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Cspan friends, welcome to the Nexen Stallman to the National Constitution center and cspans Supreme Court review live. Im jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the National Constitution center, the only institution in america chartered by congress to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. Its been so exciting to partner with cspan during these historic weeks, when, for the first time in american history, the Supreme Court is broadcasting its oral arguments live. We have been listening closely to these two important cases thi...

It wasnt a robo call but it reminds us of the fact that our cell phones are treated differently than our home phones. I have unplugged my landline because i get these robo calls from the person who had my landline 10 years ago who is in a Government Debt collection agency. Callperson continues to because those calls are authorized on land lines but they are not authorized on cell phones. The essential question in this case is whether it was a form of content discrimination for congress to say you cannot make those Government Debt collection calls on cell phones but you can on land lines. By aa...

Please the court, the separation of church and state means anything at all, it must mean the government cannot interfere with the churchs decisions about who is authorized to teach its religion. In this country, it is not the province of justice, juries or Government Official to decide who will teach catholic fifthgraders, or who want to teach Jewish School is what it means to say here, o israel, the lord is one. That is what these cases are about. Who controls who teaches the faith schoolchildren. The answer is easy. Churches must choose those who teach their faith. That is one of the most im...

Welcome cspan friends for a day four of the Supreme Court recap. It has been an extraordinary experiment in public education, to convene scholars on all sides of the cases that the Supreme Court is broadcasting live for the first time in its history. And at the beginning of the , we have hearde two formidable cases and i am thrilled to join you to understand the spirit of both sides. Im jeffrey rosen, president of the National Constitution center in philadelphia. We begin all of our National Constitution Center Programs by reciting the inspiring Constitutional Center creed, which prepares us f...

Richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago uncommon man . Well, its taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. If you remember, Vice President henry wallace, who was the second of fdrs Vice President s, gave a famous speech in 1942, i believe, maybe 43, about the censure of the common man. And wallace from a leftofcenter perspective was projecting, in effect, the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii. And it wasnt enough simply to defeat the nazis, but to create at home a true democ...