james madison. he was born in 1810, according to the family's oral tradition. what happened to george after dolly madison had to sell montpelier, we're not sure. the slaves were broken into three distinct groups at that time. one was sold with the plantation to henry moncure. one group oz slaves was sold outright to other owners all over, and one group of slaves accompanied dolly to washington where she had moved. we believe that george gilmore was among the slaves that were sold with montpelier and stayed on the property after its sale. the next time george gilmore appears in the historical record is in 1870 when he shows up in the united states federal census living right here and on this property. however, we know that this cabin had not been built yet. we know that these trees that made up the cabin weren't cut down until 1873. it's pretty likely that george didn't build this cab uniltill late 1773 or early 1874. we know that through the study of logs, if you look right here, you can actually se

james madison's senior -- james madison junior, our hero, president, james madison jr. was the member of the anglican vestry. we know he attended church through his life and went to church right across from the white house today. recently on television i saw president obama and his family coming out of the church james madison used to attend so through his life he did attend church. when he was a young man he was uncertain what he wanted to do for a career. after he completed his undergraduate studies he stayed on as a graduate student for a year where he saw among other things hebrew and the only practical application of hebrew for a president -- protestants from orange county would have been to become a minister but apparently he decided at an early age he did not want to be administered so he turned to the idea he would become an attorney and he studied law which after a few weeks he described as exceedingly dry and i can say yes. it is exceedingly dry. he had absolutely nothing to do with drafting the declaration of independence because he was helping draft the cons

this is of james madison. tell us what your viewers will see here in a minute. >> this came up for auction five years ago. this check. the auctioneer had misread the name of the person it was made out to. they wrote -- i knew it was roger chew wightman, dragged into the white house by the admiral as they were preparing to burn the white house, and the check was made out by james madison to wightman 23 days before burning the white house. it's probably for books, because wightman was a book seller and he was dragged in to represent the humiliation of the americans. he was the only american in the white house, the british bandit, and so i knew knowing more about the providence of this check that it was going to be very valuable. of the fact that wightman was the only person in the white house who wa an american. he later became mayor of washington. he was a notable grand mason, and so that's why i brought it. >> how long had washington been the seat of government by 1814? how long had it been the -- >> 1800. joh

this is an artifact of james madison. tell us what your viewers will see here in a minute. >> this check came up for auction five years ago, and the auctioneer had misread the name of the person it was made out to. they wrote weightman. i knew it was roger ch chu weightman, dragged into the white house by the admiral as they were preparing to burn the white house, and the check was made out by james madison to weightman 23 days before burning the white house. it's probably for books, because weightman was a book seller and he was dragged in to represent the humiliation of the americans. he was the only american in the white house when the british burned it, and so i knew, knowing more about the providence of this check, that it was going to be very valuable. one day i might donate it to the white house, but i'm fearful that it might end up in a drawer or something where the public can't see it. but it really is a remarkable find, because of the fact that weightman was the only person in the white house who was an american

born on james madison's virginia plantation, he served as a footman during the madison administration. during the war of 1812 helps dolley madison rescue the iconic portrait of george washington from british torches. after 20 years back on the plantation where he was body servant to the ex-president, jennings returned to the square with the widow dolley madison. she had a house on the square's northeast corner where she would live out her widowhood like a queen dowager, presiding over a secondary court to the white house. jennings, her butler and coachman would have a second white house experience beginning in 1845 when his mistress hired him out to president james polk. when dolley madison died in 1849, jennings had spent just the last two of his 50 years as a freeman, little thanks to her. she had offered him for sale for $200. jennings knew people in high places and he had gotten daniel webster, formerly a neighbor on the square to advance him his purchase price. he was working for webster paying off his debt when his former mistress died. she was given the grand estate funeral to

we spent about six to seven years doing the restoration of james and dolley madison's home, and one thing we're able to represent with the restored home is the space where james and dolley lived. and what we're able to show in the house with the basement areas and some of the service spaces is where the slaves worked on a daily basis, but what we don't have represented there is where the slaves had their homes, and this is what we're doing with the excavations in the south yard and the timber frame outlines that you see right here is actually representing these spaces. this is where the houses where they would have worked. it's where they would have served the roles that were expected of them of the madisons, but it's here in these gayses what they called home, their daily lives, their roles as mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, would have really been played out in this area. to talk about it with the visitors to bring humanity to the people enslaved by the madisons we felt it was important to show their homes and represent their homes in a physical way, because so many t

