The Charlie Kirk Show - A Comprehensive Defense of America's Embattled Constitution

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Constitution Day.

00:00:02.000 We dive into the beauty and the exceptionalism of the United States Constitution.

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00:00:20.000 The one that we want to talk about is the Federalist Papers.

00:00:23.000 The Federalist Papers were anonymously written articles that were done after the Constitutional Convention written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay.

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00:00:42.000 For the sake of the common good, decisions should follow from evidence rather than emotions or personal interest, Madison wrote.

00:00:49.000 One of the biggest advantages to a union is its ability to deal well with factions.

00:00:53.000 This idea of factionalism is a big deal in the Federalist Papers.

00:00:57.000 A republic is the only form of government worthy of the American people, but will we remain worthy of them?

00:01:04.000 And a system of checks and balances harness human natural tendencies to hold on to power in ways that protect citizens from tyranny.

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00:03:04.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:03:05.000 Honored to be with you today.

00:03:07.000 Today is a day that every single child in school should take pause and be led through and told the great American story of how we got here.

00:03:17.000 Today is a beautiful day.

00:03:20.000 There's a lot wrong with our country right now.

00:03:22.000 And I want to take a pause to remember what happened on this day in 1787.

00:03:31.000 September 17th, 1787 was one of the most significant days in human history.

00:03:42.000 It was definitely one of the most significant days in political history.

00:03:48.000 Almost never before had this idea of self-government been tried.

00:03:53.000 The Romans tried it in Some capacity and failed and eventually became an empire.

00:04:00.000 The Greeks tried it in city-states, but never before did a people attempt to embark on a form of government where the people were the sovereign, with an idea of self-government, independent judiciary.

00:04:16.000 The ideas of freedom and equality and the rule of law that are the ultimate principles to build that society.

00:04:25.000 In today's time, it's easy to feel disconnected to the brilliance or the clairvoyance or the wisdom of our founding fathers or the framers.

00:04:36.000 September 17th, 1787 was the last day of a heated constitutional convention that lasted almost the entire summer.

00:04:46.000 It went from May 25th to September 17th, 1787.

00:04:51.000 It was held in private, in secret.

00:04:53.000 George Washington presided over the chair as the chair of the Constitutional Convention.

00:04:59.000 Now, we have some notes from the Constitutional Convention, but most of the back and forth, the debate and the commentary, we will never know exactly what was said.

00:05:09.000 Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, they were going at it.

00:05:14.000 You see, the articles in Confederation, at Articles of Confederation, which were written after the successful revolution or separation from the British, were posing problems.

00:05:27.000 There was Shay's rebellion, there was inability to do commerce between states, to mint currency.

00:05:32.000 It became more and more clear that some form of a federal government was necessary.

00:05:38.000 The question is, what kind of government do we want to form?

00:05:41.000 Now, a sloppy way to talk about the American story is to say we had two foundings, one in 1776 and one in 1787.

00:05:51.000 That is not true.

00:05:53.000 There is a divine connection between the truths of the Declaration of Independence and the laws of the Constitution of the United States.

00:06:04.000 In the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, it starts with when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.

00:06:24.000 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.

00:06:31.000 Laws of nature and nature's God.

00:06:34.000 The founding fathers and framers built a civilization on eternal truths.

00:06:40.000 This is one of the most significant developments in the history of our species, in the history of human beings.

00:06:47.000 Now, the founders before the American Revolution, before the French Indian War, what did the pilgrims bring with them to the shores of America?

00:06:57.000 They brought a civilization with them, the beginnings of Western society.

00:07:01.000 They brought faith, knowledge of the classic Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine.

00:07:06.000 The whole meaning of a civilization, they brought almost everything except the aristocracy.

00:07:10.000 They started new.

00:07:11.000 They started something from nothing.

00:07:14.000 Thomas Jefferson continued by saying, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

00:07:23.000 Human equality is an idea that civilizations today still reject.

00:07:28.000 This idea that the type of being that you are, a human being, the speaking being, you are a being rooted in reason, that you desire to be as you are.

00:07:40.000 You have a yearn to know.

