congress passed two to preach present to come up with a given john adams and thomas jefferson. they met ambassador in london face-to-face. the antacid was charming but uncover my singer demanded money for passage. according to the koran it was their god-given right. both adams and jefferson left the meeting shaken. they didn't have a deal on the prisoners and it didn't have a deal on safe passage for ships. back in the "thomas jefferson and the tripoli pirates" waited for a recommendation and that's were added and jefferson split. said you can't fight them and let you want to fight him forever. for jefferson he said you can't pay for peace. he sensed that the attacks would start and the price would only go up. in this case jefferson was 100% correct. the united states with kate to the pirates, borrowing money that would cause them up to 20% of the national budget, get some of the attacks continue. witt our first president took office you continue to make the payments but he was would also commissioned the building of ships including this very welcome the uss constitution. what w

congress passed to future presidents to come up with a deal, john adams and thomas jefferson. ripoli's ambassador in london face-to-face. the investor was charming, but uncompromising and demanded money for passage, according to the koran it was their god-given rights. both adams and jefferson left the meeting shake and they didn't have a deal on the prisoners and didn't have a deal on safe passage. back in the us they waited for a recommendation. out of send a version. out of that it you can't fight them. for jefferson he said he can't pay for peace. he sensed that attacks would start any price would go up. in this case jefferson was correct. the us would cave to the pirates borrowing money to cost about two 20% of their national budget yet somehow the attacks continued work when our first president took office he would make the payments, but also commission the building of six ships including this one the uss constitution. they had copper bottoms, solid oak sides, they were fast, strong and built to fight. they wouldn't be ready for the washington administration. adams would

is ask thomas jefferson about as low as it has been in about a century. it is time to buy that stock. facts ofot about the this story, it is about our needs at any given time, and what we want to see when we look at the past. curious how the panel seems to be talking about lin-manuel miranda, and paying no attention at all to chernow, who wrote the book. he said i listened to the first song and said it is very accurate. why is no one taking on ron chernow? >> that person couldn't be here tonight. we have that essay in the book. there is someone who looks at the challenges, inaccuracies in the play, stemming directly from ron chernow's treatment. he has some real critiques about the ron chernow book. that is something that does get talked about. i think the ron chernow book does a lot of things well, and other things it does not as well. one of the key things that gets lost in both ron chernow and the play is one of alexander hamilton's most important accomplishments is something that is really not very democratic. when he talks about needing to finance th

>> now, your book, the some people are even disputed a connection between sally hemings and thomas jefferson, so as you work on the book did it change how you felt about jefferson or how you felt about the founders? >> there's still naysayers to the idea that jefferson has this relationship of quite long-standing with sally hemings that produced four children who survived into adulthood, but the preponderance of the evidence really makes that position sort of untenable, right? that, in fact, he did have this long-standing relationship. and like erica with her project on ona judge, i was much more interest in harriet hemings but, of course, i think in my work on all three daughters there's a way which looking at jefferson as a father, we actually see him in a very different way and in a way he is an edited. he was usually very conscious of this self presentation for both his peers and for prosperity, but as a father we see him rather differently, and so i didn't see jefferson differently so much as i had before i started this project. i knew he was a slave owner, but to actually kind of see h

know him already from his presidential biographies writing books about george h to be bush, thomas jefferson as well as fdr and his special relationship with churchill. and with a pulitzer prize-winning biography of andrew jackson a complicated figure who considered himself an embodiment of the people he helped although his view was exclusionary. so that doesn't flinch from the full record it showcases his background as a journalist. as a longtime staffer at newsweek eventually becoming its editor. in fact the trajectory of his career shows that the fast-paced journalism and gradual history is not as connected as it may seem. it is not only a theme in the past but also has startling relevance to lay the foundation for how we got to the are now. to reflect undoubtedly has a gift for accessibility and even though i would say his books are short, he clearly makes point to to keep his storytelling shark. more recently as a contributing writer. and often finds those angles that are surprising for instance one year ago after heller me clinton published her best-selling book what happened he examin

