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00:03:28.000Well, first of all, it's a statement of fact that America was founded by Bible-believing Christians with a philosophy that was directly inspired from the Bible, with a vast majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence being regular church-going Christians.
00:03:47.000If you read the Declaration of Independence, it mentions God four times, and it says explicitly that we get our rights and our existence from God and that we must obey the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:03:59.000But anytime anyone brings this up, put them on defense, respectfully, of course, and just ask the question: hey, what do you think of William Blackstone?
00:04:10.000And they might say, I don't think much of William Blackstone.
00:04:15.000Well, William Blackstone, who of course was born in 1723 and passed away in 1780, he was an English jurist, he was a politician, and he is one of the most influential figures that basically founded what we know today as common law.
00:04:36.000All the founders knew their Blackstone.
00:04:39.000All the founders were inspired by his writings.
00:04:42.000And some of his most famous quotes we still use to this day.
00:04:46.000William Blackstone was an unapologetic Christian and derived the truth that he talked about from the truth of the Bible.
00:04:54.000He really started to theorize this idea of original law, with God's law being at the very top.
00:05:01.000William Blackstone argued that we cannot challenge the sovereign, the ultimate sovereign, being Almighty God.
00:05:07.000He believed that there were really four areas of common law.
00:05:11.000He was very much inspired by Aquinas, but as Aquinas was, of course, one of the early church fathers, Blackstone argued that all revelation that matters in creating laws are revelations from scripture.
00:05:27.000I cannot emphasize enough William Blackstone's critical nature to America's founding.
00:05:36.000He believed and wrote extensively that God was inseparable to any form of a functioning governmental system.
00:05:45.000Now, mind you, William Blackstone, he was a defender of the British monarchy.
00:05:51.000And of course, we took great exception with the British monarchy.
00:05:55.000But William Blackstone was really onto something when it came to using the laws of nature and nature's God to create a civil society.
00:06:02.000Blackstone, of course, knew his classics.
00:06:04.000He studied Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in great detail.
00:06:08.000He was the first professor ever to create a course on common law.
00:06:14.000Now, common law versus statutory law gave judges more leeway.
00:06:20.000Blackstone re-emphasized the idea of common law being necessary for civil society to endure and to flourish.
00:06:31.000Now, Blackstone and Montesquieu, alongside John Locke, were three of the most critical philosophers behind the American founding.
00:06:40.000Montesquieu, of course, being a French judge, we did an entire episode on Montesquieu a couple weeks ago.
00:06:45.000John Locke, one of the three social contract theorists, Jean-Jacques Rousseau being the other, Thomas Hobbes, who wrote the Leviathan, and of course, John Locke.
00:06:55.000John Locke recognized that our rights come from God, not from government.
00:07:00.000John Locke also wrote extensively about tolerance and what it means to be tolerant, but most importantly, without John Locke, you do not get Thomas Jefferson.
00:07:10.000William Blackstone re-emphasized the presumption of innocence for the accused.
00:07:16.000Now, there's a lot of mechanics that came before Blackstone, such as the idea of lawyers, the idea of cross-examination of witnesses, the introduction of evidence.
00:07:25.000But most importantly, William Blackstone argued that every single person that comes before the court of law must be given a presumption that that person is innocent until proven guilty by their peers.
00:07:41.000One of the most famous quotes of William Blackstone, which our entire system of government, which our entire system of law and with it our entire system of government is built around is, quote, it is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
00:07:59.000Now, he drew inspiration from this quote from Abraham, when Abraham asks God, where he said, God, should we consume the righteous with the wicked?
00:08:08.000And God says, no, I will spare the righteous and I will condemn the wicked.
00:08:14.000The idea that you should not have a justice system that tries to punish many to make sure that all of the guilty are accused.
00:08:27.000Instead, Blackstone said that one innocent person must not suffer if that means that 10 people that are guilty suffer alongside of them.
00:08:38.000The system must be difficult to convict.
00:08:41.000The system must inherently protect those natural rights.
00:08:44.000Now, that's not to say the system must act as if people are not doing wrong.
00:08:49.000Instead, freedom for that one innocent person must be cherished more than the penalty for 10 guilty people.
00:08:59.000Blackstone really argued of common law versus statutory law.
00:09:26.000If understood in its proper context and its proper timing, the Declaration of Independence was nothing more than a legal brief submitted, not so respectfully, to the King of England, saying, we want to separate, grant us our own independence.
00:09:41.000Now, as we mentioned in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Thomas Jefferson, in the original draft of the United States Declaration of Independence, an original draft of the Declaration of Independence, actually condemned slavery and blamed King George for bringing slavery to the colonies.
