Episode Eighteen: Part IV The Constitutional Convention

10/31/22 • 30 min

In episode eighteen, we will deal with what would prove to be the most contentious issue of the summer proportional representation, discuss some the lessor known contributors to the final form of the Constitution, we will also examine the work of the so called “Committee of Detail” a little discussed but an incredibly influential body on the final form of the Constitution and last the election and power of the executive branch.

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Episode Seventeen: Federal Indian Law Part II

In episode seventeen we will continue with our fascinating discussion on Federal Indian Law with one of the most distinguished scholars in the field Professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher. In this wide-ranging interview examining Federal Indian Law from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, we will cover the 1846 case of United States v. Rogers, the Treaty Era, the Removal Era, the Allotment Era and the 1903 case of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock. In addition, we will examine the federal government’s efforts to assimilate Indian children, and the 1887 Dawes Act, the Indian New Deal, the Termination Era, the Era of Self-determination and last the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. Matthew L.M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan School of Law, and is a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. He has also published numerous casebooks and treatises on Federal Indian Law and is the primary editor and author of the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk, http://turtletalk.wordpress.com/.

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Episode Nineteen: The Constitution, Part V Ratification

In episode nineteen, we will examine the fight and the procedures utilized for the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Often treated by historians as little more than a postscript in the process, it did in fact represent, in itself, a great epoch in American political thought and development. The debate and votes which lasted a bit less than a year were thorough, egalitarian, passionate, thoughtful, and non-violent. In addition to ratification it also planted the seeds for the first political parties.