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Mark: the federal government. governments are e scenlly lefessentially left alone. that little piece is getting bigger, bigger and bigger as we move into an increasingly post constitutional period which is compelled by the progressive movement. and so more and more of the civil society, private lives, individual lives are being devoured by a government thats getting bigger and bigger and bigger beyond its constitutional limits, correct? >> yes. the constitution did take away some powers from the...

Human law which is looking up to and aspiring the perfect justice, you never can achieve perfect justice with imperfect human beings and imperfect governments but you have to be conscious of your obligation to try to do justice. thats what leads to the creation of the constitution, what leads to, throughout american history, reform movements of various kinds to abolish slavery, for example, to bring positive law and the community into line with natural law with the way it should be. mark: lets b...

They were promoting government. is this not the basis of our constitutional system? >> yes. the constitution is, in a way, a means to the ends that are outlined in the declaration, protecting our rights, securing our rightses to life, liberty and the pursuit of levin -- im sorry, happiness. mark: those are the goals. >> g or safety and happiness, te ultimate goals of government which the declaration speaks about. how are you going to secure all of those things. myou need a form of government and...

Mckenna college. but the reason i wanted to have you here toads is to talk about the declaration. its relevance to today. a lot of discussion about racism and slavery. a lot of discussion about centralized government in the miadministrative state versus capitalism and federalism. youre an expert on all of these things. youve been teaching for decades about these things. lets start with the declaration of independence and its relevance to today. what is this natural law, natural right reference i...

Mark: professor charles kessler. we hear a lot of talk about slavery, systemic racism. more than ki remember 20 years ago. it seems to be a crucial part of the radical progressive agenda. first ofse all, the declarationf independence, if constitution. does the declaration promote slavery? does the constitution? >> well the best line about the declaration, i think, was spoken by bernard, the great harvard historian of the revolutionary period when he said the declaration of independence did not s...

Rational beings who are your equals. dont have any authority over your life, your liberty, your property and theres no natural government. so any w government that we jusy can operate among oses has to be agreed on by consent of equal human beings. mark: isnt that the significance of the declaration at that time. the revolution had started. they meet at the second continental congress and theyre declaring that to world why they have to stabbed up to the most powivepowerful military on the f the ...

February 15th we better have a bill that we will pass in both the house and the senate that will keep government running until the end of the fiscal year and send it to the president. he can either sign it or not. >> reporter: this weekend marks the presidents first trip to his so-called winter white house since thanksgiving. he spent the morning golfing with jack nicklaus and tiger woods. the federal government is open for now, but if bipartisan group of lawmakers are unable to negotiate a bord...

February 15th we better have a bill that we will pass in both the house and the senate that will keep government running until the end of the fiscal year and send it to the president. he can either sign it or not. >> reporter: this weekend marks the presidents first trip to his so-called winter white house since thanksgiving. he spent the morning golfing with jack nicklaus and tiger woods. the federal government is open for now, but if bipartisan group of lawmakers are unable to negotiate a bord...

In the southern indian ocean. >> malaysias prime minister with the news a lot of people suspected and were expecting but didnt want to hear that its likely that the malaysian airliner 777 has gone down somewhere in the southern indian ocean without a trace though so far. we are back with our panel. ron, a pretty certain deck collar immigration on the part of deck declaration. was he right to do it. >> the government hasnt helped them at all. they have mishandled this to have him stand up and say...