i would like to start our conversation by starting of the case and to tell the story and i d like to turn to the author just to give us a little tassel summary of what happened and to bring jovan mosley to the conversation as appropriate. well, thank you. and thanks for doing this. it s a delight cause i ve been reading eric s work and he s been doing a lot of work with wrongful confessions, forced confessions, wrongful convictions which is something of a passion of mine as of late. but it s very strong because you would not have thought that. i am a lawyer but i was a medical malpractice attorney. and made partner at a law firm, but i was writing on the side, just as a hobby, just kind of i would attend a book class and they would tell you ho to you write a novel and they would tell you how to work on it on the side. well, i thought i gave it a shot. nobody was really interested. bridget jones wasn t out yet, sex and the city wasn t out yet and it had a little bit of
the knights of labor, and businessmen joined, lawyers joined, all kinds of people joined. instead what they see themselves is taking republican ideals, all i republican ideals and bringing them over into the economy. they thought the economy should be subservient to the public and not vice versa. it wasn t the governments job to serve business, but the business should produce certain kinds of citizens for the american republic would survive. that way it s very iconic that they see the country is largely made up of people, the problem they have is two things. they define these things in terms of manhood. most anti-monopolist s are racist to the core. this really is about white man. it s also about man. about the ability of men to support a family, about women being domestic, being in the home. so there s real limits to this. it s not the kind of thing to bring over into the lake 20 century but to me it was another one
presbyterian in new jersey. and he writes a brief vindication of the purchasers, the people who bought the land against the proprietors in a christian manner in 1746. and this is what he tells the proprietors. the strictly just thought i d join the land and think not by self discharge for the duty of righteous as for the neighbor by an extraordinary measure of pretended zeal and piety towards god coveted the beginning of this misrule and mistake that happened among us. it is plain cause to augment that it was coveted spot in these proprietors as you call them into the plantations of these poor people. so jenkins reason was as if you had to have a reason to improve your land and make more money, but on the face of it, the obvious logical, patriotic, wonderful thing to do. in fact, he says to the proprietors, if there was not some desirable entertainment through the flesh, you would never seek these improvements. so the notion that there is a morally correct amount of ambition
i am delighted to introduce our panel about her this afternoon. barbara clark smith is our scholar from the smithsonian. she is curator of the division of political hiss or at the national museum of american history. her new book is the freedoms we lost consent and resistance in revolutionary america. in this and other publications, clark smith writes about politics and a sharp social historian site for drama and detail. she co-curated a favorite exhibition of mine called jamestown, québec and santa fe, three north american beginning in 2006. john ragosta is an historian and lawyer, our second speaker. he teaches at the uva school of law. he has published three field contemporary law, legal history and early america. his new book is called wellspring of liberty how the religious dissenters hope when the american revolution and secured religious liberty. we can count on the baptists for some good theater. this year, tranter is a research fellow at the selection or at mon
it is quote, the most inestimable lesson that mankind can enjoy. and this author in the 17th century englishman, about 1680s the original, that they should think highly of government. they should insist that the dr. rhee for the happiness and security of all. and so they said, if there be any form of government amongst non-with the supreme magistrate is not vested with enough power to protect the people and promote their prosperity or if there be any such constitution as enables the prints to injure an oppressed set date, such constitutions are inconsistent with civil society. well, part of this is familiar that she can t have the prints and pressing the people appeared part is less familiar and in fact, it is worth noting the effect comes in second to the danger of being incapable government. [laughter] this was not an endorsement of governments that governs least sm later thinkers but pernod. it s rather endorsement of government that is accountable and the fact is, mindful