let s pick up where we left off on wednesday. the main argument i was trying to make then focused on james madison s role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the continental congress, was never going to work. when he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. he combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70 s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. how washington functions. he takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests w
we hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. let s go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. good evening and welcome to c-span s new series landmark cases. tonight and the next 11 weeks we re going to be looking at cases that developing the development. it s also interesting because it all came about after two founding fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. we have guests to help us understand the story. a yale university luprofoaw pro and he s the author of several books including america s constitution, a biography. to start we re going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. and then after we hear his point of view we ll like to hear from both
landmark cases, c-span special history series produced in cooperation with the national constitution center. exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas between 12 historic supreme court decisions. number 759, earnest hernandez, petitioner versus roe v. wade. . the quite often, and many of our famous decisions, there once that the court took quite unpopular. let s go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped skip world together because they believe in the rule of law. good evening. welcome to cnn s new series, landmark cases. tonight, and for the next 11 weeks, will be looking at 12 cases that have affected the country and affected the development of the horton society. now we focus on marbury v. madison, one of the earliest cases, and it s interesting because it came about between the two founding fathers who developed and empathy after the electi
important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things we re 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 she s 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
montpelier presidents day celebration. we have a tradition of hosting speakers for a special presidents 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 we re 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 coop