justices do when they try to argue the merits of a case. >> but when you hear someone invoke thomas jefferson, what image comes to mind? >> i tend to think of jefferson's ideas that gave birth to this republic with a whole lot of contradiction. and in that regard, i don't think of thomas jefferson as exceptional. the fundamental conundrum that was established in this country in spite of thomas jefferson's ideas about independence was that they resolved that slavery would exist after the revolution. >> and i, well, i ask that question, because it raises the argument, the story -- which story do you believe of whether this reflected their hypocrisy or their humanity? and therefore is an eternal reality that we want to do good things and we believe certain ideas and ideals, but we also act otherwise. >> so it does. contradiction is part of the human experience. we wrestle with it every single day, whether we admit it or not. thomas jefferson and half of the other slaveholders who were presidents, all lived daily contradictions. they could literally look out their windows and see enslaved people

pernod -- alexandra health and, stenson form their own party quickly. -- alexander hamilton and thomas jefferson form their own parties. jefferson, a wonderful individual who could say the most philosophically high-minded things and then do the most pragmatically well minded things. jefferson was as dismissive of parties as anyone and also the first and one of the most effective political bosses in american history and he decided burr had to be pushed aside. the presidency the next time around after jefferson left office would go to another virginian. so burr got pushed aside. meanwhile alexander hamilton is pushed to the side because he had fallen out of the mainstream federalist. both of these men were in a position where their prospects for not living up to their ambition. they got a foul each other because hamilton said nasty things about burr. one of the political campaigns. burr asked him to retract or at least acknowledge and corroborate or retract. .. >> and he did what generations and generations of ambitious young men have been doing, and that was he went to the west. what was he going

when samuel chase was in front of the baltimore grand jury and publicly criticized president thomas jefferson and the democratic republican party for trying to expand voter rights jefferson it had enough chase argued that the policy has been advanced by jefferson in the democratic republicans to give it universal suffrage another reason everybody the right to vote would quote rapidly destroy all protection of property and all security to personal liberty and our republican gods intuition would sink into mob ocracy the worst of all possible governments the modern doctrines by our late reformers that all men in a state of society are entitled to enjoy equal liberty and equal rights have brought this mighty mischief upon us and i fear that it will rapidly destroy progress until peace and order freedom and property shall be destroyed this was a blatant political attack against president jefferson by a sitting supreme court justice who was supposed to be politically impartial. it was just the latest in a long series of politically motivated decisions by samuel chase in seventy nine hundred sixty m

and i mean republican in the sense of the republic, of thomas jefferson, those kinds of people. the last lawyer who really believes that to enunciate the important principles of america is going to work. this is in a town where their first reaction -- i mean, tom ewell is an incredibly evil, disgusting person. everybody in town knows that. but they believe him. you know, they're willing to take his word even though they know he's lying completely, they're willing to take his word. they're willing to go out and try to lynch tom robinson, right? they have taken one of their upstanding citizens, bo radley, and locked him in the attic. he's been there for god knows how many years. has anybody in town done anything about it? no. lock your kids in the attic. that's the kind of town you're dealing with. as we're seeing this through the idse of scout, a child, we have -- through the eyes of scout, a child, we have to dig into it ourselves to see what's going on and once you do you realize that atticus doesn't have a chance. there's nobody to appeal to. he's going to lose. and the moral

again, the most famous example probably in american history is the settlement of thomas jefferson's estate close to 200 slaves are auctioned off in one day. four or five of jefferson's slaves get free. one of them, his blacksmith is freed and jefferson says in his will that the blacksmith can be not only free but live on monticello and have his blacksmith tools and live in the cabin with his free. he forgot to free his family. so on the day he got free he saw his family get auctioned off to different buyers. that's the end point of settling the estate. the middle point from the death of the master until the settling of the estate, the executor has to do something with slaves. and often the easiest thing to do is rent them out to other people so that a man dies leaving 15 slaves, his widow will eventually get the use of some of these slaves, his children will get the slaves. the executor will come in, i'll rent the slaves out and have a steady cash flow. what we find is almost every american slave or a vast majority of them at some point in their life are rented out to someone else. now her

