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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
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0:31Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:38I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton III.
0:41My heart is a bit heavy as this news is breaking out
0:44of Georgia to Appalachian High School.
0:47We are 14-year-old student.
0:50From the school has been identified
0:53as the alleged perpetrator, perpetrator,
1:00what all transpired there.
1:03Today, if you hadn't heard about it yet, and I'm just, just heavy hearted about it, man.
1:15Four people murdered two teachers, two students, total of 30 people injured.
1:29Our heart breaks for the family of the victims. I feel like as a society, we continue to put our
1:38heads in the sand collectively, you know, and you know what's going to happen. It's going to be the
1:44the obvious, you know, calls for gun control, predictable gun control calls, those things
1:51are going to happen.
1:52But we're conveniently ignorant of the fact that the United States of America has the exact
1:59same percentage of firearms to the population as we've always had, right, of all of American
2:10history.
2:12What we do not have that we used to have was a collective reverence for God.
2:22And it's just heartbreaking.
2:29This is a bit of breaking news as this shooting happened to happen today.
2:37All of the people involved are just on my heart.
2:43So I would just ask you to pray for the people in Georgia.
2:47And this 14-year-old young man, according to reports that I've come across, with these murder
2:52charges, it's expected he'll be tried as an adult.
2:56Obviously, this is early in the process and that could change.
2:59that that is where things are.
3:03All right, now the Bible tells us very plainly, man,
3:06where do murders come from?
3:07It comes from the human heart.
3:09It comes from the human heart.
3:11We have people all the time talking about gun violence,
3:13gun violence, we don't, people don't talk about knife violence
3:17in these areas of gun control.
3:18We don't talk about all these other things.
3:21When you, when a society rejects the giver of life,
3:29life is no longer held valuable.
3:39just heavy hearted at the moment.
3:42My man, a hundred grand, Mr. Bobby Arroza is in the building
3:45right across from me, the real J. Mac often imitate
3:47and never duplicated as in the studio.
3:50We ready to rock and roll with today's show.
3:53You know, one of the things,
3:54and even before I learned about what was happening in Georgia,
3:59one of the things I wanted to talk about
4:01was the historical occurrence.
4:04You might have heard about this before,
4:05maybe even read about it,
4:06or in an encyclopedia Britannica.
4:09You might even seen this in the museum.
4:13It's called, loving your neighbors, enough to talk to them.
4:19Remember when we used to do that?
4:21And I know in a lot of parts of our country, in many parts of our country, people still do
4:25it.
4:26But it is a declining phenomenon.
4:32It's a declining phenomenon.
4:34And I simply today want to spend a little bit of time to encourage you to love your neighbors
4:39enough to talk to them.
4:41to talk to them, to be willing first and able second,
4:50to converse with the people around you.
4:55We can have conversation as adults,
4:57even when we disagree.
4:59We should be able to disagree in a respectable manner
5:01and a respectful manner,
5:05because all people are made in the image of God.
5:07As a result, all people are worthy of respect.
5:09It doesn't mean that you have to accept
5:11everybody's points of view.
5:15But all people worthy of respect.
5:16So we engage them with respect, but we nevertheless have the opportunity to convey transcendent truth.
5:24Just go in the Word of God to 1 Peter chapter 3, 1 Peter chapter 3.
5:30And I want to discuss something that is intrinsic to Christ following.
5:34Alright, this is a very, very familiar passage of Scripture.
5:401 Peter chapter 3 verses 13 through 16 is where I'm going to go today.
5:48All right.
5:50And this is what the Word of God says is what the Lord says to us through the apostle Peter.
5:54And it's amazing to hear this coming from Peter because you remember his history.
5:59He was, how shall I say this?
6:03A socially obtuse man.
6:05And that weren't.
6:07You remember when he was pressed when Jesus was being arrested ultimately to be crucified
6:11and he wanted a distance himself from Jesus?
6:13He used choice language.
6:15Yes, yes.
6:16I don't know the man.
6:18Blah, blah, blah.
6:19So we couldn't play what Peter said around the fire on these airways.
6:23That's in the scripture.