00:10:00.000Now, that never made it in the final draft for very specific reasons, one of them being they did not want to divide the colonies or Britain would divide the colonies for them.
00:10:10.000But just to throw away all of the founding documents saying that they were pro-slavery bigots, it's actually a lot more complicated and nuanced than that.
00:10:18.000Blackstone drew great inspiration from Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, of course, who discovered the laws of physics as we know them to this day.
00:10:29.000Aristotle and Da Vinci understood the laws of physics, but Sir Isaac Newton articulated them in a way that no one had before.
00:10:39.000Of course, the three laws of physics as we know them to today is that first, an object will not change its motion until a force acts upon it.
00:11:20.000Blackstone was not right about everything.
00:11:23.000He thought that kings could do no wrong.
00:11:25.000Now, he thought kings could be illogical.
00:11:28.000He did defend the divine right of kings, something that is directly condemned by James Madison in the writing of the United States Constitution.
00:11:38.000Where Blackstone was wrong on that, he was right on the idea of looking to scripture for inspiration.
00:11:45.000He argued that property, liberty, health, and humanity must never be violated under any set of circumstances by the sovereign.
00:11:57.000Now, mind you, King George was violating a lot of that.
00:12:00.000But the Founding Fathers saw his writings and drew that as inspiration to actually implement them in real form.
00:12:07.000But the most important legacy of William Blackstone in America and with that with Western civilization and the entire world was the First Amendment.
00:12:18.000The right to assemble, the right to speak, the right to pursue your own religious conscience as you see fit.
00:12:25.000William Blackstone was the inspiration for the First Amendment, for freedom of speech, for dialogue.
00:12:31.000The Founding Fathers were playing around with this, and he said, quote, the liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state, but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications and not in the freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
00:12:46.000Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public.
00:12:52.000To forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press.
00:12:57.000But if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
00:13:03.000Now, he would actually be in favor of changing libel laws, as I am today.
00:13:07.000But the essence of this quote is that everyone must have the freedom to speak publicly as they see fit.
00:13:13.000The Founding Fathers saw this, they understood this, they saw the biblical and scriptural basis for this, and they implemented it in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
00:13:25.000Anyone who says America is not founded on Christian ideas, on Christian thinkers, on Christianity or the Bible, they got to get through William Blackstone, not to mention Jonathan Edwards, not to mention Whitfield and the First Great Awakening, not to mention the pastors who formed and founded the philosophical and religious backing for America.
00:13:47.000All of that is something that the people who say that must grapple with, where Jonathan Edwards gave his famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, that argued that there must need for a revival in our land.
00:14:03.000The First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the First Great Awakening came right before America's founding, the Black Robe Regimen.
00:14:11.000But the person that really wrote at a philosophical level with the diction, the sophistication, the historical knowledge that the Founding Fathers respected.
00:14:25.000Because the Founding Fathers were very well read.
00:14:28.000Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, a little bit less.
00:14:33.000George Washington was a man of action, but he was still very well read.
00:14:36.000But Thomas Jefferson, especially, and James Madison, they poured over the writings of William Blackstone.
00:14:45.000They understood that the Bible must be a blueprint.
00:14:48.000They're not going to try to start a theocracy or a dominionist type government.
00:14:52.000Instead, they knew a pluralistic society founding on the teachings of the Bible was the only moral way to govern.
00:14:59.000Now, mind you, they did not want a democracy.
00:15:02.000A lot of people say, we must have a democracy, an Athenian democracy.
00:15:06.000Well, that's how they killed Socrates.
00:15:08.000Socrates, who taught Plato, Plato, who taught Aristotle.
00:15:11.000Socrates was killed by mob rule, by the majority.
00:15:15.000Instead, a constitutional republic respecting the writings and the teachings of the Bible, the truths that the Bible tells, the protection of the innocent, the rights of the accused, the cross-examination of witnesses, all of that comes from scripture.
00:15:34.000That a constitutional republic where certain things cannot be voted away by just a simple up or down vote.
00:15:40.000Now, things can be amended, things can be changed, but it takes a very long, overwhelming process.
00:15:49.000For example, the abolition of slavery.
00:15:51.000It's a good thing that we had the ability to amend our original founding documents.
00:15:56.000But it wouldn't just, it couldn't just be done by a 51 vote, 51 person vote.
00:16:06.000And I'm glad the founding fathers gave us the capacity to amend our Constitution.
00:16:11.000But at the same token, if there was a 51-person vote in the Senate that said, you know what, we're going to get rid of the First Amendment, can't happen.
