professor of political science here at southern, illinois university, edwardsville. on the illinois side of the st. louis metropolitan area and i do my teaching and research in american politics and public policy and more specifically in american political institutions. and i ve done a fair bit of my research in congress and a regularly teach course on congress here at siu edwardsville. now one of the topics that i talk about in that course is party leaders in the influence that they have over policy. and today what i m going to do is i m going to talk about some famous speakers in the house and the ways in which they ve been fluenced american politics and policy even today as well as the operation of the house. and so with that let s go ahead and begin. and so as i mentioned we re going to talk today about historical house speakers in the modern us house. so in other words what we re going to do is we re going to walk through. how it is house speakers over time. have influen
policy and more specifically in american political institutions. and i ve done a fair bit of my research in congress and a regularly teach course on congress here at siu edwardsville. now one of the topics that i talk about in that course is party leaders in the influence that they have over policy. and today what i m going to do is i m going to talk about some famous speakers in the house and the ways in which they ve been fluenced american politics and policy even today as well as the operation of the house. and so with that let s go ahead and begin. and so as i mentioned we re going to talk today about historical house speakers in the modern us house. so in other words what we re going to do is we re going to walk through. how it is house speakers over time. have influenced the political process and as part of that. we ll talk about why study house speakers. we re also going to talk about several different house speakers over time. including henry clay thomas reed joseph c
you re looking at some of the images from the 1884 election and listening to songs in support of james g. blaine of maine and his running mate, john logan. tonight our series continues and we re live in the home of james g. blaine, and since 1920, the official residence of maine s governor. we re inside the blaine house with maine s sitting governor. do you have a sense of the man while you re here? . absolutely. welcome to maine and welcome to the people s house. mr. blaine is here every day and we see his spirit every evening, because we always say good night to him. what is your sense of living the house was built many years ago, many people have lived in it over the years, but he really is president in a lot of ways. what have you come to learn about the man by living in his midst? he not only was a very strong supporter and founder of the republican party in maine but a national leader, and started maine on its course to where we are now. and very, very influ
to a creator, a supreme judge, or divine providence. he also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. this class took place at georgetown university and is an hour and 45 minutes. it was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. good morning, everyone. aren t you a smart-looking set this morning. the topic today is religion and the american revolution. you recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. that s what i was calling them. so we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, greco-roman, but primarily roman. we looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. and we deferr
republicanism. roman, greco-roman, but primarily roman. enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. that s where we are today. you recall this image of the missouri river and its headwaters. great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. these are the headwaters of the missouri river, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. and in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. classical republicanism to the left there. enlightenment liberalism. and protestant christianity. that s where we are, looking at protestant christianity. this is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awak