he's going to head over the presidency to james madison, and james monroe.the next guy was a secretary of state, john's adams son was a secretary of state and we are not done yet, that might be good news for hillary clinton, but john kerry did not quite prevail. john marshall is the ally, and he is the new incoming chief justice. for a month, he holds two positions. one other wrinkle, there's all these conspiracy theories, so what happens if it goes on and on, and come inauguration day there, still deadlock? well, here's one possibility. maybe, there's actually the synonymous i say that comes out, but maybe the person who should occupy that white house is none other than the secretary of state john, marshall. so jon marshall as ivan mentioned as one of the possible people trying to nose himself into this really complicated situation, but jon marshall is both the secretary of state and the new incoming chief justice. >> it's very important to emphasize that adams now adams nominates marshal and late january, 1801. he becomes chief justice in february 1801. th

they were stopped at a place .alled baltimore after the war of 1812, james madison said, we need to establish fortifications up and down the eastern seaboard. simonecruited general engineer,he french who helped us establish the system we use today. it's an example of the largest and best of all of those ports. was decided was decided that pt was the location for fort monroe. it wasn't finished until 1834. the model that we see today is exactly what it would look like in 1834 when the first soldiers began to populate this fortification. simon bchman, general an intelligent engineer. he made it one of the strongest strongholds in the united states. he had several angles on the fort. as the energy -- enemy approach the individual walls, they could be cross fired from different angles. it has a moat. this moat was originally movened to allow them to materials around the fort to help with construction. after it was completed, the moat made another level of defense for fort monroe. the largest stone fort in the united states even today. 1819.rted construction in 1834 to take them till complete cons

president and former second lady revisits the life of james madison, she was joined by former vice president cheney at the presidential library in 2014. >> he was the architect of the constitution, the architect of the bill of rights, he was crucial to the establishment of the government under the constitution, he was president during the first war under the constitution and he performed, if not magnificently, and all those jobs, at least very well, at the end of his presidency, john adams was kind of a sour figure and not giving compliments easily, john adams wrote james madison's administration covered itself in more glory than any of his predecessors which is a great complement because his predecessors were washington, jefferson and adams himself. i do think he's been underappreciated and it's been really so much fun. five years of labor doesn't sound like fun but discovering things, being able to put it into a form that i hope would reach an audience, the book is called reconsidering james madison's life. >> which was the most important contribution, if you had to pick just one, what wou

well, they work for james madison, but he puts them on as witnesses. they're very reluctant to testify. they object. they think they shouldn't have to testify about the inner workings of the executive branch. and john marshall makes a series of very careful rulings. they can testify about the facts of where they're commissioned, but they can't get into internal deliberations. but there is basically an original trial going on in the supreme court, but there's one very unusual fact about this trial. which is that the defendant, james madison, thomas jefferson, they refuse to participate in it at all. they're showing total disdain for it. the attorney general, jefferson's attorney general, levi lincoln, and he had done this in december 1801 also. he's in the courtroom, but when he's called upon by john marshall, refuses to participate as a lawyer in the trial at all or to make any arguments. they're not going to dignify it by doing that, but as the trial proceeds in february 1803, they actually call him as a witness to test about whethify about wh knows w

after the war of 1812, the president of the united states, james madison, said, we need to establish fortifications up and down the eastern seaboard. they recruited, interestingly enough, general simon bernard, the french engineer, who helped us establish the system we use today. fort monroe is an example of the largest and best of all of those forts. it was decided that this location, point comfort, would be the location for fort monroe. they began to construct it almost immediately and did not finish until 1834. the model that we see today is exactly what it would look like in 1834 when the first soldiers had come to populate this needed theon and defense of the gibraltar of the chesapeake. the frenchman, general simon bernard, was a very intelligent engineer. he created many facets to this fort which made it one of the strongest strongholds here in the united states. one of the things he did is he had several angles on the fort. so as the enemy approached the individual fort walls, there could be crossfire from different angles of the enemy. it also has a moat. this moat was origi

