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Welcome to the National Constitution center. I am jeffrey rosen, president and ceo. It is so great to welcome you back to the keynote Opening Event of our blockbuster fall season. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america started by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And we are about to be transformed by the opening at the end of october of a new gallery displaying one of the 12 surviving original copies of the bill of rig...

Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat...

Like most of my best ideas, they didnt come from me. The original title, i cant say the original words because im sure this is a family show. But the original title was epic fail. We had a long conversation with my agent. At one point, morgan shouted that the internet is not the answer. So it wasnt my title unfortunately. Its a good title, isnt it . I wanted to ask about the whole chapter you talk about failing, failcon. What is that . Im sure you been to Silicon Valley. It is a place of cults. ...

M Stanton Evans author of the theme is freedom you start off saying you dedicated this book to the memory of your father. How come . What was the motivation . Well for one reason because he was my father, and a very good father. But also because many of the things that this book is about were things that i discussed with him many times. And about which i learned many things from him. So sort of for both of those reasons. Where did you live in the early days . I was born in texas and he was at th...

This to do boaz presents his thoughts on libertarianism and discusses its popularity in the u. S. Today. We are excited to have with us this morning our speaker this morning david boaz the executive Vice President of the Cato Institute. Hes played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and Libertarian Movement and is the author of this new book the liberitarian mind the manifesto for freedom, hes a provocative commentator and authority on domestic issues such as Education Choice and...

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Each of them made the case and christopher would get up and offer his rebuttal. The doctor of islamic thought happened also to be in a wheelchair, and so after christopher finished taking down each of his opponents he then looked at the crowd and he said, surely you must be thinking he cant go after the woman in wheelchair. But i assure you, you are wrong. Its been pointed out often by him, by christopher, that he shouldve had come easy would have lived longer, if you less good constitution, alt...

Circulating. 10 minutes before we begin to wrap a. My name is [inaudible] washington d. C. Whats missing on discussions is the fact that islamists have nothing to offer except for sharia law and muslims are fed up with the sharia law. The other point is theres a new new generation of arabs that face the people. I wrote an article about this, who are very different than their fathers and grandfathers. Which we should be focusing on. Can make it to a question . Something we should be focusing on. ...

Though sometimes i bring up just to annoy people. One element of the it cant happen here that relates to the president. He never specifies what his alternative is. What he implies is what is needed is an oligarchy of good people. Not so different from the new samurai. How these people are selected, but you have to replace democracy with an oligarchy of good people. How this is to be done, not much to say. When you read or listen to people around the obama administration, very similar to their vi...

It done. We will hit it done. The American Dream, a fair shot for everyone, demands no less. I yield the floor. How much time do we have left . There is eight minutes remaining on the democratic side. Madame president in a few moments we will vote here on the president s and whether we will bring the minimum wage bill to the floor and of both, and a few minutes it will be clear where each senator stands, who in this chamber is going to stand with millions of americans who work fulltime for a liv...