now, i want to conclude with a quotation from john dickenson. john dickenson, again, was -- this was his constitution in so many ways. and this actually gets back to that point i made before that we have a written constitution rather than an unwritten constitution. and people ask me, well, why are the founding fathers important? well, we have a written constitution, they wrote it, they ratified it, so we should listen to them, and this is why we should listen to them. l during the philadelphia convention when things were get canning out of whack and john dickenson thought we were going too far to the nationalist extreme, he said this: experience must be our only guide, reason may mislead us. it was not reason that discovered the singular and admirable mechanism of the english constitution, it was not reason that discovered or even could have discovered the odd, the absurd load of trial by jury. accidents produced these discoveries, and experience has given us sanction to them. this, then, is our guide. so he's saying, look, we have a constitutio

dickenson and to us on twitter or facebook or to eyewitness at wjla.com. 81 degrees and 54 today. the record was 86. tamara's record is 81 so if we had 81 or 82 that is record territory. -- tomorrow's record is 81 so if we hit 81 or 82 that is record territory. a record high today in st. louis. 70's and 80's around a large portion of the country. pretty much east of denver temperatures are above average. it is two degrees warmer in chicago and miami. everything is upside down. we will watch the front to move and tomorrow. the potential for a couple of isolated showers or thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon just about anywhere. on friday we have a better chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms of temperatures back off to 75 for a high. all of this should push east giving us a slow improvement for the weekend. 56 degrees in the morning and 76 midday. better chances on friday. the leprechaun is happy, st. patrick's day will be warm and dry. in other warmup begins next week. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. moving you forward. >> are the

probably saying, well, who the heck is john dickenson? this is a guy that was actually called the penniman of the revolution. he was one of the most important men of the founding generation, bar none. and when he went to the philadelphia convention, he looked at this constitution that james madison had written, and he said, no, no, we're not having that. that's not going to work in these united states. or you have someone like roger sherman of connecticut, a man that thomas jefferson once said never said a -- i'm paraphrasing here -- never said a stupid thing in his life. this was also his constitution because, again, he was a conservative moderating influence. when he got to the philadelphia convention and he saw james madison's work, he again said, nope, we're not having that in these united states. it's not going to work. the people of connecticut will never agree to this thing. or john rutledge of south carolina, another very important founding father. john rutledge, of course, would later serve on the supreme court. he basically help

people like dickenson and sherman n. ravitch said we don't want and that -- natural government, we won a federal government. james madison won the natural government. there's a difference. federal government was a general government. we only had general purposes in mind, and that basically everything else was left to the states themselves. that is what the majority of the founding generation argue for. not a natural government, which basically put all power in the central authority. they were going to have that. so when you start talking about general versus federal and national versus federal, these are important terms. in fact and they haven't gone away. you still hear the term, united states is a nation today, and said that term is still far around. the founding generation with its general government for general purposes and not talk about that the preamble. so in the constitution coming out of philadelphia in september september 77 no one was even sure if the thing would be ratified. they had written it, talked about

the secret service and local authorities arrested a man by the name of the brent dickenson.e posted threatening messages on a white house message for on friday and is being held on $50,000 bail. this is the time of year when girl scouts are selling cookies. one man in texas tried to take advantage of that by robbing a troupe of gross to outsource stationed outside of a wal-mart. it happened saturday afternoon. the man came up to the girls and pretending he wanted to buy cookies but grabbed the cash instead. the crow scouts did not let him get away without a fight. >> i started hitting the boy in the passenger's seat. i think he learned his lesson a little bit. the drag my friend across the street drug in of relief as. >> i hope your face hurts, and jerk. >>marty: the crux did and that getting away with about $200. to make matters worse, the girl scouts are responsible for paying back that money. let's check in with henry. >>henry: hello. the governor wants to shut down the state division of criminal justice and believe it or not it is probably a good thing. we will explain.

i played football for one week invested my helmet and jeff dickenson was my roommate. we got along. so sophomore year, we decided to rent together and i recall one interesting story. i share this with other nick fallin. jeff dickerson added think was an architect and i didn't know that architects. marbles. and next service they just of a priest reprise to live next door, father o'connor. i think he was the resident manager of the building or architect. and he had marbles. and i remember a day they were both kneeling down on the floor in my room, rolling marbles. i thought, this is pretty cool. my mother was a marbles champ the end in like 1935 so i can relate to this. but i didn't realize. but that's the kind of thing that we were supposed to do. blast back >> is very difficult. we felt that there had been too many -- but all the black students had been identified and only a fraction of the weight you to write in the ge demonstrations we felt there was overt racism we were going to support all the students. i remember is very tumultuous thinking would make going to do quite calm acq

john dickenson, the golf, wasn't -- the governor, wasn't willing to help them out. and so they decided they would flee to princeton, new jersey, and they reconvened in james madison's old dorm at princeton. [laughter] one of the most important issues that both madison and monroe had to deal with during their time both in the virginia legislature and in congress is the question of the mississippi. the spanish were of a belief because they controlled new orleans and the port of new orleans that they were entitled to the mississippi river. now, james madison pointed out that under the international law that existed at the time that free and peaceful people could move across international boundaries without impunity. so why should the american people who were not at war with spain be more restricted than in any other place. and be imagine what losing the mississippi would have done to the united states, the westward expansion, the important ports of entry that we have, the growth of the american west. it's unimaginable had we given it to spain, we probably never would h

i went to dickenson pennsylvania. it was a pretty good mix of kids. my class today is about 98% foreign nationals. and i have about 65 in the classroom. and almost all of them have the intention of leaving the country when they complete their masters or ph.d. because they see bigger opportunities elsewhere. >> i do not want to forget the aspect of compensation for people entering the private sector versus the government sector. there is this issue of compensation. we have the same issues of bringing in the best and brightest. but if we're not compensating them with with the market bears -- >> at the education and military intelligence, we see people moving into private industry. the most talented guy on my team as a high-school dropout. using the education system as a bar has not helped identify the best talent. he was one of the top recognized hackers and researchers in the world. it varies. i do not think you can actually teach somebody to be a hacker. if you want to be a researcher in that area, there is an ingrained mentality that you're either bo