00:07:42.000 The founders knew this ancient wisdom, and they also knew the developments of the Enlightenment.

00:07:50.000 They said, how can we build a system, build a compact, build a contract that will balance all of these things together and allow for self-government, allow for the pursuit of virtue, which is liberty, put licentiousness in check, have a system where tyranny and the potential for tyranny is put aside so that people are able to live quiet and peaceable lives.

00:08:15.000 In the United States Constitution, it begins with, we the people.

00:08:20.000 That's you.

00:08:21.000 It's not we, the Tony Fauci.

00:08:24.000 It's not we, the Lois Lerner.

00:08:25.000 Not we, the Mark Milley.

00:08:27.000 We, the people of the United States.

00:08:29.000 Now, of the United States is very important.

00:08:31.000 It shows that it's not we, the people of Nicaragua, we, the people of the world.

00:08:35.000 No, it's we, the people of the boundaries and the borders and the tradition of the United States of America.

00:08:42.000 In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice.

00:08:46.000 Now, that's pretty important.

00:08:48.000 You see, America's divided right now, divided into two different ways to view justice.

00:08:54.000 We as conservatives and constitutionalists, we view justice in the traditional sense.

00:09:00.000 A man gets what he is owed.

00:09:03.000 You have your own agency, your own ability, your capacity to make choices, and you'll be held accountable to that.

00:09:10.000 The founding fathers rejected ancestral justice, blood guilt justice.

00:09:17.000 They rejected tribal justice.

00:09:19.000 They said, who are you as a human being?

00:09:20.000 What do you have?

00:09:21.000 What have you done?

00:09:22.000 What are you going to do?

00:09:24.000 Today, we are now told about social justice, racial justice, environmental justice, redistributive justice.

00:09:30.000 The founders and the framers would reject that completely.

00:09:34.000 They said that diminishes the soul of a human being.

00:09:37.000 It de-emphasizes the agency, the choice, the ability for that human being to be all that God wants that person to be.

00:09:45.000 Ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.

00:09:53.000 That's a beautiful statement.

00:09:55.000 Liberty is not man's idea.

00:09:56.000 It's God's idea.

00:09:57.000 And the founders knew that, which is why they called it the blessings of liberty.

00:10:00.000 They did not call it the benefits of liberty.

00:10:02.000 They did not say the enjoyment of liberty.

00:10:05.000 They did not say the luxury of liberty.

00:10:07.000 They said the blessings, capital B of liberty, to ourselves and to our posterity.

00:10:12.000 Now, what does that mean?

00:10:13.000 They're looking intergenerationally.

00:10:16.000 The founders knew, as Edmund Burke did, that there's a three-tied knot to every successful and functioning civilization.

00:10:23.000 What comes before you matters.

00:10:24.000 What is happening now matters.

00:10:25.000 And what's going to happen matters.

00:10:28.000 The founders realized that any government that is only worried about sending stimulus checks to people now and not worrying about the price tomorrow is not a moral government.

00:10:36.000 A government that will print money into obscurity because who cares?

00:10:39.000 We're all dead in the long run, as John Maynard Keynes would say, is not a moral government.

00:10:43.000 Instead, they said, we must make a contract, a compact, a promise, an obligation to people that are not yet born.

00:10:51.000 This idea of looking forward to the unborn, to the future generations, was unique to the American system.

00:10:57.000 Not just worrying about sustenance and momentary pleasure.

00:11:02.000 Instead, the founding fathers embraced ancient wisdom of denying one self-gratification and having delayed gratification to be able to enjoy something less today so someone in the future can enjoy it more tomorrow.

00:11:20.000 Do ordain.

00:11:21.000 Boy, ordain is a word you use in church, isn't it?

00:11:24.000 They were using transcendent terms to say, we established this Constitution for the United States of America.

00:11:33.000 September 17th, 1787.

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00:14:12.000 Seven articles to the United States Constitution.

00:14:15.000 One of the most significant events ever to happen, and most children in school today are not being taught that this is even Constitution Day, let alone the significance of Constitution Day.

00:14:24.000 So what exactly happened on this day?