6:26We know that his trade was out of a fisherman, which at the time he was a commercial fisherman,
6:30so he wasn't just casting a line, he was fishing with nets and had a blue collar investment
6:40if you will.
6:41And it is this socially obtuse, blue collared Peter whom the Lord uses to convey this to us
6:50through, which will simply convey that none of us have any excuse.
6:54All right.
6:55And this is what the word of God says.
6:56Now, who is there to harm you if you're zealous for what is good?
7:01But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will be blessed.
7:06Have no fear of them nor be troubled, but in your hearts, honor Christ,
7:14the Lord is holy, always being prepared to make a defense or some
7:20translations there say to give a reason to anyone who asks you
7:25for a reason for the hope that is in you.
7:28Yet do it with gentleness and respect,
7:34having a good conscience so that when you are slandered, not if when you are slandered,
7:42those who revile your good behavior in Christ,
7:45maybe put to shame, maybe put to shame.
7:50Now this is amazing, especially coming from the person
7:53from whom it is coming, whom our Lord conveyed this to us through.
8:01This is Peter.
8:02You know, remember around the fire, I don't know the man.
8:07Wasn't an erudite rabbinical scholar.
8:14No.
8:15Peter was your regular blue collar dude, and he is the one that our God uses to convey the reality
8:24that Christ following, intrinsic to Christ following,
8:29is rationality, reason, and persuasion.
8:35All right, the text conveys honor Christ,
8:39honor Christ the Lord as holy in your hearts,
8:41in our hearts, that always is the starting point.
8:46Then we have a command given to us,
8:49always be ready to give a reason or to make a defense.
8:54that phrase in English comes from the Greek word Apologia.
8:57Apologia, that's where the discipline of apologetics
9:02derives its description from.
9:04All right?
9:05This is the blue collar,
9:10formerly colorful language using Peter,
9:14whom the Lord is speaking to us through,
9:15and say, man, by the way, you need to always be ready
9:18to articulate what you believe and why you believe it.
9:22You should always be ready to give a reason
9:26for the hope that you have.
9:27Always be ready to convey.
9:32Why?
9:32I've used this analogy before.
9:33Y'all know I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana.
9:35One of the things that you can call it
9:37a cultural pastime in my hometown is eating.
9:43And one of the things you'll find,
9:44some of the nicest people in the entire world
9:47living in New Orleans, Louisiana.
9:49And if you walk up to somebody and on the street,
9:51you can find a stranger, say,
9:52man, why can't I find a good bowl of gumbo?
9:55You can get a lot of answers.
9:56None of them are gonna be the commercial joints.
9:59where the tourists go to, all right?
10:01Because when you get a good bowl of gumbo,
10:04you want people to know.
10:07And this is good, I think that people know.
10:09Anybody who has good news, you're gonna wanna share it.
10:13We have an entire epistle from the Apostle Paul
10:17to the church at Colossae.
10:20But remember Paul didn't evangelize in Colossae first,
10:24look in chapter one, right at about verse eight,
10:26it was this guy named me Paphras.
10:29This is cat named me Paphras.
10:31He'd gone over to Ephesus, heard the gospel preached.
10:34The Lord opened his heart for salvation,
10:36and he came home and did what anybody would do.
10:38When you have an amazing life-changing encounter,
10:41you start telling people,
10:43probably started with his family and his coworkers.
10:46And as he's sharing what has happened to him
10:49or that's another good poll boy, listen,
10:51if you're in New Orleans,
10:52you wanna get a good poll boy,
10:53I'll just tell you,
10:54and they ain't even giving me any money for this,
10:56but going around on St. Anthony Street
10:58in the Seven Awards to Zimmers.
11:00That's not that's what it's shrimp po boy. Now if you want other ones, I got some other recommendations for you
11:05But I just start there looking Bobby's taking notes. I got some others for you
11:09You know, but I just start with that one
11:12But he patters did what anybody would do similar to woman at the well the Bible says that after she
11:24Encounters Jesus
11:25She goes back home and tells everybody coming me the man who's told me everything about my life
11:31This wasn't some commitment
11:32I want to join the new North American Mission Board and go and evangelize my city. No, it's just the overwhelming excitement of life change
11:39You gotta meet this man and here the Lord is using
11:46And ministering through blue collar former colorful language using
11:52non-scholarly
11:53nontheologically trained in the formal sense
11:57So much so when he was prior prior to when he and John were before the Sanhedrin and they heard Peter speak
21:25I also want you to understand, and most of you
21:28who are listening to me right now, you do understand this.
