Guest africanamerican communities involved gender as well as power, but beyond that, i dont know. Host well, professor hahn, what do going to the topic of the book, what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u. S. . Guest well, one of the issues that i try to deal with in the book is the process by which slavery ended, and the Geographical Reach of slavery. I think the view that tends to be handed down is by the 19th century, certainly, a country neatly divided between the socalled free states and the socalled slave state, and, of course, the civil war growing out of that conflict. My issue is not whether slaverys at the root of the civil war, which it certainly was, but what interested me was the relationship between the early emancipation of slaves in the northern states, and the later emancipation of slaves much larger in scale in the Southern States. Slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th century, and gradually, northern s
Send an email at book tv at mix cspan. Org or twitter of kong book tv. Now one book tv, sarah gordon talks about religious cases that have transformed the wall in country in the limited protection to the constitution. This interview part of booktv college ceres was recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. Its about 20 minutes. University of pennsylvania professor the spirit of law is the most recent book what you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world. Estimate for most of the nations history it was the states rather than the federal government that controlled access to more than just worship, the right of religious organizations and so on and in the early decades of the 20th century that began to shift as the Supreme Court applied the National Constitution a stubble should and the exercise clause of the First Amendment against the states, centralizing the debate about religion. Still give the states have the control we have it written into the constit
States in the southwest banning polygamy, for example. Host so when it came to massachusetts, talk about massachusetts or pennsylvania, were here in pennsylvania, as a case study of states, regulating religion. Guest sure. Pennsylvania, for example, had an active blasphemy now, which we think of now as unconstitutional, but in the last case that was brought, the last criminal prosecution under blasphemy law was actually brought in the early 1970s, kind of by accident, against someone who had a sign in the window saying Something Like wanted radical carpenter, speaks to crowd preaching peace, and, of course, the person met jesus, but someone complained, and the American Civil Liberties union got involved, and the prosecution was droppedded. More recently, the a film Company Owner tried to name his company i choose hell productions, and was denied in corporation under the states incorporation laws because it was a blasphemy title for the company, and that, too, eventually was dismissed.
Access to religious worship, the rights of religious organizations and so on. And in the early decades of the 20th century, that began to shift as the Supreme Court applied the National Constitutional establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment against the states sort of centralizing debates about religion. Host but if the states had the control, we had it written into our constitution, freedom of religion. Guest we did, indeed. But the First Amendment begins Congress Shall enact no law. So it was addressed only to the national government. Host were there restrictions by different states on religion . Guest oh, yes, there were. Several states had religious establishments. Most states limited the amount of property a religious organization could own. Some taxed religious property. Others banned given groups practices. Im thinking, for example, eventually various states in the southwest banning polygamy, for example. Host so when it came to massachusetts, talk about ma
Been too contentious, disorganized, and disjointed. On the positive side, its been a bigger tent party than anyone really imagined, but the fact is after seven long years of republicans promising to repeal and g replace obamacare, not getting the job done is acceptable. Anyway, heres what speaker ryan said earlier today. Moving from an Opposition Party to a governing party comes with growing pains. Well, we are appealing feeling these growing pains today. We came really close today, but we came up short. Sean speaker ryan is right. They came up short and we have to make sure this never happens again for this is nott President Trumps failure. The president went above and beyond and when everything in his power to get this bill across the finish line. Heres how the president reacted this afternoon. Take a look. Chest of very small number of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. A lot of people dont realize how good our bill was because they were building phase one. But when yo