the chief opponent, thomas jefferson hates the bank. the bank, jefferson believes, is an imperils american liberty by elevating to power a wealthy financial elite. jefferson opposes it. jefferson comes to power in 1800, the first banks charter expires, but one year later, a war iraq with britain. a very expensive war -- a war erupts with britain, a very extensive war. thomas jefferson charters a second bank of the united states and this bank, much like the first, also will have a 20-year charter. this charter will run out in 1836 and presumably, congress and the president, in good faith, will renew the charter. so there you have it. after the bank is chartered, you will recall from the last lecture, the panic in 1819 explodes. this massive bubble and western land speculation caused largely by the bank and the new bank currency. the country recovers from the panic of 1819 fairly quickly, so the second bank of the united states survives that panic and goes into the 1820's with very little opposition. most americans by the mid-1820's have c

thomas jefferson's house, there were slaves in the room serving the dinner. it erases the actuality experiences that people of color have found. it is not a different narrative to what many americans learn about the genius of the nation and its founders. in short, i think it is still offering a vision of the nation that many may think cultivate a positive identity and many folks feel comfortable endorsing it. but, at the same time, i think it is asking white americans to expand the circle of who fully belongs, to acknowledge blacks and latinos have as much ownership of the nation and right to tell its story as we do. -- as whites do. one of the things i love about this book is we highlight the context. we do not all agree. we can read the casting of actors of color as founding fathers as an empty trick, or asking blacks and latinos to sacrifice their history for the sake of national unity. to say that to belong long, you have to celebrate this vision. i think it is important to knowledge that this musical portrays people of color as powerful and rightful narr

our two-office begins at the home of our third president, thomas jefferson. >> if you had visited month cello 20 years ago, you would ave seen jefferson and that lines the plantation streets as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. so all of this is part of an effort to shift the focus away from jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who made his life possible. right now, we are actually just near jefferson's main house, the mansion that he built throughout his life and this is the main plantation street. 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research we know these work shops lined streets. and severalervants, work shops were supervised by jefferson and members of his family. this is the hub of industry of monticello wasn't just this mountaintop but 5,000 acre plantation and that is about eight square miles. this plantation is enormous. the center of activity is really here. you would have seen carriages coming up and down this road. you would have heard chickens, dogs. you would have smelled smoke in the air. you would have heard hammers and saws. the

yes, thomas jefferson was a wine connoisseur. we work it.o get these young people engage. , because they want to still learn. so they will sit and listen, they want to meet people, one young congressional staffers said, our salaries, so this is like date night. >> okay, just go and do something with film in the summer, free popcorn, about that? with the machine, it's not just. >> oh my gosh, with the machine, too. so i think we might have you little bit on that. >> no, i don't think so. >> not fundraising. >> this is an idea i took from the young lions, similar kind of group really interested in the library. it's been in existence for 25 years or so. so i took that idea to the new york to the national archives, we have a similar group we are working with the young founder society trying to engage them in the life of the national archives. this is folks were drawn in different directions. and the focus of the challenge. >> we do not have a name yet. we are working on that. i like young founders. >> i am saying, that's a good thing. we are wor

so i have always had this kind of connection to the story of thomas jefferson, but of course, the more you know about jefferson, the more complicated his legacy is. when we talk about the louisiana purchase and the phrase "go did, young man," what jefferson intend the space that he purchased with the stroke of a pen, almost by accident, what did he think it should look like? i think what he intended it to be -- and i wrote a book called "the women jefferson loved," and the joke is oh, i bet there are that sorthem, ha-ha, of thing, but jefferson had a very clear picture of what he thought the ideal society should look like, and it was pretty and virginia in the 18th early 19th centuries. that is what he thought it should be. thought it should be little, free standing patriarchal households from sea to shining sea -- farms, plantations. about the ideas of all men being created equal west,e young man of "go young man" is a man who is white, landowning, property owning, but it holds a whole set of intimate relationships, political relationships that depend on the idea of these freestanding