james madison is often called the father of the constitution but i say that's a misnomer. the historical scholarship on the subject has kind of come around to that, over time. he did present the virginia plan, or a least wrote it and, of course, was presented by the virginia delegation at the philadelphia convention, but the constitution that we have is not his. it was gone over and over in the philadelphia convention and modified over and over again by a number of important people. so some of these people you probably never heard of before like john dickinson of delaware. probably saying who the heck is john dickinson? this is a guy who was called opinion of the revolution. he was one of the most important of the founding generation. bar none. when he went to the philadelphia convention he looked at this constitution that james madison had written and he said no, no. we are not having that. that's not going to work, in these united states. or just someone like roger sherman of connecticut, a man that thomas jefferson said once -- i'm paraphrasing, never said a stupid thin

in fact, james madison agreed, this is what he said. he said, the constitution only was brought to life and only found its meeting because of the state conventions which gave it all the validity and authority it possesses. in other words, what we presented in philadelphia means nothing. with the state ratifying convention said it meant means everything. we don't often hear about these things. in fact, perhaps the most famous supreme court justice ever, john marshall, a member of the founding generation never want time referenced the state ratifying conventions. another reference. but the state ratifying conventions, everything was discussed, hammered out, and the states, many of them bearing a support to muscled the constitution, so the bill of goods in essence on the basis of what the constitution meant at the time. that's what i said that i was going to write the book based on the opponents of the constitution and what they said it meant. again, bin into fabric in both opponents and proponents. let me talk about those two terms. you o

james madison has resisted the idea of war for as long as he could. so remember his goal as unity by putting off his decision to go to bar he had the partisan flames. james' party, the republicans may have celebrated the declaration with parades and canon fire, but in the northeast federalist territory, flames hung at half-mast and church bells tolled warmth. the federalists most of whom were from new england would feel the brunt -- the declaration of war only increases pressure on james especially when he learned that two days before the declaration the british government had repealed the orders and council that had restricted neutral trade and was one of the main reasons for going to war, but it was too late to stop the marshall momentum. it spoke of threats to the president and assassinations by both dagger or poison. disguised as women coming to the white house to steal james' papers. washington city felt even more uneased as the residents worried it might become a target. wartime tension made some a bit deranged. a well known washington woman drov

all of a sudden we are in this race between the two future presidents, james madison and monroe debating the most important issues we talked about, whether we should have a bill of rights, what kind of union we should have and all of a sudden you are on the next page and it's a way to bury the lead. so i decided i would read everything i could about this election and when i found no one had written about it before i decided i was going to tell the story. the book found rifles called out in the inauguration of george washington. what many people took the oath of office they were outside the union outside ryland the concern was missing a bill of rights. i guarantee you the fundamental liberty. this is common for the antifederalists' throughout the continent. the common denominator of what's james monroe was one is that they oppose the constitution. many came at it from different angles. they genuinely believe you couldn't have a union that cover these different states it could be independent states or regional confederacy's but didn't think anyone could be suitable in this continent. james

we spent six to seven years doing the restoration of james and dolly madison's home. and one thing that we're able to represent with restored home are the space where james and dolly is, some of the service places where the slaves worked. what we don't have represented is where the slaves have their homes, this what is we're doing with the excavation in the south yard and timber frame outlines you see right here, is representing -- the house is where they would have worked, this is where they called home. and daily lives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles would have been played out. to talk about that with visitors to bring humanity to the people that were enslaved by the madisons we felt was important to show their hopes and represent their homes in a physical way. because so many times when when visitors here before we had the timber frame, to be understand what slaves daily life was like and how they had -- they were part of a much larger community with very difficult to do without the structures either being investigated archeologically or timber f

