This is a portion of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pdm3riVNJ4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024. 
America is experiencing an identity crisis. I think everyone can agree, we no longer know who we are.
Lots of little errors have led to our present identity crisis — the most obvious being that we no longer have functional borders. Just as a house without walls is not a house, a nation without borders is not a nation. Over the past three years, Joe Biden has invited almost six million foreigners into our country illegally. At least three-and-a-half million were apprehended and intentionally released into the country. Another two million or more “gotaways” were never even apprehended. They all crossed our southern border with the help of criminal cartels.
This Democrat-led invasion is the largest human trafficking operation in history. The vast majority of Americans know this is wrong. The vast majority of Americans want it to come to an end. But we are told we must tolerate the destruction of our borders and the invasion of our country because we are “a nation of immigrants.”
That slogan reminds me of President Reagan’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIIs5L5xt6A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">famous observation</a> that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.” As a matter of history, we are not in fact a “nation of immigrants.” Neither that phrase nor that sentiment appears anywhere in our founding documents; the phrase appears virtually nowhere at all until the mid-1960s — coincidentally, at precisely the moment that Democrats first imposed on us a policy of mass migration because they believed, as they believe today, that doing so would give them a permanent electoral majority.
Even so, we are told, we must tolerate this cynical political trick because “diversity is our strength.” Once again, historically speaking, that claim is rather strange. It doesn’t come from the Founding era. It didn’t even crop up in the 1960s. That particular phrase was not coined until 1992, when Vice President Dan Quayle told it to a reporter in Japan.
Now, I like Dan Quayle as much as the next guy. But we’re not talking about Washington or Lincoln here. The idle musings of George H. W. Bush’s vice president are not quite Moses delivering the law from Mount Sinai. Wise statesmen and philosophers — anyone with a modicum of common sense, really — have always understood that strength lies not in diversity but in unity. We are not the Divided States of America. At least we’re not supposed to be. We’re the United States of America. When an enemy attacks us, we don’t endeavor to stand divided. We stand united. “E pluribus unum.” As Ben Franklin warned all the way back in 1754, we must put aside our divisions and come together as one, or else we will die.
For most of our history, America kept immigration in check. We placed strict limits on it. Not because we don’t like immigrants — we like them very much. Some of our best friends and ancestors have been immigrants. But we had always understood, as all wise statesmen have understood, that a country with an unlimited influx of unassimilated foreign people becomes unstable and risks losing its very identity, without which no nation can be any good to anyone.
In America’s earliest days, Governor John Winthrop called on us to be, not a boarding house but “a city upon a hill” — a “model of Christian charity” for all the other nations of the earth to learn from and emulate.
This gets to the very heart of our national identity crisis. America was founded to be “a model of Christian charity.” From the moment that our earliest ancestors boarded the Mayflower — which, by the way, is the name of an excellent new cigar company, <a href="https://mayflowercigars.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayflower Cigars,</a> highly recommended — before the Pilgrims ever stepped foot onto Plymouth Rock, America was founded to be a nation with its eyes on Heaven.
Francis Scott Key put it perfectly in the fourth verse of our national anthem:
<blockquote>O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand 
⁠Between their lov&#8217;d home and the war&#8217;s desolation! 
Blest with vict&#8217;ry and peace may the Heav&#8217;n rescued land, 
⁠Praise the Power that hath made and preserv&#8217;d us a nation! 
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
And this be our motto — “In God is our trust.”</blockquote>
Every American with a penny to his name knows that phrase. It’s inscribed on our currency. All of our great statesmen have believed it. Yet today the liberals want us to believe that America was founded as a secular nation. An atheist nation. They tell us America was founded on a firm separation of church and state. Once again, the problem is not so much ignorance as liberals knowing so much that isn’t so. There is no such thing as a total separation of church and state. There never has been, and there never can be. Because states make laws, and laws come from morals, and morals come from religion. Religion is simply unavoidable — for all states at all times.
That fact has been especially clear in America, where we have long been the most religious of any Western nation. Ask the liberals to identify the “separation of church and state” in our law. You’ll wait a long time — because they won’t find it. If they really look closely, they’ll find that that phrase appears once in a private letter, contradicted not only by the public statements of most of our Founding Fathers but also by the Federalist Papers, which cite God by name; by the Constitution, which protected the churches established by the states; and by the Declaration of Independence, which grounds our whole country on the fact that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
President John Adams credited our very national independence to “the general principles of Christianity.” This is why Adams famously declared that “our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” His observation should give us pause because it isn’t just some happy slogan, as some people today treat it. Quite the opposite, actually. It’s a warning. If our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people, then when the people cease to be religious, the Constitution will cease to function. That fact we see all around us today.
The decline in religiosity lies at the heart of our national identity crisis — not because of what men have said but because of who God is. When Moses at the Burning Bush asked God what he should call him, God responded, “I AM THAT I AM.” God is Being. A people that grounds its identity in God will know who and what it is; a people that rejects God, a wise priest once observed, will only be left with the pathetic question, “Who am I?”

