every delegate who had voted on july 2nd knew tom payne's arguments backwards and forwards. richard henry lee certainly did and he wrote that april of '76 that no state in europe will either treat or trade with us so long as we consider ourselves subjects of great britain. you want me to make treaties, you want trade with anyone in europe except britain if we are still subjects of great britain. indeed two months later when richard henry lee wrote his june 7th resolutions he didn't just propose independence in that resolution, he actually proposed two other things in the larger language. he also proposed to prepare and digest the form of a confederation and offered a third resolution to draw up a plan for forming foreign alliances. so in the same breath that we say how about independence we're saying how about foreign alliances. these two things are the same thought. seen in that context, then, the declaration itself is a means to an end. everyone at the time understood this, even if today we sometimes do not. on its own congress' proclamation could not make the colonies fre

so many examples where you can give one side of the other in the house of a very very hard it was tom payne who said these are the times that try medicines and women's a sold. over one of the home said hard cases make bad law we're in a testing situation our constitution has endured for lower than any other constitution in the history of the world and it will endure this but it has to strike a balance it has to strike a balance between privacy and the right of people to who congregate for religious purposes the right to protest government actions and the need for public health historically we've done a pretty good job we never did what many other countries did fell into the lure of fascism or communism during times of crisis we haven't always been perfect and some liberal presidents have been less than perfect president roosevelt invited 110000 americans of japanese argentinian detention centers that was an abysmal abuse of due process president lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus we haven't been perfect but we've never given in to or thor period is a more tyranny the way france did

and they set the world on fire just as tom payne predicted that they would. and it is up to us and part of your inheritance here to keep the flame of their memories alive because if we don't, then it won't be a foreign power that dips its foot in the ohio or scales the rockies. it will be us who have brought to end this great experiment that is really the last best hope of man. so i thank you for this high honor. i thank you for being here on veterans day. and for remembering again those 41 million who have taken up arms since those farmers stood at lexington green and fought back the greatest force on the planet. thank you all, and god bless you. [ applause ] >> secretary, it's a hard act to follow but we'll do our best. i'm jack warren, the executive director of the american revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. this weekend, our society opened an exhibition. i opened the door so you could see into the room if you haven't been in. please do. not during the program. called america's first veterans. it traces the experience of revolutionary w

the dogs, or the scheme our leader tom payne picked was instead of publishing it to the government printingice, we went and published it to ballantine books and made it glossier, used Ãband the hope was we are going to put it directly we are going to make it possible for to be directly in your hands because the way our system is supposed to work is you guys are talking to your members of congress and telling them, i know we have this problem, that problem the other problem but i want you to know i think it's important we do x and space. if you just leave any group of people stewing in all their own juices, they will think their way into the couple things that need to be done and they won't be mindful of broader range of things. problem-based goals are very long-range. if i'm a member of congress or president have to make a commitment not to put money on this instead of that and if it put here becoming that can benefit from it tomorrow or a week or a couple months there will be a benefit that's hard to describe and it might benefit your kids and your grandkids. it's a hard thing in human nat

don't think he would have cared that he wasn't a first-tier founding father, which is the beauty of tom paynemany stories like that in the book about people where you either care about didn't know things about or people which is more interesting people you never knew that you cared about but mo, you make us care about them in the podcast. >> did i makeg, you care about lawrence welk? >> i watched lawrence welkk as a child with my grandmother and did the poco with my sister while my grandmother applauded so yeah. it was touching. >> he was a bad ass. >> so many great people. what you hope readers get from this? >> i hope that readers will be delighted because delightful is the kind of word my father loved to use and it's a great word and not used enough and not enough important is placed on it or value is given to it. i hope that people are delighted by it and have fun with it and i hope that topics that seem heavy and are important like the black congressman of reconstruction, the pocket of history that has been forgotten, that it will go down easy and won't seem like we are learning about re

but if january, 1776, with the publication of tom payne's common sense, that relationship is forever severed. so there is now intellectually, there is no lingering remnant allegiance or loyalty between the colonists and the mother country. once they have severed their connection with the person of the king, psychologically, they are no longer members of the british empire. and so that then takes us straight to july 4th, 1776. into the passage, which we talked about last week, or last class of the declaration of independence. so what was this declaration of independence? that was ratified on july 4th, 1776. well, the first thing to know about it is that it is, indeed, a political and in some ways a diplomatic document. it was written, in part, for george, iii, it was written for european diplomats and financiers, and it was written, of course, for the american people. to organize, to help organize the american people politically. but the declaration of independence, of course, was a lot more than just a political document declaring the independence of these 13 colonies and the calling

colonies had to prove to the world that they were rebels against the crown, and the best way to do so, tom payne, had argued in the pages of "common sense" back in january, the best way to prove to the world that they are real rebels was to announce that fact in writing. in a manifesto that the delegates could dispatch -- this is paine -- dispatch to foreign courts, setting forth the miseries we have endured and the peaceable methods we've infecttually used for address, declaring at the same time that not being able any longer to live happily or safely under the cruel disposition of the british court. we have been driven to the necessity of breaking off all connections with her. at the same time, assuring all such courts of our peaceable disposition towards them and our desire of entering into trade with them. every delegate who had voted on july 2nd knew tom paine's arguments backwards and forwards. richard henry lee certainly did, and he wrote that april of '76 that no state in europe will either treat or trade with us so long as we consider ourselves subjects of great britain. we won't be abl

to sort of capture the vision the past and prospect of the future and that report, our boss, tom paynet back to an illustration had made many years earlier, this illustration appeared in a magazine in 1952 and i encountered it middle 1985 at the age of 33. i looked at it and i read the paragraph into the article from this is described as a space station, people living there, tourists visiting there, scientists working there, it's a jumping off. >> for destinations beyond this the craft that takes people back and forth to the station, it specialized in tailored for just that 200 miles back and forth. it's the hardest step off our planet, cap first 200-mile step. this is a purpose built vehicle that will just do that and do it repeatedly. it's described as a telescope is put into orbit above the atmosphere, starts never bothered by clouds or by turbulence. that guy there is obviously an astronaut fixing it, upgrading it. he sketch this out and made this illustration in the year ion was born. in my early 30s, i looked at this picture and it turned out to be right had a different shape of

captain tom moore's amazing achievement this week has been an inspiration to us all — but now there's another nonagenarian who's taking on a marathon challenge. 90—year—old margaret payne absolutely is. a positive outlook. how many climbs, how many times have you been up and down the stairs so far? i think i've got to 21. and the total is going to be 282? what is your time frame for this? when you hoping to achieve this?” your time frame for this? when you hoping to achieve this? i think it will be the end ofjune. so you're pacing yourself, which is absolutely brilliant. what inspired you to do this? bell, tom, partly. obviously! think it is amazing what he has achieved and my husband died at christmas time with us here in the house and he was looked after so well by the national health that hits my way of getting a little thank you. and also all our nursing staff, the doctors, nurses will stop i think it's also a thank you for that. it is a disgrace, i feel it is a disgrace dash make you feel it has a disgrace dash make you feel it has a disgrace... yes, i feel it is a disgrace that we were not more prepared. good morning, it is charlie here in the studio. lovely to s