. >>> james madison, the fourth president of the united states, often referred to as the father of the constitution, owned about 100 slaves at montpelier, his estate in orange county, virginia. american history tv traveled 90 miles south of the nation's capital to learn about an archaeological project investigating the enslaved communities of james madison's montpelier. the three-year archaeology project is jointly funded by the national endowment for the humanities and the montpelier foundation. >> i'm matthew reeves. where we're standing is what we call the south yard, the area where the house slaves for the madisons both lived and worked. what we're in the middle of is an archaeological investigation of this area. we first learned about the south yard through an insurance map that is dated to 1837. this is when dolly moves back to washington, d.c. she takes out an insurance policy on the house and part of what they need for this insurance policy is a plat showing where all the out buildings are. this plat has been incredibly important for allowing us to locate the outbuildings. in t

identify yourself and direct your question at a member of the panel and we'll. >> i want to put james madison back in the spotlight in terms of foreign affairs and i would like the panel to respond to what madison wrote about the power of the president in the constitution. he wrote in no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause that confines the question of peace or war to the legislature. he goes on to explain why one man should not have so much power to take the country into war. i want to know if anyone agrees with madison. and if any of the members of the panel disagree with him as to whether that is a wise clause of the constitution? >> you're looking at me, i don't know why. i think this is a great question. i assume you're reading from madison's participation in the specific debates which take place after the ratification of the constitution. this is something people debate about, whether historians and jack raykof here at -- whether madison was consistent when he was acts as -- opposition to the washington administration, which is the context within which

you've been playing james madison on stage. you should really see that. and, you know, the first four presidents disagreed about a lot. you know, washington, adams, jefferson and madison. they disagreed on a lot of things. the founders were not unanimous on a lot of things. the founders doesn't even like each other very much. what was the one thing all four agreed on? don't create political parties. they said it in writings, in speeches, do not create political parties. i don't know if there's any political scientists in the room. political scientists like to come back and say, yes, at that time, madison was part of a political party. there aren't anything like political parties like today. they might have a few issues, terrorists, west bank expansion. they had a few things in common. but it wasn't what you have today with the parties marching in lockstep on almost everything. doesn't matter whether it's a stimulus package or a supreme court nomination. all the democrats are on one side. all the republicans are on the other side. actually, if you can bott

welcome to the 1910 train depot at james madison's mount pentpe. in 1910 this railroad belongs to southern rail. and mr. dupont who is the owner of montpellier at the time wanted the train to stop for him. in order to have that happen he needed to build a train station. he did. come on inside i will show it to you. the history at montpellier is interesting in the dupont era. because of course the duponts were not a southern family. the duponts, especially william and annie dupont had actually lived in europe for a number of years before coming back to america where they chose to settle out here in western virginia. so they were coming into a different social atmosphere than what they were accustomed to either in delaware where the family was or, or in europe certainly. and, in the south, things were segregated. they were in the north as well. but not to the same extent. certainly they were not in europe. but because he was living in the south, he had to abide by social customs here, with the segregated set of waiting rooms, for the people who worke

the 2600 acre estate of montpeliar was one home to the nation's fourth president, james madison and his wife dolly. it lies about 70 miles north of the nation's capital in orange county, virginia. the national trust for historic preservation owns the property that is managed by the montpeliar foundation. "american history tv" visited the site for a tour with the foundation's president, michael quinn. -- and he create add very spacious place to hold his books and provide the area he wanted to work. as this room was being built, we have a letter from his builder, james dinsmore. he said, if i put a window next to the fireplace, it will give you a view of the temple you plan to build as well. dinsmore went on to assure him, there will still be plenty of space for the bookshelves for all of your books. we know madison okay thad idea because the window is there. madison really used this area in the years after his presidency because he set for himself an amazing project which is to create an archive of the united states constitutional convention. as you look around, you see some of the work,

that james madison himself thought the constitution would fail when he left in 1777 because they didn't pass one of the crucial provisions he put in there. a veto. the ability of congress to veto state laws. and i think some of the things that akiel said about the ratification process and how it was a nationwide debate kind of referendum about the constitution. that can restore at least to people who i am able to get in my classes, i think, is some of the excitement about what it meant at the time, and i would hope that that would carry over to an understanding that we are the people today, and without paying attention to that constitution, it may not be there. i think we've been a victim of the success of the constitution. it's been, as one historian said, a machine that goes of itself. and we have had the luxury as a people to just sit back, somewhat ignorant of the structures of government, and let the process of government go along with deciding to we may or may not vote at any give een lection. again, you know, voting was seen as this incredible privilege. it was incredible when pe