the book is called reconsidering james madison's life. >> what was the most important contribution. >> it would have to be the constitution. i think he was a genius. because he was the kind of genius he had he could break through conventional thinking. and everybody thinks he did that in the case of the staff of the great republicans which we switch what we are. conventional wisdom is to have a great republic of people voting for representatives for themselves. and that it would be too loose and to fall apart monarch a call power. madison thought that was not true. and that the danger in the republic is that one faction will dominate and oppress everyone else. madison's geniuses to see that if you have many factions as there would be in a larger public, the no single one could become oppressive. and that was the rationale for the constitution produced in philadelphia. what nobody else believed time and again to transform the world by doing it. >> talk about like george washington. >> sometimes we think the founders are sitting around having a polite conversation. but it's much more in

i write in the book about james madison who had profound and enlightened ideas about who should participate in democracy. he was ahead of his time and yet he believed that it was acceptable to own human beings as slaves. i don't plan to know how to wrap one's head around that. all i know is those have been existing in parallel for some time and one of the things i think that's important is that is going to and because a lot of the elements in the political process but are rooted in systemic racism today are now being used by authoritarians, not just a game primarily to suppress the nonwhite voters also in general to try to corrode for democracy. so, we are going to have to either play the best version of the story and remove this stain that we started with or we are going to succumb to it. we are going to have to choose, and i think that is coming to a head. i think the bill is coming due. what gives me hope is to see what happened in recent weeks and the idea that people are fighting back against both systemic racism and authoritarianism coming and we are seeing how they appeared together.

brian: it's 20 seconds and thomas jefferson, james madison and angelica is in this, along with aarond hamilton. let's just listen a little bit so you can get the flavor of it. [video clip] ♪ >> have you read this? alexander hamilton had a torrid affair. and he wrote it down right there. >> highlights. ♪ >> "the charge against me is in connection with one james reynolds. for purposes of improper speculation, my real crime is an amorous connection with his wife for a considerable time with his knowing consent. damn." ♪ brian: with all of the success you had with alexander hamilton back in 2004, are you finding people that are learning a lot more about alexander hamilton and these founders now that this thing has become -- ron: every single time i am at the theater and i'm there fairly often. at least one person comes up to me and says, "you know, ron, i love the show and as i was watching the show, i was embarrassed to realize how little i know about the history of my own country. and i'm determined to change that." very nice that a lot of them are then going out and reading the book o

. >> james madison. >> thomas jefferson. >> abraham lincoln.why is he your favorite founder? >> he's the only one we know. jesse: what about george washington? what did he do? >> money. he's one of the presidents. jesse: which president, the second president after lincoln. >> some folks have to learn the hard way. >> he was a general, wasn't he? jesse: the revolutionary war, who did america fight? >> countries. china. >> great britain. jesse: that's right. what year did we declare our independence? >> 1984? jesse: way off. >> 1884 jess 1776. >> 1776. jesse: she is on a roll, folks. >> 1776? jesse: genius. what did the declaration of independence do? >> i have no idea. that's awful. >> i'm not that knowledgeable on those declarations and the constitutions and all of that. jesse: what country did we declare our independence from? >> virginia. jesse: the name our national anthem is? >> is it called "the national anthem"? >> the star-spangled banner. jesse: let's do a rendition. >> o say can you see by the dawns early light. >> o'er the land parts

to the north would be a mere matter of marching unfortunately for jefferson successor president james madison the canadians didn't live up to their friendly stereotype and laid down their arms before regaling us troops with the maple flavored most instead the american military was exposed as a vastly unprepared the state militias tasked with spearheading the invasion of canada fared poorly in unfamiliar territory their g.p.s. back then was just a raccoon they fed opium to by 814 the british had taken washing. in d.c. a century and a half before jimmy carter put solar panels on the white house roof the redcoats tried a lower tech version. a few weeks later in the battle of baltimore which inspired francis scott key is lyrics after he saw an american flag still waving strong after a night of bombardment there is a verse in the original star spangled banner which we no longer sing no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave that's because the british military in line with their mission to destroy the us economy decided to accept any slave man w