00:14:26.000 Well, this was the day when debate ended, when all of a sudden the Constitutional Convention was over and the summer of debate back and forth chaired by George Washington came to completion.

00:14:40.000 But that did not ratify the U.S. Constitution.

00:14:43.000 Now, famously, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was walking the streets and someone came up to him and they said, Mr. Franklin, what do we have?

00:14:53.000 A monarchy?

00:14:54.000 An aristocracy?

00:14:55.000 A theocracy?

00:14:57.000 And he turned and he said, aha, you have a republic if you can keep it.

00:15:03.000 That quote is used quite often.

00:15:04.000 And what he meant is that republics are fragile.

00:15:07.000 Republics have a tendency to fall apart.

00:15:09.000 They're nice while they last.

00:15:11.000 They can give you prosperity and freedom and liberty and protect those things, I should say.

00:15:17.000 But they have a tendency to shatter.

00:15:20.000 Once the debate ended on September 17th, 1787, the ratification debates started.

00:15:26.000 These are best articulated in the Federalist versus Anti-Federalist papers, which were a series of newspaper op-eds written in newspapers in New York trying to encourage states to ratify the United States Constitution.

00:15:38.000 The Federalist Papers were written anonymously under the name Publius, but we now know that it was Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay, the three major authors of the Federalist Papers.

00:15:48.000 And James Madison said in defending the United States Constitution that the most effective thing about the Constitution is its structure, the way it arranges the power between branches.

00:16:04.000 James Madison, being the architect of the United States Constitution, realized that if one branch gets too strong, gets too powerful without having an equal or opposite reaction, to having a branch being able to put that in check, then the government will fall apart.

00:16:21.000 We must understand as we look to history, unlike what the 1619 Project will say, or Nicole Hanna-Jones, or Iber Mex Kendi, or Tahanisi Coates, that when you look through history, there are peaks and there are valleys in our history.

00:16:35.000 There are things where you look backwards and you should just stand in awe.

00:16:41.000 That you look at and it almost takes your breath away.

00:16:43.000 Similar to going to Yosemite National Park or Grand Canyon, where you look back in your history and you say, how did they do that?

00:16:50.000 Where did that come from?

00:16:52.000 There's something special about that.

00:16:54.000 You see, the current project that's happening that has been enacted by George Soros and Bezos and the people, the top levels of American society, is a top-down revolution to suffocate, eliminate, eradicate any form of loyalty, appreciation, or gratitude to America, the United States Constitution.

00:17:16.000 And so on this day in 1787, this very day, the founders left that hall, deciding to commit to something that has never been done before.

00:17:27.000 A wide-ranging republic granting states rights, giving them permission to come in, and asking the question, are men truly created equal?

00:17:37.000 Does man deserve a form of government that allows them to live in liberty?

00:17:44.000 We take it for granted because we live amongst it, but it has been and will be one of the most significant, consequential, historic, and meaningful developments in the history of the human species.

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00:19:31.000 We are blessed, everybody.

00:19:33.000 We are very, very blessed to live in a country that still has some semblance of a divinely inspired form of government, of the independent judiciary, rule of law, consent to the govern, checks and balances.

00:19:48.000 And that started today.

00:19:50.000 Not actually today, but on this day, I should say.

00:19:53.000 Many, many years ago in 1787.

00:19:56.000 The United States Constitution, after the seven articles were at least conditionally approved by the Constitutional Convention, they had to go state by state.

00:20:07.000 So they had to go.

00:20:08.000 Delaware was the first state.

00:20:09.000 Rhode Island was the last state to ratify and to approve it.

00:20:13.000 And there were seven articles to the United States Constitution.

00:20:15.000 It wasn't until 1791 that the Bill of Rights was passed and ratified by all the states.

00:20:22.000 And that's actually what most people know as their constitutional rights.

00:20:25.000 First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment.

00:20:28.000 First Amendment, the right to speech, not to be infringed upon by government.

00:20:32.000 Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.

00:20:33.000 Third Amendment, that soldiers don't come into your home. 1.00

00:20:35.000 Fourth Amendment, the government can't spy on you.

