but this is charles sumner, who for his troubles, got himself on this banknote. now you might be interested to , know what happened to mr. brooks. mr. brooks resigned from congress before they could expel him. he was actually tried in washington, d.c., court and was fined $300. he was not sent to jail. he returned to his home state where he was a national hero. shamelessly. and he was reelected in a special election to his congressional seat. at the end of 1865, same year that he brutally beat this gentleman. well, fortunately preston brooks , does not get into any banknotes, but he did get into a lot of cartoons of the day. and that's mr. brooks beating sumner on the floor of the senate. so if you hear charles sumner, this is what people are referring to normally when his name comes up. let's back up a second. i skipped dewitt clinton. dewitt clinton. he is known for one thing and one thing only, and that is clinton's ditch, the erie canal. he actually proposed this canal and saw its construction as governor of new york. it's known as clinton's ditch. but that i

i really reminded of the -- charles sumner. also an antimonopolist. would talk about, excuse me, new going through the valley of humiliation where the trains, you are my subject and i am the lord and god of you. but what some are doing and we're all talking about in some ways is saying the problem is that there's certain corporate powers, not all corporate powers, but certain corporate powers who are becoming government-like, they are effectively deciding what kinds of rules and laws we have and those powers are very, very white as well as well as concentrated. >> i would highly recommend the first writing on this topic and i'll just mention quickly that i wrote a story earlier this year called how the wealth primary is undermining voting rights, big money and american politics and the right to voting and what's it's doing to right of voting. one example, african americans are 13% of the u.s. population but hold only 2% of elected seats. there's a lot of different reasons for that 50 years after the voting rights act. one of the main barriers is how e

charles summer in in 1964 commits himself to defeating any attempt to aproepeuate funds that would provide for the bust of taney to be placed in the u.s. supreme court. sumnerfights those attempts time and again in congress. so today these questions are of course cloaked in 21st century terms. controversy over the flying of the confederate -- what is said to be the confederate flag in the united states and taney's image, his likeness is once again said by some to symbolize or glorify, right, a past that should not be honored in this public way. at the state house in maryland, of course, we have duelling monuments if you will. because in 1996 we get thurgood marshall, right? and so now the two of maryland's great supreme court justices are side by side but clearly somebody over the weekend in frederick had a different idea about how to publicly enact their critique of taney. >> we have ten minutes left. what should his legacy be? >> he doesn't have a choice in the matter. after dred scott, he has tied himself to this pro-slavery nationalist movement. that movement dies with the confederacy so he is forever linked with that. roger taney engaged in fairly dish