will face an uphill battle to face constitutional amendments, alternative is the national popular vote interesting come back. tell us about that compact. do you suppose it will be consistent with the constitution. >> the national popular vote initiative is a compacted pledge there electoral college votes will go through the popular vote and right now there are 16 states that are signed on, 196 total and will go into effect when they reach 270. i support it in theory and it is a problem but it is difficult to know what happened to the structure of the constitution. and electoral colleges, this alternative or workarounds for the constitution. we look at article 2 which gives control over how they are located there a lectors within the text of the constitution. we determine how they award there a lectors but on the other hand also holding an election. it is conceivable they have an election you can have candidate a win the election or candidate be gets the electoral vote because that person won the national vote. bush versus gore was a decision following the 2000 election, the recount in

on behalf of the national constitution center, youthank y so much for a wonderful discussion. see you on june 30th for the battle of the constitution and the future of policing. thanks to all. have a good night. >> thank you so much. >>> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3, explore our nation's past. c-span3, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >>> we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight a look at programs from the kansas city public library in kansas city, missouri. we begin with a talk about the life of millicent patrick. mali o'meara will discuss her book "life of hollywood artist millicent patrick" and watch american history tv this weekend and every weekend on c-span3. >>> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online or len

he discussed at the national constitution center in 2017. his forthcoming book is southern journey, the migrations of the american south, 1790 to 2020. edward ayers, welcome. it is a pleasure to have you. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> joanne freeman this professor of american history and american studies at yale university. she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods. she is cohost with edward ayers of the popular american history podcast, back story. it's great to unite these coal pot castor's together. she is the author of many books as well. pat breaking, affairs of honor, national politics in the new republics. as well as field of blood, violence in congress and the road to the civil war. joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> norman ornstein is residents collar at the american enterprise institute where he studies politics, elections and the u.s. congress. his books include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned,

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this event took place online due to the coronavirus and the national constitution center provided the video. >> now, it is a great honor to introduce our guest. what an amazing panel. america's most distinguished historians and scholars of congress to help us understand our current vexation's. edward ayers, is professor of the humanities and president americas at the university of richmond. he is the author of many books on the civil war and reconstruction, including, i will just highlight one of his many award-winning bikes, deep in light of freedom, the civil war and the emancipation on

together the constitution center is the weekend preparers also the learning ahead.so >> the national constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congresr to increase awareness and understanding of the u.s. constitution among the american people on a nonpartisan basis. that is a wonderful representation and before we begin, i want to provide quick for the next couple august 4, please join us for the annual supreme court review would be anti-defamation league frederick lorenz and it will be a wonderful discussion of the important pieces of th cases ofm inferencing must tell you what a great pleasure on august 2 26th house circumstances permitting will open up our new exhibit how women won the vote about the 19th amendment as it is relevant to today's topic that examine exhibit about the history of the expansion of women's suffrage at workteam is hard glimmering behind me on the backdrop of. throughout the program please put your questions in a box and they will introduce them as sooe as possible. now it is my great pleasure to introduce our phenomenal taste. matthew sterling

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on behalf of the national constitution center, thank you so much for a wonderful discussion. french, thank you for joining us and see you on june 30th for battle for the constitution and the future of policing. thanks to all. have a good night. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. you >> are watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span three explore our nations past. cspan3 created by americas people television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> weeknights this month we are featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span three. tonight a, look at programs from the kansas city public library. we begin with a talk of hollywood artist medicine patrick. arthur and filmmaker mallory o'meara discusses her book the lady from the black lagoon. hollywood monsters in the lost legacy of melissa patrick. watch tonight beginning at 8 pm eastern enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span three. ♪ ♪ >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, t

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the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been named this year's recipient of the national constitution liberty medal. justice ginsburg, is being honored for what is being called the campaign for liberty for all americans. she will receive a medal during an elaborate virtual ceremony for september 17, which is constitution day. >>> downtown sacramento, and a show of support for demonstrators, sacramento police in riot gear clashed with the black lives matter protesters. police report widespread vandalism with some of the vandals targeting government buildings as well as banks and other businesses. harris scheduled and placed in several cities around the bay area, and in a similar sharp support with the demonstrations in wisconsin, business ownersa against the shooting of jacob lake turning violent wednesday night. parked cars and trash cans, and several downtown businesses were damaged. they spray-painted anti-police messages on downtown buildings. >> i think that you can distrust the police, or have a lot of different feelings, but, when you take the conversation to that level, it is n

