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Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman
Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987.
Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson.
There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact, there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are flags like those in Howard Chandler Christy’s Signing of the Constitution—the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible—and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic.
Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
The above commentary is based, in part, on the following email from Mr. Glanzman’s daughter:
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
I am writing to you on behalf of my father, Louis Glanzman. He requested that I contact you to give his permission to include his image of the Signing of the Constitution on your web-site providing you post his name alongside his work. Please have the credit line read; painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
As far as the history of the painting there is a long list of details of which you may be interested. To begin, my father was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create his painting which is the most historically accurate depiction of the event. He worked closely with several historians through the National Parks Department to create the correct color of the walls, the accuracy of the chandelier, wood moldings and various other room details. Through extensive research on his own and images of each delegate which was provided he had to appropriately age each portrait in his painting. There was no record of an image of the delegate from Delaware so my father painted him from the back signing the Constitution. Subtle details such as the snuff on the tables, the delegate with the wooden leg and a male secretary recording the event is accurate information that my father is famous for in his work. An important fact that he noted obviously is that everyone was not present at one time, but for the painting to be used as a educational tool he recorded all the signers. There is more information that my father would be glad to share with you but he would prefer you to call him so he may tell you in his own words.
Thank you for contacting his website and I wish you success in your endeavor. As you are probably aware enacted this year there is now Constitution Day on the public school teaching calendar requiring a lesson to be taught. FYI there is a poster available through the National Parks Department which has a legend included names and position of each delegate.
Sincerely,
Marybeth Glanzman Bortzfield
Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman
Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987.
Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson.
There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact, there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are flags like those in Howard Chandler Christy’s Signing of the Constitution—the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible—and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic.
Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
The above commentary is based, in part, on the following email from Mr. Glanzman’s daughter:
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
I am writing to you on behalf of my father, Louis Glanzman. He requested that I contact you to give his permission to include his image of the Signing of the Constitution on your web-site providing you post his name alongside his work. Please have the credit line read; painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
As far as the history of the painting there is a long list of details of which you may be interested. To begin, my father was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create his painting which is the most historically accurate depiction of the event. He worked closely with several historians through the National Parks Department to create the correct color of the walls, the accuracy of the chandelier, wood moldings and various other room details. Through extensive research on his own and images of each delegate which was provided he had to appropriately age each portrait in his painting. There was no record of an image of the delegate from Delaware so my father painted him from the back signing the Constitution. Subtle details such as the snuff on the tables, the delegate with the wooden leg and a male secretary recording the event is accurate information that my father is famous for in his work. An important fact that he noted obviously is that everyone was not present at one time, but for the painting to be used as a educational tool he recorded all the signers. There is more information that my father would be glad to share with you but he would prefer you to call him so he may tell you in his own words.
Thank you for contacting his website and I wish you success in your endeavor. As you are probably aware enacted this year there is now Constitution Day on the public school teaching calendar requiring a lesson to be taught. FYI there is a poster available through the National Parks Department which has a legend included names and position of each delegate.
Sincerely,
Marybeth Glanzman Bortzfield
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, jointly with the City of Mostar, is organising a Citizens’ Assembly as part of the first deliberative process of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the South East of Europe.
During four consecutive weekends, from 10 to 31 July 2021, the Citizens’ Assembly is bringing together a representative group of 48 randomly selected citizens to deliberate upon and make recommendations on the cleanliness of the city and maintenance of public spaces in Mostar. This topic was proposed by citizens of Mostar and chosen after consultations with civil society and the city authorities.
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
„Signing of Memorandum of Co-operation with Mario Kordić, Mayor of Mostar“
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, jointly with the City of Mostar, is organising a Citizens’ Assembly as part of the first deliberative process of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the South East of Europe.
During four consecutive weekends, from 10 to 31 July 2021, the Citizens’ Assembly is bringing together a representative group of 48 randomly selected citizens to deliberate upon and make recommendations on the cleanliness of the city and maintenance of public spaces in Mostar. This topic was proposed by citizens of Mostar and chosen after consultations with civil society and the city authorities.
An overlooked gem at the Northwest corner of the Capitol grounds is a little brick summerhouse designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. A large fountain in the center, with water fountains for a cool drink in the summer heat and stone seats set into the walls with cover for shade. And the window on the eastern side of the structure looks out onto a little grotto, a little postage stamp piece of wilderness just spitting distance from the chambers of what used to be the most powerful deliberative body on the planet, till the modern GOP took over and stopped all serious work. I can imagine some Congressmen or Senators in the late 19th century coming out to the summer house in the spring just before summer recess, to sit in the shade, drink cool water and discuss weighty matters. But Congress has changed a lot since then.
