the first meeting that is new trustees at the george mason. they not only froze tuition, they rolled back a pre-announced tuition increase. right. they've come in with an agenda. he is investing real capital in reforming the state higher university, universal ity system. and so i think this idea of of state universities being a place where we're where you can bring some battle sense back bring back some sanity to this whole process, i think is a a very useful experiment that we could be doing in this in this particular this particular area. and so with that, i invite my my friend matthew spalding to come up and, you know, we'll play the air around and he'll tell me where i'm wrong. so thank you. i got i got to take this seat now. i'm switching seats on stage. it's all right. it's all right. welcome to colorado. thanks, matthew. and as you all heard, i'm on the board of trustees here. so i want to thank you all for students, dba institute. it's a great place. i'm involved, what, ten years or so now? it's a wonderful what has been accomplished.

so the last question inspired by denver, referencing george mason and the questioner notes george mason was a dissenter that dissent is has been a key part of the american story. but those that dissent may often be, as you mentioned, to a bench. so what is the role of dissent? and, you know, in this period of time, is there any reason to study the loyalist or even going for an. oh, absolutely. that's that's the rage now well, as you said that there are some people who don't they know everybody thinks american revolution was a good idea. i have i know people who do not think it was a good idea at all. so yeah, definitely. because studying the loyalists, it tells you something about the country that it tells us something about ourselves. because the question becomes what if someone came to you and said, you know, we're going to be in a new country, we're going to leave? what what would you do? i we all like to think people say we would have been patriots, whatever. but if posed question like that now, that would be really tough. it's tough decision. so we should definitely discover i mean

well, jennifer, victor is a professor of political science of george mason university. she joins us also from the washington d. c. thanks very much for speaking to us. and i'll just, sarah. what do you make so far of coming to harris's presence on the campaign trail is just 24 hours off. the president biden dropped out and also we did see her move on a little button that addressed to the campaign stuff there. but there was a point where one might think she was missing out. so there was perhaps a missed opportunity in terms of a setting her own agenda. do you think she's recovered well enough? i'm not sure we've seen a campaign that transition from one thing to another thing faster than this. what we've observed in the last 24 hours. the campaign has filed the requisite paperwork with the federal election commission in the united states. the, the branding has changed, the messaging is still largely the same, although i would say very much reinvigorated. and behind the scenes, the party is moving boulders, to reform the coalition and, and in a way that has really excited

all right, jennifer vick to professor of political science at george mason university. thank you very much for your time and your insights. my pleasure. up families of american his way the captives held in garza since october 7th has a met the us presidents and visuals, prime minister in washington. they described the meeting as positive and say they feel optimistic that all of them will be freed. in the near future. we came in and really emphasizing to the leaders of the united states and of israel, a desire to get this deal done. this 3 phase deal that the president announced a few weeks ago and has been on the bow shooting table in order to return all now 115 of these really hostages. and to end the suffering of the people of god that because the moment they come home is a 150 chilling ends, the madness ends, we feel probably more optimistic than we have since the 1st round of releases. in late november, early december, we're a little over a 100 of israel's hostages. it were released and we got absolute commitment from the, by the ministration and from prime minister

and of course he had george mason's virginia declaration of rights, which whose preamble sounds an awful declaration and talks about the pursuit of happiness. so it's so important. all this is this is not some academic thesis i'm putting forward this. it's it's absolutely lousy with the idea that every single moral source on which the founders relied from these different traditions all use phrase and they all have you ask, what does it mean? they have similar conception of it. there's a remarkable unanimity of of what it doesn't mean for thing, but what it means. and these are not men who necessarily got along ideologically. they didn't get along at all. ideologically, the division between and jefferson on national power versus states rights and strict construction liberal construction defined political and constitutional battles for the next 200 years. that's my next book, which i'm really psyched about, but they all read the same books and jefferson williams at college of william and mary hamilton and king's college others through private tutors. it's what they were raised on. their mo

that's jennifer victor, a professor of political science at george mason university. thank you. thanks, john. okay, well joe biden is age and cognitive decline have taken soon to stage and recent weeks with many fairing it could cost as positive the election. a white house correspondent, kimberly healthcare has more even before he was sworn to office, most pools showed americans thought joe biden was too old to be president after a phonetic 4 years of donald trump. americans were exhausted and eager to slow things down. joseph robin advised you to solve an elderly bite and seemed like the solution at age 78. i've made history becoming the oldest us president within hours 5 and sign 17 executive orders to begin reversing trumps policies on everything from immigration to rejoining the paris climate accord. the age of president had early legislative success working with congress to give americans still struggling to recover from the corona virus pandemic, billions and financial release. a one trillion dollar infrastructure bill to improve roads, airports and bridges was also passed