00:17:15.000There is currently a 50-50 tie in the United States Senate, and it benefits the Democrats because the Vice President of the United States can break that tie.
00:17:26.000So coming up in 2022, three Republicans are retiring.
00:17:29.000Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina, Senator Rob Portman from Ohio, and Senator Pat Toomey.
00:17:34.000Those are three states that President Trump won in 2016 that will be up.
00:17:38.000We are not sure if Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin will be retiring or whether he will be running again.
00:17:45.000North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are three critical Senate races for Mitch McConnell to at least keep some of the races close so that he can become Senate majority leader.
00:17:55.000In Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley is deciding whether or not to run again.
00:18:00.000There's an open Senate race coming in Missouri, in Kansas and Oklahoma, in Arkansas, Louisiana.
00:18:06.000Those should be safe Republican seats.
00:18:09.000And there are two races happening in North Dakota and South Dakota, also safe Republican seats.
00:18:14.000There's a race happening in Idaho and Utah, both of which should be comfortable Republican races.
00:18:20.000In addition, there's a state, there's a race happening in South Carolina, again, comfortably Republican.
00:18:25.000Now going to where Republicans can pick up some ground.
00:18:28.000There is a race happening in Arizona and Georgia.
00:18:31.000Those two races will be top-tier races for Senate Republicans.
00:18:36.000In particular, Senator Markelli and Senator Raphael Warnock will be top focuses for the Republicans to win back the Senate majority.
00:18:46.000So in order for Republicans to win the majority, here's their game plan.
00:18:51.000They have to hold all the comfortable Republican races, such as Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida.
00:19:00.000If Marco Rubio runs again, he should be just fine.
00:19:03.000And then they have to hold the three that they already have, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, which will be difficult, and then flip at least one, flip one Democrat to a Republican.
00:19:14.000There's also a Senate race happening in New Hampshire.
00:19:16.000It's just becoming an increasingly tough state to win in, but you can flip Arizona or you flip Georgia, and then Senator Mitch McConnell becomes Senate Majority Leader.
00:19:26.000It all is based on a couple things, whether or not the House of Representatives and the Senate and President Joe Biden pass H.R. 1, which is House Resolution 1, which changes voting as we know it in our country.
00:19:38.000And it is also dependent on whether or not there is a wave election.
00:19:44.000It depends whether or not that this election is one that we usually see in midterms where the opposing party stands to pick up massive seats, where there is a backlash against the incumbent party that seems to do things too radical or out of the mainstream of the party.
00:20:01.000So Arizona and Georgia are two critical states.
00:20:03.000Now, none of this matters if we do not change the way we do elections in our country.
00:20:08.000We have to change the way we do elections and the way that we count ballots and the way we register voters and the way we have signature verification.
00:20:15.000It is critical that we make serious and significant reforms in the way we actually do elections in our country.
00:20:21.000And so that's a little bit of a snapshot in 2022.
00:20:24.000But to answer your question, what's more important than the Senate, their House?
00:21:22.000It is more important than ever that we assume this position of leadership in our party and that we are ready to field grassroots candidates, conservative candidates, to take back our positions of leadership in 2022.
00:22:16.000I'd recommend Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the last great Roman emperor, who, of course, had a little bit of a troublesome son, Commodus.
00:22:24.000But Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a phenomenal piece of literature for anyone that has to deal in the position of leadership and with a lot of adversity.
00:22:33.000Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a tremendous read.
00:22:36.000I'd also recommend for people that are maybe trying to find whether or not they believe in Jesus Christ or they believe in the Bible.
00:22:43.000The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel is a terrific book.
00:22:47.000I also recommend the book That Built Your World by Vishal Mengdalwadi.
00:22:52.000I have recommended this book many times before on this podcast, and it is a terrific book.
00:22:57.000And in addition, I encourage all of you that might want to get just big ideas but synthesize them easier, go to thinker.org.
00:23:08.000You can go to thinker.org slash Charlie.
00:23:10.000You guys can understand big ideas very quickly.
00:23:14.000So for example, there's books at thinker.org that would take you weeks to read, but actually you'll be able to understand them and digest them a lot easier.
00:23:24.000And so let's just go to some examples here at thinker.org.
00:23:28.000And you actually go to thinker.org slash books.
00:23:29.000And by the way, you spell it, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:23:34.000One of those here at thinker.org is Cynical Theories by James Lindsay.
00:23:39.000We've had him on our podcast before, and we got some great response there.
00:23:42.000At Cynical Theories, it talks about what critical race theory is and postmodernism is and how to deconstruct it.
00:23:49.000Where does our new woke language actually come from?
