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About both it and the constitution. The National Archives hosted this event to mark the 800th anniversary of the magna carta. It is about 90 minutes. Im the executive director of the constitutional project, we are an organization devoted to promote greater access to an understanding of u. S. Constitutional history. It is a pleasure to join the National Archives this evening to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the ceiling of the magna carta. Magna carta has left a profound legacy for law and culture around the world. To commemorate magna carta and its powerful ideas, like trial by jury and du...

To limit the use of predispute forced arbitration clauses in contracts for Financial Services and products. I strongly oppose the Congressional Review Act resolution to dismantle this vital Consumer Protection. Forced arbitration clauses force individuals to sign away their right to go to court as a condition of buying a product or service, and they allow Corporate America to take advantage of a shadow Justice System that is inherently biased toward the corporation, offers no meaningful appeals process. To put it bluntly, these clauses serve one purpose and one purpose alone. To help make sure...

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Radio and online audiences also our cspan audience today. Its my pleasure to introduce David Davenport hes the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. Hes also a Research Fellow at Hoover Institute at Stanford University and president at pepper dime one of our great Educational Institution just not in the bay area. David thank you for coming to share is this with us. [applause] thank you, george and ladies and gentlemen, its pleasure to be with you today. It occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game, and i assume that gia...

Individuals for showing up here tonight. Mi thank you for coming. Youre all so brave to come in here to an academic talk of good stories of scholars and academics. One i heard recently was a Scholarly Panel i was attending. The moderator of the panel was a federal judge and he said you know, we have some of us, referring to himself who are ase Teddy Roosevelt himself, a rugged individual once said we are in the arena. Our faces covered with dust and blood and sweat and then he said you have kind of an out of the way up in the ivory towers the academics who are carefully watching the battlefiel...