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Reserved for their use later in the day. Further, that the following following the prayer and pledge, the majority leader be recognized as under the previous order. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley senators should expect four roll call votes at 11 30 tomorrow morning as well as one additional vote after lunch. If there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned until the previous order under the provisions of s. Res. 534 as a further mark of respect to william l. Armstrong a former United States senator from colorado. I yield the floor....

Documents should include a bill of rights. Mr. Brookhiser explores the conflicting opinions of Founding Fathers george mason, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton while also addressing how the bill of rights were eventually ratified by the new states. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. So tonights program is James Madison, father of the constitution, and its part of our carl menges lecture series in american history. Id like to thank carl menges for all his support and for helping us to create this series and for all he does as a valued member of New ...

People to come home to. So he has that, and poly is very close to him and comes over when he is dying and comes over when he dies. On social media and other things, Benjamin Franklin believed very strongly that the free flow of ideas and free opinion of spread of ideas would empower people and eventually, in a very raggedy way, lead to more democracy, more liberties, more individual empowerment. He believed if there were 11 papers, there was room for a 12th. He believed nobody should control the free flow of information. He helped instill in americas dna by bringing thomas paine over, for exam...

It doesnt mean a wealthy commoner, even a wealthy one, but this does set up the principle of trial by jury, judgment of his peers. It also says the lawful judgment of his peers. So theres an implication of due process of law even as early as 1215. If youre going to be imprisoned or punished, you have to be judged by your peers and there has to be some lawful reason for it. Now, there would be many holes in this over the years, but this principle is being laid down. Magna carta also says barons can petition to have transgressions regressed. They can go to the king with their petitions, with the...

Convert to catholicism and he also had a son. Now in england in 1688 meant the spanish armada and louis xiv. The spanish armada was history but louis xiv was very much alive. And england could swallow a Catholic King but they could not swallow a string of them. So after james had a son in 1688 the nation rose up and offered the crown to william of orange who was james nephew and soninlaw. Hed married his elder daughter mary. The family the house of stewart was sort of like sopranos in turn of its internal dynamics. And william accepted as a condition of being king of england a bill of rights w...