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Why America’s Strength Is Based On Unity, Not Diversity

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September 17 is <a href="https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/constitution-day#:~:text=September%2017%20is%20designated%20as,family%20activities%2C%20and%20online%20resources.">Constitution Day</a>, and it will largely go unnoticed. This is shameful and a clear example of our nation&#8217;s decline. American civic education no longer exists, and national pride continues to plummet as we witness an unprecedented assault on the Constitution. Every American should realize that the Constitution&#8217;s demise will inevitably lead to the fall of the United States.
Despite our nation’s youth, America possesses the world&#8217;s oldest codified Constitution. Unlike other constitutions, it curtails governmental power and champions the interests of We the People by explicitly safeguarding our God-given liberties. Our Constitution is much more than just a document, it embodies a way of life with the central theme that the government exists to serve the people.
As Americans, we should be concerned that a staggering <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20178">90% of my students</a> are unable to distinguish between the American Constitution and the Russian Constitution after at least 13 years of schooling. But it’s not only my students. I suspect the results wouldn’t be much different if I ran this exercise with the general public, especially considering that nationwide only 22% of students <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/civics/results/scores/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demonstrate</a> proficiency in civics and only 13% in American history.
Our failed education system has led to Constitutional ignorance throughout our society. This is why so many elected and appointed officials – entrusted to uphold the Constitution – have flagrantly undermined it. For example, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has <a href="https://reason.com/2023/09/10/new-mexicos-governor-suspends-the-right-to-bear-arms-saying-the-second-amendment-is-not-absolute/">declared</a> that our Constitutional rights are not absolute as she unilaterally attempts to suspend the Second Amendment in the name of an emergency.
Furthermore, throughout the COVID pandemic, the government controlled when you could leave your home and where you could go. The government decided when, where, and how you could practice your faith. When you could work. What you were allowed to say. Who you could associate with. Livelihoods were threatened and destroyed. State legislative bodies, those elected to represent the people, were bypassed.
When New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was asked whether the Bill of Rights was ever considered when he implemented his pandemic decrees, he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-phil-murphy-bill-of-rights">responded</a> that it was “above his pay grade,” despite the oath he took to uphold the Constitution. Decisions were made by chief executives and a handful of people considered “experts,” which is the very definition of authoritarianism. President Biden even declared that his administration’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7chQfQ67SM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“patience was wearing thin</a>” with the American people when many refused to get the vaccine.
This Constitutional ignorance is the main reason why so many Americans supported, and some even encouraged, the government’s heavy-handed approach. We have been conditioned to turn to the government to “solve” every problem, and it took nearly two years before the majority of the American people would declare that they are done with the mandates. However, history has shown that when power is transferred to the government, the power rarely returns to the people.
The good news is, we can reverse this trend, starting with our education system. We have to revive a robust American civic education throughout the K-12 system that focuses on the Constitution, core American values such as freedom and equality, as well as teach students what it means to be an informed and engaged citizenry. Additionally, colleges need to prioritize critical thinking and provide an accurate portrayal of the Constitution, rather than indoctrinate the student body with the falsehood that many of our problems stem from the Constitution itself.
Second, all Americans should forcefully speak out to defend our founding document, which changed the course of human civilization, and served as the inspiration behind the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>. This proactive approach will ensure that the Constitution will survive for the future generation.
This Constitution Day, I encourage everyone to read this remarkable document. Parents should read it with their children and teachers should read it with their students. It is <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Time for Choosing</a>. We either reaffirm our commitment to the Constitution and preserve the idea of self-government, or we allow a minority of elites to take us down a path that more closely resembles that of communist China. I know my choice, what will you choose?
Nicholas Giordano is a political science professor at Suffolk Community College and a Leadership Institute <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457422" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform Higher Education</a> fellow.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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When Our Elected Officials Undermine The Constitution, It’s Time To Defend It

