government in part they weren't worried about this because the spark the revolutionary war the boston tea party with the tea party was a revolt against the world's largest corporation of the british east india corporation and by the way it was a revolt because the tax act exceeded the teac of seventeen ninety three or seven hundred seventy three was a tax cut for this giant corporation which was going to put out of business all these small entrepreneurial businesses across america the american founders rose up and said no we're not going to let your wal-mart to us and madison and jefferson warned us about corporations why in large founders and framers thought they'd driven a stake through the heart of what you jefferson called money off of what little did they know that about one hundred years after the constitution was ratified the greatest threat to american democracy would come not from traditional here kratz kings or warlords but from corporations. this is this is where it has come to now the process if we have the american democracy tragically the corporations now by our supreme court have

our founders knew all too well the dangers of corporate power at the boston tea party was a protest against the world's largest trans national corporation of the time the british east india company and through the first century of our nation presidents legislators and the courts held today a healthy mistrust of corporate power was a good thing that was until just after the civil war when the fourteenth amendment was passed and gave former slaves access to our courts equal protection under the law by saying no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws a simple innocuous declaration that there was a loophole in the fourteenth amendment and explains everything that's going on in america today the sixth since the sixth century british common law on which ours was based as distinguished actual people from other entities like government businesses and churches by declaring humans as natural persons and corporations governments and churches as artificial persons but since the fourteenth amendment left out the word natural for the word person. corporati

and on april 4th for american tempest, how the boston tea party sparked a revolution. upcoming ticketed events include james couric, sayre bile, billy collins, and a governor to fall back. you'll find our complete calendar of events online. after the vessel start this afternoon we will have talked to a far tougher question. you can find copies of "liberty's exiles" at the registers. please know that when you buy a book from harvard bookstore you are supporting a local, independent institution he genuinely cares about books. this author series would not be possible without the support. we are pleased to have c-span book tv here taping today's events. and asking questions, please know that you will be recorded and wait a moment for the microphone to come over to you finally, not as a great time to make sure you have silenced her cellphone. this afternoon on behalf of harvard bookstore i am pleased to an traduced by an here to discuss "liberty's exiles," american loyalists in the revolutionary world. an award winning historian who brings us a in a largely untold story in

and unger on april 4th for american tempest, how the boston tea party sparked a revolution. upcoming ticket events include james klick, billy collins and governor deval patrick. for the complete calendar of events on harvard.com and the march eventful year. after professor jasanoff's talk this afternoon we will have time for questions, after which we will have a book signing here at this table, and you can find copies of "liberty's exiles" up at the registers. please know when you buy a book from harvard bookstore, you are supporting a local independent institution who genuinely cares about books, and this author series wouldn't be possible without the support. we are also pleased to have c-span's book tv taking today's event. when asking questions in the q&a, please know that you will be recorded, and please wait a moment for the microphone to come over to you before asking your question. and finally, now is a great time to make sure that you have silenced yourself phones. this afternoon on behalf of harvard bookstore i am pleased to introduce maya jasanoff come here to dis

shoulder accused of murder -- actually defended a british soldier accused of murder which sparked boston tea party. he thought that was more important that one guilty man might get off -- excuse me, one guilty man out of 99 might get off rather than have an innocent man convicted. the shoe is on the other foot, the prosecutors. most of the prosecutors in our society are devoted civil servants who really try to see that justice with a capital "j" is done. but one side or the other inevitably slips, and believe me when that happens, we hear about it front page. you're about criminal defense attorneys getting paid in something other than money, were the prosecutor -- or the prosecutor, like ted stevens, one of the prosecutors in that case committed suicide after he was accused of unethical behavior. it happened in detroit in the terrorism trials, where they were accused of prosecutorial misconduct. things like that can happen. when they happen, it is the reaction among us we realize the person without is superman is really just clark kent on steroids, to use the baseball analogy. and that hurts. mich

tea party and these people are doing nothing. they have jobs. the unemployment rate is 16% for african-americans. host: thank you for calling. a story in "the washington times. " the president in boston yesterday. the headline -- the president sees nothing responsible in cutting federal education funds. marty from california. good morning. caller: i just wanted to say that the united states is not broke. no county, no city, no state is broke. they have hidden accounts called a comprehensive and annual financial report. of these accounts are for local governments. it is an undisclosed taxpayer finance -- the value goes up as the public debt and the budget deficits rise. people don't know about these. and people need to get in and look under their state, county, schools. these are hidden accounts of that hold billions and billions and billions of dollars that we don't even know about. we are not broke. they do this to raise the taxes and eliminate services for the people. people get up now. go look under your state and county and schools. look under the comprehensive annual financial report and see the allies being told today. host: front page of "the new york times" has more on the si