21:30The inescapable reality is worldview,
21:36you cannot sidestep worldview.
21:39You're gonna always come back down to worldview.
21:42And usually the people who are opponents
21:44the US Constitution or become opponents of the US Constitution, they deny a core fundamental
21:52of humanity.
21:55They deny that the people that are advocates for humanistic utopia, they deny a core reality
22:01that is intrinsic to all humankind and simply it's man's fallenness, but they deny that.
22:06So let's get into it.
22:07The title of this piece is a Constitution is Sacred.
22:10Is it also dangerous written by Jennifer Zalai at the New York Times?
22:18So they Jennifer Zalai pits this broad side against the US Constitution using their favorite
22:29contemporary boogie man, John, Mr. 45th president of the United States candidate to become the
22:3747th president of the United States, Donald John Trump.
22:43pick up. Is no surprise then, I'm quoting from the piece, that liberals charged Trump, Trump
22:49with being a menace to the Constitution, but his presidency and the prospect of his reelection
22:54have also generated another very different argument that Trump owes his political assent
22:59to the Constitution, making him a beneficiary of a document that is essentially anti-democratic
23:06and this day and age increasingly dysfunctional. I'm going to pause, in quote. So this author
23:12is describing the US Constitution as anti-democratic.
23:19This is such a foolish, foolish statement because the Constitution clearly provides
23:25for democratic features, meaning popular participation.
23:29The only thing is that popular participation does not, is not found fundamentally and ultimately
23:37determinative because you have to go back.
23:40And this is why, and it is funny, because right now I'm teaching a civics class to homeschoolers
23:47that really is a combination of basic civics, a government with a particular focus on American
23:52government and introduction to constitutional law, all in one course.
23:58This is why we must have a conversant and intelligent populace.
24:02This is why the founders wrote the Constitution at a level to be consumed by all Americans,
24:08just from law students in their in their law schools, not for ivory towers. This was supposed to be a document that was supposed to be daily regular conversation piece.
24:19For everyday American citizens. That is what that is what it's supposed to be. I encourage people all the time. I have right here in this one little small
24:31pocket Constitution. I had the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution itself, every article and all of its amendments, George Washington's farewell address,
24:38as well as the sign of the Constitution,
24:41all in this one little, it's not,
24:44it doesn't take a long time to read.
24:46All right, getting back to this.
24:51To say the US Constitution is anti-democratic,
24:53you can use words if you want to,
24:54but it just shows you don't understand.
24:56Because you have to go all the way back to
24:57what is the basis of the Constitution?
24:59Well, since you asked, the basis of the Constitution
25:01goes back to some of the enduring
25:04and foundational contributing opponents,
25:06go back to 1520, the Make-Flower Compact,
25:09where we get the notion of the social contract,
25:11well, what is the social contract?
25:13The social contract stands for the notion
25:16that governments derive their just powers
25:18from the consent of the governed.
25:21Consent.
25:22So to make this very, very plain to you,
25:25there would be no US Constitution
25:28unless there was a ratifying process
25:31to where the citizens agreed to be governed
25:35by the US Constitution.
25:36The fact that there is a Constitution
25:38and that it exists is evidence proof positive,
25:41that it is the exact opposite of anti-democratic.
25:46All right, leave that alone for a moment.
25:47Back to this article.
25:49And I'm just walking through this
25:50because I want everybody to be able to converse well
25:55on this topic, back to the piece.
25:59Quote, after all, Trump became president in 2016
26:02after losing the popular vote,
26:04but winning the Electoral College, article three.
26:08He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, Article 3, two of whom were confirmed
26:13by Senators representing just 44% of the population, Article 1.
26:17Those three justices helped overturn Roe versus Wade.
26:20A reversal, I'm sorry, I'll overturn Roe versus Wade.
26:23I'm going to stop the quote right there.
26:26All right.
26:27Yes.
