That all happens tonight on book tv. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders, its our honor to just on behalf of staff its honor to welcome you here for this event for the brad snyder, foundations of american liberalism. I have a few housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devises, we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention that if youre a regular here, sometimes you know that we ask you to put up the chairs, we are going to have an event following this one, so after the event is over leave the chairs as we are. We are honored to have cspan book tv, comes out to many of our events. This is being recorded but as a part of that, we really like to have whenever you ask a question because theres going to be at the second half of the reading theres going to be time for questions and a
[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders. Im part of the event staff. Politics and prose, and its her honor just on behalf of the staff and the owners to welcome here for this event for brad snyder and his book house of truth a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. A fe housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devices so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention if you are a regular come sometimes you know we ask you to put up the chairs. We will have an event following this one so after the event is over you can just leave the chairs as they are. We are honored to have cspans booktv who comes out to many of our events, so this is being recorded. But as a part of that we would really like to have come up whenever you ask a question because it will b
Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to thank everyone here for coming out. Another wonderful reading. I would like to take care of housekeeping firstperiod please silence your cell phones at this time and we have cspan with us this afternoon, so when you ask your questions please use our audience microphone. Lastly, this is not the last event today, so while we would usually ask you to fold up your chairs, today we ask you keep your chairs where they are. We welcome you today. We do over 500 events here in addition to events in this space we have different venues across the city and also hold book groups, classes and literary trips are at the year. I would like to begin by saying i am pleased to welcome Public Policy and a law professor, Melvin Urofsky, as he presents his new book, dissent and the Supreme Court. Its role in Court History and the nations constitutional dialogue. Melvin urofsky has written and edited 52 books and has devoted his career to studying americas legal histo
[inaudible conversations] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen the president of this wonderful institution which, as one or two of you may be aware is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. You can all sing along to our Glorious Mission statement and weve now encapsulated this as well which is to say this is the only place in america in these polarized times where people of different perspectives can come together to learn about celebrate and debate the greatest vision of human freedom ever invented, the u. S. Constitution. Hows that . Great. [applause] well as you know, those of you who have been here before know, there are many evenings of great excitement here in constitutional heaven. But youre in for a real treat and i am as well because i have the huge honor and pleasure of welcoming back to the stage of the National
which is they gave us meat on fridays and we probably have rather had contraception and that i thought spoke to the nature of reform within the church. you look at polling on this, 55% of the country thinks priests should be able to marry. 58% of the country thinks women should be able to be priests. how optimistic are you that whoever is the next pope will embrace some of that thinking? i m with mike on that. i tell you, the only way it could happen is if you had one of the situations like katrina was talking about in paralleled life with our secular political world. where a pope, a president like fdr will pick a felix frankford, a conservative. or a conservative president would appoint a liberal. the only way we re going to get a liberal is if it would be a mistake. but as long as it takes the position, there s something wrong with birth control, people are not going to trust the moral