what jennifer victor is a professor of political science at george mason university. she says comforter harris has entry into the race as re energize the democratic campaign. i think we've seen an incredible invigoration over the last 24 hours and you know, there was a lot of him running about joe biden through, through the spring to some extent. but after that really disastrous debate, the poor performance that he gave just about 3 weeks ago, the democrats has really been kind of down trust and very concerned about their electrical prospects. and having joe biden decide not to accept his party's nomination, and having a party full unite around his vice president campbell, a harris has really invigorated an incredible energy. and we see that evidenced by the incredible financial fall that she's pulled in. so as i that will get the official numbers later, but it looks like within the last 24 to 36 hours. the harris campaign, as it is now, has raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $80000000.00, which is just an unheard of some in that short of the time period between

neither is an emphasis professor, but public policy at george mason university joins us from washington, dc. welcome to the program. so to what extent are we in uncharted territory with the supreme court booting? what are the ramifications absence? absolutely, and charted. discuss the power of the president actually is criminal liability will now be discussed in front of a court and for the american public. for the 1st time. this has never happened before. and it's, it's unlikely that i haven't been again, i mean, it will happen this year because the case has to be debated in open court on trump's law. as i've already jumped on this topic, they saying they want a delay in sentencing. and these hus money trauma, the setting aside of that verdict. and that's right. they say it has to be determined whether any of these charges could be construed to be part of his official capacity as president because of the court today ruled, but nothing he does in his official capacity is president can be subject to criminal penalties. so everything that's in dispute, i have all these criminal cases and

victor, an associate professor of political science at the sha school of policy and government at george mason university. i'm more than welcome to one if i could stop with jennifer jennifer, looking at the latest speeches by both donald trump and campbell of how it says it looked like this campaign is now going to be even more personal, even more vicious. well, i think the expectation, even before the change in canada see, was that this would be a pretty vicious campaign to use your words that the electorate is closely divided . by all accounts. it seems like this will very likely be a close election. and, and just by, i judge that just based on the polling. and so whenever you have a political situation where you have a tight races where each side believes that there is sort of some very dramatic negative consequence from losing, it really tends to amp up the rhetoric and jennifer, the lot of these hopes, at least also the assassination attempt on donald trump, but may be the rhetoric might come down. does it look like those homes are gone? this is going to be a bad knuckles fight with no ho

washington bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university. he explained the ramifications of the supreme court ruling. i certainly apologize. court. you have 6 conservative justices appointed by republican presidents, 3 of them by trump route in one direction. and you have the 3 justices appointed by a democratic president who did. yeah. who did not agree with that rolling. so i didn't catch the supreme court like everything else in american politics is deeply unintentionally polarized by party thing called the probably will be passed the presidential election. but it won't matter then. if trump wins, he'll just dismiss the whole case and all the charges. because the president is a party over the justice department, which is bringing these charges against him when he was president. so, so we don't have a lot of power if he wins, we actually, if he doesn't with an election, this case could go on. but the debate over presidential immunity will be central, is that the case no matter what happens to gone so now where these randy ministry has issu

was jennifer victoria is a professor of political science at george mason university. she says to accommodate harris's entry into the re, says re energize the democratic policies campaign. i think we've seen an incredible integration over the last 24 hours. you know, there was a lot of him running about joe biden through, through the spring to some extent. but after that really disastrous debate, the poor performance that he gave just about 3 weeks ago, the democrats has really been kind of downtrodden and very concerned about their alexa prospects and having joe biden decide not to accept his party of nomination. and having the pardon food unite around the vice president conway harris has really invigorated an incredible energy. and we see that the evidence by the incredible financial sold. this is susan. so i will get the official numbers later, but it looks like within the last 24 to 36 hours the, the harris campaign as it is now has raised some will be in the neighborhood of 80000000 dollars, which is different on heard of some in that short of the time period betw

it was much smaller, but then go to george mason's plantation on the potomac river.ou would see a pretty notable economic difference between the two. and i think that from the perspective of that kind of emergent socialist kind of his story in in the early 20th century those kinds of differences are i think they get lost in the haze. i would say because i mean have had to wrestle with charles beard. yeah so i think he's partly right. but i think you cannot ignore role of ideas. and, you know, every indication is that most of them took ideas very, very and i think the best piece of evidence this is that they thought their opponents took ideas seriously. and so here i would point to the way hamilton responded to burr. right. as an unprincipled rogue, someone who really didn't have didn't stand for anything. and he appreciated jefferson despite fact that he disagreed with his ideas vehemently, or at least as a man of. and so i think that and i think jefferson had some sort of grudging respect for hamilton. well, he did. i'm sorry to interrupt you, but as a matter of fac

