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 monroe represented the majority of antifederalist opinion and that his objection to the constitution was centered around its bill of rights. while washington took the oath of office, two states, new york and virginia were agitating for a new constitutional convention. in the words of james madison and george washington, they were terrified at this prospect it would be in full treated by members of the government and would be scrapped and done away with never to come together again. >>> for the next half hour book tv attends a party for the publication of buchanan's book bay and her boys unexpected lessons learned as a single mom. david norquist, denis stevens, ronald kessler and peter at americans for tax reform here in washington. >> it's won

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

and your grond grandchildren, because when the british approached, the secretary of state was james monroe, and he scribbled a note to the state department, save the precious national documents. this young clerk, stephen, hurried, ordered them into bags and into these he and others, but he was chiefly instrumental, put the original copies of the deck krashgs declaration of independence, international treaties and george washington's correspondence. while something was being done the secretary of war passed by and rebukd him for being an alarmist. he said they're not coming to washington. they're going to baltimore. and he stood up to the secretary of war, he loaded them into carts, drove two mimes above georgetown, put them in an abandoned mill and then had second thoughts. a spy could go there. he went 35 miles west to leesburg, virginia, put them in an empty house, checked into a hotel, and that night the british burned the white house. the next day the state department. had he not acted and defied the secretary of war, up would not be able to see the declaration of independence, the con

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 destination ended up being farther, farther south in new orleans where he designed the city's water works. ironically he died of yellow fever, the very disease he was trying to prevent from spreading by the way of engineering pursuits with that water works system. there's a lot of history left up to interpretation, obviously. especially the madison and latrobe relationship which seems to have been pretty copacetic for the majority of the time. latrobe was well known whether

the man behind him is james monroe. he was lieutenant of infantry and was in this event. but he is struggling to held up an american flag that 00 been invented yet. it would be coming in 1777. there are many people in the boat who inspired some debunking. there is that interesting figure bending over an oar in the long red shirt in the foreground, behind -- just behind the flag. and i got a letter from a radical feminist debunker. and i had speculated in my book as to whether that was a woman. it might well have been a woman. there were many women in these armies. general howe kept records and 10% of his armies were women on the ration. and it was probably something like that number at least in the later stages of the war for the american army. but the feminist said about that person, yes, it is a woman. and look again. she's the only person in the boat who is actually rowing. there's some interesting things that are going on here. just a word about george washington. this was a man who came from a very special part of america. it was called the northern neck of virginia.

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 come out of the war feeling much better about themselves and much more secure having british canada as a next door neighbor than they did in 1812 when they starte

some pretty famous american names around the table including andrew jackson, daniel webster, james monroe, francis scott key, who wrote the star spangled banner. how popular was that movement in this country? >> well, it was extremely popular. of course, clay is considered one of the major, if not the founder. he gets federal funding for it to buy the land for the resettlement. he promotes the idea of resettling african-americans in haiti and canada. he is known for this. he becomes the lightning rod in the free black community. this is what causes them to unite against henry clay in the sense that, why should we have to leave the united states? it's popular in the white community, not popular in the south. >> the library was a death trap. >> yes. >> and the people in america that have been slaves or were slaves, their forefathers had been here a lot longer than their owners. they were more american in a sense. why should we leave our home? a whatsoever. the fact that clay was trying to remove primarily free blacks from the country, not slaves. that was another controversial part. >> i'm

james monroe, francis scott key who wrote the "star spangled banner." how popular was the colonization movement in this country? >> it was extremely popular. clay is considered one of the major if not the founder. he gets federal funding for it to buy the land. he becomes the lightning rod in the north. this is what causes them to unite against henry clay in the sense that why should we have to leave the united states as popular and -- in the white community. not popular in the south. >> they were more americans than we were. why should we leave our home? >> no connections to africa whatsoever. ing the fact that clay was trying to remove primarily free blacks, colonization society represented removal of free blacks from the country and not slaves. that was another controversial part. >> i'm going to introduce a third person to our discussion. ashland is open for tours and interpret it is life of henry clay. we have a special guest who is with us tonight who she is the director of tour operations here. and before you take our viewers on a tour of the fir

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the reason he had to travel around his district with james monroe, leading opponent of ratification was the baptists were skeptical and thought he wanted a national church. he said elect me to congress and i will see to it that amendments are proposed making clear there is not going to be any national church. what we know when he came out of this is the first amendment which reflected -- use the same language madison use in article 16. we don't often notes is peculiar language of the first amendment opposed to the failure or results of the failure of madison to get what he wanted in congress. the proposal for the first amendment said there would not be any establishment of religion. at that point congressman from three new england states objected and they said does this mean there can't be any religion at all? at the time massachusetts and connecticut had state churches and wanted to keep their state churches, if you want the provision that says there won't the establishment of religion this would be you have to stop passing taxes to pay for puritanism. mattison says here's what we will