patrick henry seized on the lack of a bill of rights. he said, a bill of rights may be summed up in few words, why not write them down. is it because it will consume too much paper? and henry made many, many arguments to this effect. so madison although virginia does ratify the constitution by the summer of 1788, it's the tenth state to do it. and the margin is very narrow. there are 180 some delegates in the virginia convention and it passes by a margin of only ten. and it passes without any conditions. it's a full ratification. but it does say that there ought to be a bill of rights added, that it should be the first order of business of the new congress to add a bill of rights. and other states have made similar provisions in their ratification debates. massachusetts, another one of the three largest states had done so so had several other states. so james madison is elected to the first congress and which meets here in new york in the spring of 1789 and one of the top items on his agenda is to get a bill of rights through congress in

a bomb threat, bank robbery, both shut down route 50 in both directions at patrick henry drive. that caused a massive back up during evening rush. what are you hearing now? >> reporter: the good news is police just told us everything has been cleared. take a look over my shoulder. i am going to step out of the way so you can get a better shot. this is on arlington boulevard and patrick henry drive is the td bank where a man walked in and robbed this bank. we are told he walked out and as he was leaving he told someone he was leaving his backpack and did say there were explosives inside. police arrived five minutes to 911. we are told once police got here, that's when they closed down the entire area because they did take the threat seriously. they did use two robotics from the bomb squad to come out and evaluate the backpack and search the area. the perimeter has been opened up but obviously there has been a lot of back up and a lot of traffic. in fact it took us about an hour to get out here because route 50 was closed. patrick henry drive was closed. obviously that had an effe

patrick henry had given up long before. he said that virginia had been fooled and beaten, meaning that he had been fooled and beaten. now, the -- for the longest time, the bill of rights was not referred to in legal cases. there was a reference to the bill of rights, a bill of rights, in an 1810 decision by the supreme court, fletcher versus peck. this is one of chief justice's marshall's great decisions, and he said there was in the constitution a bill of rights for the people of each state, but what he was talking about was article 1, section 9. and in his mind the bill of rights was the provision that no state shall pass a bill of attainder, an ex post facto law or a law impairing the obligation of contracts. now, that's something we just don't think of when we think of the bill of rights. why should marshall say that? he was a smart, thoughtful man, and the best i can come up with is that these are, in a way, even broader provisions than the ones that are in the bill of rights. these are very sweeping prohibitions. a bi

and he was joined by patrick henry and i think patrick henry probably american independence as early as the 1760's. -- here -- enry patrick henry was joined by -- there you go, by richard henry lee of virginia. and richard henry lee favored independence as well in the 1760's. and the leader of the radicals was john adams. and adams, we can pretty determine when he became -- began to favor independence. adams was approached by samuel adams back in the 1760's but arm adams' cousin at length. john adams' response in his diary was that way madness lies. he thought that samuel adams was plotting an american revolution and wanted no part of it. in 1773, some letters written by the roil governor of massachusetts -- royal governor of massachusetts were made public and those letters convinced that there was a conspiracy afoot between british officials in america and london to destroy american liberties. and from 1773 on, john adams favored independence. i think probably george washington came around to independence in the 1760's and i think thomas jefferson came around to independence around

a bomb threat, bank robbery, both shut down route 50 in both directions at patrick henry drive.d a massive back up during evening rush. what are you hearing now? >> reporter: the good news is police just told us everything has been cleared. take a look over my shoulder. i am going to step out of the way so you can get a better shot. this is on arlington boulevard and patrick henry drive is the td bank where a man walked in and robbed this bank. we are told he walked out and as he was leaving he told someone he was leaving his backpack and did say there were explosives inside. police arrived five minutes

westbound at patrick henry drive. wilson boulevard is an option.check in with the traffic a solid red line in both directions. this is just building. this is best to avoid route 50 in virginia. leon: today the f.b.i. recommended no charges be filed against hillary clinton. but the final decision whether or not to charge the presumptive nominee will lie with the dedepartment -- department of justice. scott thuman has more. scott: the question is the impact it will have with the voters when they go to the polls in november. that is the topic of the instapoll at wjla.com/votenow. but before we show you the live results look at how we got here. >> we are expressing our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. scott: comey said they combed through 30,000 e-mails

