Joseph J. Ellis On Organizing America After Revolution
To begin the 2015 Lowell Lecture Series on Revolutionary Boston, author and scholar Joseph J. Ellis will talk about his latest book, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, decided to subordinate themselves anew.
In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states.
The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible-George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement.
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Good factual information, piss poor selection of facts to support his own obviously liberal bias.
@awakenedslave8464
5 жыл бұрын
40:11 He argues that the right to keep and bear arms is a derivative right obtained through service, while neglecting to inform that the militia was every man and they were considered to be in service all of the time; making it a natural right (in my opinion). Yes, liberal bias. I knew it was coming. You can always tell a liberal professor by how charming they think they are and try too hard to be. Turns my stomach, for some reason. Hard to listen but I stuck it out.
@rsr789
2 жыл бұрын
@@awakenedslave8464 Aside from the fact that most Americans utilize the term 'liberal' without understanding it in either 18th century OR 21st century terms, Prof. Ellis gave a terse explanation of what led to writing the Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment... this being KZread, here is another video in which he goes into a longer and more through explanation: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oo2hvI-jZJvWhNI.html As someone who purports to look up to the founders, perhaps I would suggest actually reading about the subject as they would have done?
Unfortunately Mr. Ellis is too cynical and dismissive to understand the nature and the spirit of our founding fathers. He seem to be little skeptical of his own writing... He ends up dismissing, belittling and insulting our national heroes...
@rsr789
3 жыл бұрын
You fail to understand they were human beings, not gods, not heros.
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