and it's interesting argument because people like james madison alexander hamilton, they were all for a majority role and if you think about the filibuster, it's a super majority thing where you need 60 in the old age. you need 67 to proceed on certain types of business. so this is kind of conflict between the concept of what's called majoritarianism where the majority should rule in most cases, but clearly the founders intended for congress to establish their own rules. what is your position as editor-in-chief at the national constitution center? i have a really cool job and i get to work with the constitution every day and i run a blog called constitution daily, which we've had in some form i think for about 10 years. i've been to editor of that blog for the past eight and a half years since i joined we have about 500,000 monthly readers and we talked a lot about history and some current constitutional topics and i kind of wrangle or i'm the editor. that was a product so i write for it and i do other stuff and i'm also involved with a lot of the digital work that we do. we are an ex

and it's interesting argument because people like james madison alexander hamilton, they were all for a majority role and if you think about the filibuster, it's a super majority thing where you need 60 in the old age. you need 67 to proceed on certain types of business. so this is kind of conflict between the concept of what's called majoritarianism where the majority should rule in most cases, but clearly the founders intended for congress to establish their own rules. what is your position as editor-in-chief at the national constitution center? i have a really cool job and i get to work with the constitution every day and i run a blog called constitution daily, which we've had in some form i think for about 10 years. i've been to editor of that blog for the past eight and a half years since i joined we have about 500,000 monthly readers and we talked a lot about history and some current constitutional topics and i kind of wrangle or i'm the editor. that was a product so i write for it and i do other stuff and i'm also involved with a lot of the digital work that we do. we are an ex

alexander hamilton. james madison. ben franklin. all were slave holders. john jay's influence on the founding of the republic is is hard to underestimate. he was the inaugural chief justice of the us supreme court. he was president the continental congress during the war. he was secretary of foreign affairs after the war, and he negotiated two of the nation's most important early treaties, the 1783 piece of paris that confirmed our independence and the 1795 treaty with great britain that bears his name, the jay treaty, to this nature, to this day. he's also one of the principal authors of new york's first constitution and one of the leading advocates of the ratification of the us constitution in this state. and as i already mentioned, he was a two term governor of new york, his anti-slavery resume is not quite as spectacular, but really important. as i said, was the first president of, the new york manumission society, one of the first anti-slavery societies in the western world. he was governor, as i mentioned, when new york passed its gradual emancipate