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Constitution Alive And The Original Intent That Keeps People Free
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The fastest way to lose a constitutional republic is to raise citizens who cannot explain what the Constitution says. That is the warning thread running through our conversation with David Barton as we share the opening segment of Constitution Alive, recorded around original documents and anchored in the places where America’s founding ideas were debated and framed.
We dig into why history is not a hobby but a “training camp” for freedom, starting with George Mason’s call for a frequent return to fundamental principles. From there we lay out John Jay’s practical roadmap for civic responsibility: read the Constitution, study it, teach it, know your rights, recognize when they are violated, then defend and assert them. We also press into a hard reality: modern civic education often fails to produce informed, active citizens, leaving people unable to name the three branches or describe the judiciary, which makes rights easier to erode.
Along the way, we tackle the claim that founding documents are too old to apply now, using a vivid comparison between timeless principles and hyper-specific ancient laws. We also challenge the idea that the Founders were a single class of elites by looking at the range of backgrounds, careers, education paths, and hardships that shaped the people who signed the Declaration and built the framework of American government. We close with Benjamin Rush’s bracing definition of patriotism as a moral virtue tied to responsibility for neighbors and future generations.
If you want a clearer, more confident grasp of the Constitution, listen now, share this with a friend who cares about civic literacy, and subscribe so you do not miss the rest of the series. If the conversation helps, leave a review and tell us: what do you think is the biggest gap in how Americans learn the Constitution today?
WallBuilders Live Sets The Stage
SPEAKER_02Welcome to the Intersection of Faith Down Politics. This is Wall Builders Live with David Barton and Rick Green. We appreciate you joining us today. Be sure to visit online at wallbuilders.com and also wallbuilderslive.com. We're going to do a four-part series this week on Constitution Alive. You've probably seen this on our website or or on Glenn Beck's program and other media around the country. Uh, but it's a it's an opportunity to really dive into the Constitution and walk through clause by clause, article by article, section by section, and look for those areas in the Constitution that are our responsibility to do something. And we thought we'd do this in a fun way. We actually, when we created this program, part of the program is done in the room, in Independence Hall, where the Constitution was actually framed, where the declaration was put together, and and it's where they debated these things. And so we actually went to that room, we do most of the teaching from there. But then we did a really cool thing, and right from the li the library at Wall Builders, the Wall Builders Library, you've heard so much about, you've read about, you've seen in in our different videos and and uh publications, all these original documents that David Barton has, just phenomenal information. So we decided if we were going to study the Constitution, we wanted to study the original intent of the Constitution, and to do that, we had to go to the original source of the Founding Fathers. And so we do that in David Barton's library, and it it was so exciting to get to sit there with David and ask him questions and pull out documents off the shelves and and go through these great questions about the foundations of America. And we put that into Constitutional Live and we want to share that with you, our listeners. Um obviously it's a it's a well not obviously if you've seen it, it is a it's an extensive series. It's it's about twelve hours of material. We can't do the whole thing on on radio here, but we want to give you a taste of it. So this week we're gonna give you the first section of Constitutional Live, segment one, where we essentially introduce the program wealth of information that uh that David shares in this introduction that we wanted to bring to you, our listeners. So over the next uh four days you're gonna get to to hear that and get a great taste of of what this program is all about. It will educate you, it will inspire you, it'll give you the information and ammunition you need to help restore America's Constitution. So we're gonna go to Constitution Alive with David Barton and Rick Green.
Why History Matters For Liberty
SPEAKER_02Welcome to Constitution Alive, the Citizen's Guide to America's Founding Documents. We are here in one of the most amazing libraries on the planet with one of the foremost experts on the Founding Fathers and our founding documents, David Barton. David, thank you so much for having us here. So why do you dive into so much history? Why spend so much time in the past?
SPEAKER_00You know, the reason we do that is because we have been the most successful nation in the history of the world to this point, and there's a reason for that. You can't change the formula and expect to get the same results, whether it's Coke or Pepsi or anything else. And so it's important to know the formula, and that's what the history does. So there's actually a great quote from a guy named George Mason. Uh, there's 55 guys who actually helped write the Constitution. 39 of them signed that document. Mason did not sign the document. He was there, he was very active, very strong part. He actually went home after the Constitution dissatisfied of some things, and he stirred up some things across America that really produced the Bill of Rights. And so that's why we called him the father of the Bill of Rights. He thought the Constitution did not go far enough in protecting individual liberties.
