you heard it in leon kass's reading of one of the excerpts from the farewell address from george washington. it's a new term to describe the american presidency. now this energy was derived from another word, prerogative, which is to be found in the political philosophy of john locke, the great founder of liberalism. understanding liberalism in a generic sense, which includes both liberals and conservatives today, a philosophy of rights, even a philosophy of rights, needs, prerogative according to locke. he defines prerogative as doing public good without a rule. beyond the law. even against the law. now when you have prerogative like this in a constitution you set up a distinction between what is constitutional and what is for the public good. the american founders thought that that was not a wise distinction to put about. it's better to have the public good within the constitution, therefore, it's better to have a power within the constitution than can act for the public good without a rule, beyond the law, or even against the law. you can get the same result as locke's prerogative if you

we have scholar leon kass to begin serving by reading a few passages. and we are joined by the co-editor of "so prude proudly hail." and edward brookehizer, biographies of washington, madison and hamilton will speak about washington as exemplary president. harvey mansfield, keenan professor of government at harvard and honors of book on burke, machiavelli and the executive roles of power while considering the role of the american policy in the american polidy. and also scholar leeward who is the autobiographer of winston church hill, and no problems in his research from the last several presidents. we hope to have time for the panelists and questions from the floor. the questions for the panelists should be provided on the sheets provided by outside as well as online at www what so proudly we hailed.com. so, too, is the next of washington's farewell address to which we now turn. thank you. >>> i am going to read a few selections from the farewell address. these are my personal favorites and touch on the themes. first remarks from the beginning that tell

leon kass and pellegrino. they're, as you said, they felt that neurological standards were valid. it's a hundred-page report, and i'm sure you know it well although you must have finished the book before -- that wasn't -- >> guest: what year is this? >> host: 2008. >> guest: yes. >> host: the president's council. >> guest: no, i read that. now, in that, if you read that carefully, they suggest that the persistent vegetative state person could be harvested. >> host: the way i read it was they were trying to almost adjudicate between people who thought the threshold was too high and those that thought it was too low, those who thought maybe somebody like an individual, you know, that's very debatable, there's no question about that, that that might be appropriate candidates and others who felt, in fact, that we might even return to the cardiovascular standard. so they really had to adjudicate a lot of -- and be most of the people on that commission were not, were bioethicists and folks not directly involved with transplantation which is a little different from -- >> host: but they d