00:23:51.000And why is it so harmful to actual progress in the realm of social justice?
00:23:56.000The social justice movement that dominates the thinking of contemporary society didn't always exist.
00:24:02.000Rather, it originated in the 1960s French academia through an intellectual movement called postmodernism, a way of thinking about reality that disregards objective truth and meaning.
00:24:11.000Later in the 1980s and 90s, postmodern thought produced critical race theory or critical theory, which supplies the current social justice movement with a majority of its ideas.
00:24:20.000Liberal thinkers such as Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay illustrate the rise of social justice movements in Culture and the academy, advocating for a return to true liberalism as a means to question reality without forsaking objectivity.
00:24:34.000For example, critical race theory does not believe in math.
00:24:45.000Instead, they only believe in power struggles.
00:24:47.000At thinker.org, you'll be able to really understand these ideas in a short period of time, such as postmodernism has a radical skepticism, which denies our ability to know anything, but culture creates truth.
00:25:01.000It also talks about postmodernists needed to change.
00:25:03.000So it's decided the world needed to change too, with the help of some ridiculous theory.
00:25:08.000In this book, you'll be able to unpack what critical theory really is and how critical theory unravels discourses to prove that language creates identity.
00:25:16.000It talks about how identity determines the capacity for power and for knowledge.
00:25:20.000But identity politics wants to turn this on its head.
00:25:23.000And it also talks about in this book, you can't prove social justice scholarship, but you can't argue with it either.
00:25:29.000At the core of liberalism is a desire to question, empathize, and repair small L liberalism, classical liberalism, not leftism that we critiqued so much on this program.
00:26:33.000Look, the left, they have done everything they possibly can to control education in our country, to even control it through parochial or Christian or Catholic education.
00:26:43.000Now they want to control homeschooling.
00:26:45.000They are going to put through edicts and measures in California and other states, you heard it here first, to try and control what you can teach your child in your home.
00:26:56.000Of course, it's immoral and it should be illegal.
00:26:58.000But this is coming to schools very soon.
00:27:00.000And we did a video about all the nonsense happening in the Illinois education system.
00:27:05.000I encourage you guys to check it out on our YouTube channel.
00:27:07.000Type in Charlie Kirk and just subscribe to our YouTube channel, which always helps us.
00:27:11.000But we went into great detail in this where in the new Illinois bill, it will be required for you to teach critical race theory, mobilize students for social activism.
00:27:20.000For example, a class might mandatory by Illinois law might have to go to a gun protest or an environmental protest.
00:27:27.000That's where your tax dollars are going in Illinois.
00:27:29.000And that's where it's going to be happening all across the country very, very soon.
00:27:33.000So to answer your question, yes, homeschooling is on the chopping block.
00:27:37.000And if you're homeschooling your kids in a blue state, just watch the legislation happening in your state because it might happen very, very soon where they might make it illegal for you to teach your child.
00:28:22.000I believe that these standards will be state standards for any school that is accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education, which most of the private religious schools have to be as well.
00:28:29.000I'll look into that, but I'm 99% sure that most of these pieces of legislation also hit private schools.
00:29:06.000Some people might get very angry at you and they'll call you bad names.
00:29:08.000You'll become a tougher person and that adversity will make you into a better prepared human being to endure the suffering of life.
00:29:18.000Look, we all know that life is full of suffering.
00:29:24.000The real question is, what are you going to do to make yourself stronger to be able to live a fulfilled life?
00:29:31.000Now, looking to the scriptures and looking to the Bible, we are told not to play the victim, not to blame other people, but to pick up our suffering.
00:29:39.000You see, schools are supposed to make you stronger, not train you to remove all the difficult stuff around you.
00:29:47.000How do I make myself better prepared to endure the inevitable suffering that I will encounter?
00:29:54.000How do you overcome the difficulty of life?
00:30:10.000But then you're able to put yourself together.
00:30:13.000Be thankful for your circumstances around you.
00:30:16.000And then you say, what actually matters in the world?
00:30:19.000Do I want to just be someone that goes along with all my classmates around the black square tile and the spitting on Trump supporters and Christians?
00:30:27.000Or do I want to pursue what I know is true in the world?
00:30:30.000Do I want to pursue something that is worthwhile?
00:30:34.000Do I want to pursue something that is rooted in the moral construct that built the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world?
00:30:45.000And yes, if you start a Turning Point USA group, you will receive backlash.
00:30:49.000Yes, if you start a Turning Point USA group, people will call you bad names, but you'll become stronger and tougher and you'll meet friends for a lifetime and you will become a better person because of it.
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