Well, you probably guessed from the title of the episode what this one is about. It’s about the US Constitution, which starts with the amazing line, ‘We, the people.’ And though the US Constitution is being ignored and circumvented at many levels by our government today, it is still the very best design of a government that was ever created.
Before I get into the Constitution itself and how it came to be, and the amazing minds behind it, I want to point out that in a way, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are two pieces of the same idea. You can kind of see them as one document, in two parts. The Declaration of Independence declares the ideals of a group of people who are about to leave a tyrannical government and start a new one for themselves, and the Constitution is the working out of those ideals.
In the Declaration, it says, ‘But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.’