Keynote Conversation featuring George F. Will (HD)

America's Town Hall: George F. Will, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist for The Washington Post, discusses federalism, the 17th Amendment, and the state of American politics today with We the People host Jeffrey Rosen.

[@PG-wt9vo]

Excellent !

[@kevinhartung1092]

George F Will was a founding member of “Modern-American -Conservatism” helped to frame and shape by adding to the debate about what it means to be an American Conservative and what is it we actually want to try to conserve and to continue to Preserve (I.e. The Jeffersionian and/or Madisonian interpretations of The Constitution, Bill of Rights and The Declaration of Independence) and within 5 to 10 minutes of watching this video of him at the U.S. National Constitution Center and just knowing and educating yourself about George Will and his personal history and how interwoven it has been with the American Conservative Movement you would understand and or even appreciate how he is still a conservative and now trying to conserve American conservatism from the corrosion and corruption and the intentional Misconstruing of Great Philosophical and Ideological Tradtions just in the same way the Progressives hijacked and and completely changed “Progress” what was once the Great American “Liberal” Tradition.

[@hyojinkim2370]

If you want congress and executive branch to be "rivalrous" and less "tribal" then you cannot in the same breath say decision on citizens' united has not had significant effect. Politics by nature is driven by passion b/c vast sums of money is involved.

[@foxtrot684]

@ the 37:50 mark, George Will states "the Constitution is a tapestry of things that you cannot do", and I agree. However... the restrictions enumerated within the Constitution apply exclusively to the Federal government, and as a scholar, George Will should know that.

[@danblumberg2073]

According to the Supreme Court of the United States the Fourteenth Amendment applies the restrictions the Constitution imposes on the federal government against the several states. George Will apparently knows that.

[@danzan6951]

In all of this treatise on government and governing, the left out part is the nature of money and banking which is based on debt when it doesn't have to be. Ultimately, banks and bankers rule through the use of highly leveraged money, making for the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

[@thanksforbeingausefulidiot9016]

Markets work according to George Will. Which is exactly why, when I create a cure for cancer, I will patent my formula and then, thru the capitalistic market, raise the price of each pill to $100,000. Families will have to rob banks and sell their homes to afford treatment. Better not let any intrusive government regulation interfere with this process or my freedom to profit. Compassion plays no role in the free market so I won't let it interfere in my operation, and I want tort reform so that I don't have to face consequences in the courts. I will make Madison and George Will very proud.

[@245194LAC]

A thinking and intelligent individual will indeed soon bore of the sort of social media we have today. However, there are many who lack the intellect to differentiate between frivilous pursuits and those worthy of consideration that will benefit the population and, in turn, themselves. Pictures of kittens and pictures of your lunch benefit no one in the aggregate but they are popular. At least they distract the non-thinkers from intruding on things that are important and require sage consideration, of which they are incapable.

[@buckeye200175]

The constitution was written by business men for business men

[@janheath728]

I am a liberal, but I believe it’s important to listen to intelligent opposing views.

[@kirkbowyer3249]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." C. S. Lewis

[@kirkbowyer3249]

"Life is now more secure than it was in the preceding age; but for this very reason it is more dull. Like human anesthetists a Caesar and an Arsaces and a Kanishka have taken the sting out of those once burning economic and political questions that, in a now already half-forgotten past, were the salt of as well as the bane of human life. The benevolent action of efficient authoritarian governments has undesignedly created a spiritual vacuum in human souls." "How is this spiritual vacuum going to be filled? That is the grand question in the Graeco-Roman world in the second century after Christ; but the sophisticated civil servants and philosophers are still unaware that any such question is on the agenda." ARNOLD TOYNBEE (p.95; "The World and The West"; TOYNBEE; Oxford University Press, Inc.; New York; 1953)

[@jakebarnes28]

@@kirkbowyer3249 God is Dead. Stop using Him as a campaign shill.

[@deplorabletv3390]

He easily dismisses and has no clue of the power and capability of Big Tech.

[@kirkbowyer3249]

Article V. proceedings in the current political climate would result likely result in a new Inquisition. Meanwhile a lot of people are asking: "Who is James Madison?" “Government is instituted to protect private property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is just government which impartially secures too every man, whatever is his own.” James Madison (Property; National Gazette, March 29, 1792)

[@kirkbowyer3249]

"The advice nearest my heart and deepest in my conviction is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise." James Madison (Property; National Gazette, March 29, 1792)

[@michaelalexander3434]

Seemed the height of arrogance for Will to suggest, when asked his view of an Article V Convention to propose a constitutional amendment, in this instance, regarding congressional term limits, that in all of the 300+ million Americans, there aren't 55 people who he would "trust" to attend as delegates. It's almost as if he doesn't know that an Article V Convention can only propose an amendment, which would then have to be either ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures, or simply rejected. I would ask, "What's not to trust, George, about proposing an amendment to limit the terms of all your favorite career politicians?"

[@indi13lli]

He's a fraud.

[@pennyo6868]

Michael Alexander, I guess being "stuck" with a a broken form of government over rides the potential for improving it. This is a sad commentary on the affairs of government.

[@999reader]

Can no one recognize irony in Will's comment?

[@neil5568]

The plural of referendum is referendums not referenda.

[@wcg19891]

George Will makes an interesting argument. He states that the Madisonian view is from the Declaration of Independence that rights come first and that governments were meant to secure these rights. However Will left out that these rights were written as being endowed from our Creator. But Will is an atheist. He undermines his argument because if not endowed from our Creator and if not decided by the democratic process as Progressives say, then there is no agreement or framework for agreement of what they are. Did God or the Congress decide that we have a right to bear arms? If neither how do we decide we have that right?

[@ikerivers1795]

Because Will separates the "faith" part of Judeo-Christian Religion and only takes the "philosophical". The concept of the sovereign individual with all its rights and responsibilities imposed on those individuals comes from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

[@jakejohansen1889]

I love George Will. He speaks truth & doesn't care what all the crybabies think about it.

[@jordanperez3282]

I can listen to Mr. Will speak about American government. Interpretation of current politics? Nah

[@jimedgcomb4597]

We don't have Majority rule... If that were true, Donald Trump would NOT be president.... We don't have Majority Rule... If that were true Senators from California who represent 40 million people would have a greater say in the Senate than the senator from Rhode Island who only represents 210,000 people... We don't have Majority Rule... If that were true the US Congressman from 28th District of California, who represents 675,000 people would have a greater say than the congressman from Wyoming, or Idaho who only represents 130,000 people.... THAT IS Minority Rule, and that's what we have in this country..... He's a great historian, but he's not connected to the reality of the times...

[@jeffreyluciana8711]

George Will is a has-been dinosaur

[@zevbleuler6998]

According to the great and wonderful... who? Why?

[@jamesedwards.1069]

George Will is a Globalist. His "libertarianism" is a sham. He does not believe in human liberty under the eternal moral law, he is an atheist who believes in the libertinism of jungle law. It's sad that those of us who had hoped for better things have to now hope that jungle law works both ways.

[@cataniamommaitalia87]

George crybaby Will