SPEAKER_02But he influenced both. So he was real involved in the Constitution and later in getting the Bill of Rights.
SPEAKER_00He's very involved in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And significantly, he owns another notable title, and that if you go back to when we signed the Declaration of Independence, we think of that's when we separated from Great Britain. Not so. Virginia actually separated from Great Britain before they signed the Declaration. And so George Mason is the guy who is a chief author of the 1776 Virginia Constitution, where they separated. Now, that that Virginia Constitution, the 1776 Doc, really cool document here. Jefferson used a lot of the language that Mason had used in that 1776 Constitution, later used it in the Declaration of Independence. So Mason has a big influence. But he made a statement that is so profound they included it in that Virginia Constitution, and they've still preserved it to this day, and it's a great statement. Here's what he said. He says, no free government nor the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. And the emphasis there is you keep going back to fundamental principles. Now you're a baseball guy, and that's why you do spring training every year.
SPEAKER_02You're going back to those basic skills that you learned from the first time.
SPEAKER_00I was a basketball coach. We do basketball camps every year. I've had the kids for a number of years. You keep going back to the fundamentals.
SPEAKER_02So this is the training camp. This is the training camp. This history that's in this room. We're going back to those fundamental principles.
SPEAKER_00And our objective with what we want to do, our objective is really well stated by John Jay.
John Jay’s Six Verbs For Citizens
SPEAKER_00And John Jay became the original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but at the time they wrote the Constitution, he and James Madison, Alexander Hamilton did the Federalist Papers, and that was to explain to America what the Constitution is all about. So he's really one of the three guys most responsible for the adoption of the Constitution through those Federalist Papers. But as a constitutional guy himself, who helped write the best commentary on it there is, the Federalist Papers, he had a great statement on why we study this type of stuff. And this is the statement he made. He said every member of the state ought diligently to read and to study the Constitution of his country and teach the rising generation to be free. Now, it's interesting. He relates being free to knowing the Constitution. You ought to know the Constitution and teach the next generation if you intend to be free. He says by knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when they're violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them. Now that's really the objective of what we're doing in all these next lessons that come along. And there's six verbs that he has in there that will be really the guideline for what every citizen needs to shoot for. So the six verbs.
SPEAKER_02So this will really drive everything we do for the rest of the course, then. This is our outline. That's the outline.
SPEAKER_00He says, first you want to read the Constitution of the Country. You want to read and study it. And it's one thing to read it, it's another thing to study it. So read is like a quick perusal, but study is get to know it. And then he says, and then you want to be able to teach it. You want to be able to take the next generation and say, hey guys, here's what you need to know. Here's the document you need to know, here's the principles, this is what will keep you free. And this is the formula that's produced American success. Then he says, when you do that, then you'll know your rights, and when you know your rights, you'll perceive when they're being violated, and then you'll be prepared to defend and to assert them. And there's a big difference between defend and assert. Defend is on defense. I'll defend my rights, assert them as I'm going on offense to make sure I defend your rights. We need to do more, offense. And that's what we need. You know, too many people say that's not constitutional. You need to go assert what is constitutional. We have a good friend that's in the military. He's gone to the National War College there in Washington, D.C. And that's where they train the best and brightest military guys on not just how to conduct wars, but how to win wars. And there's a famous course they do, the Nine Principles of War.
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SPEAKER_00And in the nine principles of war, he points out that defense is what not one of the nine principles of war. Offense is. He says defense is what uh is considered a temporary condition whereby you reorganize to go back on offense. You don't win wars being on defense, you're going to be on offense. And so in this culture war, this this war for the future of our country, you got to be on offense. You can't just defend your rights, you have to assert those rights.
SPEAKER_02Well, now you've if this is the formula, if that's what's going to keep us free.
Why Schools Fail Basic Civics
SPEAKER_02This part is where we're really losing now, teaching the rising generation to be free. If we don't have a good education system, if we're not teaching what's in this room, we're losing the formula.