their answer was confucius institutes only teach culture and language and the james madison institute of freedom and liberty would teach propaganda. i think that's a fundamental misunderstanding of james madison but these are examples of the lack of reciprocity. mr. doshi would you care to comment on these questions quickly before he turned to some of the other senators who have questions for you? >> thank you very much senator predator will simply say reciprocity should be the cornerstone of our relationship. the question is where we want that reciprocity. i'll note after the cold war the u.s. and china had reciprocal relationships when it came to journalists. we had equivalent numbers. we don't have that approach down some could say the benefits in a state have this more access but it's unlikely china and would provide reciprocity. the chinese calmness party is -- so for them or reciprocity becomes a direct challenge to everything that is what they are and it becomes difficult for us. >> sorry to interrupt. they looted a bunch of our journalists recently. it's in our interest to say

first, rebekah brannan is an associate professor of history at james madison university. she'll talk to us about the loyalists, which is her specialty. her most recent book is "from revolution to reunion. the reintegration of the south carolina loyalists," university south carolina press 2016. kathleen duval is a professor of history at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. she'll talk about her specialty, native americans. her latest book was "independence lost, lives on the edge of the american revolution," published in 2015 her next project is masters of the continent. how americans ruled north america into the 19th century. then we have robert parkinson, an associate professor of history in the state of new york at binghampton. first book, "common cause, creating nation and race in the american revolution," and that was published in 2016. he's currently working with the institute on sort of a shorter undergrad friendly version of this particular book. although i thought it was undergraduate friendly anyway as it was. it depends on the undergraduate. his other

the future president james madison wrote that the national quality of men is the only basis on which universal justice, order, and freedom can firmly be built and permanently secured. these high sounding rights did not apply to all of humanity because he was a slaveowner, as was jefferson throughout the course of his life. others proved to be much truer to those ideals than even its father. an 1800r at independence day celebration bemoaned that those who were in power have not relied on the great american truths that were encompassed in the resolution .hat all men were created equal that declaration statement of must apply to all people, men and women. the fate ofoaned africa, which had suffered murders, robberies, and burnings . the declaration of independence, -- contrary to the hopes of prominent revolutionary benjamin rush, adoption of the declaration of independence did not put a swift end to slavery -- swift slavery. --ugh both of the founding generation's end of the generations that followed understood the humanitarian was incompatible with slavery. in many years, several book

madison, the cousin of the future president james madison, wrote that the natural equality of man is the only basis on which universal justice and freedom confirm the new built and secured. madison, these national rights did not apply to all humanity because he was a slave owner, as was jefferson's rub the course of his life. others proved to be much truer to those ideals and even its author. an instance, a speaker at 1800 independence day said that those who on empower should not rely what was a compass and the revolution that all men are created equal, and only accepted for half of humanity. that declaration of liberty and must apply to all people, men and women. she also mourn for the fate of africa in the 1800s, which had suffered murders, robberies, and and the punishment of endless slavery. declaration of independence, she exclaimed, where art thou now? the adoption of the declaration of independence did not bring us with bending to slavery. although most americans who were, after all, raised with the thought that the subordination of women and blacks was a natural fact, they di

james madison. dolley madison. frederick douglass. the great frederick douglass. abraham lincoln.arriet beecher stowe. joshua lawrence chamberlain. clara barton. daniel boone. davy crockett. henry clay. susan b anthony. booker t. washington. orville and wilbur wright, who are looking down and you are going to see some planes like you have never seen before because we built them better than anyone in the world, the greatest air force the greatest fighters, the greatest everything. you are going to be seeing something. i just wonder what orville and wilbur would have been thinking if they, ever got to see that , but they are looking. they are checking it out right now along with us. amelia earhart. [applause] a great athlete no matter where he went. he was the best athlete, jackie robinson. george s patton, general patton. he did not know how to lose. he did not know how to lose. general douglas macarthur. audie murphy. the great billy graham. man, respected by everybody, martin luther king. [applause] president ronald reagan. [applause] christa mcauliffe. and antonin scalia. [appla