26:28Article 3 of the US Constitution creates the Electoral College because the key to the Republican
26:34form of government guaranteed by Article 4, and we not only have a Republican form of
26:38government, we have a constitutional Republican form of government that we have a representative
26:46Democratic participation.
26:50And that representative Democratic participation must comply with the objective standard articulated
26:57in the U.S. Constitution.
27:01But the representatives who participate only get to participate because of the Democratic
27:05involvement of their constituency.
27:09It's not anti-democratic.
27:11It simply employs a diffusion of power because you've heard this maxim, power corrupts, absolute
27:20power corrupts, absolutely.
27:22The fundamental worldview notion that undergirds it is the binding element.
27:28You know, if you got a KitKat, you know, the gooey stuff in between the wafers, the binding
27:33element, the GUI stuff in between the wafers is the
27:35foundest understanding of mankind's fallenness and is
27:39pinching towards the gravity. That is why they didn't want a
27:45concentration of power. We need to diffuse this power. All
27:49right. And it's so amazing to me. Right. So they want to talk
27:54about, you know, the article three power and then the
27:56appointment of Supreme Court justices article three, yes, two
28:00of whom were confirmed by senators and they they committed
28:06contributed to Roe vs. Wade being overturned.
28:08You know what she didn't point out?
28:09What percentage of them participated in Roe vs. Wade
28:12being passed in the first place?
28:13See these people had no problem with the Supreme Court.
28:18You know, from about the 1940s, from FDR's term,
28:25all the way up until just really about, you know,
28:28Brett Kavanaugh, they have any problem with it then,
28:33but they have problems with it now.
28:36Why?
28:37because this is pretext for their preference for
28:43totalitarianism. This is no different than a baby that's one of the
28:46retimpantium when you tell them you can't eat a lollipop for breakfast.
28:52They're crying because it's just though it's not going their way for
28:55now. And so as true to totalitarian if they're not getting their way,
29:00they want to find a way to force their way. So then, oh man, this show is
29:05going too fast. Then Jennifer Zilai turns to the well regarded constitutional scholar,
29:13Dr. Erwin Chimerinsky, renowned constitutional law scholar, dean of UC Berkeley's law school.
29:21She quotes Erwin Chimerinsky, quote, the eminent legal scholar Erwin Chimerinsky worried about
29:27opinion polls showing a dramatic loss of faith in democracy, writing in his new book, No Democracy
29:33last forever.
29:34According to Dr. Jim Wrensky, it is important for Americans to see that these failures stem
29:41from the Constitution itself.
29:44Dr. Wrensky is saying the problem we have in America, you see, is the Constitution.
29:53Now this is rich for a number of reasons.
29:56First, this is a little inside information.
29:58You want to know who authored my textbook in law school for my Constitutional Law class?
30:03Our Constitution law textbook, that was about 3 1-1-2 inches thick, or Wanchi Merensky.
30:10Y'all want to know what was in my Constitution law textbook?
30:14That 3 1-2 inches thick was all case law.
30:17Well, hey, where is the US Constitution?
30:19I'm so glad you asked.
30:22The US Constitution was made a pocket part to my con law textbook.
30:30You can quote me on this and repeat this all over the country.
30:35The US Constitution was never assigned reading from our constitutional law class in law school.
30:39You know what was a sign reading three and a half inches of judicial opinions
30:44So you have to excuse me if I'm not surprised that renowned
30:48Constitution law scholar or when Jim Rinsky that necessarily see too much importance of the Constitution because I would think you know
30:55You think the Constitution is important. You're probably making a part of the body of your book
31:00And why am I pointing this out see what a lot of people don't realize is that our historical
31:08pro-Cid-U.S. Constitution was through a
31:10back-Black-Stonian ethic that won, did this amazing thing that actually studied
31:15the text of the Constitution, studied the debates of the founders that went into
31:19the crafting and drafting of the articles that studied the debates between the
31:22Federalists and the anti-Federalists that resulted in the Constitution's
31:25ratification not transpiring until there was a bill of rights created. And
31:31that the American populace demanded, you know, this thing that they're calling
31:34anti-democratic, the ratification did not occur because the American citizens
31:38demand it, the articles have drafted give too much potency to the national or federal government.