president thomas jefferson founded this university and argued knowledge is power. in charlottesville, armando trull, 9news now. >> supporters say they will be back on tuesday ahead of the board's expected decision. >>> fairfax county police have charged the director of the reston zoo with animal cruelty and possession of a controlled substance. 26-year-old megan more genson was arrested friday after a five-month investigation by police into the death of a sick wallaby at the zoo. >>> here's a look at some other things making news now. jerry sandusky is said to be on suicide watch. es ea awaiting sentencing -- he's awaiting sentencing after being convicted on 45 counts including sexually abusing children. several penn state university officials are facing criminal charges. there are also a number of pending civil lawsuits. the university released a statement saying it will fairly address the victims' concerns and compensate them. >>> residents in the florida panhandle are preparing for tropical storm debby. debby has been dumping heavy rain in the state and spawned

founders and particularly not the american vision by the author of our declaration of independence thomas jefferson in writing that declaration jefferson struck the first major blow against monarchy against despotism only to see it creep back into america during his presidency in the form of the supreme court and still with us today yes the core probably did the right thing in upholding obamacare but as long as they have this power of judicial review the power to strike down laws passed by the representatives that we the people put into place and who are answerable to we the people keep in mind the supreme court is not as long as they have that power and it's just a matter of time before they abuse that power just like the abuse that in two thousand and ten when the roberts court wiped out a century of campaign finance law in the united states or in two thousand when they decided in election another power for them that is not in the constitution health care for all is vital for our nation but restoring power into the hands of we the people and not keeping it concentrated in the hands of nine unelec

so to use the thomas jefferson analogy, i don't think that president jefferson, if he knew that we were spending at the level we were spending, if he saw the size and scope of the federal government, he would be appalled. why not empower people that don't have choices to be able to be able to go to another option? it's worked. public schools in the state of florida are better off based on the only measurement that matters, congressman caston, which are outcomes. based on the n.a.p.e. schools, public schools are better. we've gone to 29th out of 31 in the fourth grade reading to something like now i think we're 11th out of 50 states. >> those same accountability standards have not been applied to many of the -- >> the time has expired, the gentleman -- we're allowing him -- if we give you ten minutes and everybody else. the time has expired, he gets time to respond since you used up all your time to ask him a question. >> on digital learning, the great majority of the courses on digital learning will be done in the classroom, high-quality content brought in. using the internet and the ab

earlier freeman had been a slave belonging to thomas jefferson who sold him to james madison. he worked in the madison white house with jennings as did his wife, melinda colbert freeman. she a free person, formerly enslaved by thomas jefferson, melinda was a member of the well known hemings family of monticello. the freemans were founders of the neighborhood where jennings purchased the house in 1854, just a 15 to 20-minute walk northwest of lafayette square. the freemans and jennings were eventually joined by other families of ex-slaves of presidents in this neighborhood including three syphax brothers, charles ii, william and colbert, sons of maria carter custis and charles s. syphax senior and nephews of nancy syphax who worked with jennings earlier on lafayette square. now in the 1850s, jennings and charles syphax, ii worked together in the pension office under the department of the interior. charles's brother, william syphax was also employed in the interior department rising from messenger to clerk and he was a leader in public education for african-americans in washingt

i mentioned thomas jefferson and i had his seat. i always believed in religious freedom and it meant more to me that in the summer of 2006 my mother said to me something that she hid from me and kept concealed for over 50 years and that was that my grandfather, felix, my middle name is felix after my grandfather. my mother was in tunisia during world war ii. and he was captured by the nazis and incarcerated. i found out in 2006 that my grandfather was jewish and my mother had hid this for years and it was a fear of religious persecution that she was trying to protect her babies by hiding this religious heritage, and i asked her why did you do that? she said i was worried that you all would be treated differently and daddy wouldn't get a job and this, that and the other and it's brought our family much closer together and more important for me personally is the concept of religious freedom is no longer just enlightened jeffersonian philosophy, it's very personal that the person who raised you had these same scars and fear and that's

. ♪ some carried signs with the phrase attributed to uva's founder president thomas jefferson.t's more honorable to repair a wrong than persist in it. >> this isn't just the faculty speaking, this is all of us speaking as a united voice coming together saying at least these are the principles we believe in and also we want our president back. >> reporter: 20 of the university's most distinguished pronecessary so fares and -- professors and staff called on the board to do the right thing on tuesday. >> this unjust action of the board must not stand. we are united and asking for our president to return. >> reporter: some at the rally are calling on director helen dragas to resign. >> i think these to go because she's violate -- she has to go because she's violated the honor code and ousted the president behind closed doors. i think this was a coupe. >> reporter: the embarrassing controversy at the flagship university of the state angered many alumni, students, donors and even the governor mcdonnell who told the board to resolve the issue on tuesday or resign. almost 200s year ago

