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On december 15, 1791, virginia ratified the first 10 amendments to the constitution. The bill of rights then became law. Amending america is a national explores thebit history and the process of amending the constitution. This tour is about 45 minutes. My name is Jennifer Johnson and i am a curator at the National Archives museum. Black, i am anne outreach specialist. I am cocurator. We are standing out the gallery and about two take you through. Next to me is a case showing the more than 11,000 amendments that have been proposed to the constitution. Christina and i have been working on this e...

It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. Please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie thank you, dav...

We are all frightened for our children. We are disgusted by this orgy of handgun slaughter. Your neighbors in ohio, california and wisconsin, and all over america, your neighbors are just like my neighbors. They want the killing to end they wanted now to end and they are watching what we do here today. It is said by my opponents, the opponents of this bill, guns do not kill, people do. People have bad instinct in them, but without guns, those instincts often do not result in killing. With guns, those instincts all too often do. The people of america know there are no magic pills to end the vio...

We are all frightened for our children. We are disgusted by this orgy of handgun slaughter. Your neighbors in ohio, california and wisconsin, and all over america, your neighbors are just like my neighbors. They want the killing to end they wanted now to end and they are watching what we do here today. It is said by my opponents, the opponents of this bill, guns do not kill, people do. People have bad instinct in them, but without guns, those instincts often do not result in killing. With guns, those instincts all too often do. The people of america know there are no magic pills to end the vio...

1946 triumph and tragedy. Robert citino this session is entitled america democracys bastion. We have three fine scholars who will give presentations. For my immediate right, james t. Sparrow is an associate professor of history at the university of chicago, the author of the age of Big Government which received an Honorable Mention in 2012. He is currently working on a sequel to his book. Moving to his right, allida black is Research Professor of history and International Affairs at the George Washington university. The Founding Editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project which highlights t...