31:45We need to have individual assurances for the individual citizens and the individual liberty
31:51and for the liberty of the states in order for us to feel confident and comfortable with
31:56this document.
31:59But something happened.
32:00And this is why we have to understand culture is important because with the ascendance of
32:06Darwinian worldview with his initial work on origin of the species by means of natural selection
32:14in the struggle of the preservation of favored racists. That's the full title of his book.
32:18To where he applied his macro evolutionary theory to the animal kingdom first, and then
32:2311 years later, he applied it to mankind in his descent of man offering. His offering
32:31became so popular that it affected every sector of society, including Americans, American
32:36society, reaching all the way into the formation of our legal system, to where lawyers and judges
32:42or ultimately turned away from a Black stonian approach to our Constitution and embrace what's
32:48called legal positivism. What is the thrust of legal positivism? Well, human beings are smarter.
32:55Later, if it's older, it must be less complex, less intelligent, and the only things that are
33:01worth retaining are the things that are recent. So we don't even know any of our history. It is
33:05whatever we determine it to be right now.
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33:58Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, man.
34:01I'm way off schedule.
34:07This legal positivism is what gave rise to the refrain that began to be used.
34:13The Constitution is a living document.
34:16What did they mean by that?
34:18The words on the page don't matter.
34:20The words in the document don't matter.
34:21We need to fit it to modern times.
34:24This is why you have people like, again, renowned legal scholar, now retired from the US Circuit,
34:31US Seven Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Richard Posner, who infamously stated, quote, I see
34:37absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours,
34:42minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution.
34:47The history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation.
34:5118th century guys, however smart, could not receive the culture, technology, etc. of the
34:5721st century, which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post-Civil
35:02War amendments, including the 14th Amendment, do not speak to today.
35:07The Constitution is a living, breathing document.
35:10It is what we judges say it is.
35:14In quote, Judge Richard Posner for you folks.
35:18Now he tried to come back after the fact with some, you know,
35:22Milly mouth apology. Oh, I like that.
35:24Why that's not what I say. You meant what you said, man.
35:28Because he still tried to adhere to his philosophical approach,
35:31living document philosophical approach. But that's where this comes from.
35:37And with these guys, people who advocate for this position,
35:41what they simply mean is that they don't want to be governed by the constitution
35:48back to this piece in Dr.
35:49Chimerinsky. So Jin Zalai, after I have to keep turning to make sure I get it, get her
35:56name, she goes back to her article, quote, back in 2018, Chimerinsky, the Dean of Berkeley's
36:01Law School still seemed to place considerable faith in the Constitution, pleading with fellow
36:05progressives in his book, We The People, not to turn their back on the Constitution in
36:11the courts. By contrast, in his new book, No Democracy Last Forever, his position is markedly
36:17pessimistic, asserting that the Constitution, which is famously difficult to amend, has put
36:25the country in grave danger.
36:27End quote.
36:28I did not tell you what are the things that they hate about it.
36:31Is that it's hard to change it?
36:32Did not tell you that.
36:35Did not tell you that.
36:38One of the things that they hate about the Constitution is that it's hard to change it.
36:49Why do you think they hate that it's hard to change?
36:53And again, you will never be able to escape worldview.
36:57If you have a worldview that man has fallen and that is depravity is inevitable, then you
37:10would want what?
37:12Defuse power, separate the power, make it very difficult to change the Constitution.
37:20Not impossible.
37:21It can be changed, but in order for it to be changed, the people advocating for its change
37:27are going to have to do an amazing job persuading their fellow citizens.
37:33That's what our Constitution requires.
37:36We have mechanisms provided within the Constitution to change it.
37:40We just have to comply with that in order to change it.
37:44When you consider this is one of the things I talked about our civic students about, how
37:48many people have to be involved at the federal level in order to make law?
37:55Notice I said law, not in executive order, not in administrative edict law, which comes
37:59to Congress. How many members of the congressional branch are there? Yeah, 435 members of the
38:07US House of Representatives. You have 100 US senators to for every state. And you have a
38:12president that has veto power. It by design requires 536 people to participate in the
38:18process of making a law. Do you think the founders intended for lawmaking to be something
38:22that was to happen with the snap of a finger? No, why again? You cannot escape world view
38:32Now, if you come from the other perspective, then men are inherently angels, and men were
38:39angels, but there would be no need of government.