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the students during one of your great speeches that one of our college campuses i think it was george masoned about how the jews are coming these horrific genocidal acts your response was, this is why we have a democracy so we can exercise our first amendment right. people were so disgusted then he went to the anti-defamation league which is run by a former obama appointee. gave this speech against anti-semitism. you only do what you feel you have to do politically, don't you? tell me, how many under our student visa program how many of these people under the harris/biden administration have been deported? any? any? no, i don't think that they view of not set a thing about it. we don't really know where you stand on israel. please say enough for the liberals, for the liberals i stand with israel. you would not even stand, you would not even sit in your seat as president of the senate when benjamin netanyahu gave a speech. but it's grotesque you sent a message to the river to the secret of the hitler youth you gave him a message to the anti-semites, to the terrorists all over the world that

cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. she earned her ph.d. from university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. she is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. in addition to being the organization's own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of southern association for women history science. throughout her distinguished career, dr. kirchner's research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the american antiquarian society and the national endowment for the humanities. but before i turn things over to dr. kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. following tonight's author's talk, there will be a question and answer session. so please feel free to submit your questions any point during the presentation through the the use of the q&a function that can be found at the bottom of screen. and we'l

george mason thought there should have been a bill of rights.ut here they had tnd ts constitution even though it did not have a bill of rights. they made some arguments for why a bill of rights was not necessary. they are not the strongest arguments, but they had to say something. ultimately, i think they came up with a good compromise which is we will ratify the constitution and then add the bill of rights. what about the meaning of the second amendment? the second amendment was not added until after the debate over the constitution, so you will not find any discussion of that in the federalist papers. you have to look at other historical sources. >> i was getting the idea that lynn was intimating that state's rights had an issue to play in the bill of rights. >> i am not exactly sure, but it is a good question about the second amendment, what is its meaning? i would leave it to other scholars. whether it is to protect individual rights or if you have standing armies, you need a well-established militia. allen also referred to quartering troops

associate professor of policy and government and director of the race politics and policy center at george mason university, and he joins us live from washington. d. c. a very good date to both of you. want to start with you a ragna? if i may, so what's the thinking now among democrats? so, apologies. were having just some audio issues with ronnie out, lew that were gonna work on right now. uh, want to put that question to you, michael. if i may. um, in terms of, you know, all eyes are now on a vice president that com or harris. she has already come out and says she plans to earn and when the democratic nomination um, how easy will it be for her to secure those delegates that are committed to joe biden? i mean, is that support transferable to the vice president? i wouldn't for the easy but i think it's very clear that the frame delegates that were place to present abide for the most part are going to stick with the vice president. they were refer a 2020, many of them were damages van. and her support of the ticket all along. now there's no question of the some democrats that were may prefer some

well, there was a proposal made very late in the convention by george mason from virginia that they had a bill of rights. there were a few listed in the constitution article section nine talks about no bills of attainder and protecting the writ of habeas corpus except in cases of invasion and rebellion, where it can be suspended by there was a proposal and it was rejected. it's interesting to think about i think to some extent they'd been there for four months and they were getting tired and they wanted to go home. but it also sheds light on the fact that they didn't think a bill of rights was very important. and madison, during it turned out that was their big strategic mistake during the ratifying contest that was the number one objection to the constitution made by the opponents. the anti was there should be a bill of rights. and the response as to there was no bill of rights was. well, it's dangerous, it's useless, it's superfluous and meant by that the following so if you listed a bunch of rights, you would inevitably leave something. the list that you thought was important and the

washington area we spoke to bill schneider, who was in emeritus professor of public policy at george mason university, explains around as the cations of the supreme court ruling but certainly apologized court, you have 6 conservative justices appointed by republican presidents, 3 of them by trump route in one direction. and you have the 3 justices appointed by a democratic president who did. yeah. who did not agree with that rolling. so in any case for the supreme court, like everything else in american politics is deeply unintentionally polarized by party probably will be passed the presidential election. but it won't matter then. if trump wins, he'll just dismiss the whole case and all the charges because the president is a party over the justice department, which is bringing these charges against him when he was president. so. so we don't have a lot of power if he wins the election, if he doesn't with an election, this case could go on. but the debate over presidential immunity will be central. is that the case, no matter what happens in the head on this and use our top investigative jo

my name is andrew president of the george mason university law school chapter. alongside d.c. young lawyers chapter in the student chapters from american, catholic, d.c., georgetown, maryland and george washington. i am honored to welcome you to the federalist society debate on this a juneteenth holiday weekend. were thankful to the federal society and the arthur ruth foundation for fostering open dialogue by making this event on this important topic possible. while there are nine people who certainly will have an opinion probably a majority opinion, a concurring opinion or to an dissent as soon as tomorrow on that meeting on whether the 16th amendment authorizes congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states. tonight we address a related but broader question. is the wealth attacks constitutional? to answer that question we are honored to have three great legal minds with us this evening. debating in a preposition professor david dean emeritus and professor of law and economics at columbia law school professor read professor of law and politics at yale u

brian is an economics professor at george mason university. he's the new york times selling author of the aforementioned open borders, the myths and rational the science and ethics of immigration. he's author of the myth of the rational, selfish reasons to have more kids and the case against. this is the bio that brian wrote for himself. he says he's mindful of the stereotype of the boring professor, so he strives to make abstract ideas thrilling and he's openly nerdy man who loves graphic novels and roleplaying games. i also think it would be too strong to say that you're a provocateur. brian but, i did hear you once say that what you like to do is put an idea that seems crazy out there and get people thinking that, hey, perhaps this isn't so crazy after all. and we're delighted to have as a discuss megan mcardle megan, i think most of you or, all of you know, as one of your original superstar our bloggers and also a i think it was david weigel who you made the transition from blogging to become an msn journalist. she's not tebowing as we use

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