularly wellplaced and gifted for helping us do that. That is very much the case. We could hardly ask for a better guide and thinking together about the constitution that are speaker tonight. On the u. S. Court of appeals for the district of columbia. It isas for one thing a Public Servic