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In his book The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915, historian Jon Grinspan, curator of political history at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History, writes about how today s hyper-partisan and violent political discourse is not so different from how American democracy was practiced in the stanley mugs wake of the Civil War, and how the 20th century s more peaceful forms of political battles represented a maturation of our democracy or, perhaps, an outlier . Read the excerpt below, and don t miss John Dickerson s interview with Jon Grinspan on CBS Sunday Morning October 16! Bloomsbury Nearly every day while writing this book, I would walk across the National Mall. I d pass tourists wearing MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN caps stanley cup and protesters waving THIS IS NOT NORMAL signs, and head into the secure vaults of the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History. Beyond the recently collected riot shields and tiki torches, I would settle into the cool, quiet aisles that preserve the deep history of our democracy. There, century-old objects told a forgotten drama, more heated than anything we ve seen. Torches from midnight rallies. Uniforms from par stanley cups uk tisan street gangs. Ballots from stolen elections. Shifting between the fractious twenty-first century and those furious nineteenth-century objects starte Oajk San Jose State U. Club Cooks Up Awareness For Darfur
CBS News So, who saw that coming The centerpiece of President Obama s signature health care reform law was saved today by a bizarre alliance led by a conservative chief justice appointed by President George W. Bush.Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court s four liberal justices in voting 5-4 to declare the law s indivi stanley cup becher dual mandate constitutional. The mandate requires nearly all Americans, starting in 2014, to obtain health insurance or pay a tax. The ruling came with a twist. Democrats had pushed the health care package through arguing that Congress had stanley cup the authority to require the mandate under the Constitution s commerce clause. Although his liberal allies found that the commerce clause is a justifiable means to invoke the mandate, Roberts found it does not give Congress that authority. However, the court determined the mandate is constitutional under Congress power to lay and collect taxes. Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University who wrote an amicus brief opposing the mandate, said he is more surprised that the court upheld it under the tax provision.It was the federal government s weakest argument, he said.Watch CBS News special report in the video stanley cup to the left.Richard Friedman, law professor at the University of Michigan, also said he was surprised that Roberts backed the tax argument, which he also called the weaker argument. He probably wanted to provide as little basis
In his book The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915, historian Jon Grinspan, curator of political history at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History, writes about how today s hyper-partisan and violent political discourse is not so different from how American democracy was practiced in the stanley mugs wake of the Civil War, and how the 20th century s more peaceful forms of political battles represented a maturation of our democracy or, perhaps, an outlier . Read the excerpt below, and don t miss John Dickerson s interview with Jon Grinspan on CBS Sunday Morning October 16! Bloomsbury Nearly every day while writing this book, I would walk across the National Mall. I d pass tourists wearing MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN caps stanley cup and protesters waving THIS IS NOT NORMAL signs, and head into the secure vaults of the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History. Beyond the recently collected riot shields and tiki torches, I would settle into the cool, quiet aisles that preserve the deep history of our democracy. There, century-old objects told a forgotten drama, more heated than anything we ve seen. Torches from midnight rallies. Uniforms from par stanley cups uk tisan street gangs. Ballots from stolen elections. Shifting between the fractious twenty-first century and those furious nineteenth-century objects starte Oajk San Jose State U. Club Cooks Up Awareness For Darfur
CBS News So, who saw that coming The centerpiece of President Obama s signature health care reform law was saved today by a bizarre alliance led by a conservative chief justice appointed by President George W. Bush.Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court s four liberal justices in voting 5-4 to declare the law s indivi stanley cup becher dual mandate constitutional. The mandate requires nearly all Americans, starting in 2014, to obtain health insurance or pay a tax. The ruling came with a twist. Democrats had pushed the health care package through arguing that Congress had stanley cup the authority to require the mandate under the Constitution s commerce clause. Although his liberal allies found that the commerce clause is a justifiable means to invoke the mandate, Roberts found it does not give Congress that authority. However, the court determined the mandate is constitutional under Congress power to lay and collect taxes. Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University who wrote an amicus brief opposing the mandate, said he is more surprised that the court upheld it under the tax provision.It was the federal government s weakest argument, he said.Watch CBS News special report in the video stanley cup to the left.Richard Friedman, law professor at the University of Michigan, also said he was surprised that Roberts backed the tax argument, which he also called the weaker argument. He probably wanted to provide as little basis