the most famous example is the settling of thomas jefferson's estate where close to 200 slaves are auctioned off in one day. four or five of jefferson's slaves get free. one of them, his blacksmith, is freed and jefferson says in his will that the blacksmith cannot only be freed but live on monticello, have his blacksmith tools and live in his cabin with his family. only jefferson forgot to free his family. so the day he got free he saw his wife and children auctioned off to a number of different buyers. that's the end point of settling the estate. but the middle point from the death of the master until the settling of the estate, the executor has to do something with slaves. and often the easiest thing to do is rent them out to other people. so that a man dies, leaving 15 slaves. his widow will eventually get a use of some of these slaves. his children will eventually get the slaves while they're sorting this out. the executor comes in and says i'm just going to take these slaves and rent them out and have a steady cash flow. so, what we find is almost every american slave or a vast majorit

again, let me give you the words of thomas jefferson. talking about character. he said this, he said, god has formed us as moral agents that we may promote the happiness of those with whom he has placed us in society. by acting honestly towards all, benevolently towards those who fall within our way. i can tell you during my couple decades of public service i believe that world is hungry, even desperate, for people, for leaders of character with a heart for service to others. so go and be those leaders. the scriptures also tell you that to whom much has been given, much will be expected. you have been given much here at christopher newport university. you have learned from and been mentored by some of the great faculty in all of the commonwealth. so now, much is expected. you've been trained for excellen excellence, so do not deliver immediate okay cra mediocrity. don't make excuses. make things happen. as close i have one last request four for you as governor of virginia. you'll have opportunities, maybe across the country and around the world. i want to humbly

and as thomas jefferson had people who attacked him bitterly, she has had the same. we all have that in this game we participate in that we care deeply about that young woman at i first worked with in 1962 became the highest ranking woman in the history of our country in our government. and now we note some celebrate, others note, her obtaining of a quarter century of service in this body. and all of us will be able to tell our grandchildren, and i have my grachildren now, but i have a number of them now, and a number of them are young women, and i tell them how proud they can be of the leadership and trail that has been blazed by this extraordinary woman. and i talked to a number of you on the republican side of the aisle, my good friend, roy blunt, and he says to me, he says, boy, that woman has a spine of steel, and that she does. those of us who have dealt with her know that she's one of the rongest leaders any of us has served with, whether you agree with her or don't agree with her. and so i rise, mr. speaker, to note this anniversary of 25 years of service of

i heard on the radio that thomas jefferson owned slaves. he bowed to cultural pressure. some things are just wrong. week 32, i make the mistake of telling my mom i'm struggling with circumcision. i don't think so. i think of the stuff that can get caught in the vagina. that's not nice. andrea. if this child is jewish. he needs to be sircumicized. you don't want your boy to feel strange. that's true. i think my anxiety is fear of having a boy. i am terrified of boys. they are wild and smelly. i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it. like i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's best done with a partner. instead, i take a back door approach and use my finger. i have a lot of stretching to do. week 41, 3:45 p.m. it feels like i have to pee and poo. she says

what he is talking about is the point in the thomas jefferson administration when jefferson's cousin john randolph who had been majority leader whenever jefferson became president broke with jefferson and started a third party to oppose jefferson. your cousin instead of your majority leader is your chief opponent. a very interesting passage and besides that in the book there is a sketch from the life of deformed randolph that has never been published before. you see him on horseback and he looks very unwell which he was unlike madison. >> i was wondering what is the reason you are investigating madison anyway. he is a conservative populist? that should be examined in an age of populism? >> if i had begun writing about him last year that would have been the reason but actually i first encountered madison in a serious way in 1993. i was writing a book about revolutionary virginia and what i found then and what i have found sins in writing a couple books about the constitution was there were several points in madison's career in which i thought the generally accepted version of his life

our moral identity glows from thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln to the present day. i'm saying that no nation is more closely associated with a set of historic moral presepts and as an observer and global affairs, i believe this is a good thing. and i believe our moral identity is an essential source. in most respects we have been a generous nation. we have continued to help the former soviet union continue to destroy the once weapons that were once pointed at us. we have moved from extreme poverty to impress the prosperity to our protection. even americans themselves could not accompany american policy decisions. when seeking to establish economic or security ties with a problematic nation. the united states makes sacrifices every day. on behalf of human rights and our state department devotes enormous reports on human rights and religious freedom that are studied around the world. i would assert that as a moral nation founded on moral principles, we diminish ourselves if we turn our backs on the obvious plight on hundreds of millions of people living on less than $