james madison calling it "dishonorable to the national character." he was right. george mason calling slave owners petty tyrants. ultimately hundreds of thousands of americans fought and died over this very issue. that's our history. emancipation proclamation is also our history. later the voting rights act, civil rights act. it insured through federal law and constitutional amendments. do we have r further to go? absolutely, and by the way, what did biden and other democrats, what they want you to forget is many of those that they so admire and call their mentors, well, they fought tooth andra nl against these important reforms. for example, it was a democrat, george wallace, who stood in the doorway of that birmingham school to physically block racial integration. it was a democrat, bull connor, who used fire hoses and police dogs to attack civil rights peaceful protesters. it was over 100 democratic lawmakers who voted against thec '64 civil rights bill. al gore's father, prominent democratic senator, well, he actually filibuster the bill. so did robert "kkk" b

idea that there are separations of powers, it came through with the most important person that james madison and others read and learned about when they were at princeton. they learned it from john width spoon. because we are all fallen and frail and fallible, no one person and no one branch can have all the power. i just shrunk four years of undergraduate education into 30 seconds. we've double very well for america today. >> that's the fundamental idea. the other thing is that reason has to take stand. the other is that we have to work as hard as we can for the notion that all men are created equal, real. those are the three big ideas at the heart of the american experience and they've all been you understand assault in our time. so this is not a final victory. this is a good day for the separation of powers. >> we really appreciate you making us think about it. the president's claim here, bill barr, jay sekulow, this sweeping idea that they could do literally anything and everyone would have to wait for any rule of law to reconvene, we've covered it. i've tried to be fair. folks who watch

first congress -- "the first congress," and it did not consist of towering figures except for a james madisonere and there. they were mostly mediocre people. but they saw that the institution meant something and had respect and they did some remarkable things, including the bill of rights, of course. because they had institutional loyalty. they knew of the constitution was going to work, they better get going. but step back a little bit, the constitution was set up through those compromises to give an inordinate amount of power to the south. they knew it. it wasn't just the way they set up the so-called 3/5 compromise. the electoral college the nature of the house of representatives gave them a lot of clout, and because of the determination to maintain slavery and the reconstruction after their power voter suppression. i would remind you of something most people don't realize, the house started with 65 members. at 435.ast in 1929 it did not change in size after the 1910 census because the southerners saw that if they kept responding to the population by adding members, it would dilute their p

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but james madison said, look, it's not a problem. a president ever tried to pardon anyone he may have been connected with in the commission of a crime, he would be immediately impeached. well, obviously, that's not going to happen in this environment. so the idea that there would be a check on the pardon power in the constitution never made it. so to change the pardon power, we're going to have to amend the constitution and that is a huge effort. and i don't see that happening. >> it's interesting, you know that ship of impeachment already sailed for president trump so that threat is not even operable at this moment. there's something that president trump said he knows i was under enormous pressure to turn on him. it would have eased my situation considerably. it really shows that stone had something to say that could have incriminated the president. are there any potential consequences down the road from that from that acknowledgement from stone this week? >> it appears not. i think it's clear despite the statement from the white ho

there were some objections about that when put into the constitution, but james madison said look, it's not a problem. if a president ever tried to pardon anyone he may have been connected with in the commission of a crime, he would be immediately impeached. obviously that's not going to happen in this environment, so the idea that there would be a check on the pardon power in the constitution never made it. so to change the pardon power, we're going to have to amend the constitution, that's a huge effort and i don't see that happening. >> let's bring in sarah westwood at the white house. what has the president said about all this so far. >> despite that the commutation took place after the president had a brief phone call with roger stone, he's speaking about it for the first time this morning in a tweet i want to read you. he said roger stone was targeted by an illegal witch hunt that shouldn't have taken place. it is the other side, criminals including by obama that spied on my campaign and got caught. the spying, wire taps, is an accusation he repeated about his predecessor frequent

