Founding fathers and what they may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So, for the last six weeks in this class, we have been examining the political thought of the imperrial crisis. That is, we have been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american waeched patriots. And that debate has in many ways come down to one issue,y is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . And more specifically, even, the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas Colonial Legislatures . And over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act and then a year later, the stamp act and then in 1767 68 the townsend act and the tea act and the coercive acts and in 1775, the prohibitor
Important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the lead up to the constitution. Thank you. All right. I need two seconds to get my powerpoint up because you cant do anything
Ms. Voss we have a tradition at James Madisons monthly a of hosting speakers for a special president s day program. This year, we thought it would be a nice change and important and fun to feature our own amazing staff. To feature the research and just the way we are thinking about things currently at montpelier. So it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, where we are gathered today, in the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. She is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from gettysburg college, and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the l
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Montpelier president s day celebration. We have a tradition of hosting speakers for a special president s day weekend program. And this year, we thought it would be a nice change and important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in museum study from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new