00:20:37.000 Fifth Amendment, your right against self-incrimination.

00:20:39.000 Six, seven, and eight, all about process, speedy and quick jury of your peers, against long imprisonment unfairly.

00:20:49.000 Ninth Amendment, which is actually one of my favorite amendments to the Constitution, which says that anything that is not in the Constitution does not mean that it's not protected.

00:20:57.000 Tenth Amendment, things that are not in here are then given to the states and to the people.

00:21:03.000 That's the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, but that actually wasn't part of what we're celebrating today.

00:21:09.000 If I remember correctly, it was actually in December 1791 that the Bill of Rights was ratified.

00:21:15.000 James Madison wrote, It is our reason alone that must be placed in control of the government.

00:21:21.000 Our passions must be controlled by it.

00:21:24.000 The Constitution spreads power over time and over land.

00:21:29.000 It makes it hard to change things.

00:21:32.000 It makes it hard to conduct quick revolutions.

00:21:37.000 You see, the founding fathers in this Constitution, and this is the best way to defend it, somebody asked me to say, Charlie, what do conservatives actually believe?

00:21:45.000 I said, it's very simple.

00:21:47.000 We believe in a natural law.

00:21:49.000 We believe in a natural lawgiver.

00:21:51.000 Founders knew this too.

00:21:52.000 They wrote it in the Declaration, which is why the Declaration is a partner of the Constitution.

00:21:58.000 They go right into each other.

00:22:00.000 As Dr. Larry Arne from Hillsdale College would say, it's the founder's key.

00:22:04.000 They are meant for one another.

00:22:06.000 We believe in the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:22:09.000 We believe that man is prone to slip-ups, to falling, to tyranny, to despotism.

00:22:17.000 We believe that man, at its highest level of existence, is meant to be free of that sort of tyranny and despotism.

00:22:24.000 Is meant to have children, to be part of a community.

00:22:28.000 Thinking, reasoning, speaking, worshiping.

00:22:34.000 The founders knew this.

00:22:36.000 The founders knew this because they decided to study human nature.

00:22:41.000 See, the founding fathers studied every single civilization that existed before them, the Romans, the Greeks, the British, the Chinese.

00:22:49.000 And they decided to take a pause and they said, what do they have all in common?

00:22:56.000 Yeah, there was the Roman Republic that became the empire.

00:22:59.000 There were the Greek city-states in Athens and Sparta.

00:23:01.000 But they realized that over time, that the forsaking of freedom is a compelling political objective, that people are going to be engaged and involved in the mobilization of grievances.

00:23:14.000 And eventually a smaller and smaller and smaller group of corrupt, unelected people are going to have power, and the people are going to live like serfs and servants and subjects, not as citizens.

00:23:26.000 You see, the United States Constitution did something that no other form of government had done, which we remember today.

00:23:32.000 They empowered you.

00:23:34.000 You became, as what the Greeks would say, the word citizen meant co-ruler.

00:23:39.000 You're co-owner of this project.

00:23:41.000 The government doesn't have the ability to suppress your rights without your permission.

00:23:46.000 The Constitution was not written for the times of 1787.

00:23:50.000 It was written to stand the test of time.

00:23:53.000 You see, we as conservatives believe that there's a natural harmony to the universe.

00:23:58.000 I believe that there's a Christian harmony to the universe, obviously.

00:24:02.000 But at the very least, we as conservatives believe that there is a natural law.

00:24:06.000 Now, not just natural law in the mathematical or physics way to look at things.

00:24:11.000 Not just that force equals mass times acceleration, or an object at rest will stay at rest, or for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction.

00:24:18.000 Not just the second law of thermodynamics, the inevitable law of decay.

00:24:22.000 We believe those things, not just the heliocentric theory of gravitational pull, gravitational orbit, I should say.

00:24:30.000 We believe that there's also a natural law to how human beings operate, who we are.

00:24:34.000 And that goes to that question of what is justice.

00:24:37.000 If you have a belief in justice, that justice is okay to take from another person because you want it, because it's social justice, then you're rejecting the American and Western view of justice.

00:24:48.000 We didn't come up with this.

