or was with patrick henry?>> johnefferson, he was a close mentor of jefferson and a colleague of patrick henry. patrick henry and him teamed up in the virginia ratifying convention to try and defeat or at least getting bill of rights appended to the new constitution. so he was a mentor to jefferson but he was a political ally of patrick henry at the virginia ratifying convention and in fact, with him, patrick henry was one of the most vociferous objectors to the constitution. it came with and i think three or four votes in the virginia ratifying convention of defeating the constitution. >> in the bill of rights any compromising that probably took place to pass that, were there any particular rights on mason, henry's original list, that did not survive the process? >> yes. there are approximately 24 amendments at the virginia ratifying convention that were actually sent to congress, james madison expertly and i give him credit, basically edited these amendments down to be really the modern version of the bill of

mason completely disagreed and said that patrick henry.he wanted individual documents appended to the constitution. the right to a jury trial, right to a free press, right to free expression. he believed that should be written out. washington and madison thought it was superfluous and those are the inherent in the constitution. yes sir. >> you may have given the answer to this question just now but virginia policy was more closely aligned with jefferson and madison or with patrick henry. >> jefferson, he closely mentored jefferson a colleague of patrick henry. patrick henry and he had teamed up at the virginia ratifying convention to try to seek or at least get the bill of rights to the constitution so he was a mentor to jefferson but he was a political ally of patrick henry at the ratifying convention and with him one of the most vociferous object there's to the constitution. he came within i think three or four votes at the virginia ratifying convention in defeating the constitution. >> yes sir. >> thank you. in the bill of rights and th

>> jefferson was a colleague of patrick henry, patrick henry and he teamed up in the virginia ratifying convention to try to defeat or at least get a bill of rights amended to the new constitution. succumbinconstitution. subcommittee wasuccumbing he wao jefferson, but he was a political ally of patrick henry at the ratified convention and in fact, with him, patric patriy was one of the objectors to the constitution. they came within i think three or four votes in the virginia ratifying convention defeating the constitution. the o >> in the bill of rights and the compromise t that took place, we there any particular rights that were if you will on the original list that did not survive the process? >> there were different amendments of the virginia ratifyinthat the virginiaratifye actually sent to congress and james madison expertly and i give them credit. nine states have to ratify the constitution convention comes with each state has their own set of amendments, but i believe there were approximately 24 that came out of the virginia ratifying convention. but, going back again to mason'

washington from fairfax county, thomas jefferson, james madison from orange county, james monroe, patrick henry with, it's a great name, from willamsburg, and richard henry lee, incredible names. [ applause ] >> incredible names. [ applause ] >> self-government in virginia did not just give us a state we love, in a very true sense, it gave us the country we love, the united states of america. so true. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> when madison drafted the first amendment to our constitution, he drew inspiration in virginia's statute for religious freedom. as john adams wrote, we all look up to virginia for examples, right? it's great. [ applause ] and when patrick henry rose to speak his famous words at st. john's church, give me liberty or give me death, he spoke in defense of a tradition that began more than 150 years before at jamestown, right here. [ applause ] >> it was a heritage, those patriots, would fight a long war of independence to defend, and it is a heritage that countless americans have fought and died for to secure, in all of those centuries since. in our time, we must de

from albemarle county, james madison from orange county, james monroe from spotsylvania county, patrick henrylouisa county, george mason from fairfax county, george with, w-i-t-h, that's a great name, from williamsburg, and richard henry lee from westmoreland county, incredible names. incredible names. [ applause ] self-government in virginia did not just give us a state we love. in a very true sense, it gave us the country we love, the united states of america. so true. thank you very much. [ applause ] when madison drafted the first amendment to our constitution, he drew inspiration from virginia's statute for religious freedom. as john adams row in philadelphia just before the adoption of the declaration of independence, we all look up to virginia for examples. great. it's great. [ applause ] and when patrick henry rose to speak his famous words at st. john's church in richmond, give me liberty or give me death, he spoke in defense of a tradition that began more than 150 years before, at jamestown, right here. [ applause ] it was a heritage. those patriots would fight a long war of indepen

when even southerners like jefferson or patrick henry, henry laurens and st. george tucker publicly deplored the institution, the injustice of slavery, from that moment declared the new york physician and abolitionist eh smith in 1798, from that moment the slow but certain death wound was inflicted upon it. everywhere, even in south carolina, slaveholders began to feel defensive about slavery and began to sense public pressure against the institution that they had never felt before. in the aftermath of the revolution, whites in charleston south carolina expressed squeamishness about the evils of slavery especially the public trading and punishment of slaves. in the 1780s, some of the carolina masters expressed a growing reluctance to break up families and even freeing more slaves than had been freed in the previous three decades. what helped to convince many people in the north that slavery's days were numbered was the promised ending of the despicable slave trade in 1808. almost everywhere in the new world, slavery will seemed dependent on the continual impor

virginian akin to other freedom loving virginians namely george washington, thomas jefferson, patrick henry, and other founding fathers. while madison washington's story of revolt is a success story, unfortunately many attempts at slave revolt and the state, and other forms of resistance were not successful. that is because the entire system at the local state and national level was set up to preserve the institution of slavery. enslaved people and their allies who were trying to resist were fighting against insurmountable odds in many cases, and we see that in the example of dangerfield newbie, one of the small group of men who joined the radical abolitionist, john brown, for his raid on the federal arsenal at harpers ferry in october, 1859. this raid was part of a planned slavery revolt. john brown and his army were not only going to take weapons at harpers ferry, but they were going to add a new cache of weapons and march to the south distributing these weapons to the enslaved people they encountered who would revolt, and that army would violently overthrow slavery in the united states.