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis invoked the Founding Fathers and called upon conservatives to reach deep into their souls to muster the fire needed to battle the Left Friday in a rousing speech at the Moms For Liberty summit in Philadelphia.
Speaking from the city that gave birth to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the 2024 presidential candidate ripped into woke ideology, which he said makes &#8220;students become dumber&#8221; and threatens the safety of Americans.
“I will fight the woke in the corporations, I will fight the woke in the schools, I will fight the woke in the halls of Congress,” DeSantis vowed. “We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. We are going to leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Turning to the heroes of American history, DeSantis told the audience it was called upon to preserve what George Washington famously called &#8220;the sacred fire of liberty.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a fire that burned right down the street here in 1776 when 56 men pledged their lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty,&#8221; DeSantis declared. &#8220;It’s a fire that burned at a cemetery not that far from here in this state when the first Republican president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom. It’s a fire that burned in the hearts and the bosoms of people who stormed the beaches of Normandy, defeated the Nazis, and preserved freedom throughout the world. It’s a fire that burned at the foot of the Berlin Wall when a resolute president said, &#8216;Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.&#8217;”
It is the responsibility of conservatives to carry the torch, DeSantis said.
&#8220;We’re required to stand firm for the truth,&#8221; he told the crowd. &#8220;We’re required to be resolute in defense of our enduring American principles. And above all, we’re required to show courage in the face of enemy fire.”
DeSantis, who has frequently sparred with the liberal media during his time as governor and is now increasingly a target of the Left as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination, said fighting for conservative values means there will be &#8220;arrows that we’re going to have to take.” But the stakes were even higher when the Revolutionary War began, and modern-day patriots can take inspiration from what the framers did, he said.
“The people that pledged their lives, their fortune, their sacred honor in 1776 knew that if they didn’t win, their heads would have been chopped off,” DeSantis said. “The people that fought for us in World War II knew if they didn’t win that struggle, the whole world would have descended into tyranny. And they were willing to not only risk their lives, many of them gave their lives.”
“We’re not called upon to make sacrifices that grand; we’re merely called upon to stand strong against the Left and bring this 2024 election to a positive conclusion, but more importantly, be able to actually implement the agenda that we know this country needs.”
“I will get that done.”
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‘Preserve The Sacred Fire’: DeSantis Invokes Americans Heroes In Fight Against The Left

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Elected officials, from rural school board members to the president of the United States, take an oath to defend the Constitution. Additionally, many unelected officials, such as FBI agents, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. Inherent in these initiation ceremonies is the belief that the Constitution is the regime to which officials bind themselves. Here, insurrection is best understood as an attack against a text, not a person or a building — even though buildings and people may be casualties caught up in an attack against the American idea.
Hillsdale College, the preeminent conservative institution of higher learning in America, distributes as many pocket Constitutions as possible to anyone who will have one. They have long known this is what needs conservation.
In November 2021, an original copy of the U.S. Constitution fetched an impressive bounty of $43,200,000 at a private auction — a monetary gesture at the value of the text that holds America in existence.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to validate her positions, her go-to is still the United States Constitution. She may stray from what is now considered mainstream, but she never goes so far as to stray away (in her theory) from the Constitution.
Given the importance of this text, what must it mean for people who are not actually loyal to the Constitution to rise in rank? Do you suspect we&#8217;ve had a lot of these folks in serious positions for quite some time?
If your answer is yes, you have detected what one preeminent political philosopher has called a “cause of constitutional change” by accident. “Accident” here means something not directly related to the State, which makes it harder to detect.
The three other accidental causes of regime change are:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Corrupt elections or electioneering leading to changes over time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Many minor changes to the Constitution add up to large changes over time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Immigrants in large numbers splintering the country into new factions over time.</li>
</ol>
Does any of this sound familiar?
In addition to the subtle but deadly causes of regime change, the philosopher also provides a list of non-accidental causes of constitutional change, i.e., causes directly related to the State.  
He lists them:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">An arrogant ruler is in charge.  </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A repelling faction develops.  </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">People are acting to avoid disgrace or gain honor.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A too-powerful monarchy or oligarchy is ruling.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The people fear punishment.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The people despise those in power.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">One class grows disproportionate.</li>
</ol>
Would you be surprised to hear these lists were composed 2,400 years ago by Aristotle?
Today our youth shrug off movies from the ’80s as irrelevant to their current life experience. The hope of generating interest in the wisdom of the ages is often dashed for a belief that the ideas du jour are on an uninterrupted continuum of progress. They are “awoke” that the ways of old are categorically unredeemable and offer nothing to them and their stream of consciousness.
Examples of this behavior abound, but the thinking often goes something like, “Fat can be the new healthy if one wants, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a bigot. These bigots will be trampled during the march of progress.”
How could a person holding this disposition take up the Constitution as something worth extending into the future? They cannot.
It should be mentioned that in composing this list of “deadlies” to a regime, Aristotle was not making a moral claim about the phenomena of regime change, but more basically an observation that these are the things that ultimately lead to regime change. If any of these items were set into motion, over time the Constitution of a state would become vulnerable.
While it’s a stretch to credit any one group with systematically organizing these action items together, they certainly have been pushed by organized factions, and not by accident. We find ourselves well into an unfolding development of many of these phenomena.
The 24-hour news cycle dominating public discussion encourages short-term, immediate thinking based on the present. The muscle memory needed to reflect on the past and to reference the wisdom of past ages becomes atrophied in these conditions. We are wired to grab for what seems pressing, and in this predicament, the resources available to think through important questions are often left aside.
It can be encouraging to know that while we are in a new era, we have not transcended the body, material world, or the basics of human nature that still account for so much of politics and individual and group behavior. The flawed and genius playbook that Aristotle composed 2,400 years ago is still very much in play, albeit with characters that he probably never could have imagined in his wildest dreams. If the American regime is worth preserving, it’s worth a nod and reference.
Becca Williams is the founder of Valor Education. 

