CSPAN2 Discussion July 2, 2024
The discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, if everybody would take a seat we are going to get started. Everybody just wants to grab a chair. We would like to run on time here. When the Founding Fathers sat down to write the u. S. Constitution in the summer of 1887, they had been scarred not only by war but by a series of failed monetary experiments with paper money issued by the states and the continental congress. The scars of those battles are written on the pages of the constitution itself that has a narrow view of wh...