38:41So the fact that we acknowledge we need some government kind of affirms a notion that men
38:48have the capacity to do some heinous things to each other.
38:53And here's the other thing, that a lot of these people conveniently forget the founders
38:59never envisioned a United States of America with the most dominant source of governmental
39:05involvement in the day to day lives of American citizens would be the federal government.
39:12See, one or the other major foundational observations from this Republican form of government is
39:17that the government closest to you was always designed to be the most involved in your daily
39:22lives.
39:25So these are considerations that people like Gen Zalai, some of us have a spell are named
39:29Z, I'm sorry, S-Z-A-L-A-I, that's how you spell our last name.
39:36That was intentional.
39:39because the federal or national government
39:41was meant to be a feature of American life,
39:43not the feature of American life.
39:53Then Gen Zilai goes back to Ermett Cemorinsky in her piece.
39:56Quote, Cemorinsky lays out what would need to happen
39:59for a new constitutional convention.
40:02And in the book's more somber moments,
40:03he entertains the possibility of secession.
40:07West Coast states might form a nation called Pacifica.
40:13I can't quite have heard this before.
40:15But of course, of course.
40:18He hopes, however, that any divorce, if it comes, would be peaceful.
40:22Sure.
40:24Sure.
40:26Dr. Jim Arensky, who also, by the way, is Jewish, who was shocked that there were so
40:35many anti-Semites on UC Berkeley's campus.
40:39Really?
40:46Since the lie goes on.
40:48The anguish is in some sense a flip side of veneration. Americans have long assumed that the
40:53Constitution could save us. A growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it."
41:03So again, what are the sum of the features? They hate this separation of powers. They hate the
41:06fact that it takes a long time to change it. Why? Because they want consolidation of powers and
41:12they want these consolidated powers to be the emergency responders to every issue of the American
41:16citizenry. While one of the enduring features of the Republican form of government, the
41:23constitutional framework that the found is established is that there will be a separation
41:27of powers that the government closest to us will be the ones most directly involved in
41:31our everyday lives. And because we recognize that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
41:36absolutely, we want government to remain small, small, small, and this cannot be achieved
41:46with the current constitutional structure.
41:52In a word, some people want to be
41:56unburton from what has been.
42:06Oh, my goodness.
42:09She goes on to describe
42:10Dr. Chimerinsky's perspective.
42:14Quote, as Chimerinsky puts it,
42:17this distrust of democracy embedded in the rest of the constitutional document
42:22reflects the framers' inability to conceive of a future
42:27where there was change.
42:28Now I mentioned to you that they said they hate that it could be changed but then on page
42:32five of the same article, they're going to know, oh yeah, by the way, there were changes.
42:36The way the US senators have been elected have been changed and women were granted the
42:39right to vote.
42:40But I thought you said it can't be changed.
42:43It can be changed.
42:45But see, when they say change, this is what they mean.
42:48And this is this is why I'm having this exercise with you.
42:50They don't mean actually changing the law.
42:53What they mean when they say change, they mean their ability to impose their will on their
42:57fellow citizens without the need to appeal to their fellow citizens. See the changes that
43:04the same article observes, which is what I'm saying. She contradicts herself in the same
43:07piece. On one hand, you can't change it. On other hand, you can change it. What's the point
43:12is it? No, the change that you want, you want quick changes that do not require you to appeal
43:17to your fellow citizen. That's what you don't want. You don't want to have the reason with
43:22people to get ratification in super majorities. You don't want to have to persuade people,
43:28you want to be able to impose your will.
43:32One of those kind of like, well, you know,
43:34you got a pass to be able to see what's in it.
43:36Never heard that before.
43:38Extrapolate that and extend that to like times a million.
43:43Do you realize FDR saw himself with his New Deal policies
43:48attempting to establish an American version?
43:51Again, of centralized government?
43:54That's what he saw.
43:55And to these regressive, FDR is like a paragon of virtue.