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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How The Slow Roll Of ‘Constitutional Regime Change’ Unravels A Nation

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Dads tend to become creatures of habit. That makes gift-giving somewhat easy if you pay close attention. For this fourth recommendation, listen to a father of six, The Daily Wire’s own bestselling LGBTQ children’s author Matt Walsh.
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Happy Father’s Day 2023
To dads young and old, those who stepped up or adopted, and to the coaches, teachers, and mentors who played fatherly roles to those who needed it, we wish you a happy Father’s Day 2023.

The Daily Wire’s Father’s Day Gift Guide 2023

Dads Rule: Five Father’s Day Gift Ideas To Honor The Kings They Really Are

 Dads Rule: Five Father's Day Gift Ideas To Honor The Kings They Really Are

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
While the most famous passage from the Declaration of Independence stands today as a rallying cry for freedom and the bedrock of American commitment to civil liberties, when a committee first drafted it, the symbolism was not so simple.
“At the time they presented a serious challenge to the founders of our nation,” Robert George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, explained. “Could they create a governing structure that would match the high moral standards they had set for themselves?”
Their initial attempt, the Articles of Confederation, was largely unsuccessful: while it did see America through the Revolutionary War, the government was toothless and had no real power over the states – and since significant changes were not possible unless all the states were on board, nothing got done. At the time, many observers at home and abroad believed the entire system would collapse.
The Constitutional Convention was called in 1787 to rectify this – its stronger federal government was checked with a separation of powers between the branches of government and between the federal government and the states to balance the need for central authority against the danger that authority might pose to individual rights.
The First Congress would ratify a Bill of Rights soon after the new Constitution was adopted to further enshrine and defend those individual liberties. But the centrality of freedom to the American project posed a fundamental problem to the burgeoning nation.
“How could America espouse freedom, and also permit slavery?” George asked.
Many of the Founding Fathers, including Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, were slaveholders who had inherited sizable plantations themselves, although they were keenly aware that slavery was a gross contradiction of the ideals of liberty they had bled for. 
Both men condemned slavery in their own time and made limited efforts to combat it or halt its spread – Jefferson pushed for an end to the international slave trade, and Washington freed all his slaves in his will and set aside financial support for them.
“I tremble for my country when I think that God is just,” Jefferson said, “That his justice cannot sleep forever.”
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While some have condemned the Constitution and other founding American documents as corrupt because of the moral impurity of their authors, George points out that every known civilization in human history up until that point had practiced slavery and that human beings are flawed and limited creatures. The founders did not perfectly condemn slavery, but they instantiated ideals that were fundamentally opposed to it, at great sacrifice and personal risk, and their ideals and example would be used to ultimately bring the practice to an end.
“We do not celebrate these and the other founders for their personal moral failures,” George said. “We celebrate them for their unique moral achievements….To judge these documents [The Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and The Bill of Rights] as corrupt because imperfect men wrote them is, to say the least, foolish.”
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The President, more than any other figure, has become emblematic of the American experiment. From humble beginnings, the office has become synonymous with august power itself.
The Commander-in-Chief of the greatest military force in human history. The ‘Leader of the Free World’ and America’s representative on the world stage. The de facto leader of whatever party he belongs to. The Chief Executive of the largest employer in the country, who can mold and bend countless federal policies with a stroke of his pen.
Their faces dominate our currency, their figures tower over our most famous national monuments. They loom large in our imagination — they dominate casual discussions of our politics. The average American <a href="https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/political-communication/civics-knowledge-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may not be able to name the three branches of government</a>, but even the most politically illiterate citizen can usually name the sitting president.
But for all that pomp and circumstance, I’d wager that almost no one would be able to tell me the name of America’s first president.
Don’t believe me? Well, if you say it’s George Washington, you are mistaken.
The United States declared its independence on July 4, 1776, yet Washington did not take office until April 30, 1789. The Continental Congress that would declare independence was formed on September 5th, 1774.
