." >> rose: oliver wendell holmes, sr., was the father of the great oliver wendell holmes, jr., who was the jurist on the supreme court? >> yup and he was an amazing man who spen35ears teaching anatomy at the harvard medical school. charles summer in, one of t most imptant then american history. important becae he became th most powerful voice for abolition in the united states senate. to the point where it nearly cost him his life when preston brooks from south carolina attacked him on the senate floor with a heavy walking stick and very nearly beat him to death. summer in had the revelation... sumner had the revelation about the evil of slavery in paris. he was... he went over to study at ther is bone, he felt he didn't know enough. sorbonne. he had been to harvard. harvard law school, was a practicing lawyer but he didn't know enough. and he attend all conceivable subject matter sorbonne lectures and watching the other students he noticed the black students had just the same kinds of ambitions as he had. they were... they acted just the same as everybody else. they were treated just

former michigan supreme court justice and sort of the oliver wendell holmes from the state been teaching hundreds who's written on it beautifully it's on thomas school who said there's an absolute right to instigate here a right of the people to have a democratic form of local government into a lack of local fishes he struggled for we are is that found in the kids cast edition but he found it since that time we've had prosperity three revisions to our state constitution which have only strengthened citizens' rights with respect to roe government and granted further home rule and put the power in really in the people of the state to have their own forms of local government so the periods are that of the state legislature and so we think there is there is a sound basis based on his reasoning and where he's found it but also on additional provisions that are coming to the space constitution sense beyond that we also have a state constitutional provision that says you can't enact on funded me and over local municipality it's best explicit in the constitution and in this situation will we hav

. >> i hate to keep going through the cast, oliver wendell holmes, truly great justices in the historyyist, started the magazine "atlantic monthly," devoted his entire professional career to medical science, saw nothing incongress grew white house about that being both a poet and physician. taught at harvard medical school more than 35 years. what they learned in paris as medical students was so far ahead of anything available here, when they came home, they -- many of these medical student, american medical students transformed american medical education and thus transformed american medical care. tremendous, tremendous influence and effect. could i have written a whole book on just the experience of those medical students. keep in mind, they didn't speak a word of french, french wasn't taught in schools here, or colleges and universities. so, they are plunged into medical school training in a language they can't speak. and yet they did it. i never found -- there are probably 150 or so of them a year. over a period of time, well over 1,000 of these students, i found no example of any