. >>> route 50 closed in both directions at patrick henry if you can stay away, it's probably a good idea. repair equipment is ready, tonight at 8:00, part of the blue and yellow lines in virginia, closing, metro is cutting off the tracks between braddock and reagan national airport for a week. that means no trains for 43,000 riders a day. >> anyone that doesn't have alternative way to get theres if you don't have a car, relaying on unlimited shuttle buses, it's going to be a bad commute. >> free shuttles will replace the trainses metro says there won't be enough of them, it needs 70% fewer riders for this to work. >>> tune in to wake up washington for live coverage of the morning commute. keep up with delays on the rails and the roads on our free wusa 9 news app. >>> audio from the voice recorder vie veals pilot -- reveals pilots tried to put out recordings are consistent with the plane's wreckage and that shows heat, fair and smoke damage, 66 people on board died when the paris to kiro flight crashed in to mediterranean. >>> fighter jets scrambled a bomb scare afford a flight from

patrick henry come the leading anti-federalist, the godfather of anti-federalism said the 1791, although the form of government to which my countrymen determined to place themselves at my enmity, yet as we are one and all embarked, it is natural to care for the crazy machine so long as we are out of sight of the port to refit. it is a principle worth remembering that in government we are always out of sight of port. thank you. [applause] happy to take questions and please wait until you can get a microphone so that not only are, but everyone else can hear you. i, but everyone else can hear you. when did the work comp or might become the great senin? >> well, pretty recently. [laughter] governmentple in today who think that government is the problem. i think you have heard that phrase. people those tend to be who have not read the history and have not really listened closely to the founders. , who many people today like to think of as the fathers of states rights, says what we need here is the fostering hand of government. i'm getting a little off the point, but we have people in want for

accomplish the job, and that job was creating the institutions of government, of ,reating what patrick henry whom i will refer to once or twice later on, referred to as the crazy machine of government. that is what these men are doing in federal hall here. when the first congress gathered 1789, york in march-april white two months? it took more than a month to get a quorum. everybody who showed up on time, including james madison, was in a blind panic that not enough people would even turn up to make a congress. r letters to others express a few that they failed even before they got started. so, the challenges facing the country are terrific d. the country is a shaky collection of 11 sovereign states. opponents of the constitution are demanding and amendments, more than 200 amendments, or even a new constitutional convention. the government has no reliable source of revenue. there are more than 50 different currencies and circulation. there is no permanent seat of government. forrnment had been nomadic the most part. they are suspicious of northerners and westerners and easterners and new en

will go against him because he knows patrick henry is one of those guys that doesn't think thiseat idea the other one, george mason is looking that the idea of a bill of rights that he wants to see that so he's not crazy about parts of it. a lot of the guys from the big states like massachusetts or virginia don't like the senate. so there's all kientds of issues but most men will put aside their doubts as franklin hoped and sign their names. september 17, 1787. at that point, franklin looks at the chair where washington sits and he says look behind washington's head at this carving of a half sun on the back of the chair. he says all summer i've been trying to decide whether that half sun is supposed to be rising or setting and i could not make up my mind until now. he says now at length i have the happiness to know that is a rising and not a setting sun. he felt good. he'd been working for since the 1750s, this kind of unity of the american states and he finally sees it happening. one of the great stories that comes afterwards is he is supposedly asked what kind of a government

an accident 50 eastbound between patrick henry dry and colin springs road. no backup.y a slow down as you hit the inner loop at 66. the on-ramp is closed down here at 236 westbound at the beltway. out further we have a traffic camera out on 66, now close to 15, close to where the traffic camera is, further down. the exit ramp is blocked on 15 because of overnight construction, long-term co