Washington would serve as America’s first Commander-in-Chief for the duration of the Revolutionary War, but during those formative years <a href="https://history.house.gov/People/Continental-Congress/Presidents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 men</a> would preside over the fledgling government as it stumbled, fled, and failed to supply Washington and his army, leaving the nation’s soldiers frozen and half-starved at Valley Forge. Yet, for all its dysfunction, this was the government that would best the British, win the critical favor of the French and Dutch, and emerge victorious over the greatest empire the world had ever seen.
So, on this Presidents&#8217; Day, I would like to take a moment to salute the valiant efforts of the forgotten Presidents, whose existence has largely been confined to the realm of trivia.
Peyton Randolph, Henry Middleton, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, John Jay, Samuel Huntington, Thomas McKeen, John Hanson, Elias Boudinot, Richard Henry Lee, Nathaniel Gorham, Arthur St. Clair and Cyrus Griffin.
Why, then, have the memories of these men been confined to the pedantic ramblings of overeducated columnists?
Well, the President of the Continental Congress was not anything like the modern office of the President.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the President was not the head of a separate branch of government — he was selected by the Congress from among the Congress, and his role was largely ceremonial. He presided over the Congress, and moderated debate, and seldom served for more than a year at a time. He did not set the agenda, he had no control over committees assignments, and he certainly was not given control of the troops.
The members of the founding generation were extremely skeptical of strong executive authority — after all, weren’t they rebelling against a corrupt and tyrannical king, and a system that concentrated far too much power in the hands of a single man? These were people who deeply feared the dangers posed to liberty by the <a href="https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24671">mere existence</a> of a standing army, the last thing they were going to do was vest the entire federal bureaucracy in one person.
The Articles, to be fair, didn’t have many powers to vest. It had no power to tax, and relied on the voluntary contributions of its member states. It had virtually no power to regulate the internal affairs of the states, no power to regulate commerce between them, no power to amend its basic bylaws without the unanimous consent of all states. It could raise armies would sometimes finance, take on debt which the states may deign to repay, and negotiate treaties with any foreign government that would take them seriously. Barring some existential crisis, the first federal government couldn’t do much of anything.
The Presidency was a do nothing job in a do nothing organization.
And in fairness, for a while it sort of worked. But, as the fledgling republic came of age in a time of peace, the wartime pressures that had held to ramshackle structure together faded away and the hollow edifice threatened to crumble. America couldn’t pay back its debts, America couldn’t provide benefits to its former troops, America couldn’t prevent legal disputes between rival states.
 Economic dislocation and open rebellion threatened to bring the whole thing down.
So, in the summer of 1787, the beleaguered Continental Congress authorized a Constitutional Convention to iron out some reforms and see if the Articles of Confederation could be salvaged.
The Convention was a mess. One state, Rhode Island, refused to send any delegates at all. About a third of the delegates who were appointed didn’t show up. The 55 men who did show up, however, were among the most highly educated, politically seasoned, materially successful men in the country: most of them had served in Congress, several had been state governors, and many had been in government since the Revolutionary days.
Described by their contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, as a ‘Council of Demigods’, these titans of law, commerce, finance and industry crowded together in a small assembly hall in Philadelphia, with the windows closed so that eavesdroppers couldn’t listen, and over the course of an <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/hot-hot-hot-summer-1787-101008791.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMWEt9VGTANmrFJbvQwQbpicQblq43Cc2TR4Dl2-t5GsM6f8Ar3QStzhWGS5rz_xpEBuhy8r9mDdPx8K2PWdVjbbQ6NtA6mr7dJnerlufqqIbiuWDMhcJCNyPnv8dXWYwBXmYpWvs-hTAf_n07fqKf4fo-Hwr4R-oIw_-3uQlR5u" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agonizing hot and muggy summer</a> with no air conditioning, tried to see if they could salvage this thing.
Tensions were high. One of the first conclusions drawn by the convention was that the Articles were broken beyond salvation and the only way forward was to start over from scratch. To be clear, these men who had spent years of their blood, sweat and tears to create this nation looked at the first draft of the American Republic and said ‘we can keep the name.’
There were many controversial issues debated at the convention — the structure of Congress, the balance of power between the federal government and the states, and that ever fatal issue of slavery. 
But the nature of the executive, and what would become the Presidency, was among the most loaded issues of all.