and future of the fight for the right to vote and we will look forward to seeing you at the national constitution center and online at constitutional center dot or to celebrate, commemorate and learn about this crucial constitution anniversary. thank you so much for joining. >> good to be with you. thank you jeff and professor for that fascinating discussion. now please welcome the tenth archivist of the united states and deborah, while the deputy archivist of the united states. >> the national archives is home to some of the most important records from the woman suffrage story, including the 19th amendment. 100 years ago, the 19th amendment became law prohibiting states in the federal government from the nine the right to vote to citizens of the united states on the basis of sex. our records such as petitions, legislation and court cases tell the story of the struggle for voting rights as a critical step toward equal citizenship. the passage of the 19th amendment was made possible by decades of suffragists relentless political engagement. american women across the spectrum of race, ethnicity and

that was at the national constitution center in philadelphia on january 16. i just wanted to know if anybody has worked with you at this smithsonian? guest: i am so grateful for your call, and if you had not brought up alice paul, i would have. one of the things that we have, and maybe you can show it to our viewers, is a remarkable pin that alice paul and others who were imprisoned for their advocacy literally trying just to get the vote, sent to prison -- you know alice's story is so powerful -- but brought attention to the incredible lengths to which women would go. host: you are seeing that on your screen now. guest: isn't that amazing? we have an amazing collection from alice paul's family, including her suffrage bracelet. she lived a long life, so every time a state would ratify the 19th amendment, she would add it to her charm bracelet. it is one of my favorite things here. thank you. you live on hallowed ground for the suffrage movement. host: i want to talk about the suffragettes serving in prison, showing a new story from san francisco, touring coun

firsthand knowledge of madison, the leather jacket -- this is from the national constitution center. this photo was taken when i taught in the spring. my students have been using it ever since. alsoth high school reunion from last fall. [indiscernible] this of course is independence hall at the pennsylvania state house i think it is really important to understand at the outset that it was not said ab initio, from the beginning, exactly what the constitution was going to do. there wasn't circulation of ideas. a little bit, but no circulation as to what the real agenda for philadelphia was going to be. madison and the acting secretary of war had sent a plan of his own to george washington, the little circle of army officers who have their own notion of what might be gone, but there is not extensive public discussion about exactly what it is the convention was going to do. and we can imagine speaking retrospectively that there were any number of possibilities that might have been available. you could do something like what the new jersey plan, which was introduced in mid-june 1787 by wi

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joining us now is jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the national constitution center and the professort the university of washington school of law, and also the author of the book "turnout," and jeffrey, so this is not a thing, the president cannot really delay the election, drag this out? i know that we have had a lot of conversations about the constitutional norms being violated, and to me, this is feeling like the most farfetched of the norms to actually violate practically, but how do you see it? >> absolutely right, jonathan, and as you can say, there are a lot of the tough constitutional questions, but this is not one of them. your summary is perfect, article 4 and clause 12 and so congress shall determine, and if there is an 1845 law that fixes the first tuesday in november, congress can change that, but the president has no power to change that which is why mitch mcconnell to everyone from the right to the left shot that one down from the right to the left. >> and members of congress actually agreeing to a new date of election when they cannot agree on the benefits of unemploye

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as a senior fellow at the center first the study of the presidency and is one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to presidential power and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning that the constitution of the original executive, jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, it is someone who you're probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the bush administration office of legal counsel during a key early. on the war on terror, jack is one of our thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency and then the atlantic, and books like the terror presidency and power and constraint. so it is one of the most misleadingly titled books in recent memory. it makes a convincing case the original design the framers had for the presidency that office had little in the way of emergency powers or independent war powers and no rightful claim to executive privilege that shielded its inner workings from congressional demand for information. when i initially read it

