Modern pundits are fond of dismissing America’s Founders as backward slave owners with outdated ideas about government, but they were actually prescient about many of the issues that define today’s political landscape.
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On this Independence Day, we celebrate America—248 years old today and counting—the most important living experiment in individual liberty and self-governance in human history.
Mortal men are fallible, with plenty of flaws. Indeed, this was the case for all of the Founding Fathers.
Today, we suffer from a revival of innovation and experimentation in governance and a lack of resistance to it.
Everyone has the ability to do both terrible and incredible deeds. The ability to overcome temptation and adversity is worthy of our adoration and praise.
A strong constitutional republic is within our control if we are engaged, informed, and united. We cannot afford to be complacent and live with apathy and blind faith.
Before we further shred the Constitution, let's take a step back and examine why the United States is a republic and not a democracy.
We live in an iPhone era where everything happens at the speed of now. Our government was never designed to be fast.
With all of the turmoil of 2020, we should take some time to consult our republic’s roadmaps and get our bearing.
Matt Kibbe and Nick Freitas hit the road in Philadelphia to talk about the uniqueness of the American experiment.