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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Eric Duhaime on political trends in young people. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime">watch</a> the full podcast on DailyWire+.
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There’s a principle that governs conservative thinking that’s actually derived from the Catholic Church, and then even more deeply, derived from an older biblical tradition based on the Old Testament Exodus story, that proper governance — proper distribution of responsibility — should follow the principle of subsidiarity. Edmund Burke developed this as well. It’s a very good notion, and I think it’s correct. It’s one of the things that attracts me in some fundamental sense to conservative thinking.
Imagine a state where there’s a single executive who has all the power and the people have none. You would think of that as a tyranny, and that’s obviously not desirable. And then you might think, ‘What’s the alternative to a tyranny?’ You might say, ‘Well, direct democracy where the voice of the people rules supreme and the leader must follow the whims of the crowd.’ But the problem with that is that it’s not that easy to figure out what the crowd thinks, and the entire system can fall prey to suddenly arising, poorly organized, deviant impulses.
So what the founders of the American state did, and many other states as well, is set up a series of intermediary structures of power. You can sort of list them up hierarchically. There would be the domain of responsibility of the individual. There would be the domain of the responsibility of the married couple, of the family, of the local community, then the town, then the state or province, and then the country. Each of those levels would be requested to take as much responsibility for what they could at the local level. The relationship between all those levels should be governed by the principle that if it can be decided at a lower level — then it should be. 
The reason that that’s useful is twofold. One is that it’s a really good way of delegating responsibility. It’s very efficient if everyone plays their role. The second is — this is another thing the conservatives really have on their side — if the state does everything for you, let’s say, well, in a sense you’re secure, although you’re not because you’re beholden to the benevolence of the state. That can be taken away arbitrarily. But the downside is — this is one of the downsides of universal basic income proposals — it’s like, what the hell is there left for you to do if the state does everything for you? Well, you’re secure. But what’s your life, then? You have no purpose. If the purpose of life — and this is another thing that the more libertarian conservatives could be offering — imagine that the purpose of your life isn’t security and satiation because you’re not just an overgrown infant. Imagine instead that the purpose of your life is something like responsible, productive, generous adventure.
Then the call would be: Make space for people to manifest that in the particularities of their own life. And then everyone has a real part to play, and no one in some real sense is subordinate to anyone else. There would be a hierarchical structure, and some people like you would be leading at the more abstract levels. But your power would be — your authority and your responsibility — would be properly delimited and everything else everybody else was doing all the way down the hierarchy right to the level of running their individual enterprise would in some sense be just as meaningful and just as crucial. That strikes me as an extraordinarily useful vision of governance, especially in the aftermath of the COVID fiasco.
To hear the rest of the discussion, continue by listening or watching this episode on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/browse">DailyWire+</a>.
<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">listen</a> to or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.

