My Debate at Freedom Fest 2010 on the Constitution

[lysander6]

Here is the video of my debate at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas in July.  My opponent was Dr. Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian from UCLA.  The debate resolution is What is Better for America:  The Articles of Confederation or the Constitution.  I championed the former.

See:  http://kaiserleib.com/media/BuppertHoweDebate.mp4

I offer this as an alternative albeit not very popular view of our Founding.  There is plenty of Constitutional enthusiasm on this site despite the fact that our time period (1775) is a full generation prior to the unfortunate ratification of that document and much more proximate to the Declaration.  I thought this may be germane to expanding the framework of the argument.

There are other similar discussions on my blog.

[henschman]

The Articles of Confederation of course were the supreme law of the land when they were drafted.  A little known fact is that when the Constitution was ratified, it was not done so in conformity with the Articles of Confederation, which would have required an amendment approved by Congress and all of the state legislatures.

So, in a manner of speaking, the Constitution is unconstitutional! 

I'll watch your debate when I can get to a computer with working speakers.  I wish I could have made it to Freedom Fest, but it was not a good time of year for me.  I was too busy trying to get permission from the state to practice my chosen profession.   

[LTR]

http://www.javelinpress.com/hologram_of_liberty.html