. >> deliberately set on the 220th anniversary on james madison. >> we have a concept of proper separation of church and state. in this instance, the president of the united states says i will tell you how you practice your religion. that is outrageous. >> it is insanity what the administration is pushing on the catholic church, pro-life people. >> for evangelicals it would be the same, we couldn't pray in the name of jesus or couldn't read the bible. >> this is an egregious violation of the first amendment. >> some of america's top religious leaders are willing to pay a steep price to oppose the mandates. >> pastor rick warren said i will go to jail before a mandate like this. >> this forcing believers to buy into plans that help abortion inducing trucks. >> since the 1973 court roe v. wade decision, america has declared abortion "legal." >> that fundamental attack on life, we shouldn't be surprised when they come for our religious liberty. >> if the nation doesn't respect your life, they won't respect your liberty. paul strand, cbn news, washington. >>> canadian lawmakers has passed a la

even someone like james madison who did not particularly like and was not great at it, he screwed himself up and wrote 29 federalist papers which were op-ed pieces in newspapers. so these guys, these men know that they have to put themselves out there for the americanch i public, which is their si. constituency.s. >> know it all. it >> well, no at all. they were -- they were well-educated. look. cnt it is a little country. hav the colleges we have, we have ao handful of colleges and they aro tiny.olge yo know, harvard or king's college which becomes columbia m or gail or princeton. they have a few dozen students, unlike the thousands that they have today. but, you know, most of these mee were college graduates.at those who were not made sure t that they read it all theiriv lives. then felt that they had to be up on both the news of the day in the political theory of the day. they all knew there montesquieu. if you listen to their debateset you would have thought that montesquieu's first two names were the celebrated because he is always called the celebrated montesquieu. and they also kne

marking the day president james madison.. eclared war on ggeat britian.and as long as they were fighting napoleon thhee was a safe bee we could expand into canada. we aways pelt we owned this continent., " there are dignitaries... and more then one thousand spectactors... (vince)"the proo war faction said we had to peclare was cause the briiish were stealing american sailors..now celebrating the significance of this day... 200 years ago. (leon hubbard)-laugh- well i wasnt around for that.. so i cant 84 year old leon hubbard did - serve in world war two... as he watches the long llst of speakers... he says war tauggt him to be an dvocate of peace. (leon hubbard)"there is nothing ever really accomplished.. eventually we go through the same riggramoll again and again nddagain.. as history will verify." (cairns)"the war of economic termoil..but when america emerged it had a new nat anthem.. written out there.. and it had a true sense of independanne.. here." at fort mchenry kc fox 45 news at 5:30 a food festival for those with iron ssomachs... stomachs...what

james madison declared war on great children.s part of the empire became a battle ground as they fought to secure independence now leaders, ambassadors and through video, prime ministers and a president share a message of unity. >> since the end, our countries have been allies for almost 200 years. that relationship has strengthened constantly. >> we mark the courage of those fallen long ago. we cherish what was born of the sacrifice. prosperity, partnership and peace. >> we mark the milestone, i'm confident it will be a force for good and that together we will leave this world a better and safer place for generations to come. >> and science and on the battlefield. >> thank you for standing with us wherever there was a job to be done to fight for freedom. were you there and we were together. >> bill fink, abc 2 news. >> what a celebration. >>> it ends tomorrow at your last chance to see some of the visiting ships that will leave in the afternoon. >> and the local veterans are being helped to give back to the community. 50 visited

