He's good. His passion for the subject area is inspiring. This lecture is in the Boston area so his Scalia comments are obviously welcomed with open arms and giggles. But I can get around that. Joseph Ellis is a marvel to listen to and to read.
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.
@@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 TH-cam, here is another video in which he goes into a longer and more through explanation: th-cam.com/video/pYmZ-j48pTo/w-d-xo.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...
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He's good. His passion for the subject area is inspiring. This lecture is in the Boston area so his Scalia comments are obviously welcomed with open arms and giggles. But I can get around that. Joseph Ellis is a marvel to listen to and to read.
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Good factual information, piss poor selection of facts to support his own obviously liberal bias.
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.
@@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 TH-cam, here is another video in which he goes into a longer and more through explanation: th-cam.com/video/pYmZ-j48pTo/w-d-xo.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...
You fail to understand they were human beings, not gods, not heros.
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