in virginia, we spoke to students from thomas jefferson high school about an excess apprehension. >> i would hope that things would be stable enough for me to figure out what to do. hopefully, i can make it through anything that happens. >> this feature is messed up. a lot of college guys are not getting jobs. a lot of people are looking for more stable jobs like the medical field. stuff that is actually sustainable and will help you. >> the speeches set the tone for a long brutal summer. for barack obama, he is gambling that by tying mitt romney to george bush, voters will give him the vote. this is a shift from a message of hope to a message of fear. >> for more on the economic battle lines which were drawn today, i'm joined by the editor in chief of the national law journal. thank-you for joining me. it just to make it clear for anyone who has been on mars for the past six months, this is about the economy. >> it is. it is about the path, the present, and the future. -- the past, the present, the future. president obama spent the first four years trying to fix the problems left to

this was the understanding of thomas jefferson. there's a great book, a historian compress best known for his book on gettysburg called lincoln at gettysburg in which he attacks the text, the meaning of the gettysburg address, has a notebook does not as well-known but is just as important are absent of a country called inventing america. it's an intellectual history of the declaration of independence. and particularly of the scottish enlightenment, hume and hudson and those few who shaped and formed the thinking of both young and then an adult thomas jefferson. when the central precepts of the scottish enlightenment, one of the central ideas of the culture in which thomas jefferson was steeped and soaked was that the idea that freedom is not only inseparable from responsibility, but that freedom is responsibility. that every right comes with a countervailing duty. that you cannot separate. and in the early years of the republic they didn't even need to say because it was just understood that to be a civic republican, small or repub

some carried signs attributed to the founder, thomas jefferson. it is more honorable to prepare that than assist in it. >> it is not the faculty, but all of us, coming together, saying that these are the principles we believe in. also we want our president back. >> reporter: 20 of the universities most distinguished staffers called on the board to do the honorable thing when it meets on tuesday. >> and this unjust action of the board must not stand. we are united, asking them to return. >> reporter: some of them are calling on the woman to resign. >> i think she has to go because she has violated the honor code in ousting the president behind the closed doors. it has lost the embarrassing views. >> reporter: and they have angered many alumnis. the students, donors, even the governor. they were told that the board needed to resolve the issue on tuesday or resign. >> and 200 years ago, they founded this university and argued that knowledge is power. on tuesday, the power struggled with what he turned an academic village that may finally be decided.

our moral identity glows from thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln through wilson and ronald reagan to the present day. and rarely do we take a major foreign policy initiative without some attempt to justify it on moral grounds. rarely are failed foreign policies spared morally based criticism. in making this observation, i'm not claiming the united states is the undisputed moral compass of the world. rather i say no nation is more closely associated with a set of historic moral precipes and no nation is judged more meticulously according to its own articulated values. as an observer of global affairs for many decades, i believe this is a good thing, and i believe our moral identity is an essential source of national power. despite missteps, the united states has been and still is a force for good in the world. this is indisputable from any objective point of view. in many respects we have been incredibly generous nation. we have rehabilitated former enemies like germany and japan and continued to help the former soviet union protect and then destroy the very nuclear weapons that were

thomas jefferson. >> mr. >> with high honor and great pleasure, yes. >> brown: it was a dramatic end to what had become a painful spectacle, as the governing board of the university of virginia voted tuesday to re- instate president teresa sullivan. the move came 16 days after the same board had ousted sullivan-- leading to strong protests by faculty, students and others around the state. the precise reasons for the board's move were never clear, but were said to involve differences over how fast the university should move in response to budget pressures and changing technology. yesterday, sullivan called all concerned to come together. >> i do not ask that we sweep any differences under a rug, but rather that we engage one another in candor and respect. all of us seek only one thing: what is best for our university. >> brown: in fact, while the specifics differ, public institutions across the country are facing similar pressures and problems, including slashes in state funding and increasing tuition rates. the university of california system, for exame, was hit with state cutbacks i

towering giants at the founding, like alexander hamilton and thomas jefferson, for instance, disagreedn very big things. they disagreed on the concept of the constitution. they disagreed on, you know, whether we should have a national currency. it goes on and on. but it is not an overstatement to say that all of the founding fathers agreed on one big thing. they all agreed that you could not have liberty without virtue, and they said that virtue was moral excellence which in the american experience, they said, came directly from the judeo-christian tradition which was rooted in the holy bible. that's a fancy way of saying that you could not have liberty without virtue. and you could not have the exceptional nature of our incredible constitutional republic, the greatest country in the history of man, without the flourishing of religious liberty. and i think that the reality, and may i say, unfortunately, the reality of the primary definition of the obama administration in these areas is that he has proven himself and his administration has proven itself to be actively hostile to the bas