SPEAKER_00Well, you hit the education system, let's just be real blunt. We spend up to $120,000 over the educational course of a kid to go to school for for 12 years. We're not getting our money's worth.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's in some of our less expensive districts.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's right. That that's the average nationally. So it's going to be up or down in some. Washington, D.C. is way more than that. Yeah. So it depends on the district you're in. But what we know is that every state constitution says that the purpose of public education is to prepare active and informed citizens.
SPEAKER_02So we started those education systems to do exactly what John J. is saying here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But what we know right now is if you look at recent elections, those who have gone through our public education system, you're looking right now at 70 percent that do not know the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.
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SPEAKER_02So we're definitely failing the rising generation.
SPEAKER_00You're looking at 65 percent that cannot even tell you what the role of the judiciary is. That's one of the three branches. As a matter of fact, speaking of one of the three branches, 62 percent of those who have gone through public education cannot even name the three branches of government.
SPEAKER_02More than half. And they can't do that. So you definitely don't know what those branches are supposed to do if you don't even know what they are, yeah.
SPEAKER_0048 percent of elected officials cannot name the three branches of government.
SPEAKER_02That's half of our actual public servants in office.
SPEAKER_00If you don't know three branches, you don't know checks and balances, you don't know functions, you don't know what the constitution is, and that's why you read and study the constitution, you teach it the rising generation.
Ten Commandments Versus Hammurabi Law
SPEAKER_02Well, maybe they devalue what is in here because they think, look, this is old stuff. I mean, I hear that all the time. Ah, it's 200 years old, doesn't apply today. Why should I pay attention to all this stuff that happened 200 years ago?
SPEAKER_00And let me just one more time hit this because this is our objective, and we're gonna look at old stuff. So, number one, read the constitution, two, study the constitution, three, teach the constitution, especially the rising generation, but maybe to the burger flippers beside you, maybe to the mechanics in the shop where you work.
SPEAKER_02Not only the next generation, your generation.
SPEAKER_00Because we're at a point now where public education is not taught us. So we've got to just teach the Constitution. But once we do that, we want to know our constitutional rights, we want to defend our constitutional rights and assert our constitutional rights. Now, that's what we're after. But you've raised the issue up, you know, it's a really old document, and we hear that. Because, you know, the founding fathers when when when they did this Constitution, they didn't have internet. I mean, fastest transportation. No airplanes, forces, no, so what can we i I've been involved in a number of of court cases, state and federal courts, on issues of history, original intent. And one of those issues is the issue of the Ten Commandments. Because for generations in America, you're more likely to find a copy of the Ten Commandments hanging in a civic building than in a religious building. And that's just the way it was. I mean, the the Ten Commandments are considered the foundation of law. And so in so many of these places where the Ten Commandments has been hanging, there's now a lawsuit saying, oh, you can't do that. That's religious. You have to take that down. So in going through and and telling the judge, no, here's here's the first law book in America. It goes back to the Code of 1650 and it quotes the Ten Commandments through all the way through. You you go through and show that how it influenced well, these judges wanting to be a lot more open-minded, if you will, so open-minded their brains fall out. But nonetheless, some of the comments they make is, well, you know, it would be constitutional if you were to include other legal documents that influenced America as well. Not just Ten Commandments. And and so many of them said, for example, include the Code of Hammurabi.
SPEAKER_02Now Because that influenced America. I mean, where do they even get that?
SPEAKER_00The Code of Hammurabi is 300 years older than the Ten Commandments. Now, the Code of Hammurabi, according to these judges, that's a document that influenced American law, influenced the creation of our legal system. Therefore, we ought to show it along with Ten Commandments. Code of Hamurabi, you know, real problem with these guys, because they've just proven they don't have a clue what they're talking about, is it was not discovered until 1904. I don't think that quite made the founding for the city.
SPEAKER_02Unless they had a time machine, came forward, checked it out, went back. That's kind of the same.