00:24:50.000 It was widely written about in ancient Greece between Socrates and Plato and Aristotle.

00:24:56.000 And of course, the Bible is a document, is a, I believe, the living word of God, but even if you don't believe that, a document that really asks the question of justice.

00:25:06.000 And eventually the question is, you're going to get something you don't deserve, which in the Christian world is eternal life, forgiveness, mercy, reconciliation, which is communion with the divine.

00:25:17.000 The founders realize that no matter even if you have TikTok and Twitter and cross-country flights, you could put on oculus goggles and with really fast cars, human beings don't change.

00:25:28.000 Human beings remain exactly the same.

00:25:32.000 The other side in our country don't believe this.

00:25:34.000 They say, wait a second, if we can discover so much using science, if we can vaccinate people, if we can reprogram genetic code, then who's to say we can't change human beings?

00:25:49.000 We believe, and the founders believe, that not only are you a mind, not only are you a body, but you are a soul.

00:25:58.000 The founding fathers built a government on the earthly belief of a trinity, not the Christian belief of a trinity, of mind, body, and soul.

00:26:12.000 What does a properly sold individual look like?

00:26:14.000 What kind of government do you want to live in?

00:26:17.000 And what is the moral right for government?

00:26:19.000 And that's an important thing is the founders, and we as conservatives believe this, made a moral argument for government.

00:26:26.000 They said, here's what you deserve as a human being.

00:26:30.000 You deserve the ability to pursue virtue.

00:26:32.000 You deserve the ability to speak your mind, to come in at least what your view of a commune is or communion, I should say, with your creator.

00:26:42.000 And we see existential threats to the Constitution every single day.

00:26:48.000 We are seeing existential threats to the Constitution of the promise of the founders on the southern border right now, where there's 8,200 illegals on the southern border from Nicaragua?

00:27:01.000 Nope.

00:27:02.000 El Salvador?

00:27:03.000 Nope.

00:27:04.000 Panama?

00:27:05.000 Nope.

00:27:05.000 Mexico?

00:27:06.000 Nope.

00:27:07.000 From Haiti.

00:27:10.000 So they're flying from Port-au-Prince all the way to Mexico to then illegally come into the country?

00:27:14.000 Is that right?

00:27:15.000 I don't understand the logistics of this.

00:27:18.000 We're going to play this video in this tape.

00:27:19.000 Now, why is this against the promise of the founders, as we remember on Constitution Day?

00:27:25.000 The first line, we the people of the United States, not we the people of El Salvador, not we the people of Haiti.

00:27:35.000 You see, the founding fathers did not try to make an overreaching, all-absorbing internationalist government.

00:27:42.000 They had the humility, they had the prudence, and they had the correct approach to say there are limitations on our power.

00:27:54.000 Play cut 90.

00:27:55.000 You mentioned the mission bridge earlier last month.

00:27:58.000 This is significantly worse.

00:27:59.000 That mission bridge was just about 4,000.

00:28:02.000 This is double that.

00:28:03.000 And as you can see, everybody's just kind of standing around in the heat.

00:28:06.000 There's just a few port-a-potties.

00:28:08.000 And what I'm being told is border agents on the ground are completely overwhelmed, completely overmanned, and they need a lot of help right now because that situation is getting worse literally by the hour with more migrants streaming in every single minute. 0.91

00:28:21.000 So I'm told they came from boat to Mexico to then illegally come into America.

00:28:29.000 And do you know that many of the illegals that are coming into America are not being forced to get vaccinated? 0.99

00:28:34.000 But if your child goes to college, they're going to be forced to get vaccinated.

00:28:41.000 On this Constitution Day, it's important to remember what James Madison wrote as one of the chief restraints that we must put on Congress and the ruling class.

00:28:53.000 James Madison wrote, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America is a spirit which nourishes freedom.

00:29:02.000 If this spirit shall ever diminish as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

00:29:13.000 We live under many laws that do not apply to elected officials.

00:29:17.000 The vaccine mandate does not apply to members of Congress, but it does to your child.

00:29:23.000 It might to you at a hospital.

