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
Traumatic brain injury. According to cbs news, carey fell down some stairs, hit her head, and after that she was never the same. Nine months ago she told police she was a prof profit and president obama had her house placed under surveillance. Several medications and according to cnn, investigators found drugs used to treat bipolar disorder and depression. Police are going moment by moment trying to figure out what went right and what went wrong. We get more on that from bruce leshan. Former Homeland Security senior adviser, christopher henn, says the officers performed exceedingly well. Carey did not have a gun, but he says she clearly was gunning at the officers with her vehicle. Justifiable shooting. I hate to put it that way, but they had to protect themselves and others. Brandnew amateur video shows a Capitol Police cruiser chasing miriam carey hit by the fast barricade moments after she pushed through. How the cruiser was hit, long minutes after the shooting and police chase star
Be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. That is what happened to Abigail Fisher. It is not disputed. She was treated differently because of her race and color and national origin. Now, we are not going to be talking so much about title vi my when we talk about the constitution. The Supreme Court said it doesnt really mean what it says. We just think it means what the constitution means. Constitution has a little bit more wiggle room. Although knobloch or the constitution guarantees equal protection of the law, and the outlaws the whole purpose of it the 14th amendment was to outlaw racial standards. That seems pretty straightforward. There was an act of 1981 that been Racial Discrimination, including in regards to college tuition. It sounds pretty straightforward. Think of those things not mean what they say. There is an exception in this area. You would think, well, gee, it would be an exception. It would be an exception to
Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals on the third circuit. Welcome. On monday the constitution of the United States turned 225. Tonights program is one of several that the National Archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. Tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of United States constitution. Our