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I handle the Asian Program here. Its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that include some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the china watching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the production of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution of stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, moods, and things like that. So whenever you want to touch base with reality, i recommend you go online to the china leadership monitor, and do precisely that. Today, were going to give you a sampler of their writings in the form of presentations looking ahead at the 19th Par ....
Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river ....
She talks about how the magna carta influenced the histories of the u. S. And u. K. To limits on executive power. This program is a few minutes. Todays lecture will be on the magna carta. A document of great historical significance to the rule of law. The 800 anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. We are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the right honorable baroness hale of richmond. Let me describe that lady hale has herself a couple. She was the only member of the u. K. Supreme court to be a woman she was the first and only woman in 1999 was the when she was appointed to the court of appeals. In 1994, she was the First High Court judge to come from a background as an acad ....
Students at the university of illinois where we both were studying under harold hymen, one of the greatest of the field of constitutional history and reconstruction. And although les received his b. A. And masters degree at the university of illinois, where he was able to root for his beloved chicago cubs, he later disserted that by going to Rice University when professor hymen moved there and received his ph. D. At Rice University where unlike many people he published not just one book out of his dissertation but two. And fortunately one of his books that he published out of his dissertation arrived at a perhaps auspicious time, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1973. You may know what else happened in 1973. Les, as though of us who know him call him, has also been president of the society for historians of the gui ....
Reconstruction. Es received his ba and masters degree at the university of illinois, where he was able to root for his beloved chicago that by later deserted going to Rice University when professor hyman moved, and received his phd at Rice University, where unlike many people, he published not just one book out of his dissertation, but two. Unfortunately one of his books that he published out of his dissertation arrived at perhaps an auspicious time, the ineachment of Andrew Johnson 1973. You may know what else happened in 1973. , as those of us who know him call him, has also been president of the society for historians of the gilded age, a distinguished lecturer for that organization, and a very important mover in that organization. But he has also been extremely active as author and publisher and speaker in demand a ....