I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekinez show.

George Bagby returns to the show.

How are you doing today, Mr. Bagby?

I'm doing wonderful.

I've had a very scholarly time.

I've been hitting the books lately, and I've been enjoying it very much.

Awesome, awesome.

All right.

So this was a request from a listener.

They wanted a,

they asked for a detailed lead up to the war between the states.

And there was nobody else that I was going to reach out to other than you.

And yeah, can you, why don't you tell us, you have an outline for several episodes.

So you want to just like hit, hit an outline of a couple episodes and then jump into what you are prepared for today?

Absolutely.

So the idea for the series is the origins of the American Civil War.

I haven't come up with a finite number of just how many we mean to have to lead up to this auspicious subject.

I've got several episodes sketched out in advance.

Today we're going to be talking about the convention debates about the Constitution

and the anti-federalist concerns, which figure largely in the coming sectional conflict.

The second episode, I mean to zero in on Hamilton's interpretation of the Constitution in the Washington administration.

So we'll go into his reports on the public credit and his key interpretation about the clauses of the Constitution, the necessary and proper clause and the

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