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Not everyone is thrilled that rap artist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> twerked onstage while playing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/founding-fathers">James Madison</a>’s crystal flute, but a rep from the founding father’s Montpelier Estate doesn’t seem very upset.
The rep <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/03/lizzo-invite-perform-james-madison-home-crystal-flute/">told</a> TMZ that they invited Lizzo to tour the Virginia property after clips of her playing the priceless flute went viral. The publication noted that the estate would be interested in the “Truth Hurts” singer putting on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">performance</a> while she’s there, whether it’s scheduled or impromptu.
The 34-year-old Grammy winner hasn’t responded to the invitation publicly yet.
The historic 2,650-acre Montpelier estate serves as a museum of artifacts to educate the public. It has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-madisons-montpelier-gets-a-crt-renovation">criticized</a> for promoting CRT (critical race theory), with The Montpelier Foundation seeking to “unpack and interrogate white privilege and supremacy and systemic racism” in their educational materials. 
Books available for purchase in the gift shop include “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi and “Born on the Water,” which is co-authored by Nikole Hannah-Jones of the “The 1619 Project&#8221; fame.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-from-the-library-of-congress-b-i-just-twerked-and-played-james-madisons-flute">reported</a>, Lizzo stunned her D.C. audience when she played a few notes on the crystal flute, which had reportedly never been played before. It was lent to her by the Library of Congress.
“B****, I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s!” she said from the stage.
Later, Lizzo shared several clips of the event with her 12.9 million Instagram followers. One video included a caption saying, “YALL.. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LET ME PLAY THEIR HISTORIC 200 YEAR OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE ON STAGE TONIGHT. NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE… NOW YOU DO.”
“This is crazy. I have to be really careful,” Lizzo told the audience in the video.
It’s worth noting that Lizzo is a classically trained flutist who’s been playing since childhood. There’s also a clip of her playing the instrument during a tour of the Library of Congress. 
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“Lizzo reverently took Madison’s crystal flute in hand and blew a few notes. This isn’t easy, as the instrument is more than 200 years old. She blew a few more when she was in the Great Hall and Main Reading Room,” April Slayton, Director of Communications at the Library of Congress, <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/09/its-about-danged-time-lizzo-at-the-library/">wrote</a> in a blog post about the visit. 
“Then, reaching for a more practical flute from the collection, she serenaded employees and a few researchers. It filled the space with music as sublime as the art and architecture.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lizzo">Lizzo</a> used a very special <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">musical instrument</a> during her D.C. concert performance Tuesday night.
The 34-year-old rap artist claimed to be the first person ever to play a 200-year-old crystal flute lent to her by The Library of Congress. The instrument was previously owned by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/founding-fathers">founding father</a> James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
“B****, I just twerked and played James Madison&#8217;s flute from the 1800s!” she hollered from the stage during a stop in our nation’s capital as part of her Special Tour, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11257537/Lizzo-plays-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-Library-Congress.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
She shared a clip of the event with her 12.9 million Instagram followers alongside the caption: “YALL.. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LET ME PLAY THEIR HISTORIC 200 YEAR OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE ON STAGE TONIGHT. NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE… NOW YOU DO,” she said, tagging the Library of Congress.
“This is crazy. I have to be really careful,” Lizzo told the audience while introducing the priceless instrument. 
She continued, saying, “This is from the early 1800s, this was a gift to James Madison from a French crystal flute designer to celebrate his second term. There was a fire… and the only two things that were saved were a portrait of George Washington and this crystal flute right here,” the “Truth Hurts” singer continued. 
“I am the first person to ever play it, so you’re about to hear what it sounds like for the first time,” Lizzo said. “Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving our history and making history cool. History is freaking cool, you guys!”
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The singer played the flute, twerked onstage, then handed it back to the representative. Per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125564856/lizzo-james-madison-crystal-flute-concert">NPR</a>, it was then escorted back to the library safely with Capitol police as an escort.
Before the concert, Lizzo visited the Library of Congress and played several flutes from their archive, the publication reported. The Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden exchanged tweets with the pop star before she visited D.C. 
“The @librarycongress has the largest flute collection in the world with more than 1,800. It incl Pres James Madison’s 1813 crystal flute @lizzo we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you are in DC next week. Like your song they are ‘Good as hell,&#8217;” she shared along with a winking face emoji.
“IM COMING CARLA! AND IM PLAYIN THAT CRYSTAL FLUTE!!!!!” the singer <a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1573681768145817607">replied</a>.
Lizzo is a classically trained flutist and frequently performs with that instrument during concerts.
The “About Damn Time” singer has been making headlines recently for her statements on politics. Most recently, she used her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards to speak out against “laws that oppress us,” inspiring critics to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/probably-not-oppressed-lizzo-is-a-key-player-in-normalizing-obesity">speculate</a> who could be less oppressed than Lizzo.

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It is no coincidence that as America has become more ignorant, it has also become more cynical, more factional, and less confident. As Constitution Day approaches, learn what it means to be an American and what everyday citizens can do about it.
Most Americans are somewhat familiar with the hagiographic version of Abraham Lincoln: the man who grew up in a Kentucky log cabin, who was entirely self-taught and self-made, who heroically navigated the American republic through the crucible of the Civil War, and most important of all, the man who helped purge America’s soul of its original sin of slavery.
However, what Americans truly need today is a different Lincoln: Lincoln the political scientist, who searched his whole life for a way to connect a diverse citizenry to a singular American polity. 

This is the Lincoln who proclaimed in his First Inaugural Address, “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land.” 