Washington, DC
March 2015
How can direct democracy and deliberative democracy make each other better? The 2022 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy took place from 21-25 September in Lucerne Switzerland. (Photo credit: Edda Dietrich, Democracy International)
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
"Sculptures in the Paddock" Shaw Vineyard Murrumbateman
Uluru Statement from the Heart in English
5m
SBS Radio - in consultation with the Uluru Dialogue, Indigenous Law Centre UNSW - is sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in various languages to continue the national dialogue. For the first time, this podcast collection includes more than 20 Aboriginal languages (from communities in the Northern Territory and from Northern Western Australia), which will continue to grow as more First Nations languages are translated. The collection also includes more than 60 languages for Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people to walk with First Nations peoples to create a better future. In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people. The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia's First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma. Photo by Jimmy Widders Hunt. Video collection: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/uluru-statement-from-the-heart-in... Podcast collection: www.sbs.com.au/language/ulurustatement
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An app about the Warlpiri culture. It helps support wellbeing and prevent suicide by having strong connections to culture.
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Young people and anyone wanting to connect with Warlpiri knowledge and culture.
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Warlpiri Elders in the Northern
Download Kurdiji 1.0 HERE Wantarri Jampijinpa Pawa-Kurlpurlunu (Steve Patrick) is very pleased to launch the Warlpiri Aboriginal resilience building app, Kurdiji 1.0 today. You will see many references throughout the app to Milpirri Festival, a collaboration between Tracks Dance and Wantarri, and the precursor to this initiative. This app is TOTALLY FREE for anyone …
09 Dec 1982, Jamaran, Iran --- Elections of the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership in Iran, deliberative body of 86 Mujtahids that is charged with electing the Supreme Leader of Iran and supervising his activities. The leaders gather to find a successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. --- Image by © Mahmoudreza Kalari/Sygma/Corbis
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
Chester County Library Board Appoints New Director
Columbia S.C. – After a deliberative search process including review of over 13 applicants, the Board of Directors of the Chester County Library is excited to announce the selection of a new Library Director.
Luanne James comes to Chester County from Stallings, NC and formerly Brownsville, TX where she was the Director for the Brownsville County Public Library system. Ms. James has her Masters in Library Science from the University of North Texas and is near completion of her PhD. She comes to the position with extensive experience in public library work, much of it at the director or regional director level.
Ms. James is enthusiastic about the opportunity in Chester County and brings a wealth of experience that the Board believes is essential to moving the Library forward. “I feel very fortunate and blessed to be part of such a wonderful community. I am really looking forward to working with everyone and promise to serve our patrons to the best of my ability” said Ms. James.
The Library has been without a full time Director since May of 2011. "The Board is very grateful to the staff and interim Director, Tally Johnson, for stepping up and working together. Their hard work has fostered continued excellence and ensured the quality of library services was befitting a level our community deserves," said Chris Winters, Board Chair. "After an exhaustive search through a pool of very talented candidates, the Board is excited to welcome Ms. James and look to continuous improvement to the library services across the county."
For more information, contact the Chester County Library at 803-377-8145 or visit www.chesterlibsc.org.
Workshop attendees confer at the 2050 Deliberative Dialogue workshop about their pathways, aided by the big screen calculator tool.
4 March 2011
Crown Copyright
MicroSoft ICE stitch panorama, and the Aboriginal tent Embassy.
On going…
Uluru Statement from the Heart in English
5m
SBS Radio - in consultation with the Uluru Dialogue, Indigenous Law Centre UNSW - is sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in various languages to continue the national dialogue. For the first time, this podcast collection includes more than 20 Aboriginal languages (from communities in the Northern Territory and from Northern Western Australia), which will continue to grow as more First Nations languages are translated. The collection also includes more than 60 languages for Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people to walk with First Nations peoples to create a better future. In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people. The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia's First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma. Photo by Jimmy Widders Hunt. Video collection: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/uluru-statement-from-the-heart-in... Podcast collection: www.sbs.com.au/language/ulurustatement
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The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, jointly with the City of Mostar, is organising a Citizens’ Assembly as part of the first deliberative process of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the South East of Europe.
During four consecutive weekends, from 10 to 31 July 2021, the Citizens’ Assembly is bringing together a representative group of 47 randomly selected citizens to deliberate upon and make recommendations on the cleanliness of the city and maintenance of public spaces in Mostar. This topic was proposed by citizens of Mostar and chosen after consultations with civil society and the city authorities.
A mobile 2050 Energy Pathways Calculator web tool nestles on delegates' name badges
4 March 2011
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