it happened supposedly at james madison high school. brianne carter is live in fairfax with more. >> the judge set bond at $15,000, $5,000 per count. his attorney speaking to the judge said that he has been a member of the scam -- community almost his entire life and that this came to him as a complete surprise. >> 39-year-old noe is accused of having inappropriate sexual conduct with a team. he could be released on bond today. this morning, a judge set bail at $15,000. the forest and coach -- former swim coach is charged for three counts of inappropriate conduct with a minor. the alleged victim, now 27 years old, filed the complaint on wednesday. his attorney says he had no prior criminal record and turn himself into police. he says the alleged victim was 21 and the two updated for six months. he is a graduate of george mason university and worked for a government contractor and has worked assistant coach for several organizations. over the weekend, his fiancee had this to say. >> he denies all allegations and looks forward to disprovi

good afternoon, here is what people are talking about today. 200 years ago president james madison declaredwar against great britain starting off the war of 1812. all weekend huge crowds have gathered downtown to see the ships for the star spangled sailabration. today sky chopper 13 is looifr -- live over the fort where a ser ssh ser -- ser moe -- ceremony just wrapped up. >> reporter: good afternoon. >> -- >> reporter: we have america the beautiful playing behind us. maybe they will spend a little time here today. it was really a moving ceremony this morning. >> reporter: right, the ceremony from enemies to alleys hosted by bob shacher. take a look. >> from enemies to alleys, 200 years of peace. >> the united states entered the war, it was a loose collection of states, but when we emerged we were on the path to becoming a truly great, great nation. >> it is just touching that on the fact of the 18th of june is an important anniversary. it's the moment when the sad war of 1812 began. >> this is an important anniversary for the united states, united kingdom and canada. i want to thank all of

. >> today there was a special ceremony. 200 years ago today, president james madison signed a declaration of war against great britain. >> it is war that really gave the united states recognition as a real nation. we had independence, but we did not have respect. this war gave our country and lack of respect. francis scott key understood that. that is why he wrote the national anthem. the rest is history. >> the name of the ceremony was "from enemies to allies, 200 years of peace." >> we have worked with darker -- with the u.k. to work together around the world as a country that believes and fights for democracy wherever it is at risk. >> in the 200 years since that war, britain, america, and canada have stood side by side in numerous different conflicts, never again fighting with each other, and invariably on the side of justice and of peace. quickset into the ceremony, the canons of fort mchenry board once again -- >> at the end of the ceremony, the canons roared once again. rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the star-spangled sailabration maggie coming to an end, but there is continuing c

at the time he was a swim coach at james madison high school. he was 29, the accuser was 17 at the time. a woman who identified herself as rutger's wife told the associated press he denies the allegations and looks forward to his day in court. >>> a mother punched in a bus stop and the startling reason for the violence ah, parentally because the woman's toddler wouldn't stop crying. 9 confrontation happened yet morning in tacoma park. police say a man approached the woman and her 3-year-old son telling the mother to shut her kid up. the boy finned to cry, so police say the man pushed a child, purged the mother in the mouth and then he ran away. the mother and child are expected to be okay. police are still looking for the man who attacked them. th just one day after announcing changes to the u.s. immigration policy, the white house held a summit in maryland today that focused on hispanic issues. under the new immigration policy, the government will stop deporting illegal immigrants who are are brought here as children. they can apply to stay in

earlier freeman had been a slave belonging to thomas jefferson who sold him to james madison. he worked in the madison white house with jennings as did his wife, melinda colbert freeman. she a free person, formerly enslaved by thomas jefferson, melinda was a member of the well known hemings family of monticello. the freemans were founders of the neighborhood where jennings purchased the house in 1854, just a 15 to 20-minute walk northwest of lafayette square. the freemans and jennings were eventually joined by other families of ex-slaves of presidents in this neighborhood including three syphax brothers, charles ii, william and colbert, sons of maria carter custis and charles s. syphax senior and nephews of nancy syphax who worked with jennings earlier on lafayette square. now in the 1850s, jennings and charles syphax, ii worked together in the pension office under the department of the interior. charles's brother, william syphax was also employed in the interior department rising from messenger to clerk and he was a leader in public education for african-americans in washingto

