A little bit on the history thing there. A time for truth, if you can keep it by arab taxes, david and goliath by malcolm gladwell. And, i read the power behind the life by Richard Simmons and andy andrews. I think there is a another one or nine of them i will think of them in a minute. How do you select the book to read. Vaes i am big on biographies. And history. I tell people that smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other peoples mistakes and thats why you should read history. And biographies. Because you have the opportunity to learn not only what right, and not necessarily about to date in names and facts but experience. In my opinion, its just an important or more important to learn that what went wrong. You learn from other peoples mistakes. What you write . Wherever i can. I like on vacation, im not much of a beach guy so i take a bag full of books and i go through them pretty quick and i read them on the plane, just anytime i can get or find a
constitution on a nonpartisan basis is exactly what we ve been doing all day today on constitution day. we started this morning at 9:30 with the most inspiring naturalization ceremony, live stream for the first time and watching 29 new citizens from 3090 countries take the oath was extraordinarily moving. we had an amazing panel with leaders of civic education from saul cohen and lewis today to that of the philadelphia school district, professors robert george and martha jones and hassan jeffreys spread a lot of light during our constitution one-on-one classes.ht then we had a three judges from the third circuit talk about the cases that they had decided before the supreme court decided them involving school free speech and religious liberty and election cases. and now i have the extraordinary honor of bringing together gordon wood and his colleagues to discuss gordon s new book. i m going too introduce them and then i m going to ask gordon wood to just put on the table the
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. Arent you a smartlooking 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. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, 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 deferred that to today
Steeped in revolutionary war history. Saratoga springs, i represent half of saratoga county. When you grow up in upstate new york, you truly grow up around our nations founding history. The battle of saratoga was one of the most important battles in the world because it turned the tides of the revolutionary war. For school kids that are growing up, the fact that they can learn about saratoga battlefield as part of their curriculum and actually visit the battlefield with their teachers and family it is so tremendously powerful. This district is very independent. If you look at many of our local elections and our federal elected officials, people go to the ballot box and vote for the individual who they think will be the strongest advocate for their communities and their region, so i think i reflect the viewpoints of the district, and i think i also reflect my generation. If you were to ask millennials and i am an older millennial yder that Demographic Group they are looking for new, inn
Republicanism. Roman, grecoroman, 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. Thats 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. Thats where we are, looking at protestant christianity. This is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awakening of the s