and so thomas jefferson orchestrated impeachment proceedings against him. wipe the floor with samuel chase. thomas jefferson did not wipe the floor with chase, and he remained on the court despite concerns he was too partisan. appointments to the supreme court are for life, there are no take backs. but the founders granted the congress the exact same method for removing justice for violating oaths of office that they granted against pre-s, impeachment. in all 13 federal judges have been impeached in u.s. history and eight have been removed. the wig fashion sense notwithstanding. michael, great to have you with us tonight after a very news worthy day. >> right, and a long week. and you're absolutely right, joy. samuel chase really did have a killer wig. >> his wig game was very strong. >> right, it's terrific. >> sometimes we do forget that clause in the constitution that gives the congress the power to impeachment the president also extends to federal officers. and so are we looking at a situation, a sort of samuel chase moment, where a new senate, a new ho

he served on the court for eight years until president thomas jefferson tried to kick him out.efferson pushed to have the supreme court justice impeached. he was seen as an extreme partisan and leaders in washington thought chase was no longer able to make fair decisions on the court, and so thomas jefferson orchestrated m impeachment proceedings against him. he said he would wipe the floor with samuel chase. tau thomas jefferson did not wipe the floor with chase, and he remained on the court despite the fact he was partisan. starting in the house with a trial on the senate. in all 13 federal judges have been impeached in u.s. history and eight have been removed. michael, great to have you with us tonight after a very news worthy day. >> right, and a long week. and you're absolutely right, joy. samuel chase really did have a killer wig. >> his wig game was really strong. sometimes we do forget that clause in the constitution that gives the congress the power to impeachment the president also extends to federal officers. and so are we looking at a situation, a sort of samuel cha

it's not thomas jefferson or members of the continental congress saying take it from us. these are instead universal truths that all people can embrace. so it's a really interesting point, and it's one that i think is definitely worth your while. >> i'll get out of the way here in just a minute. another great subject and i'm a wikipedia fan again is the subject of virtual communities and how little people really know and how bullying, etc., comes in, but i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> thank you sir. >> so my question was -- i know you talked earlier about locke, how do you distribute and come to own stuff that is kind of just there? and you talked about the idea that someone couldn't just go to a mountain and say this is my mountain. how would someone actually come to justifiably own that mountain as a piece of private property? >> i guess what locke would say is they would mix their labor with that mountain to improve it. they would put it to make sure sort of productive use and if they would get there and do that before anyone else attempted to get there and do th

swipe believe not getting enough attention that proves what the founding fathers if you pick up thomas jefferson you will learn to learn about a farmer and then -- a bartender and the british journalist who is a printer and then with the people in this room. then they do those things patriotic. >> the subtitle and from your book to overshadow the dark humiliation with a blurred memory. and would center on andrew jackson. that was the second biggest holiday. but was the brother-in-law. but instead to say we will stop them from growing it with that threat not that eventual ally. the rest of the world would know america is not an experience but then what jefferson said and vice versa and with the rest of the world america is not going anywhere. in fact what we write about this is a humble superpower. we play it ahead with the midwestin expansion but it would not happen without new orleans then to fight the war and with that 75 year mark in with my hodgepodge army then you will t understand, history those were the exact words. and believe it or not even know america -- side it was a good move but th

we can literally look at whatt george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison said about religious diversity in the late 18th century and we would look at those things and cherish them today. washington's statement that this government will get the assistance that we all have alike liberty of conscience. benjamino franklin making a donation to the building fund about religious community in philadelphia asking them to celebrate july 4th together, to mourn him together when he dies. the motion welcoming religious diversity, nurturing interface cooperation is literally part of america's founding ideals and is also at the center of america's genius. incy a diverse democracy, the wy you build it that society is you get diverse identity communities their dignity and without dignity, the diverse identity communities can contribute to the broader society. there's no place for that happens better than in american higher education. all of these wonderful and petitions bounded by religious communities. one thing at georgetown here in d.c. my dad went to notre dame, example. catholic colleges