madison did begin its reconstruction before leaving office. in 1815 reconstruction of the white house began and surprisingly james hoban was called upon to supervise and not latrobe. although latrobe's relationship with mrs. madison remained steady, his loose tongue and self-importance and endless amount of problematic insults had become a real issue for mr. madison. but as a gentleman he was, he did not lay any objection to the interview that was given to latrobe to become the architect of the capitol building, which he did receive. his less than favorable attitude began to take a turn again and in 1817 he resigned when james monroe was elected. hoban had not yet finished the structure so president monroe lived elsewhere while waiting for completion but wasted to time in ordering furnishings. latrobe went on to act as an engineer, traditional architect and landscape architect for sights in maryland, virginia, pennsylvania, ohio can be kentucky and louisiana. he aided in the building of the first catholic church in america. next one. the baltimore basilica. took almost 20 years to construct. and the decatur house. also adina in ohio. his final des

james madison says the best thing is for the people to directly elect the president i.e.ar vote. al gore beats george bush because he has more votes. madison says there's two problems with that. first the difference in the franchise. meaning that in south carolina only adult white men who own a certain amount of property can vote whereas in massachusetts all adult men, black, indian, white can vote and in new jersey even women can vote. so what madison is saying is that we would have a difference in the franchises as to who can vote and that would skew the election to favor some states over others. that could have been dealt with, you know, the constitution could have said all adult males or adult white men. they weren't going to franchise women could vote in the president's election. a lot of ways to do it. then madison says the most par is there are slaves. he doesn't mean the slaves who vote. what he means is that if you have a presidential election that's a popular vote there won't be slaves voting. so virginia, which is the largest state population wise becomes the t

i want to remind everyone about the remark by james madison. "if men were angels, no government would be necessary." and the remark about democracy being the worst form of government except for all the others by winston churchill. in this case, the ethics commission is trying to gut the regulations we have in place to govern campaign donations and disclosure. looking at this legislative digest, i am a layperson. i do not know the supper well. -- this stuff very well. i read the ethics digest and thing, that is not so bad. i have to talk to my friends to find out what is wrong with it. for example, the legislation would impose consistent disclosure and disclaimer requirements whenever a third party spends $5,000 or more for such communications. it does not say that it is not requiring disclosure for spending less than $5,000, which we obviously need. i am concerned about the charitable fundraisers. what is a charitable fund- raiser? it could be an industry advocacy group. i am concerned about the proposal to limit -- to take be removed limit for

all of a sudden, we are in this race between two future presidents, james madison, james monroe, they are talking about the bill of rights, what kind of unions we should have. all of a sudden, they are in the next congress. i decided to read everything i could about the selection. when i found that no one had written anything about it, i decided i was going to write it. this book starts at the inauguration of george washington. what many people don't know is that when he took the oath of office, and two of those states were outside the union. north carolina and rhode island did not ratify the constitution because of their concern that it was missing a bill of rights. a guarantee of fundamental liberty. this was common for the anti-federalist throughout the continent. the common denominator among the anti-federalist, i wish james monroe was one, was that they oppose the constitution. many of them came at it from different angles. am of them genuinely believe that you could not have a union. they believed an independent states or perhaps regional confederacies, but they did not think th

harrison who is the james madison distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia. waho wahoo-wah, that's a virginia thing. professor harrison's teaching subjects include constitutional history and federal courts. professor harrison also served as deputy in legal counsel. professor harrison was on leave from law sochool to serve as officer in 2008. today's panel is titled "czars, libya and recent developments, perspectives on executive power." but we, after discussing the matter among ourselves, we took the prerogative to settle on a slightly narrower theme of the relationship between constitutional design and executive power. and we've broken down this issue into three questions. first, how does our constitution distribute power that is executive in nature among congress, the president and the bureaucracy? second, what are the benefits and problems of such a constitutional design? and third, what might an ideal constitutional design look like? to give each panelist sufficient time, i will vigorously monitor the time limits. we're going to ask each panelist to speak

