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Welcome to the National Constitution center. I am jeffrey rosen, president and ceo. It is so great to welcome you back to the keynote Opening Event of our blockbuster fall season. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america started by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And we are about to be transformed by the opening at the end of october of a new gallery displaying one of the 12 surviving original copies of the bill of rights. This is the first time that an original copy of the bill of rights is returning to philadelphia...

Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat government. The early progressives there were many more mechanisms for direct democracy. People sho...

Like most of my best ideas, they didnt come from me. The original title, i cant say the original words because im sure this is a family show. But the original title was epic fail. We had a long conversation with my agent. At one point, morgan shouted that the internet is not the answer. So it wasnt my title unfortunately. Its a good title, isnt it . I wanted to ask about the whole chapter you talk about failing, failcon. What is that . Im sure you been to Silicon Valley. It is a place of cults. Its this ideal of failure. The bigger you are, the more you boast about failure. I attended a confer...

M Stanton Evans author of the theme is freedom you start off saying you dedicated this book to the memory of your father. How come . What was the motivation . Well for one reason because he was my father, and a very good father. But also because many of the things that this book is about were things that i discussed with him many times. And about which i learned many things from him. So sort of for both of those reasons. Where did you live in the early days . I was born in texas and he was at that time he was for much of his life a College Professor and a teacher as was my mother who is still ...

This to do boaz presents his thoughts on libertarianism and discusses its popularity in the u. S. Today. We are excited to have with us this morning our speaker this morning david boaz the executive Vice President of the Cato Institute. Hes played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and Libertarian Movement and is the author of this new book the liberitarian mind the manifesto for freedom, hes a provocative commentator and authority on domestic issues such as Education Choice and a very authorization of the secondary act, drug legalization, the growth of government, the rise of...