Constitutional Convention 1787 event
also: the floor of Philadelphia, Constitutional Convention, the convention, Convention of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Convention
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He loved his country. He fought in the Revolution. He was Washington's scribe. He just believed that in a world of empires, we needed to be an empire, too, to compete. Yeah, and he proposed on the floor of Philadelphia that we needed a kid.…
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We are trying to decide eligibility for president. And how did that debate go? Let's talk about Mattel's law of nations. Well, first of all, the debate wasn't a debate. Everybody agreed. Natural born citizen in a conversation. I mean, liter…
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and the vice presidential position was a separate election since then. But to make sure that the eligibility held, as I mentioned earlier, the final sentence of the 12th Amendment states that the vice president must meet the same eligibilit…
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It was very early, and it was very quick. So it wasn't just quick. It was very early. This was something they needed to take care of. They wanted it down, and that was it. Done with it. It's an amazing thing. It really wasn't a debate. Spea…
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Since the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, why would they, first of all, separate the two if they're the same as we've been told in interpretation? Because they're different. Citizen and National Department o…
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Do you have anything coming up that you want to share with everybody? We just started something that should be really fun. We did episode one. We're going through James Madison's notes on the Philadelphia Convention through the Constitution…
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convention hall in the middle of summer in Philadelphia, they've realized they're just going to have to rewrite the whole darn thing. And you can get in the heads of the founding fathers. It's not what they were trying to do, but what they …
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Doug and I are getting ready to jump into a long project. We're going to go through Madison's notes on the Convention of Philadelphia. So we're going to talk about what the founding fathers really were debating at the time. That's the best …
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So we're going to be going through that. That was about a four and a half month convention. And so we have it all lined up chronologically, but we're going to be going through that. It'll probably take us into four months, you know, about d…
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He's huge, like huge. And let's not forget about the Lansing part of the family connection from his mother. Yes. Because John Lansing was one of the three delegates from New York, along with Alexander Hamilton, to the Philadelphia Conventio…
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Colonel, because all we're talking about here is a federal employee by proxy. I see war hamster. Howdy, everyone. Hey. Thought I'd stop by before I have to head out for dinner. Enjoyed the show today. Me too. Yeah, what you're talking about…
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Yeah, it's just another way for them to launder money to themselves. Our money, by the way. Absolutely. And Colonel, that's exactly why we should have stopped right away in 1787 with internally funded, I'm sorry, federally funded internal i…
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The richest man in Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, who funded a lot of the Revolutionary War, writes a letter to Washington and says, you need to get this Hamilton guy to be the secretary of treasury. And he's the only cabinet secretary until …