SPEAKER_00But see, here's here and you're talking about the the the Constitution written two hundred years ago and how old it is. The difference is the Code of Hamurabi, it's got two hundred and eighty-two laws. That was what governed Babylonian civilization. This was three hundred years before Moses got the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai. So let me just show you some of the laws out of that code and let's just see how they work today. Let me let me go to number two law in the code of Hammurabi. If anyone bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap in the river, if he sink in the river, his accuser shall take possession of his house. Now, I I'm not quite sure the context of that. If I charge you that you've done something, you have to go to the river. And if it turns out you can't swim when you jump in and you sink, then I must have been right because I get the house. But if the river proved that the accused is not guilty, that is, if you can swim and you escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death. So I get I'm the one that's. You better go by the swimming. Yeah, that's right. You better buy a swim. Well, he who leaped in the river shall take possession of the house that it belonged to his accuser. Now, can we really fit that into our work today yet? I don't recall any occasion with any American law where we had you go jump in the river. See, the problem with the code of Hammurabi is it is so specific you cannot apply today. Yeah. Now, you take the Ten Commandments and look at the Ten Commandments. You know, I think that thing about honoring father and mother still works. I think thou shalt not kill still works. There's not there's not one of those that doesn't work. Every word of those still works today. And the the reason is they're not drawn on specifics to draw on principles. They take time as principles because the nature of man doesn't change and we still kill people, we still still we still perjure, we still disrespect parents. That's why it works. That's the way the Constitution is.
Jefferson’s Draft And The Slave Trade
SPEAKER_01Now, there's lots of reasons it would be cool to own a reprint like this, but one of the things that I want to highlight is not only is this a reprint that is in Thomas Jefferson's own hand in cursive, it shows some of his edits along the way, which is really fun, but it also shows what Thomas Jefferson thought was the most significant grievance in the original draft. It's the longest grievance, it's the last grievance. It was a grievance against the slave trade, arguing actually also against slavery, and arguing for the humanity of all that were enslaved. Thomas Jefferson thought that was the most important. Now, it didn't make it in the final draft, and we will explain why in the resource packet you get when you order one of these copies. But friends, this is something that you want in your collection. Go to wall butter.com and look for Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Meet The Real Founding Fathers
SPEAKER_02So if they were thinking that way though, I mean if they were thinking, okay, we're gonna put something in place here that needs to be timeless, that's gonna still work 100, 200, 500 years from now, how did they get to that point? And who were these guys that have that kind of foresight?
SPEAKER_00We've already talked about how poor American education is today, but we're gonna pile on while we've got the chance. Because the perception in so many colleges and so many textbooks is these were a bunch of elitists. These guys, you know, they they were all landowners and they were all wealthy, and they were and somehow we think of the founding fathers as the demographic of being homogeneous. They're all they're all the same kind, they're all cut from the same cloth. They're all really and they just didn't understand common people and what common people. That's absolute nonsense. And and one of the ways that that's easy for me to prove, because I speak to a lot of law schools and universities, and I can put up pictures of the founding fathers. You know, here you've got the in the top right corner, these are the the signers of the Constitution, 39 guys, and in the bottom left corner, you've got the 56 guys uh that that signed the declaration, or actually, it's got not quite the 56, because what one of the things that happened with the declaration, some of the guys like in Pennsylvania, their state said vote for the declaration, they voted against it. Their state legislature jerked them out of there and replaced them with other guys. In the middle of what was going on? So some of the guys that are there didn't vote for the declaration, but they got to sign it because they were replacements that would support independence. And there's some other guys there who voted for the declaration. Um, like like you get Robert Livingston, he voted for it. He's on the committee that helped write it. He never got to sign it because his state called him home to take the lead of the entire judiciary in the state. So he voted for it, he helped write it, he helped get us there. He just didn't get to sign it.
SPEAKER_02So there's a mix.