has written about a number of american presidents over the span of our extraordinary history, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, frank roosevelt and his relationship with winston churchill, and then most recently george h.w. bush. you also wrote a book about the civil war, so of course you've written about the presidents of that period, too. >> i must say being called a presidential historian is like being called the best restaurant in a hospital. you want to win, but it's not that hard. thank you. >> so the last panel -- you're going to do this the whole time. >> that's all right. that was for the benjamin harris home people. love those guys. >> the last panel did a wonderful job touching on the history but i want to touch on the history of this country and the relationship between the presidents and the press, and what this country was founded on. what the press was supposed to mean. talk for a little bit about the first amendment, what the founding fathers had in mind when they envisioned the role of the press. >> they weren't thinking about the "new york times" or the news hour. the press i

part of the reason for that was because even though people in the mainstream and lightman, thomas jefferson was in an enlightenment, he wrote the declaration of independence about saying inalienable rights but in many of them believed morality, that there was a god who created things got things started and such. however there is a a radical and lightman at the same time. they tended to discard those ideas, leading into the dehumanizing philosophies that i discussed. one figure for example, julian, a french materialistic figure. he read book man the machine. he thought of humans as a machine. seeing human life as not anymore valuable of anything else. >> how do you see man? >> i see us as being created in the image of god and thus having value in ourselves. not instrumental values, some say we had value in what we can do, if you are a singer and others we are talking about in theory. because they are created in the image of god. >> another book that you've written is hitler's religion. did adolf hitler have a religion? a traditional religion as we think of it? >> nontraditional as we would t

know who is it you said you know the price of freedom is eternal vigilance i think it was and thomas jefferson can we haven't been vigilant man i mean what do you think they're responsible ground for because it comes off the i think the winder scandal came of the back of the hostile environment came of the back of the ground. reeks of an incompetent government but also i've got to say you know it all too easy to kind of blame this country's all good at blaming the blame i think people need to look at their part in the process how they've allowed these things to happen because as i said earlier they just haven't been in the last two or three years and felt we've allowed them to take liberties with the people for thirty years and this is the end result of people being complacent. i mean one could say that the eighty's and the late seventy's it was a lot about identity politics feminism and the racism all these different things do you think there's more of an emphasis ironically on class and the uniting of all these disparate ideas into it is the ninety nine percent this time around. you know it'

dna was merely corroborative and it didn't pin it on thomas jefferson. it only said it had to be a jefferson male. there was lots of oral history and her own sons who made it very clear that jefferson was their father. we chose to elevate madison's words, which turned out to be poetic and use only his words about his mother inside that room. >> i wanted to mention the fact that i was living in charlottesville when the thomas jefferson foundation changed its perspective on sally hemming and i was very includfluenced by th. i was hoping at the nixon library, the tapes would be the dna and that what would happen because the private library had a watergate exhibit. which was a fantasy. it made richard nixon out to be the victim of an effort by democrats to overturn the verdict of the 1972 election. and it was essential for the credibility of this institution that it have a real watergate exhibit. it was also essential for the credibility of the national archives. and i would argue, it was a very important thing for public history throughout the country, that

over twenty years who doesn't this place know right now i doubt thomas jefferson would have sent lewis and clark to explore the western u.s. of quark couldn't find his own. quest the pentagon hasn't agreed to changes so they were better off not knowing but the military is better off in this in this proves they're preyed upon every step to their lives as war by recruiters during high school their promised health care they don't get their own after thought when they become homeless vets and their victims. of corporate greed since small veiny got tens of thousands of dollars from the payday lending industry as a member of congress saying ok given that a third of the military uses stuff like payday loans i can see why movie and what capitalize but bad people can learn lessons like if that wasn't true then i'd still be making the ads like this to get by oh say can you see this cold hard cash are you in the military you don't record number of kills but you can't pay the bills to get the cash advance point. to get us our new location of the panda cam the taco bell combo. yeah. yeah we would h