i go to patrick henry college. [inaudible] >> absolutely it does i feel like our country is going into the wrong hands if you know what i mean. it's becoming darker and darker and i don't want that. i do not want that dark evil presence to take over our world and i want to fight to make that happen. i'm willing to give my life. that's what i want to do. thank you. >> i'm from outside of atlanta georgia. it happens to be all girls and it's very liberal my professors. i won hundred% stick out like a sore thumb. we talk about things and i tend to get shut down a lot. i don't want to talk about what i believe and i believe in so what assured by his? >> do not let them do that to you. do not let anyone scare you into submission. if anything let them feed your fire. let it make you study harder and find out more things. i want you to youtube video of william f. buckley and james baldwin at cambridge university in 1964. it's an amazing debate and every one of you should watch it. it's amazing and yes standup. do not give

these words reported be spoken by patrick henry at the beginning of the war. i will lift this carefully out of the amount. you can see "kill or be killed," which is a contemporary sounding slogan. and "appeal to heaven." which was something that appeared on new england flags at the time and was also a very popular slogan at the beginning of the war. the date, 1775. and curiously, this crown. if you will remember on that havana powderhorn, also a crown with g.r. iii. sometimes people who see this horn are confuse. this guy was a virginia fighting in the continental army. why would he have a crown on his powderhorn? in 1775, these men are still fighting to restore their rights as englishmen within the empire. so it's perfectly consistent to see the king as the person who is going to intercede with parliament. that parliament is the group that is oppressing and trying to enslave americans. of course, all of that changes between summer of 1775 and summer of 1776, in which americans finally when they hear that the king has refused to read a petition sent by the sec

patrick henry, the leading antifederalists, the godfather, so to speak, of anti-federalism, said the following, "although the form of government to which my countrymen determined to place themselves had my enmity it is natural to care that the , crazy machine as long as we ace -- out of sight for a port to reset. i think it is a principle worth remembering that in government we are always out of sight of port." thanks. [applause] mr. bordewich: i am happy to take questions, and please wait until you get a microphone so not only i, but everyone else , can hear you. >> when did the word compromise become the great sin? mr. bordewich: well, pretty recently. [laughter] mr. bordewich: pretty recently. we have people in government today, who think that government is the problem. i think you have probably heard that phrase somewhere. i think those tend to be people who have not read their history, who have not read their history and really listened very closely to the founders. james madison, who many people today like to think of as one of the fathers of states rights, in the first congres

patrick henry of hanover county. >> the question before the house is one of awful moment for this country. for my own part, i consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery. are fleets and armies necessary? let us not deceive ourselves, sir. these are the implements of war and subjugation. they are sent over to bind and rivet upon us the chains which the british ministry have so long been forging! gentlemen may cry, "peace, peace," but there is no peace! the war has actually begun! why stand we here idle? i know not what course others may take. but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! >> ♪ my country, 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty ♪ land where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring >> pushed to their limits by an oppressive empire, a determined group of rebels unites under the cause of liberty. their quest for freedom will unify a people, ignite a revolution, and forge a new system of government. in time, these brave men and women will come to be known as the american patriots. [ gavel bangs ] the declar

this is right here near patrick henry drive. the whole area blocke you can see the dots that are popping up, the wisers are talking about how clo -- waze talk about how slow we are. four miles in some area. traveling to falls church, on route 50, you do not want to take it this evening. let's go ahead and move to the mapping system and talk about the alternate route. wilson boulevard. a lot of people seeing heavy traffic, traveling along wilson boulevard. it's basically a parking lot. this whole area best to avoid right now. if you are traveling 395, not bad. we have roadwork to go into place tonight and the freeway. heads up for those traveling this evening. back to you. michelle: thank you for that. if flying doesn't cost enough. "7 on your side" investigation learned travelers in the d.c. region are leaving tens of thousands of dollars behind every year. at the security check points. where does it go? chris papst ha chris: if you have flown lately you know it's expensive. the tax and the fees add up. so does the loose change.

