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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: The Constitution They Argued Over: Power\, Democracy\, and Compromise in 1787
DESCRIPTION:When delegates gathered in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787\, they agreed on one thing: the young United States was in trouble. Independence had been won\, but the nation’s first experiment in self-government\, the Articles of Confederation\, was failing. What no one agreed on was what should come next. \nAs James Madison and others urged the creation of an entirely new Constitution\, one that would dramatically strengthen the national government\, deep and competing fears came to the surface. Some delegates believed the Revolution had gone too far\, that democracy was sliding into disorder. They pointed to state debtor relief laws\, paper money schemes\, and violent uprisings by farmers resisting taxes as evidence of “mob rule.” Others\, however\, feared the opposite danger: that concentrating power in a strong federal government\, especially in a single executive\, would betray the Revolution’s ideals and lead straight back to monarchy. \nIn this talk\, University of Maryland constitutional historian Michael Ross will bring these high-stakes debates to life\, revealing the anxieties\, ambitions\, and hard-fought compromises that emerged from the Constitutional Convention\, and explaining how those decisions continue to shape American politics and government today. \nAbout the Speaker: \nMichael Ross is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland and a nationally recognized expert on U.S. constitutional and legal history. He is the author of numerous award-winning books and articles on the Supreme Court and the development of American law\, including Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. \nProfessor Ross currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History and has acted as a historical adviser to the United States Mint. He has twice been invited to deliver Silverman Lectures at the United States Supreme Court. Trained as both a historian and a lawyer\, he earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law and his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
URL:https://www.nnk250.us/event/speaker-series-the-constitution-they-argued-over-power-democracy-and-compromise-in-1787
LOCATION:Northern Neck Heritage Arts Center\, 73 Monument Place\, Heathsville\, VA\, 22473\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: The Virginia Declaration of Rights at 250
DESCRIPTION: The Virginia Declaration of Rights at 250 \n  \nThe Virginia Declaration of Rights\, adopted unanimously by Virginia’s Fifth Convention on June 12\, 1776\, is a seminal\, post-colonial state paper affirming republican principles\, limited government\, and humankind’s natural rights. It is arguably the most imitated of America’s founding documents. Indeed\, it is one of the most influential texts in the American constitutional tradition. Often described as the first modern declaration or bill of rights in America\, it is a distillation of the great principles of liberty and constitutionalism that revolutionary Americans believed were derived from English traditions and\, more generally\, western culture. The Virginia Declaration informed not only core principles of the US Declaration of Independence (1776) but also the language and content of numerous subsequent bills of rights in the respective states and nation. It also made profound innovations to the way Americans viewed religious liberty. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDaniel L. Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington\, DC. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University\, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar\, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. His research interests include the intersection of religion\, politics\, and law in American history. He has authored or edited eleven books\, including Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press\, 2017) and Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State (New York University Press\, 2002). He has published numerous book chapters\, reviews\, and articles in scholarly journals\, including American Journal of Legal History\, Constitutional Commentary\, Journal of Church and State\, Politics and Religion\, and William and Mary Quarterly. Professor Dreisbach is a past recipient of American University’s highest faculty award for teaching and research.
URL:https://www.nnk250.us/event/speaker-series-the-virginia-declaration-of-rights-at-250
LOCATION:Historic Christ Church\, 420 Christ Church Road\, Weems\, VA\, 22576\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: The Declaration at the Birth of Our Nation
DESCRIPTION:The Declaration at the Birth of Our Nation \nNNK 250 Speaker Series featuring Dr. Phil Levy \nThe Declaration of Independence has been called “American scripture.” The Constitution certainly has its celebrators\, but there is a unique reverence reserved for the document that Americans see as the nation’s birth announcement. The Declaration’s elegant prose\, and resonant list of complaints represent the melding of English thought and colonial experiences in the years after the Seven Years War. It is all too easy though to keep the Declaration in its protected glass case and not see it as it was seen and reacted to at the time of its drafting. This talk looks at the implications of the Declaration’s critique of the empire and how it was received by a country already at war for its independence and in states (former colonies) that had been busy declaring their own independence well before July 4th. \nAbout the Speaker: \nPhilip Levy is a Professor of History at the University of South Florida and is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He is the author of several books many of which deal with George Washington both as a person and as a national icon. Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm\, George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2013) and George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature\, Memory\, Myth\, and Landscape (2015) focus on the places of Washington childhood. The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of the Life of George Washington (2022)explores the many sites of Washington’s life and how their stories have been shaped by archaeology and issues of memory and commemoration and won the Society for Historical Archaeology’s James Deetz Book Award. His newest book\, Yard Birds: The Lives and Times of America’s Urban Chickens\, tells a very different story from his other work and explores how chickens and cities have shaped one another.  
URL:https://www.nnk250.us/event/speaker-series-the-declaration-at-the-birth-of-our-nation
LOCATION:University of Mary Washinton- Dahlgren Campus\, 4224 University Drive\, King George\, VA\, 22485\, United States
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