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thank you, ben. [ applause ] >> benjamin la troeb worked closely with president james madison to refine the look and function of the early white house. mr. latrobe position is subject of a talk by leslie jones, collection manager at the white house historical association which is headquartered in lafayette square. this program is 45 minutes. >> good evening, folks. if i could urge you to find some seats. we may get more chairs if we need. to i think there are some empty seats around f you'll all try to get a seat, that will be great and we can start. we are excited to celebrate the bicentennial or war of 1812. this is the first program in that long celebration. this evening's talk, oh, the terrible velvet curtains and the madisons decorate the president's house is being presented by leslie jones of the white house historical association. before i introduce our speaker, i want to point out the items we have pulled for tonight's presentation. in the library cases you can see the bound letters to mrs. madison dating to 1809 regarding the decoration as well as another letter dated the follo

slavery to freedom from james madison's mt. pellier home. >> this is c-span 3 with programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> each sunday evening at 7:30 now through labor day weekend, we feature our series the contenders. 14 key political figures who ran for president and lost but changed political history. this sunday the great compromiser, henry clay. >> his famous comment, i would rather be right than be president i think still speaks to us. it's a clarion call to people all across whatever we're doing, whether we're in politics or something else is to do the right thing. he also said, you know, that in a sense, that politicians need it to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. i think that is still something that we need to remember as well. also the history of wichita, the largest city in kansas. america

it's the same battle that james madison reaffirmed in the bill of rights.s the same battle that founded our party in 1854 in p ripon, wisconsin, and here we are today. as a matter of principle, a country that has to surrender its sovereignty to its bond holders can't guarantee prosperity or freedom to anybody. a country that has to watch an avalanche of debt bury its kids and its grandkids can't rest in any vestage of the moral high ground. a country that is controlled by china can't compete with china. and yesterday you may have heard that the president gave a speech, right? someone who is in love with the sound of his own voice but can't followthrough on a simple promise. it's no surprise giving speeches is his favorite pastime. his speech was 54 minutes long, had zero new ideas, more of the same, more taxes, more big government. i feel bad for anyone that actually had to endure it and listen to it. but his campaign called it a major address. i think we can call it together a major flop. but the president said one thing that i think we can all agree with.

proceed on a much ad hoc basis and there won't be a election into the revolution where president james madison was up for re-election in 1812 just months after the commencement of the war. he is re-elected. his secretary of state, james monroe, was then elected in 1816. those elections were in a very real sense referendums on the war and to win the election meant winning public opinion about the war. >> relatively speaking, it's a short war? >> yes. a little over two years. >> what was the end result? >> well, we may have different takes on that. >> i would love to hear them. >> the end result certainly is native peoples are devastated on both sides of the border. they will be dispossessed at a faster rate than ever before. i also think that the united states comes out of the war feeling much more secure than it did going into the war. and this is ironic because the united states performance in the war was so poor. but at the very end of the war the performance is a whole lot better in particular this very dramatic victory at new orleans and they get a very favorable peace treaty. americans co

9:30 learn about the transition from slavery to freedom as told through the gilmore cabin at james madison's home, montpelier. at 10:00 a tour of the mansion of frederick pabst. you can watch it friday night at c-span3 and anytime on our website, cspan.org/history. next on american history tv, a tour of the 1607 jamestown settlement. later history professor william fowler talks about christopher columbus and the discovery of the americas. >> spend the weekend with wichita, kansas. saturday at noon eastern litary live, robert weems on business in black and white and dennis farney on the founding of beechcraft. also browse the rare book collection at water mark west's rare books. sunday experience early plains life at old cow town museum, the early days of flight at kansas aviation mee assume. two participants from the kansas civil rights moouch movement in 1968 they sat down for it. once a month they explore it a lot of cities across america from wichita, kansas on c-span 2 and 3. >> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of

i believe that james madison described it correctly. unfortunately, we are in competition with one another. that is what satisfies. that leads to individual freedom. central planning leads to a small group, which today, reflects today, as we want someone whose central plans in society who benefits and who doesn't benefit. it leads to someone in a small group calling who wins and who loses. thank you. thank you again. >> thanks, reid. lisa phillips. comments? >> that was not too far off of debs' position. believe it or not because what he was arguing is that the central planners of his day were these large business owners, the carnegies, rockefellers, vanderbilts who had a lot of political power influence and in essence through monopoly formation, were the central planners of the economy in that period. he would have been with you on that. but he just wanted there to be a more diverse group of people, working people, who had a role in the planning of the economy and how wealth was distributed. he was against the central planning done in