you know who is it you said you know the price of freedom is eternal vigilance i think it was thomas jefferson can we haven't been vigilant man i mean what do you think they're responsible ground for because it comes off the i think the winder scandal came of the back of the hostile environment came of the back of the ground . reeks of an incompetent government but also i've got to say you know it's all too easy to kind of blame this country's all good at blaming the player i think people need to look at their part in the process how they've allowed these things to happen because as i said earlier they just haven't been in the last two or three years and felt we've allowed them to take liberties with the people for thirty years and this is the end result of people being complacent. i mean one could say in the eighty's and the late seventy's it was a lot about identity politics famine ism and the racism all these different things to think there's more of an emphasis ironically on class and the uniting of all these disparate ideas into it is the ninety nine percent this time around. you know it'

we can literally look at what george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison said about religious diversity in the late 18th century and we would look at those things and chairs them today. washington's statement that this government will give to bigotry no sanction and persecution no assistance that we all have a like liberty of conscience and beverly-- benjamin franklin making a donation to every religious fund in philadelphia asking them to celebrate july 4 together and to mourn him together when he dies, this notion welcoming religious diversity and nurturing interfaith cooperation is part of america's founding ideal and at the center of america's genius because in a diverse democracy the way you build up that society issue give diverse identity communities their dignity and with that dignity those diverse identity communities will contribute to the broader society. i think there is no place where that happens better than an american higher education so you have all of these wonderful institutions founded by religious communities. in dc my dad went to notre dame. 230 catholic

thomas jefferson was a proponent of the free press. with a few exceptions. at the same time, he regularly denounced newspapers. here, he is speaking a little bit after his presidency. i deplore the putrid straight with which are newspapers have passed and the malignity, for parity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. he was not a huge fan of newspapers. he would later to go on to say that my skepticism as to everything i see in a newspaper makes me indifferent to whether i ever see one. if partisanship was a major driver of political reporting for most of the 19 century, the new economic incentive in the late 19th century added a layer of sensationalism and entertainment, a move that had real political consequences. drumming up anti-immigrant sentiments and calls for war, the penny press was made possible by cheap newsprint. favored flavor over fact. it was more interested in emotion than getting the story right. this led to rising sensationalism which was reflected in tabloid journalism of the day, publications like the new york journal, and

his arch rival thomas jefferson expressed the fact that hamilton really is a colossus.umbers he is a host within himself. think how washington would feel to find his combination of talent and a capacity for per the work. -- for productive work. he is so overwhelmed. washington wanted people could think for me, as well as execute orders. hamilton, his affinity for the way washington thought was unequaled. ron put it this way. hamilton was able to project himself and washington's mind and what the general wanted to say, writing it up with instinctive tack and diplomatic skills. it was an inspired piece of ventriloquism. washington gave a few general hints and out popped the letter in record time. you could see how wonderful that would be for someone like washington. he really is washington's altar -- alter ego. he understands how washington thinks and is able to put it into words. that is why he becomes chief of staff in early 20's. they nickname him the little lie in because he was relatively -- lion because he was relatively short in stature. washington knows he is spec

of the reason for that was because even though people in the mainstream enlightenment, like thomas jefferson would have been an enlightenment -- influenced and he wrote the declaration of independence that i referenced about thinking we have inalienable rights and many of the enlightenment figures believed there was fixed morality, a god created things and got things started, created fixed moral law. there's a radical inlying 'ment that took place ask that tended to discard those idea and would be more important in leading into the kinds of dehumanizing philosophy is discuss. one figure was julian, french materialist thinker who wrote a book called "man the machine." and so he construed humans as just a machine. so we're -- this then ends up seeing human life as not anymore valuable than nigglings in the universe or cot mose. >> host: hugh do you view man sunny see humans as being created in the image of god and thus having sanctity and value in and of themselves. not instrumental view u, some peoples say humans have instrumental value. if they have rational capacities like peter singer and

