United states is ruled by an establishment nowhere mentioned in the constitution. This is the Fourth Branch of government which in a way is a combination of the of the three branches, that is the heart of the constitutional problem. The original constitution was meant to be founded on the separation of powers, the most important structural feature of the constitution. In the 20th century we developed an administrative apparatus, all these agencies, the Environment Protection agency, federal comedic asian commission, most of the started with the new deal and they combine legislative, executive and judicial powers. Madison called the essence of tierney. That is the problem we face. Congress passes a law the president signs it. Congress passes a law is a problem. Congress to pass a law. They dont legislate, they delegate, they allow administrators, people nobody has voted for or any way accountable and Congress Tells them you write the rules, you make the laws. Give them a very vague aspi
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o
York city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Its television for serious readers. And now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. This is from last months mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. Im Chris Goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. F if youve not already, please silence your cell phones. Welcome to the civil rights History Panel number two. Sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. We thank them, we also thank the Mississippi Legislature who lets us hold this book festival in this beautiful state capitol. We could not ask for a grander setting for it. Thank you to the authors, theth panelists. They are all authors. Their books a