44:00They love him.
44:07Zanzaliah then goes on to object to originalism.
44:12She goes on to say, after observing, well, yeah, there were some changes.
44:19But for the last 50 years, but quote, for the last 50 years, the Constitution
44:23has appeared frozen in amber in quote.
44:27Yeah, if if they're not policy prerogatives that first of all rise to the level
44:34of constitutional importance, secondarily that have the support of the consent
44:39of the governed, it doesn't need to be changed.
44:41But again, often this objection to the Constitution
44:45is really just a pretext for totalitarianism.
44:51And then she starts to take the mask off even more
44:54and try to use scholars to justify it.
44:56I'm now on page six of her article, quote,
44:59"'The attorney and columnist Mediba K. Denny argues
45:02that originalist can a use of apolitical language
45:05ensnares liberals into treating originalism
45:08as coherent jurisprudence.
45:10even when it functions more like in ideology.
45:13Far from encouraging judicial restraint,
45:15she writes in the originalism trap,
45:17originalism is much more effective in restraining judges
45:21from doing good things in quote.
45:24You see, you see the issue that they have,
45:29their objection to the Constitution
45:33is a pretext for totalitarianism.
45:36She doesn't want judges to be restrained to adhere,
45:40to protect and defend the Constitution,
45:42she wants judges to do good things,
45:44which should cause every American citizen
45:46to say, by what standard do you use the term good?
45:49Because when she calls good things,
45:55may not necessarily be what you would call a good thing,
45:57but she nevertheless wants judges to be able
45:59to do the good thing because, say it with me,
46:02because the desire is totalitarianism.
46:07The only people who object to the constitutional structure
46:10are those who want to impose their will.
46:13They're frustrated by not being enough to have
46:16slim, simple majorities.
46:20No, because one of the features that the founders understood
46:25is that because a man's fickle heart, it ebbs and flows.
46:29And just by the way, for those who've never heard
46:30these things before, the founding fathers
46:33scoured the globe for all founds of types and forms
46:36of government and landed on a Constitution Republic
46:40because they recognize a few things.
46:42Let's go with Fisher Ames.
46:43We'll start there.
46:46Fisher Ames, who was a delegate to the ratifying convention for Massachusetts.
46:51All right?
46:53He said this quote, a democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own
46:58destruction.
47:00These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
47:04Halabensman Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, he says quote,
47:09a simple democracy or an absolute democracy is the devil's own government.
47:15quote, see the founding fathers were fleeing a monarchial tyranny.
47:21And they said in their debates, we don't want to exchange a
47:24tyranny of a king for a tyranny of the 51%.
47:28So we need to diffuse power that will require our citizens to
47:32reason one another in order before, in order for governmental
47:37wins to shift.
47:38John Adams, second president of the United States said this,
47:41quote, remember democracy never lasts long.
47:44as soon wastes exhausts and murders itself.
47:47There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
47:52Noor Webster quote, in democracy,
47:56there are commonly two moats and disorders.
47:58Therefore, a pure democracy is generally a very bad government.
48:02It is often the most tyrannical government on earth.
48:05End quote.
48:07You have John Witherspoon, first early dean
48:09of the University of New Jersey at Princeton,
48:12who became Princeton University.
48:15Don Witherspoon said this,
48:16pure democracy cannot subsist long, nor be carried for,
48:20sorry, cannot subsist long, nor be carried
48:22far into the departments of state.
48:24It is very subject to caprice
48:26and the madness of popular rage."
48:29End quote.
48:31This is why the founders rejected the notion
48:33of a simple democracy, tearing it up to 51%,
48:36in exchange for a constitutional Republican form
48:39of government with democratic features.
48:42Defuse a separate power, okay?
48:46Decentralize it, allow the people to elect representatives
48:53who are literally tasked with re-presenting this.
48:57This literally was the government that was employed
48:59to replace the articles of Confederation.
49:04So again, I want you to be aware of this.
49:07The founders rejected the democracy
49:08and you only really have to go to our Pledge of Allegiance
49:11which says we pledge allegiance to the Republic
49:14for which it stands because they understood
49:16An absolute democracy is nothing more than mobocracy.
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