james dolley madison. frederick douglass. [applause] abraham lincoln. [applause] harriet tubman.se] harriet beecher stone. -- stowe. joshua lawrence chamberlain. clara barton. daniel boone. davy crockett. [applause] henry clay susan b anthony. booker t. washington. wright, whowilbur are looking down and you are going to see some planes like you have never seen before because we built them better than anyone in the world,, the greatest air force the greatest fighters, the greatest everything, you're going to be seeing something, i just wonder what orville and wilbur would have been thinking if they ever got to see that, but they are looking, they are checking it out right now along with us. amelia earhart. [applause] athlete no matter where he went he was the best athlete, jackie robinson. patton. patton, general he did not know how to lose. general douglas macarthur. audie murphy.- the great billy graham. king.rtin luther [applause] president ronald reagan. [applause] christa mcauliffe. .nd antonin scalia a a few of the people we will be naming and things are subject to change bu

i'm james madison, and i love beans." but unanue's not alone. with their own plan to buy as much goya as possible ina what they dubbed a "buy-cott." because "buy cott" is what their spouses will demand they do after eating all those beans. (as spouse) "you're not bringing that bean butt into my bed, buddy. go buy cott." that's my audrey meadows. as part of the movement, one republican congressional candidate tweeted, "just had a cup of coffee and two cans of goya beans! take that, libs! time to start the day. today's task: save america!" followed immediately by "dear god, my insides feel like a hot air balloon filled with lava. please kill me. take that, libs!" we've got a great show for you tonight. take that, libs. "cbs evening news" anchor norah o'donnell is here. but when we come back, wall fall down get wet. take that, libs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ new force flex plus, bright colors febreze freshness. all the way out here just for a blurry photo of me. oh, that's a good one. wait, what's that? that's just the low-battery warning. oh, alright. now it's all,

by contrast, james madison said the electoral college was all about giving the states authority to oversee presidential elections as they saw fit. contemporaries and the founders did see electors as proxy voters on behalf of the public. and that was absolutely the backdrop to the 12th amendment. so i would point you to the 12th amendment as confirming and accepting the fact that electors can be indeed most often are proxy voters not free agents. >> why do you think the founders did not leave it up to the states to decide whether they wanted their members of congress o be electors? >> your honor, the constitution had a series of compromises between separating powers, between the states and the federal government and between the states. this was one of those compromises that was reached at the final days of the constitutional convex. >> thank you. >> thank you, counsel. >> you have a minute to wrap up if you'd like. >> yes, mr. chief just tirks as we've noted, this case is all about state authority. and on the theory of my friends on the other side, states have no authority even to remove br

a quote from james madison, talking about the president's pardon power.e said that, if the president can be connected in any suspicious manner with any person there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him the house of representatives can impeach him. they can remove him if found guilty. is this an impeachable offense? >> it's an impeachable offense if you abuse the pardon power to protect yourself from criminal liability. but again, george, if the republicans won't even say a word of course they're not going to vote to impeach and convict. we already presented a case with overwhelming evidence and they refused to convict then, and during that impeachment we warned that if they left him in office that the damage he could do between now and election day could be severe. here are now, 130,000 americans dead, we had no idea just how bad the damage would be. but nonetheless we knew the damage would be grave. >> your colleague hakeem jeffries said that president and roger stone can still be indicted, should joe biden ask his attorney general take that st

chair which came to us as the temporary white house after the fire of 1814, the second night that james madisoneing from the white house after dolley madison had grabbed the painting and took off in one direction and he run the government for one night in blockville, maryland, sitting in this little desk made by the owner of the house. she moved down the hall out of our normal tour route and got into the state lining room first. the picture of the upper left is how she would have found it. the black marble mantle piece is what was installed in the truman renovation. it is to surround. the big mantel that had the lions head changed to bison heads was removed and sent to the truman library. mrs. kennedy invited them to send the mantel back and it wasn't the curator but president truman said no, thank you, it is mine and i'm keeping it. what she was alluding to was she was having the same firm, kilmeade and white, create a wight marble version of the stone mantel installed in 1902 and you see that in the picture of the lower right which is after she was finished working on the room. she kept the d