[applause] orderly for this nation by our constitutional government.ent limited by the laws of nature, and of nature's god. thatom to balance so order, lacking delivery -- liberty, would not become slavery. balance so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of a mob and a jungle. [applause] now, we americans understand. we have earned it. it, and weed for have died for it. this nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world. we can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's vision in our own hearts and in our own homes. [applause] during four futile yellows, the -- years, the administration we shall replace -- [applause] has distorted and lost that vision. talked, thed and words of freedom, but it has failed and failed in the worst -- works of freedom. now, failures cement the wall of shame in berlin, failures blocked the bay of pigs, failures marked the slow death of freedom in laos, failures infest the jungles of vietnam, and failures haunt the houses of our once great allian

adopting their own suffrage amendment and it takes a certain number of states to pass a national amendment to the constitution and we were the fifth state and all of the first states, about six were located here in the west, washington became a pivotal state making that leap into the 20th century and after we passed in 1910, there was a domino effect across the country, immediately oregon passed at 1911 followed by california and moved to the dakotas in nebraska, montana and progressed across to new york in 1919 and then the national amendment passes in 1920, you can call us a big turning point in the effort to gain suffrage for women in the united states. in 1848, the big event that began the suffrage movement did happen in new york, that was the women's convention in seneca falls led by susan b anthony among other leaders, interestingly enough, right after that, you susan b anthony began a world wind trip to the territorial areas of the united states and states to advocate for women's rights and to vote, one of the early leaders in the 20th century in washington state saw her in 1848 as an 8-year-old, barns

the national women's party wanted a constitutional amendment. their strategy included a two-year protest in front of the white house from 1917 to 1919. one of the protesters was hazel hunkens halinan from billings, montana. >> a tiny, gray-haired woman with a feminist vocabulary, a notorious arrest record, and a surprisingly sharp tongue. hazel hunkens halinan grew up in colorado and came to billings in 1903, and becomes one of the better students of billings senior high. she was voted most popular, second smartest, third most conceited. she makes her way to college, gets a chemistry degree, and works in chemistry labs until 1916. she comes back home to care for her ailing mother, and when her mother starts feeling better, she starts applying for more jobs for chemistry labs. she is told several times, you are qualified, but we don't really want a woman working in our labs, and she decides, that is what i am going to do. i am going to get involved with the women's fight. so one of the first things she and her comrades did was protest in front of

senior fellow at the miller center for the study of the presidency and he is one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to presidential powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who as you're probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense tenure in the bush administration's office of legal counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the moderate presidency impinges like the atlantic on the law flare law, and books like the terror presidency, and power in constraint. his latest book also highly recommended is also the subject for one of the last in person public events we had at cato back in early march for the lockdown. so jack, thanks for coming back so soon, if only virtually. saikrishna i'm also a great admirer of your previous book imperial from the beginning, but if you will forgive me for saying so, it

postal service existed before our nation's constitution. lifeline that connected far-flungi far-flung communities. founders believed so strongly in the importance of the post office that they in our d it constitution. the post office provides a ritical public service that we cannot allow to become a potential political pawn for the dysfunctional, disruptive, and i are say, disastrous administration. this administration has why strated time and again government should not be run business. businesses exist to make profits. the post office and the whole of our government exists to provide services. called the it is ostal service, not the postal corporation. today, we are acting to reinforce our postal service vital which provides services, like delivering edications, social security enefits, income and tax payments, veterans' benefits, assistance forms, and absentee to all american communities, however remote they be. americans depend on the -- on -- dependence on the postal service has increased during this pandemic, as we on-time delivery of

to an act national security laws on our own why did they object to that and in the course of the public scrutiny i gave then many concessions now the awful trade ustream imposes a constitutional duty on us to prohibit certain national security over instance but it does not preclude the p.r.c. of origins from acting under their constitution the problem with our parcels here is that it ignores the laws of china only focuses on the basic law of hong kong what should we it which sets out the constitutional arrangements for hong kong but the national people's congress is the highest of already in mainland china and the pas so haitian has persisted in persisted in ignoring these realities so the national people's congress can just sweep aside the basic laws it feels like the bar association says it would appear that the national people's congress has no power to the national security law that it's proposing. on the article 23 the n.p.c. has not swept away the powers of our our under the basic law the decision the decision of the n.p.c. the 7 point assertion in 2 of the points they urged the hong kong government to get on with and acting legislation locally on our own to fulfill our