00:29:25.000 It might to you work somewhere even in a manufacturing plant, police officer.

00:29:30.000 If we have any hope to preserve liberty, we must look to the founders and say they said no special carve-outs, no special exemptions.

00:29:40.000 But the genius of the Constitution when it comes to this illegal immigration problem restrained Joe Biden, who tried to overturn the Remain in Mexico policy.

00:29:50.000 The states, remember, the states created the federal government.

00:29:53.000 The federal government did not create the states, don't have the ability, the courts do not have the ability to overturn it.

00:29:59.000 So now we have 10,000 to 12,000 people huddled outside our border, not inside it.

00:30:04.000 It's still a mess.

00:30:05.000 And Joe Biden wants to allow them into the country unconditionally. 0.55

00:30:11.000 The Constitution recognized limitations on power.

00:30:14.000 It recognized sovereignty.

00:30:17.000 And it also recognized citizenship.

00:30:22.000 It recognized what it means to be a citizen.

00:30:25.000 A shared story, buying into the project.

00:30:29.000 Not everyone gets to be a citizen of America.

00:30:31.000 The founders knew this.

00:30:33.000 And they knew that without a moral and religious and righteous people, this idea of a republic, and we are not a democracy, we are a republic, will fall apart.

00:30:43.000 It will shatter.

00:30:45.000 I will be honest.

00:30:46.000 It's incredible that our system has lasted as long as it has.

00:30:51.000 And we can save it.

00:30:52.000 We can get to revival.

00:30:54.000 We can get back to the place where our children love America again.

00:30:59.000 A lot of people ask me, Charlie, how do you know so much about American history?

00:31:03.000 The answer is, not from school.

00:31:05.000 As many of you know, I did not go to formal college, actually I didn't go to college at all.

00:31:10.000 So my education has been a process.

00:31:13.000 I've always been committed to learning and diving deep into ideas.

00:31:18.000 And one source of truth and knowledge has been the greatest partner in that pursuit of learning.

00:31:26.000 And that is Hillsdale College.

00:31:28.000 American history and civics education.

00:31:31.000 They're quite honestly at a turning point.

00:31:33.000 And the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum, they are teaching the truth.

00:31:39.000 And they have downloadable curriculum for you and your children for free at k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:31:47.000 That's k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:31:50.000 And you could take online courses.

00:31:53.000 So I, every single day, I do my best to try to schedule at least 30 minutes to an hour to take some online courses.

00:32:01.000 So I have my certificate.

00:32:03.000 I have passed the course in Constitution 101, the intro to the Constitution.

00:32:09.000 I'm about to finish the Introduction to Western Philosophy.

00:32:12.000 I finished the introduction to Aristotle, How to Live a Good Life.

00:32:15.000 And they have a new one called The Great American Story that I'm taking, and it's phenomenal.

00:32:20.000 If you say, Charlie, how do I get my kids to know history?

00:32:23.000 Literally pay them to take these courses.

00:32:24.000 It's that good.

00:32:25.000 The Great American Story, it's charlieforhillsdale.com.

00:32:28.000 That's charlieforhillsdale.com.

00:32:31.000 Maybe you're more of a World War II fan.

00:32:34.000 They have a whole course on that called the Second World Wars.

00:32:37.000 Maybe you're a fan of Shakespeare.

00:32:39.000 They have a course on that, Hamlet and the Temptest.

00:32:41.000 Maybe you're a fan of theology.

00:32:43.000 They have a whole course on theology 101.

00:32:46.000 How about on the Greek wars, Athens and Sparta, Winston, Churchill, and statesmanship?

00:32:51.000 These are free of charge, amazingly rigorous courses that will get you to appreciate the country, what it means to be a human being, where our rights come from at k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:33:05.000 That's k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:33:07.000 Hillsdale, we are so honored to partner with them on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:33:11.000 Our children deserve to be taught the truth through a sound curriculum created by teachers, not bureaucrats, and uphold the dignity of each individual.

00:33:21.000 So download the 1776 curriculum right now, and you yourself should at least carve out 20 minutes a day to try and learn something new.

