a with obamacare to the other and with the other of the approval of jeffrey rosen. [laughter] he was so afraid of disapproval that a political act he shifted his vote and guaranteed the legacy would be used to politics rather their principal from judicial constitutionalism. >> this is a complete fantasy. alves on the notion that i knew that the justice was going wobbly and wrote the article to intimidate. i did not know that the first time my mother and after the case came down then i learned that far from the being the one with the chief justice in fact, it was george. that dinner party that i stumbled into is one where george according to jefferies account the conservative courts are so upset they he changed the boat they were complaining it he wrote the columns to show -- a sure about. said there was any conspiracy it was will using inside information to try to bully or scare or persuade the chief justice to change his vote. that is all there is to it. i did not know that he did a row, because i believe what he said. he meant what he said and far from that theory

please welcome back the national constitution center president and ceo, jeffrey rosen joined by hillaryham clinton. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 2013 liberty medal recipient hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. oh. it is wonderful to be back in philadelphia. to be here at this magnificent institution, i am honored and overwhelmed by this extraordinary event. i thank all who have spoken and the kind words. thank you for this award and for being in a line of greatest awardees, nelson mandela, so many others for whom i have long admired. i want to say thank you to everyone who spoke in person or in the video. i appreciate greatly what they have done with me and taught me in how we work together and inspiration that they had been to me. i want to say thank you to my friend, mayor nutter, for hosting us. beautiful city. i also want to acknowledge the governor and attorney general and my longtime friend who did so much as mayor and then governor to create this center right where it along. [applause] i want to say a special thank you to governor bush and to

please welcome back the national constitution center president and ceo, jeffrey rosen joined by hillary rodham clinton. [applause] ? >> ladies and gentlemen, the 2013 liberty medal recipient hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. oh. it is wonderful to be back in philadelphia. to be here at this magnificent institution, i am honored and overwhelmed by this extraordinary event. i thank all who have spoken and the kind words. thank you for this award and for being in a line of greatest awardees, nelson mandela, so many others for whom i have long admired. want to say thank you to everyone who spoke in person or in the video. i appreciate greatly what they have done with me and taught me in how we work together and inspiration that they had been to me. i want to say thank you to my friend, mayor nutter, for hosting us. beautiful city. i also want to acknowledge the governor and attorney general and my longtime friend who did so much as mayor and then governor to create this center right where it along. [applause] i want to say a special thank you to governor bush and t

finally it is my pleasure to welcome jeffrey will the rosen of the center which if you haven't been in philadelphia and you should go. it's a wonderful exhibit, rotating exhibits. it builds itself -- i got this awful website -- the first and only if nonprofit non-partisan institution devoted to the individual freedom the u.s. constitution with the cato come bachelet lubber? he's also with the george washington university law school, a fellow at the brookings institution and legal affairs editor of the new republic. he's a highly regarded journalist whose workers appeared in the magazine, the monthly and either atlantic people he writes for both. "the chicago tribune" named him one of the ten best magazine editors and the nation calls him the most widely read commentator. since 2002 and a moderator at the aspen institute where he hosts panels on technology, privacy, free speech and democracy. he's the author of several books including the supreme court, personalities and rivalries that define america. he's a graduate of harvard college, oxford university where he was a marshall scholar.

i'm jeffrey rosen, the new president and ceo of this wonderful institution.applause] i have been on the job for three months. i can't imagine a conversation i would rather be sharing with you than the one we're about to have tonight. the national constitution center is a very special place. toare chartered by congress disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. to do that, we have three missions. we are the museum of we the people, the center for pacific education, and america's townhall. we sponsor constitutional conversations. it is impossible to imagine a better one to be having than the one we are going to have right now. to ensure that we all enjoy it, please turn off your cell phones . no flash photography. tonight i have the tremendous honor of welcoming a constitutional giant, a woman who has been called the thurgood marshall of the women's movement, the second woman to sit on the u.s. supreme court, and a dear friend. please welcome once more justice ruth bader ginsburg. [applause] >> justice ginsburg, you have honored

[applause] i want to thank jeffrey rosen, obviously, for his visionary and exceptional leadership, bothor him and the national constitution centers for their hosting this important dialogue today. allowing the awesome surroundings and the spirit of the founding fathers to serve as inspiration as we can mean an explore attitudes toward public service and government, as well as we can do to ensure that more americans are actively engaged with democracy, their community, and government. i would like to express my profound appreciation to the usa today and meza especially, the washington bureau chief, who will be moderating. she and usa today have been invaluable partners with the policy center in organizing these forums. i am also very proud to be able to co-chair the commission on political reform with two former senate majority leaders, trent lott who will be here today, and tom daschle as well, and also former congressman dan brockman, who you will be hearing from shortly. and former governor, senator, and secretary of the interior who will be on a subsequent panel. panel. this will be

i am jeffrey rosen, i am the new president and ceo of this wonderful institution. [applause] i have been on the job for three months, and i cannot imagine a conversation that i would rather be sharing with you than the one that we're about to have tonight. the national constitution center, as many of you know, is a very special place. we are chartered by congress to disseminate information on the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. we are the museum of we, the people, we're a center for education, and we're america's town hall, the one place in the country that brings together the best arguments on all sides of constitutional debates and allows citizens to make up their own minds. as part of that, we sponsor constitutional conversations, and as i say tonight, it is impossible to imagine a better one to be having than the one that we're going to have right now. i should say to insure that we all enjoy it fully, please, turn off your cell phones and remember, no flash photography. tonight i have the tremendous honor of welcoming a constitutional giant, a woman who's

[applause] rosen to thank jeffrey for his visionary and exceptional leadership.let us allow the awesome surroundings and the spirit of the founding fathers to serve as toinspiration as we convene explore americans attitudes towards public and government service, and as well, what we moreo to ensure that americans are actively engaged in their democracy, their community, and their government. i would like to express my theound appreciation to bipartisan policy center today, and susan page, who is going to be moderating this discussion, as she did at the reagan library. today" has been invaluable partners with the bipartisan policy center and the commission on political reform in organizing these crucial forums. to be ableery proud to cochair the commission on political reform with two former senate majority leaders, trent lott, who will be here today, and tom daschle. as the former congressman dan lipton, who you will be hearing from shortly, and former governor and senator and former secretary of interior dirk kempthorne, who will be in a subsequent panel. this r

[applause] rosen,to thank jeffrey obviously, for his visionary and exceptional leadership, both for him and the national constitution centers for their hosting this important dialogue today. allowing the awesome surroundings and the spirit of the founding fathers to serve as inspiration as we can mean an public attitudes toward service and government, as well as we can do to ensure that more americans are actively engaged with democracy, their community, and government. i would like to express my profound appreciation to the usa and meza especially, the , whongton bureau chief will be moderating. today have been invaluable partners with the organizinger in these forums. i am also very proud to be able to co-chair the commission on political reform with two former senate majority leaders, trent lott who will be here today, and tom daschle as well, and also former congressman dan brockman, who you will be hearing from shortly. governor, senator, and secretary of the interior who will be on a subsequent panel. this will be untrue the important initiative -- a truly important initiative as