SPEAKER_00But those are 56, 56 guys signed the declaration. So you let's just take the guys who signed the declaration. Now, we're gonna you you're gonna be doing this class in Independence Hall. In Independence Hall is where they signed the declaration and the Constitution. And six of these guys who signed the declaration made it over to the Constitutional Convention. You got, for example, Roger Sherman here, and you got Robert Morse, and you got James Wilson and George Klymer, and you've got six guys. They did both. Both. And and more of these guys, like Elbert's Jerry here. Elbert's Jerry right here, he didn't sign the Constitution, but he's at the Constitutional Convention. He's one of the guys who didn't sign it because it didn't have a Bill of Rights. So you really have a bunch of these guys that were in this room for both documents, but not all signed. But the problem we have is when I throw this up at a major law school, really sharp kids, and I'll say, Who do you recognize? Everybody can find Jefferson, everybody can find Franklin, and that's where it stops. I go, wait a minute. 56 guys, give me some more. They don't know them. Number one, we've been taught to recognize our two least religious founding fathers. So we we don't know anything about the only two they really talk about. That's the only two they talk about in schools. We say, well, how how about let me just take you across the front row? How about Benjamin Harrison here, great general of the revolution? Or let's go here to Richard Henry Lee, the guy who actually made the proposal that we separate from Great Britain. He goes on to be one of the framers of the Bill of Rights. Or beside him, you've got George Clinton and Sam Adams, the father of the revolution. Beside him, you've got Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He's from Maryland. Beside him, you've got Robert Morris of Pennsylvania. Beside that, you've got Benjamin Rush in Pennsylvania. Above that, you've got Stephen Hopkins, uh, Stephen Hopkins from Rhode Island. Beside him, you've got William Williams. He came down here to Elberds Jerry of Massachusetts. Beside him is Robert Treat Paint of Massachusetts. You keep going. There's James Wilson from Pennsylvania, and there's Francis Hopkins, and these guys, we don't have a clue.
SPEAKER_02I was about to say I assume most of those names for folks that are watching this at home, totally new names. They're not going to recognize any of them.
SPEAKER_00But let me show you how these guys were really um vicarious for all of us. You've got the wealthiest man in America right there, Charles Carroll. You've also got one of the poorest guys in America right there with Sam Adams. Sam Adams is so poor that when they elected him to Congress, he didn't even have a suit of clothes. His neighbors took up a collection for him to get a suit of clothes. He had to go borrow a horse to ride to Congress. So you got a really poor guy and a really wealthy guy. And then you've got a guy who's a surveyor, Roger Sherman. And over here you've got Thomas Jefferson, who's a farmer. And over here you've got one of the best scientists in American history who's who's been Franklin. Then you come back over here to this guy, Stephen Hopkins, who is a governor, the only colonial governor appointed by the British that supported separation. So he's a political figure. You get back over here to Benjamin Harrison, he's a big time farmer. And you just go through you got John Witherspoon here, who's the president of the university. You have John Hancock, who's one of the most famous businessmen in America. So you got businesses.
SPEAKER_02It's everything. Everything in the career, everything.
SPEAKER_00You get rich, you got poor. As a matter of fact, 29 of these guys out of the 56 had a college degree. So nearly half of them didn't have a college degree.
SPEAKER_02And that was my next question was education, because it's education.
SPEAKER_00One fourth of these guys were home educated, several guys.
SPEAKER_02Wait, wait, one fourth homeschooled. So people that think homeschool, you know, they think that's not the way one fourth of the guys that gave us our founding documents.
SPEAKER_00These guys were homeschooled. That's incredible. And about 25% of these guys are orphans. They grew up orphans or in single parent homes. No kidding. When you have people that have challenges today, these guys had challenges. They didn't have it easy. Well, you want to talk about not having it easy. Let's talk about s the lifespan back then. The average lifespan in American Day is up in the 80s. Average lifespan back then was 33 years old. Wow.
SPEAKER_02And these guys, some of these guys were young.
SPEAKER_00Well, you you take Sam Adams here. I mean, let's go back. Take Sam Adams right here. Sam Adams had six kids, only two lived to adulthood. Charles Carroll right here had seven kids. Only three made it to adulthood. I mean, the the medical tough life that they had. It was hard stuff, but they understood the principles. And they got those principles and they wrote a document that didn't reflect what was going on 200 years ago. It reflected human nature. And so it doesn't say if your horse is going too fast in the town of Boston, you're gonna get it. It's none of that kind of stuff like you have in the Code of Humor. This is loaded up with principles. And one thing about these guys is they were patriots. They love their country, no question about it.