[applause] >> welcome to the inaugural writers hour at james madison university. we are glad you are here. i want to thank the provost, the first person that i post about in this series. the everyone at the communications further help promoting the event. the we wouldn't be here so thanks to you. we also wouldn't be without john grisham. he should have his own show. before i met him i knew he was generous with his time and money and you can't go three days and i got to know him most would agree he was a gravedigger and never met someone that for their fame so blithely. he's a regular person. but of course he is a famous writer. in one place that sold a quarter of a billion bucks and another place he sold 300 million so at some point you throw in the towel and say a boatload. this is academia there is no keeping it loose but here we are on stage in academia. we've probably got john on the cool side of the mountain where he belongs and i hope he becomes a regular visitor. please welcome our friend and benefactor, john grisham. [applause] we have to talk about this a

we are the law making branch of government, what james madison called the predominant branch of government, and we need to obtain the knowledge and information that we seek in order to govern and in order to legislate. but as you were suggesting, i agree with your analysis. they wanted to slow the whole train down so that perhaps, you know, what the conservatives fought out of the situation in this 7-2 ruling was this nebulous nonexhaustive four part, four factor test about the necessity of congress getting the information, the narrowness of the subpoena, how substantial our evidence is for needing to get it, which makes it sound like we're an administrative agency, and i consider that a real affront to legislative power. you balance all of that against the burden on the president which they did quickly dismiss saying they found numerous times before that the time of the president and the burden on the president's attention is not justification for him not turning over documents that are subpoenaed by our justices. >> i just want to note this. you don't have to respond to this. but there i

johnson had worked on trying to acquire a purge of james madison. she invited mrs. johnson back to the ceremony when that was available in 1970 i think it was. i do remember when the blue room was unveiled in 1972, and that was a major, major project. and mrs. nixon had gone to a historic house here to look at plasterwork which has been copied and replicated for the blue room. so they were having this enormous reception going to be held, and it happened to be the evening george wallace was shot in the maryland suburbs, but they went on with athe receptio and i remember the president and mrs. nixon speaking at that reception that night. >> thank you. good question. right here. >> mrs. trump recently went to an active combat zone and i don't think she got very much coverage, but what really surprised me is how these commentators mentioned mrs. nixon going to one and mrs. bush, and it seemed to be a very rare occasion, and i was hoping you all could tell us a little bit what it's like for a first lady to do that and did mrs. nixon get much press coverage at the time be

earhart, alexander hamilton, thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, douglas macarthur, dolly madison, james madisonnald reagan, jackie robinson, antonin scalia a, --riet -- incidents glia antonin scalia, harriet tubman. those names specifically mentioned in the president's order -- executive order. next caller is from phoenix. caller: i am proud to be an american. it is a good nation. we have a lot of good things going for us. i was enjoying the national forest yesterday. i agree president trump could do a better job to unite us, what we all need to come together and help one another and everyone have a good, happy fourth of july. host: what does the president do that is very good? admire that he is proud to be an american. we have our sins of the past country.other you cannot hold 2020 to the same 1770.rds of 70 -- all nations have fought for land, there have been conquerors . we need to make some more amends, may be about the are a great country and we need to maybrate our country and we need to apologize for some things but we know we are a great country, especially in the last few decades we ha