it was patrick henry who famously declared, "give me liberty... or pull my finger!" (laughter) (applause) now, the theme of the democratic national convention was "stronger together. and nancy pelosi thrilled the crowd by appealing to their shared values. >> we democrats believe that the future of america should be decided by the voices of the voters, not the pocketbooks of the powerful. a government of the many, not a government of the money. >> stephen: and that rousing call to get big money out of every corner of the wells-fargo arena, from the cnn grill to the comcast xfinity live complex! because it was the democrats, we heard from every conceivable fringiest minority group. >> i'm a republican. i knew ronald reagan. i worked for ronald reagan. donald trump, you are no ronald reagan. (cheers) whoo! (cheers and applause) whoo! whoo! we're democrats! why are we cheering ronald reagan? i don't care! whoo! chelsea clinton, this is touching, chelsea clinton came out and introduced her mom. first, they had a biographic video. park ridge, illinois. >> stephen: you will

. >> you know who patrick henry was? >> i heard of him before.what he did. >> give me liberty or give me -- >> freedom. >> freedom? >> am i right? >> justice. >> and the american way. >> why were we fighting the british? >> taxation without representation? >> no taxation -- >> can't be taxed if you're not represented like as an individual. >> who's famous for that line? >> john smith? >> no. >> sam adams. >> learning something every day. >> i totally paused. >> life, liberty and -- >> freedom of speech? >> good enough for me. >> me too. >> that's fine. >> what's the best part of this country? >> our rights? >> everybody can be a go getter. >> are you a go getter? >> yeah. >> all right. go get 'em. ♪ >> do you ever watch bill o'reilly? >> sometimes. >> i'm not paying attention. >> i'm too hurt of him. >> what have you heard? >> not to watch him. >> oh. >> i like it. informative. >> anything to say to him on july fourth? >> have an awesome day! >>> coming up, jess see lands on martha's vineyard to find out how the folks feel about president obama.

. >> reporter: do you know who patrick henry is?eard of him. >> reporter: give me liberty or give me. >> freedom. >> freedom? >> am i right? >> justice. >> and the american way. >> reporter: why were we fighting the british? >> taxation without representation? >> reporter: no tackation. >> you can't be taxed if you're not represented as an individual. >> reporter: who is famous for that line? >> john smith? >> reporter: sam adams. you learning something every day. life, liberty, and --? >> freedom of speech? >> that's good enough for me. i'm fine. >> reporter: what's the good part about this country. >> anybody can be a go getter. >> reporter: are you a go getter? >> yeah. >> reporter: all right. >> let's go get 'em. >> reporter: do you ever watch bill o'reilly? >> sometimes. >> when it's on but i'm not paying attention. >> reporter: what have you heard of him? >> i'll have to watch him. >> i like it. it's important. >> anything you want to say to him on july fourth? >> i hope you have an awesome day. >> coming up, he lands on marth

he is not a great order like patrick henry. he is not a brilliant napoleonic sort of figure.e is a leader. people will follow him. he has absolute integrity, and he will not give up, and he never forgets what the war is about. again and again, you have people saying they will not quit because "i will not leave this good man." we have to remember that at one point, he was down to 3000 troops. that's all he had left. hundreds, thousands had quit, , deserted, expired, gone over to the enemy -- rose: because they were given pardons. mccullough: absolutely. when the british commanders anyone whodons for would sign the loyalty oath, people in new jersey came by the thousands to sign as quickly as they could. if there had been daily polls taken and run in the newspapers, it would have just disintegrated. people would have realized they did not have a chance, it was over. you thought of this story midway through the john adams book. what caused you to think about it? it was when i was writing the chapter of dealing with the summer after the declaration of independence was signed. the

he is not a great orator like patrick henry. he is not a brilliant napoleonic figure.e is a leader. people will follow him. and he has absolute integrity. and he will not give up. and he never forgets what it is about, what the war is for. and again and again, you have people saying, they are not going to quit because i will not leave this good man. at one point it was down to 3000 troops. that is all he had left. hundreds, thousands had either quit, gone home when their enlistments expired, deserted, went over to the enemy -- mr. rose: because they were given pardons. mr. mccullough: absolutely. people in new jersey, when washington and the army were retreating across new jersey, when the general lord howe , the british commanders offered pardons for anybody who would sign the loyalty oath, people in new jersey came by the thousands to sign as quickly as they could. if there had been daily polls taken and run in the newspapers, it would have disintegrated immediately because people would realize this does not even have a chance. mr. rose: just a couple points here. yo