SPEAKER_02What does that really mean? I mean, when you say they're patriots. That's a negative to some today, it's a big positive to others. That's what it means.
Books Events And 250 Years
SPEAKER_01Okay, we want to let you know about a new product we have here at Wildville. Called Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor, The Signers of the Declaration. Like most Americans, you might be someone that you recognize some of the names of the Founding Fathers, but do you know their story? We want to help remedy that. My dad and I have written biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration to help reintroduce people to the men who literally sign their names on the line for the sake of the nation. And when they did this, they knew that they were essentially signing their death warrants. They were risking everything for the hope that they might be able to purchase freedom for the rising generation with their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honors. And in spite of the hardship that every one of them endured, none of them recant or backed away. Now, if you don't know their story, you can get to know all 56 of them. Go to wallbuilders.com and look for the book Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor, the signers of the Declaration. Hey guys, this is Tim Barton from Wall Builders. I want to let you know about a special landing page we have on the Wall Builders website. If you go to wallbuilders.com, there is a little box that says Wall Builders is celebrating 250 years of American freedom and independence. Click on that little box and it will take you to the landing page for 250 years of America. And on the landing page, there are several different little boxes you can click on. One of them is for events. It will let you know of some major events that are that are coming up that are going on that you can actually come and participate in. You can come here. My dad or I give speeches telling the stories about the birth of the nation, about the founding fathers, the faith connection in America. There's also a tab for resources that you can click on, and it will take you to lots of different speeches and sermons and documents and proclamations from the founding era. And then there's also a little tab that will take you to the Wall Builder store with lots of resources, all the things that may be a hat you want to wear, a shirt to wear, or other Wall Builders products to read. This is a place to go to celebrate 250 years.
Patriotism As A Moral Duty
SPEAKER_00Benjamin Rush and John Adams said he's one of the three most notable founding fathers. John Adams said there's George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Benjamin Rush will never stop. And they're again a name that most people are not going to know, but they should because he is the top doctor in American history. 3,000 students got their medical diploma signed by him. He's also the father of public schools under the Constitution. He also started five universities, three go today. He signed the declaration, he ratified the Constitution. He served in three different presidential administrations. He's the director of the U.S. Mint. He's a huge civil rights leader.
SPEAKER_02I know he's one of your favorite too. You have a book on Benjamin Rush in his life.
SPEAKER_00This is one of the original books that we'll talk about in a minute. But what he does is he says, let me tell you what patriotism is. And so this is what he's teaching the rising generation because the founding fathers understood we got the principles, but if our next generation doesn't understand this, it's not going to work. So that's why we put so much time into education. You gotta instill it in each generation. Here's his definition of patriotism. He says patriotism is as much a virtue as is justice. Now who would be opposed to justice? He said that's just as much a virtue as justice, and it's just as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. Imagine trying to keep your family together if you didn't have love in the family. He says, Well, imagine trying to keep your country together if you don't have love for your country. You gotta have love for your family, you you go to the deck for each other and the family, and you gotta be willing to do it. And he says, actually, if you're not patriotic, you're selfish. And this is the way he explains it. He says, the morpatria, which is the love of country, the the love of your country, is both a moral and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors, but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present, but of future generations. In other words, if you love your country, you you're saying, I want what's best for all my neighbors, and I'm gonna work my tail off to have a good country because I want my neighbors to be prosperous and safe. I don't want thugs and criminals overrunning them. I want to make sure we got good government, I want to make sure they can keep the money they earned, I want to make sure they got a good education for the kids, and if I love my country, I'm gonna fight for those things.
SPEAKER_02So you're not just thinking of yourself, not just thinking about the other news.
SPEAKER_00I'll go right off the grid.
Get Constitution Alive For Home
SPEAKER_02Well, we're out of time for today, folks. That was the beginning of Constitution Alive with David Barton and Rick Green. It's actually available on DVD with a workbook and and and and the whole set so you can have the class in your home with your family, in your Sunday school class, however you'd like to do it. Just get it in the hands of as many people as you can so they can study the Constitution and help us restore our constitutional republic. We will pick up tomorrow right where we left off today with Constitutional Ide with David Bart and Rick Green. Thank you for listening to Wall Builders Locked.