This is the Lincoln who, as president, used the bloodshed of Gettysburg to presage a “new birth of freedom” by reminding Americans that our patriotic fealty is oriented not around kings, popes, and aristocracies, but the Jeffersonian “proposition” that “all men are created equal.” 
This is the Lincoln who, over two decades before becoming president, delivered a speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield warning them that insufficient memory of the sacrifices of the American Revolution and disrespect for the law are threats to “the political religion of our nation.”
The genius of Lincoln and the acumen of his statecraft is highlighted in the juxtaposition between the “self-evident truth” at the center of the Declaration of Independence and the “proposition” Lincoln describes in the Gettysburg Address. To further explain: a self-evident truth requires no effort, no political project, no patriotism — it is true whether or not citizens understand or recognize it. 
A philosophy teacher might say it is an “a priori” truth, but a proposition is different. As University of Chicago professor <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Worthy-Life-Finding-Meaning/dp/1594039410">Leon Kass observes</a>, a proposition is “like a geometric theorem . . . whose truth must be proved.” Thus, the grand and stirring truth recognized by Lincoln is that American citizenship is a multi-generational project of perpetually re-proving, widening, and amplifying the propositional truth of universal human equality that stands at the heart of the American regime.
This is why robustly teaching American history and American civics is the essential task of education in a pluralistic constitutional republic. For America to endure, every generation must understand and acquiesce to certain political truths, namely those enshrined in our two founding documents — the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution.
Which begs a colossally vexing question: what happens if virtually no modern Americans understand the American proposition? What if they cannot articulate, much less renew, what Jefferson called “The American Mind” and FDR labeled “Americanism?” What if they do not appreciate the sheer power of Martin Luther King’s observation that, “. . . the goal of America is freedom . . . before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history with the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.”
It is not hyperbolic alarmism or crotchety cynicism to point out that what Lincoln feared most, a generation of ignorant Americans who would somehow sever themselves from the knowledge and habits that make the American Experiment possible, has become a haunting and dystopian political reality. 
The evidence of our civic decline and ignorance is everywhere around us. Only <a href="https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/freedom-framework-social-studies-education">12% of American high school seniors are proficient</a> in U.S. History. Of all the major subject matter categories—mathematics, reading, science, and the like—U.S. History was dead last. And not by a small margin, either. The second worst subject was geography, with <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/">20% of 12th graders reaching proficiency</a>.
Though, let’s not pretend it’s only school-age students. Only <a href="https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/vol-51/issue-2/9_Kennedy%20(419-429).pdf">one in four Americans</a> can name all three branches of government. Concepts like federalism and judicial review remain mysteries to broad swathes of the public. One in ten college graduates — no, this is not a joke — think <a href="https://time.com/4186653/college-grads-judge-judy-supreme-court-justice/">Judge Judy is a Supreme Court justice</a>.
Jefferson famously remarked “if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Americans read less, associate with fewer citizens of different political leanings, and obtain their information from siloed news sources. They know very little of American history and even less about constitutional norms and expectations. Political campaigns are no longer calibrated to persuade independent or moderate voters, but attuned to rile up and terrify “the base” by selling them on the pernicious notion that half the country is a threat to the very fabric of the republic itself. Political discourse comes to resemble schoolyard taunts—“You’re a fascist!” “No, you’re the real fascist!”
It is now oddly vogue for modern conservatives to celebrate harsh critiques of classical liberalism from intellectuals who have decided the problem isn’t weak families, a narcissistic consumer culture, or moral relativism, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/when-did-john-locke-become-the-enemy">but John Locke</a> and the very philosophy of the American founding. 
When we don’t understand values like free speech, we come to believe demagogic tropes like “politics are personal” or “silence is violence.” When we don’t understand that broad political disagreements have always defined America’s political landscape, we decide to end friendships on the basis of mask mandates and MAGA hats. Younger Americans won’t date those with a different political point of view. 
Lincoln’s fear that we would abandon our civic glue and become unyoked from our constitutional union is happening right before our very eyes. Which brings us to the most under-appreciated and least celebrated national holiday: Constitution Day.
Our English friends have spent the past week rightly celebrating the extraordinary life of Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew Sullivan humorously, but insightfully, noted, “However sh***y the economy, or awful the prime minister, or ugly the discourse, the monarch is able to present the nation all the time.” Of course, we have no king or queen, no sovereign to unite or unify us. Instead, we have a constitution, a document that is not only a noun, but also a verb, because it “constitutes” a nation by providing the legal framework for “We The People” to become a singular nation with a singular ethos.
On this Constitution Day, take a few minutes to learn about the American Constitution. Figure out why Madison was the Father of the Constitution. Read up on the differences between an article and an amendment. Say the Preamble out loud. 
Most of all, don’t take Constitution Day for granted. It is more important than we think. Just ask our sixteenth president.
Jeremy S. Adams is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hollowed-Out-Warning-Americas-Generation/dp/1684511984/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1663177732&amp;sr=1-1">Hollowed Out</a>: A Warning About America&#8217;s Next Generation, recently released in paperback. He has taught American civics for 24 years in Bakersfield, California and was the 2014 California Teacher of the Year (DAR). You can follow him on Twitter @JeremyAdams6.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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