00:33:29.000 These courses can be downloaded, they could be podcasts, and there's little tests after them to make sure that you are comprehending what you are learning.

00:33:37.000 And about after 10 courses, you get your certificate.

00:33:39.000 It's one of the coolest feelings in the world.

00:33:41.000 You feel like you are retaining that knowledge and you have a better understanding of what's happening in America.

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00:33:55.000 Phenomenal partners.

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00:33:59.000 It's remarkable as we read through this, this beautiful sentence.

00:34:05.000 It's such a shame that students today are not being exposed to this and how it applies to them today.

00:34:14.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:34:17.000 I know it's Constitution Day, but I believe the Declaration of the Constitution are tied together.

00:34:21.000 They're partners.

00:34:22.000 One preceded the other.

00:34:24.000 If teachers teach the opposite, they don't know what they're talking about.

00:34:27.000 By their creator with certain unalienable rights by their creator.

00:34:31.000 You see, the Founding Fathers understood a naturally ordered hierarchy of rights and rights giver, of people and creator, that are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:34:41.000 That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

00:34:48.000 You see that?

00:34:50.000 Thomas Jefferson is laying out here, secure these rights, governments instituted amongst men.

00:34:56.000 That's interesting.

00:34:57.000 Not amongst bloodline, not amongst hereditary kind of tradition.

00:35:03.000 Instead, amongst men, deriving their powers from the consent of the government.

00:35:09.000 It takes permission.

00:35:10.000 Thomas Jefferson is saying it takes permission, and the Constitution answers these questions.

00:35:14.000 The Constitution goes into this and says, you know what, you do have these natural rights, and we're going to assemble a government that allows you to do these things because you naturally are able to do these things.

00:35:27.000 It's a completely different form of government than you'll find in the European project.

00:35:30.000 It's a completely different form of government than you'll find in most other countries.

00:35:36.000 Gratitude.

00:35:37.000 It's one of my favorite words.

00:35:39.000 Gratitude is something that so many people in our nation are missing.

00:35:45.000 Our country would have already been disassembled by now if it wasn't for the founders giving us the tools they gave us in the United States Constitution.

00:35:54.000 Still to this day, there is an all-out assault through the bureaucracies, through the progressives, from academia, to the tech companies, to the corporate tyrants to crush the United States Constitution.

00:36:06.000 This Constitution is what stands between us and them.

00:36:10.000 And the Constitution is only powerful if we decide to use it.

00:36:16.000 The Constitution allows the sovereignty of the people to continue and to exist.

00:36:20.000 The story of America, as we look back at the peaks and at the summits of American history, we stand in admiration and awe and with gratitude to Hamilton and Madison and Jay and Franklin and Gubiner Morris, too, who's a very interesting founder.

00:36:37.000 He was a playboy.

00:36:38.000 Let me tell you what.

00:36:40.000 I could tell you a story about Gubiner Morris at a different time, at a different show at a different time.

00:36:45.000 People say, Charlie, what do we do?

00:36:47.000 Well, how do we save the country?

00:36:49.000 Number one, every single one of you needs to commit to knowing what we have.

00:36:54.000 Study it.

00:36:55.000 Ponder over it.

00:36:56.000 Spend an hour or two a day reading the Federalist Papers, knowing where our founder stood on these issues, knowing the tools at your disposal, knowing your rights that are not given by the Constitution, not given by government, it's given by God.

00:37:08.000 These are just your protector.

00:37:09.000 This is just your shield against earthly threats against naturally given rights of expression, of congregation.

00:37:17.000 There are threats, both foreign and domestic, against the U.S. Constitution, but I'm here to tell you that the threats against the Constitution are mostly domestic right now.

00:37:27.000 We must continue to stand up against them, stand for citizenship, and be thankful.

00:37:32.000 So I want to say thank you to the founding fathers who walked out that old Pennsylvania State House on September 17, 1787, for giving us a gift.

00:37:41.000 Praise God for that.

00:37:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:44.000 Email us your thoughts of freedom at charliekirk.com and support our program at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:37:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:51.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - September 17, 2021

A Comprehensive Defense of America's Embattled Constitution

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