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it, patrick henry made certain the state legislature did not appoint madison to the senate.e had to run in a district that was gerrymandered. >> and, the discussion today about protecting minority rights and the right to freedom, right to assemble, it was the baptists he had to play to. it got into this whole discussion about the right to assembly. it was his commitment to that group to get them on board with him and the pastors in the baptist community so he could gain elections. >> a recent supreme court case, you're talking about gerrymandering, gave a free license to partisan gerrymentoring. there was a suggestion that partisan gerrymandering could not be totally controlled. at some point, it gets so ridiculous, you're denying people a right. the supreme court said states have a free license on this. they can do whatever they want. whatever shenanigans are going on now may actually get worse. we have had a lot of comments about career politicians. being one, there is a view that the less you know, the better job you can do. there is something that comes with experience.

because he was in favor of the constitution being ratified by virginia and patrick henry was againstatrick henry h word that the budget did not appoint james madison and that is why he had to run in a district that was gerrymandered and he had to run against james monroe. and the discussion we are here for today in terms of protecting minority rights, it was the baptist in the district that he had to play too. not just a group, individuals, so it got into a discussion about the right to assembly. it was his commitment to that group to get him on board with him and the pastors in the baptist community so he could gain election. >> can i comment on this? casee recent supreme court regarding gerrymandering. there was a suggestion that partisan gerrymandering could not be totally controlled but at some point, it just gets so -- the supreme court essentially said that states have a free license on this and they can do whatever they want. whatever shenanigans going on right now may actually get worse. , we have had a lot of comments about career politicians and being one -- there is a view

so, when the 1787 constitution reached virginia, patrick henry said, who gave them the right to say we the people? saidought they should have , we the citizens of the several states. but they didn't. and at the heart of it is an issue that is here now in this day, with ice and rounding up undocumented people. is,he heart of his question we are documented as citizens of the several states. we the people are undocumented. thateople who signed couldn't document themselves. there was no country. to document themselves. they were a group of on documented people. as soon as they said we the people, they could have said we the citizens. but that would have led to a very different country. of the preamble and what it means in its original statement, that it was property men who owned , and then of course, the problem was article four section two paragraph three. itself outlines a group of constitutional people who own and establish the constitution. article four, section two, paragraph three delineates a very different group of constitutional people. , as constitutional property. the first gro

we started in the 70s with our textbooks where we rewrote the speeches of george washington and patrick henryensors others because we thought they were too religious. i took comport going to mount vernon and seeing etched in sent to original statements of these founding fathers. i thought they can't take that away. trish: what you just said is an important reminder to every one to go back and read original text so you can see what was actually written at the time. in new york city we have a guy who wants a grade school interpretation of history. why not add the women in and you can be equitable that way. what is the real underlying goal? >> well, it's to change. it's to change the future by changing the past. you talked about you could study yourself some of these old documents. but more and more you can't. it's being wiped from the internet now. from the search engines every day that passes we see more and more that's lost. stop and think this. imagine russia without vodka or belgium without chocolate or italy without tomato saws or ireland without potatoes. trish: women without men or men w

around the summer of six 1775, he fights these skirmishes partly led by patrick henry. give me liberty or give me death, that guy. the other thing dunmore does, and we will pick this up later in the class, in november he issues a proclamation that he tells slaves, any slave who enters british area and takes up arms will be set free. what dunmore is doing is creating a force made up of a handful of british regulars, loyalists and slaves and by the fall of 1775, he has about 1200 of these people in the area around norfolk, virginia. dunmore please to a british warship. we saw british authority collapse. british authority in new york collapses. dunmore is on a british warship, okay. he lands at a place called great bridge and they try to take the city of norfork. they defeat the force at great bridge. the battle is an american victory that secures virginia for the cause. 1775. at the same time montgomery is in canada, there is fighting in virginia. wrap dunmore up, he hangs around off the coast with a small, british squadron. on january 1 he burns the city of norfork to th

was in favor of a constitution being ratified by virginia, and patrick and he was against it, patrick henryake certain the state legislature did not appoint james madison to the senate. he had to run in the district that was gerrymandered and had to run against james monroe. >> and the discussion about today protecting minority rights in the right to religious freedom and the right to assemble, it was the baptists in the district that he had to play to. they were a group not just individuals so got into this whole discussion about the right to assembly, but it was his commitment to that group to get them on board with him and the pastors in the baptist community so that he could gain election. >> a recent supreme court case, you're talking about gerrymandering, gave a free license to partisan gerrymandering. there was a suggestion that partisan gerrymandering really could be totally controlled but at some point it just get so ridiculous that you are denying people rights. the supreme court essentially said states have free license on this and they can do whatever they want. whatever shenani

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it was british tyranny, expressed in the coercive acts of 1774 that made colonists like patrick henry declare that they were not virginians or new englanders or new yorkers but americans. the long and bloody war with great britain, in which all parts of the country suffered at one time or another, was a searing experience. more americans died in that war in proportion to population than in any other war in our history, except of course for the civil war, where which both sides were americans. no wonder the revolution bred an overwhelming sense of unity. the glorious cause of the revolution united all americans. the revolution and the beliefs and ideals that came out of it -- liberty, equality, self-government -- created national bonds that were not easily broken. indeed, they are the bonds that still hold us together and make us think of ourselves as a single people. of course americans at the time of the revolution were aware of sectional differences, differences that were essentially based on slavery. although slavery in 1776 legally existed in all of the new republican states, 90%