in virginia, we spoke to students from thomas jefferson high school about an excess apprehension. >> i would hope that things would be stable enough for me to figure out what to do. once i figure that out, i can be strong enough to make it through anything that happens. >> i think this economy has really messed up our future. a lot of college graduates are not getting jobs. that is sad. a lot of people are looking for more stable jobs, like in the medical field. becoming a lawyer. stuff that is actually sustainable and can actually help you. >> today's bling speeches set the tone for a long and brutal summer. barack obama is gambling that, by tying mitt romney to george w. bush, the voters will view him as the lesser of two evils. it is a shift from "hope and change" to a message of fear. >> between the endless campaign cycle and the intense media scrutiny, by now, you probably cannot believe that anything you do not know about -- there is anything that you do not know about the two men vying for america's top job. should mitt romney and the white house, it is a long way from his roo

the statement says serving as president of thomas jefferson university is a tremendous responsibility and she has fulfilled her duties with honor, energy and good stewardship. >>> some of the other big stories we are following tonight, three people are dead and three others are hurt after a brawl turns into a mass shooting in alabama near the campus of auburn university. the gunman is still on the loose. fox's elizabeth prawn has details on what went wrong. >> he was last seen on foot. >> reporter: the auburn police chief said these the man they are looking for. the fbi, u.s. marshals and other agencies say this 22-year- old is on the run wanted for gunning down six men late saturday night at an off-campus apartment complex near auburn university. >> i believe it was a fight that -- someone got carried away and it went too far and someone was shot. >> reporter: witnesses backing up the account say several men argued at a pool party eventually leading to an all out brawl. >> it was about a female. it started from a female. we were trying to get away from the trouble and it ended up rig

thomas jefferson was right. we have the government we deserve. we need to step forward and challenge these people and look beyond citizens united and put back into the conversation the important role of citizens in this electoral process. until we do that, we will not make progress. >> i wanted the one quick point. correct me if i'm wrong on this, but in 10 americans were out at an earth day event. in ten. can you imagine those numbers today? that kind of activism is not happening right now. this was a mass movement. >> okay. >> how do we turn that conversation around. there is occupy wall street, but it's about jobs and big money and stuff. not about how that relates to environment. the science is out there and the data is out there. what is missing to put the puzzle together for our citizens? >> everybody hear that? the question is how do we basically -- what's the call to arms and how do we engage our citizens? >> in my mind a couple of things need to happen. i want to start with my generation, the generation after the second world war. we wer

thomas jefferson offered three weeks later his private library as the nucleus for a replacement for a new library of congress and said most of my books had been hand-picked by him in europe when he was minister to france, equivalent to babied and said there's no -- he was a renaissance man and you could see many of those books still in the library of congress, history, architecture, science, agriculture. he was into everything, and in many languages. and so congress liked the idea. they paid him just under $24,000. he said i have so many books. it will take two weeks to fim s 20 wagons and come from my home in monticello to this city. >> how long did it take to rebuild the white house and the capitol? >> the white house was rebuilt within three years, and the capitol took five year, because they kept alter, the plans, and they ran out of the original stone which the capital had been built with from a creek in virginia. that was no longer there. and so latrobe paced the countryside, from maryland, virginia and sound a fusion of speck manied rocks which he wrote to jeff zorn aerson as m

. >>> next weekend head to the state capital named in honor of thomas jefferson with book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri. saturday at noon eastern, literary life with book tv on c-span 2, former senator and missouri first lady on family life inside the governor's mansion from her book "if walls could talk." also a butcher's bill, a provisions list from an shent mesopta mimpb a. and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern -- >> at one time in 1967 this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. >> a warden takes you through the missouri state penitentiary. and walk through history through the governor's mansion. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore life in cities across america. next week, jefferson city, missouri. >>> next, on american history tv, former reagan administration chief of staff, kenneth duberstein reflects ronald reagan speech at the berlin wall when he called on gorbachev to tear down this wall. mr. duberstein who was in berlin with president reagan recalls the impact on the end of the cold war. he's interviewed by james did you have chief exec