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Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets 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 stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Suprem...

The historians are looking for eyewitnesses to event that happened 60 years ago. Inall know if it happened these halls here, the only people still alive for the pages who were 16 years old at the time. We are come in handy if you times with a couple of the project and we hope to continue to do so in the future. Constantly amaze me. Meeting judge tracy was a page for eight years. Having the pleasure of driving over in his car with his Capitol Police man afterwards. Still has his badge and we got ...

And to our great cspan audience here is whats going on at the National Constitution center today. The most exciting bill of rights day in memory. Today, december 15 is the 223rd anniversary of the bill of rights ratification at the 225th anniversary of its proposal, this is the day we at the National Constitution center open a new gallery displaying one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights along with rare copies of the declaration of independence and the Constitution Center. I should ...

Hope you had a wonderful lunch into our great cspan ideas, here is what is going on at the National Constitution center today the most exciting bill of rights day in memory. Today, december 15th is the 223rd anniversary of the bill of rights ratification and the 225th anniversary of its proposal and this is the day that we at the National Constitution center open a new gallery, displaying one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights along with rare copies of the declaration of independenc...

Thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It is a privilege and an honor, and i am happy to be here. Congress came together in december 1865 for the First Time Since early march. The war had ended, we were told, and slavery was over too, we were told, but that made for Big Questions left unanswered. And if we as...

It had become increasingly clear across the war that the abolition of slavery was a likely outcome. And of course, the objective of winning that war had always been a primary pursuit. Suddenly, you get the two in combination, and each left a huge combination to be addressed. What would the now suddenly former Confederate States be . And how to treat them. And who would the nowformer slaves be . What should be their status. Lawmakers, federal or state, had multiple models to work from as they tri...

And has another book out on the famous case of loving versus virginia, which will be out in 2014, called race, sex, and freedom to marry loving versus virginia. It is an honor and a privilege to introduce peter to all of you and turn the podium over to him. [applause] thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It...

[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 americ...

The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and ch...

Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years f...