. >> the milit ultimate safety, patrick henry argued. while guns were common place then, so were regulations. bostd the firing of guns within city limits. and in the notes for the constitutional >> there's literally not a word about it protecting an individual right for gun posses, hunting or any of the other this amendment refers specifically and militia. >> well, i know people say that, but it just can't be true. if you look at what the words say. it says, the right of the people to keep and bear arms. it does not say the right of the states or the right of the militias, it's the right of the people. >> the debate over the second amendment came to a head here at the supreme court in 2008 in case filedve called district of columbia versus heller. in a 5-4 vote the courtual'righp and bear arms. striking down dc's ban on handguns in the home. the inherent right of self defense, justice antonin scalia wrote, has been not unlimited. grey area absolutely. >> another grey area is how the court might rule on sden death a in february. >> so, yo

he's now writing patrick henry, who's now moved over to the federalists column. richard henry lee unlike horseman harry lee, run for the legislature, we need good federalists. virginia is going the wrong way. virginia is under the control of the jeffersonian republicans. would he himself consider running again? there's a fascinating letter in july of 1799 from john trumbull, the governor of connecticut, and many other federalists saying to washington you must one more time go into the breach to save us, as they put it, from a french president. only washington could do it. washington's letter back is an interesting one, and he says why he does not see it that way. and the reason is because good politics are changing dramatically during the rise of political parties and the rise of popular participation. in this new era of democratic politics, washington says personal influence and distinctions of character no longer matter, and he went on to make an interesting comment. he said, if members of the jeffersonian republican party set up a broomstick as their candidate,

brent thompson was recently married a marine and then patrick henry coe was the veteran and father ofthe sniper that pulled the trigger michael johnson also veteran wanted to kill police officers. in search of the suburban home they found a bomb making materials rifles ammunition and a journal of combat tactics. >> reporter: the governor's mansion and texas has a new global. >> marty:one of san francisco's major attractions is about to become harder to reach by car. starting wednesday, a half-mile section of twin peaks boulevard will be closed off to cars. this is for a re-design of the roadway. the plan is to temporarily change a portion of existing road to use by bikers and pedestrians. if it becomes really popular, the ban on cars may become permanent. in national news. wildfires are burning across parts of colorado. these are aerials of one of the three wildfires that crews are battling in boulder county. >> marty:evacuations have been underway all weekend. nearly one-thousand people have been forced from their homes. many are staying in shelters. the wildfires are burning about 4

dagen: quickly, red hail, on the fourth, home of patrick henry.yours. stuart: remember a week ago, oh, the sky was about to fall. the brits voted out of europe. armageddon. how did that work out? >> good morning, eastern, well, the stock market selloff lasted a couple of days, we've bounced back to almost where we were before the vote. the gloom and doom elites got it wrong. there may be some selling today ahead of that long weekend, but we will actually open maybe just a tad higher again this morning. damage control from the attorney general. now she says she will accept whatever the fbi hands down from its e-mail investigation of hillary clinton.

dagen: quickly, red hail, on the fourth, home of patrick henry. sandra: and shout out. >> fort bragg, i miss the guy, i love him. sandra: stuart varney, it's all yours. stuart: remember a week ago, oh, the sky was about to fall. the brits voted out of europe. armageddon. how did that work out? >> good morning, eastern, well, the stock market selloff lasted a couple of days, we've bounced back to almost where we were before the vote. the gloom and doom elites got it wrong. there may be some selling today ahead of that long weekend, but we will actually open maybe just a tad higher again this morning. damage control from the attorney general. now she says she will accept whatever the fbi hands down from its e-mail investigation of hillary clinton. her meeting with bill tainted that investigation with conflict of interest. damage control time this friday morning. big problem for tesla. the feds launch an investigation of a fatality of an accident involving a tesla car being driven on autopilot. that stock will be down today. lady and gentlemen, my me