hamilton, thomas jefferson, martin luther king, abraham lincoln, douglas macarthur, dolly madison, james madison, ronald reagan, jackie robinson, antonin scalia, . beecher stowe, harriet tubman, booker t. washington, and orval and wilbur wright. those names specifically mentioned in the president's executive order. the question, are you proud to be an american? ryan, phoenix. you are next. caller: i am proud to be an american. it is a good nation. we have a lot of good things going for us. i was enjoying the national parks yesterday. we need to come together. i agree president trump could do a better job to unite us, but we all need to come together and help one another and everyone have a good, happy fourth of july. host: what does the president do that is very good? caller: i admire that he is proud to be an american. we have our sins of the past like all countries. you cannot hold 2020 to the same standards of 1770. our past is flawed. all nations have fought for land, there have been conquerors. we need to make some more amends maybe, but we are a great country and we need to celebrate our c

johnson had worked on trying to acquire a portrait of james madison, but it didn't come into the whiteouse until the nixon administration. and she invited mrs. johnson back for the ceremony when that was unveiled in 1969 -- 1970, i think it was. i do remember when the blue room was unveiled in 1972, and that was a major, major project. and mrs. nixon had gone with mr. conger and edward mason-jones to a historic house here in georgetown to look at plaster work, which was then copied and replicated for the blue room. and so, they were having this enormous reception that was going to be held. and it happened to be the evening that george wallace was shot in maryland here, out in the maryland suburbs, but they went on with the reception. and i remember president and mrs. nixon speaking at that reception that night. >> thank you. good question. right here. >> i can speak loud. >> oh, no -- >> they need it for the camera. >> not loud enough for c-span. >> mrs. trump recently went to an active combat zone, and i don't think she got very much coverage, but what really surprised me was how few

and when james madison drafted the fourth amendment, he cut and pasted it from those state constitutions to make clear that you couldn't have searches that don't particularly specify places to be searched and a person of things to be seized. >> you teach the fourth amendment, what do you tell the students about what its importance is? >> it really is at the core of our civil liberties, it really protects us as jeffrey said, against these general general warrants and the tyranny of the king. our framers came from a place of deep suspicion of overweening federal or governmental power. and so when they built our system of governance, they built a federal government with powers and then they laid out the specific recipe for entitled to and one of the court writes was the right to be protected against these unreasonable searches and seizures. >> we will get calls and tweets in about ten to 15 more minutes. let me tell you how you do that you can send -- to zero to seven four eight nine zero one if you are in the mountain time, >> you can send us a tweet at c-span and use the #landmark cases.

, the massachusetts constitution of 1780 has a longer version of the fourth amendment and when james madison drafted the fourth amendment he cut and pasted from those state constitutions to make clear that you couldn't have searches that don't particularly specify places to be searched and a person or things to be seized. >> you teach the fourth amendment. what do you tell the students about the importance? >> i think it is at the core of our civil liberties. it protects as jeffrey said against the general warrants and the tyranny of the king. remember, our framers came from a place of deep suspicion of overleaning federal or governmental power. so when they built our system of governance they built a government of limited powers and laid out the rights people were entitled to and one of the core right was the right to be protected against unreasonable search and seizures. >> we'll get to your call and tweets in about 10, 15 minutes. 202-748-89 hundred and then in the mountain time frame, and send us a tweet it is c-span.org and there is a discussion already underway on our facebook page. ca

james madison. dolly madison. the great frederick douglas. abraham lincoln. crockett. henry clay. susan b. anthony. booker t. washington. orville and wilbur wright who are looking down and you're going to say planes like you've never seen before because we build them better than anybody in the world greatest air force the greatest fighters greatest everything you're going to be seeing i wonder what they would have been thinking if they ever got to see that but they're looking, they're checking along with us. ameleah earhart. a great, great athlete in matter where he went he was the best athlete jackie robinson. george s. patton he didn't know how to lose. he didn't know how to lose, general douglas macarthur. murphy. the great billy graham. and incredible man, respected by everybody martin luther king. president ronald reagan. christa mckulla and antonin scalia. so those are just a few of the people will be naming, and things are subject to change. but once we make that decision, those great names are going to be up there and they're never coming down. they h