patrick henry and thomas jefferson wanted decentralized government, so they compromised on federalism. so that idea of the premier value in american politics of cooperation, the old give-and-take, flexibility, tolerance, is really reflected in this rawlsian theory of justice. nobody gets everything they want. but nobody gets nothing. everybody gets something. nobody gets everything they want, but everybody get something. that is the kind of system you want in madisonian pluralism. interest groups lobbying. and that is the idea of a more permanent, stable regime. are there any questions about rawls theory of justice? >> if his theory revolves around fairness, how is it fair to make a wealthy person who has earned their money take care of the poor? i am not saying i do not think you should do that. but how is that fair to a person who worked hard to say you have to take care of the poor through the taxes and things like that? >> i think the general argument was -- who is the senator from massachusetts? elizabeth warren said at some point in some campaign when she was talking about busin

out of it was the gumption and the personalities like paul revere and benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson these are incredibly successful intelligent visionary renaissance man who studied the rights of man from the enlightenment in europe they brought it to america they caught a five there ideas of freedom in the declaration of independence of the constitution of united states and once they put that in motion it was inevitably going to go forward the inertia of the revolution once sparked was carried forward irreversibly there approximately twenty two thousand red coats or english soldiers we we went on a killing spree. to secure our freedom the british empire was the biggest empire the strongest. that ever existed ever you know came in to be our age and really through the battle in our favor were the french because the french hated the british the british for hundreds of years and. when the british were defeated we tried to be more americans the. winners of two world wars undefeated in the world wars. ok so you know at home trying to figure that one out. i live in the united kingdom i li

thomas jefferson and the tripoli pirates and now the war of 1812. is it hidden history? >> you just had john meacham, - - i am not. i never read one of those books and thought i could do it better. i just loved it. so i tried to do something and that is focused on an area that matters. that i believe is not getting enough attention. that highlights people besides the fame of former president and founding fathers. if you pick up this book, you will learn more about andrew jackson. you learn about stephen decatur, william eaton. the secret six and george washington's spy rang. you learn about a farmer, bartender, a grocery store journalist who was a prisoner who was working for us. i believe this country, as much as we love our founding fathers. they are built from the people in this room. average, everyday americans doing extraordinary things who are patriotic at their core. doesn't matter democrat or republican, patriotic. >> the title is the battle that shaped america's history. and the battle of new orleans overshadowed the dark humiliation of the burning of the public

it seems to me that to expand more generously as best we can the implications of what thomas jeffersonmeant that all men were created equal the generations that we honor or to emulate that strong the definition but those who expanded. then nation was fixated on the funeral of a man whose political life was largely about hope and opening our arms not folding them across our chest. the most important sentence ever written in this language is that we are all created equal. i am very careful when i say that because when i mentioned the english language like that about the school board candidate in texas against teaching spanish and on the campaign trail he said if english is good enough for our lord jesus christ it is good enough for texas. [laughter] we always say thank god for texas. [laughter] >> that was a total parenthetical. i have a list of two stupid things i have said to sitting governors. one when george w. bush was running for president i went to austin as a journalistic delegation and said do you know governor, if not for my people you would still be part of spain. he said that

thomas jefferson university studied a group of older adults with mildognitive impairment. they had to make arrangements to meet a friend and go for a walk. the physical activity helps reduce further memory loss by 90 or 88% and i think walking witha someone, interaction probably helped o. >> as hurricane florence barrels toward the east coast major airlines have a plan to help avoid stranded travellers at airport. they're waving change a fee airports that could possibly be in florence's th. travellers can rebook their flights between now and the 19th of this month. travellers flying to south carolina, north carolina, and virginia can rebook their flights within 14 days of their original flight date at no additional cost. weather has impacted several parts of our country. >> we begin in kentucky, workers were forced to sort mail in the rain after this pos office roo collapsed on sunday. look at that. 18 people were inside theil ng when the roof caved in during a heavy rainstorm. no one was a hurt everyone was able to escape. >> in indianapolis, firefighters say two boys are