nation. atlanta journal constitution on the right, unify his party and nation. star tribune from minnesota left-hand side, battle for soul of a nation. biden aims to unify a count. and detroit free press, biden, i am ready. from lincoln nebraska, lincoln journal star, a vow to unite, biden accepts democratic nominations, says he will overcome darkness. and the right, oregonian from portland, oregon, biden calls for national unity. look at excellent photo they put above the fold on the front page. biden and harris in the middle, arms in the air, both wearing masks. fireworks behind them, would be first lady and second gentleman flanking them like choreographed morris dancers. such a good shot on the cover of the oregonian. even when you get big history making, full page above the fold moments like this, news context is still inescapable. you did see a little bit of this in the papers we just showed from all over. i think it leaps out most though from the papers that have really big, national reach. for example, "new york times" front page, all the way across the

adopting their own suffrage amendment and it takes a certain number of states to pass a national amendment to the constitution. we were the fifth state in all six wererst about located here in the west. washington became a pivotal state making that leap into the 20th century and after we passed it in 1910, there was a domino effect across the country. it inately, oregon passes 1911 followed by california, and then moved to the dakotas, nebraska, montana and progressed across to new york in 1919 and that national amendment passes in 1920. so you could call us a big turning point in the effort to gain suffrage for women in the united states. event thate big began the suffrage movement did happen in new york. that was the women's convention in seneca falls led by susan b anthony among other leaders. interestingly enough, right after that, she began, susan b anthony began a whirlwind trip to territorial areas of the united states and states to advocate for women's rights and to vote. one of the early leaders in the 20th-century and washington in 1848 as an eight-year-old barnstorming through illinois. that is emm

it is an honor to serve the people of this nation and our constitutional obligation to be present to the issues facing america. the question today, are the issues that need to be

[cheers and applause] freedom made orderly for this nation by our constitutional government; freedom nature and of nature's god; freedom - balanced so that order lacking liberty will not become the slavery of the prison cell; balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle. [applause] now, we americans understand freedom. we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. this nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world. we can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. but, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts and in our own homes. [applause] during four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that vision. it has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom. but it has failed and failed and failed, in the works of freedom. [cheers and applause] now, failures cement the wall of shame in berlin. failures blot the sands of shame at the bay of pigs. failures mark the slow death of freedom in laos. failures i

national eme will be banned in 45 days. tonight the president issuing an executive order. it bans u.s. companies from doing business with tiktok's chinese parent company bytedance. the order says the platform poses risks that constitute a national emergency. simply put, tiktok could enable the chinese government to spy on american citizens. essentially this is the path forward to banning tiktok in this country unless it's sold to a u.s. company. microsoft has been in talks to buy the app. it now has 45 days to make a deal. that's when president trump's order takes effect. >>> also late tonight, the oakland a's are on damage control after a lot of backlash on social media. one of the a's coaches caught on camera with an apparent nazi salute. it happened after the a's won their game this afternoon at the coliseum. what you're seeing here is a's bench coach ryan christianson congratulating the players. instead of the covid-friendly elbow bump, he used the state-arm salute. the a's releasing a statement saying they do not support or condone the racist sentiment, and it's extremely offensive especially during these times. christianson also releasing a statement saying, quote, i made a mistake, i and will not deny. it my g

system leading to systematic by lesions of the economic and social rights but there are yet constitution that national protect and public anger over us territory has seen people take to the streets even during the pandemic students civil servants and police officers are among those voicing their anger over budget cuts sergio hernandez again. say's the i.m.f.'s intervention need to reassess like. there you may have really wanted to support it but there are yes it's true that they've got these big following measures 1st it's probably says this human rights impacts of the conditions of its lungs and policies that impose a cost on that must these are the best sectors including indigenous peoples must be absolutely up boy that. it should respect democratic processes for economic decision making agreements must be negotiated on spark. and this means refraining from exerting any undue influence over fiscal policy decisions in the country well if you'd like to delve deeper into that story indeed any of her stories this hour are to dot com is the place to go why not leave a comment or 2 with your thoughts as w

act and then once there is a national emergency there is another law that says the president can transfer between the building account essentially and is a the constitutional question is a statutory question can the president declared a national emergency with border immigration is the kind of national emergency congress had in mind. the a specific entity or problem is more like a problem i admit dan a country on the other hand the past presidents have done the same. sometimes people make arguments against trump that they didn't make with past presidents. president reagan declared a national emergency is what he said at the national emergency if i cannot control the exports abroad. the presidents have already in the past used this. would this be over climate change itself it seems to me when you look how they've used this power and repeatedly do not try to divide the national power is going to be more flexible with you for the next president. you said immigration at the border. i can say climate change. >> precedents create a presumption of legality as he said that they've done similar things. what is the standing in the constitutional wall of precedence t

