[applause] >> next from the first bill of rights day book five, yuval levin discusses this book "the great debate. edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and left." >> applause [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second installment of our thrilling first ever national constitution center bill of rights book fair. for those of you who are joining us for the first time on c-span let me introduce this great event briefly one more time. i'm jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the national constitution center, which, as our audience knows is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. and this book festival is part of a day-long celebration, today, december 15, bill of rights day which is the 225th 225th anniversary of the proposal of the bill of rights. of the new exhibit opening at the constitution center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. and this was one of the copies that george washington sent to the states on october 2, 1789. we

maybe not for yuval but for the rest of us it's hard work. buff it is past power. >> i would say i have been personally impressed by his work on education and in particular, i think to make a broader plan i think april is right. there is understanding policy details and the nity gritty on the right that is sort of bizarre to me. it seems to me to be a critical ingredient of effort to rein in the federal role in a way that's productive and if you don't, you know, if all you want to make is blanket claims about doing away with things that never go anywhere, we are not going to get very far. >> you know the first two years of the obama presidency there was a lot of talk about should the republicans become the party of no. i was for republicans defining themselves as the party of no far superior of the party of need to but maybe a little bit less. and i thought it became more important to develop an alternative agenda and present it in 2011 and 2012. but it was not crazy for other people to think, the incumbent president who is contemporary liber

[applause] >> next from the first bill of rights day book five, yuval levin discusses this book "the great