the other was when i was out talking about thomas jefferson five or six years ago, i get a call chris christie just before hebecame patty hearst . and christie is good company, very funny and he said i want to talk to you about jefferson so we went to lunch in trenton and we were sitting there and he said i'm really more of a hamiltonian which means you're more of an investmentbanker. i said that's great governor, at least my god didn't get shot in jersey . the damnedest thing happened. i couldn't get back into the city. all the bridges -- [laughter] okay, back to the soul of america. how do we expand the definition that jefferson laid out. that's the mark of the american settler. the civil war, yes. reconstruction, no. the 1920s, 1915, birth of a nation is released, virulently racist movie. revive the ku klux klan. don't melt in georgia, the second ku klux klan is founded in an attempt to recover the great white empire of the south but it wasn't just the south.it became a national phenomenon. see if any of this sounds familiar. why did the ku klux klan get 3 to 5 million members from

federal's were trying to make the argument that he shouldn't elect thomas jefferson because he's not american. he is more french than american. what a perfect retort to the jeffersonian republicans. to be able to say, he wrote the declaration of independence. he is an american revolutionary. the federalist papers were written under the pseudonym appropriate by medicine, hamilton, and -- people under different pseudonyms that allowed them to communicate controversial and sometimes dangerous lyrical ideas, anonymously. in some ways, i think there are many digital forms that allow people to get ideas out there. in a way without letting their name be attached. that is a very enlightening it's bull because the point according to anointment thinkers who commented on this sort of thing, it's not so much that the authority of an argument comes from the identity of its author, the authority of an argument comes from its reasonableness. it comes from its logic. it comes from the degree to which common sense argues. it corresponds with common sense. it comes from the sense to which it conforms

in the inshined in the religious freedoms declaration drafted by thomas jefferson. prescribing any citizen unworthy of public confidence laying upon an incapacity of the officed of trust unless he professes that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advocates to which in common with his fellow citizens has a right. we know the mured contributions that religious communities make as a source of significant amounts of social capital and the force behind many sieving institutions. look at the wonderful schools and hospitals, and relief efforts that are being conducted, both in the u.s. and around the world by faith-based organizations. today we face the reality of increasing religious diversity, and the decline of what robbe jones called majority white christian america, although if you look at the demographics of course, the numbers still show that our religious minorities are quite small in number. for almost a decade the inclusive america project has examined this issue, and this year, we released a report entitled "plurlimp in perral

democracy without us period that's how it works one of the things are about eight hundred twenty thomas jefferson tells american diplomat william c. jarvis he says i know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not in the light and not to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education this is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power and to me that is the problem you keep spending money and the problem that hillary got no water never trampers seem to be making as they repeatedly insist on the people are just some more informed or stupid people were duped by me me and the people saw. it isn't the voters who made the mistake the people who made the mistake are the two egomaniacs who turn this entire thing and our entire democracy and our election into a shouting match in a big game and both of them had and i have this feeling like they were oh. to this that they deserved it because of who they were and what they had accomplished and they

fellow one of wilson's founder, thomas jefferson explained the issue this way.s are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, of reasoning becomes a first importance. no wonder then that jefferson founded the university of virginia committed in a letter 1820 that the institution would "be based on the unlimitable freedom of the human and its residents would not be afraid to follow truth tolerateit may lead or any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." the last portion of application is critical. to tolerate any error so long as left free to combative. jefferson was saying that we be wrong.ight to and importantly that there is nothing fear in being wrong so left free to is combat it. that is so long as we are free an peak in opposition to error. these founding era principals the relationship of education of citizens and the thriving of the republic and american society at large needs to be deeply oncerned with the growing anti-free speech movement in the modern academy. he students who indicate in polls that they do not value free speech,