constitution that make this country special including things like the right to vote. so i am really hoping that president obama does come out and punches hard on behalf of our nation and the constitution. >> scott jennings, do you think this actually gets any votes? does this work to bring people to the ballot box? >> i mean, my assumption is it will work on democrats. i was noting tonight's roster, president obama included notes the end of the out reach to the disaffected republicans that lasted 48 hours. they are now rolling out the people that republican -- would remind republicans why they should not vote for the biden harris ticket. on the obama excerpts we've seen, i think it really does illustrate anderson the two strategies of the parties. the democrats need this to be a referendum on trump and you'll see from the republicans to make it a choice between trump and biden. you'll see president obama tonight trying to make the case against trump as they say it. this convention is light on policy for a reason because they want everybody to go out and vote as it up or down on trump and you'll see a much different thing from the republicans next week. >> van? >> look

postal service existed before our nation's constitution. lifeline that connected far-flungi far-flung communities. founders believed so strongly in the importance of the post office that they in our d it constitution. the post office provides a ritical public service that we cannot allow to become a potential political pawn for the dysfunctional, disruptive, and i are say, disastrous administration. this administration has why strated time and again government should not be run business. businesses exist to make profits. the post office and the whole of our government exists to provide services. called the it is ostal service, not the postal corporation. today, we are acting to reinforce our postal service vital which provides services, like delivering edications, social security enefits, income and tax payments, veterans' benefits, assistance forms, and absentee to all american communities, however remote they be. americans depend on the -- on -- dependence on the postal service has increased during this pandemic, as we on-time delivery of

emergencies act and once there is a national emergency, there's another law this is the president can transfer money between building accounts essentially, the constitutional question is really a statutory question, can the president declare a national emergency with border immigration, is that the national emergency that congress had in mind, we have had national emergency in a specific event or a specific entity rather than a problem. immigration is more like a problem i admit that a country or an event, on the other hand, past presidents have done the same, sometimes i feel like people make arguments against trump that they did not make with past presidents. for example president reagan declared a national emergency when the laws expire, he said it's a national emergency if i cannot control exports of sensitive technology abroad, president obama declared a national emergency over the swine flu, presidents have already in the past use the national emergency. people say does that mean president biden could declare a national emergency over climate change itself? it seems to me when you look at how presidents have used this power and how congress has repea

constitution? i will -- i will gladly lend you my copy. >> in 2016, khizr khan lit up the democratic national conventionhat pocket constitution offering it to donald trump. he was speaking as the father of a fallen soldier. back in 2004, a car bomb killed his son as he tried to save his fellow troops. this year khizr khan returned to the convention representing virginia in the roll call to elect joe biden and he joins us now. mr. khan, good evening. >> good evening, joshua. i am so delighted. your word and your voice have raised our hearts and our homes for the longest time, so congratulations moving forward and continuing to hearten us. thank you. so good to be with you. >> that is very, very kind of you, sir, i really appreciate that. thank you very much. let me play one more clip of what you said at this year's convention or play a clip from the 2020 convention and i'd like to know some of why you expressed what you chose to express. listen. >> three years ago, my beloved city, charlottesville, virginia, was attacked by white supremacists and a young woman was killed. we were attacked again when dona

indeed the primary constitutional function of the national government is ensuring that your family and mine are safe and enjoy the freedom to live to work to learn and to worship as they choose to living on this duty to keep us safe and our freedoms intact this president has led bold initiatives in nearly every corner of the world in china he's pulled back the curtain on the predatory go.

constitution. i think we see that in the fbi, national deoxy and in the foreign service. trump embodies to meet more 18th century view what the exact brand is about witches we the voters elect the president, using the elect oral college, but he's the owner when charged with electoral power and enforcing the laws and everyone conducts foreign policy and enforcing the laws they are doing it as an assistant to the president so it's much more political vision of the bureaucracy. the bureaucracy is responsive to the president and hold him accountable through or her accountable through politics. to meet that is what happened in the impeachment and in the rush occlusion investigation is that you had permanent experts, foreign service or the fbi conclude that the president essentially was unfit for office and so they were, to me, that would not have competed to the founders is that they were challenging the head of their own branch is unfit and that's not really their job. i think you're right that as you say there is this impeachment system and congress does have the right. and