Good morning, weve been talking about the effects of the American Revolution and framing that around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kind of changes could it negotiate in american society, american law . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than a war for independence . And we talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure, and the last time we met were talking about the impact of the revolutionary on African Americans and on the institution of slavery. We saw in that case, the legacy was quite mixed. The revolution said the institution of slavery on the path of destruction in the northern states but was instrumental and trying to deepening and strengthening institutions in the southern states. Today, i would like to talk about two topics that are closely interrelated. And that our two sides of the same coin, i want to talk today about how the revolution aff
We will hear arguments first this morning case 189526 mcgirt versus oklahoma. Mr. Chief justice and may i please the court, this case is resolved by the fundamental proposition that decisions about sovereign rights are for congress to make an Congress Makes those decisions by the text. Learly and the decision must be reversed because the text makes clear Congress Never terminated the reservation and never transferred federal criminal jurisdiction to oklahoma. I have four basic points to make this morning. First, there was a reservation. The relevant treaties preserve the land to solemnly goin guarad to govern. The text of the treaties and statutes expressly identified the land of the reservation. Nothing more was needed. Second, congress did not establish, disestablish the reservation. In fact they considered a disestablishment and rejected it and initially sought the section yet instead only for the allotment. Then when congressional inaction would have dissolved, congress preserved t
A good way. But to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. So when you get to five minutes left, i have a fiveminute card and i will lay it up so you can see it and then three minutes and one minute so you can see where you are. So we have time for everyone. Im going to introduce each panelist as they come forward, because i found if you introduce them all at once people forget who they are. So i will begin with our first panelist who is john f. Polk. He received his ph. D. In mathematics from the the university of delaware in 1979. He served three years in the army, including a tour in vietnam. He is retired from a 45year career as a scientist and Senior Adviser of International Research collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory, aberdeen proving ground, maryland. He is currently the clan historian for clan pollock international and publishes short articles on Family History in the clan news letter. He has published two backs on historical topics, beyond damned qu
To a proper context. Some of you may know already, but we are a private, nonprofit organization. The mission of the place is to enhance the understanding of the appreciation of the executive mansion. One time, in 1961, during the kennedy administration, the first lady, Jackie Kennedy founded the administration to help the white house collect and exhibit the absolute best of American History and culture. Underscoring all of that, to inform and incite the public about the history of the mansion. Today, we are still doing this or it, reservation, Research Continues through the sale of our books, our products. Official white house ornament, which some of you may know as well. Privatet years, from and corporate donations. To strengthen our goal, the over arching goal, which is to widely share white house history with the public, last year we created to bringure service wellknown authors and historians to the association to share their knowledge and insight with the public. And to humanize t
The mission of the place is to enhance the understanding of the appreciation of the executive mansion. One time, in 1961, during the kennedy administration, the first lady, Jackie Kennedy founded the administration to help the white house collect and exhibit the absolute best of American History and culture. Underscoring all of that, to inform and incite the public about the history of the mansion. Today, we are still doing this or it, reservation, Research Continues through the sale of our books, our products. The official white house ornament, which some of you may know as well. In recent years, from private and corporate donations. To strengthen our goal, the over arching goal, which is to widely share white house history with the public, last year we created this lecture service to bring wellknown authors and historians to the association to share their knowledge and insight with the public. And to humanize the white house, its inhabitants and things that happen. We are delighted t