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The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one people and no longer 13 separate colonies or even 13 separate states?”

After the war, the Articles of Confederation served as America’s frame of government, but it quickly became apartments that the articles could not successfully create a strong united country, according to Reinsch. 

“The problem with the Articles of Confederation… is they don't create in effect any central government that can actually regulate, that can tax, that can conduct an authoritative foreign policy, [or] that can regulate commerce,” he said. The founding fathers acknowledged that a central government was needed to bring the diverse states together and create a sustainable union. 

By the time the founding fathers “go to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, there's a consensus throughout the 13 states that there's a problem, and that the weak and ineffectual government has to be remedied in some capacity,” Reinsch says. 

Reinsch joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” for the third part of the show’s Independence Day series to discuss the crafting of the Constitution and how the document became the foundation of American freedom. 

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Many Americans at the time didn't think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno.

"I think just about any historian looking backwards would say, 'Yeah, the odds were certainly very overwhelmingly against the Colonists,'" says Moreno, a professor of history and dean of social sciences at Hillsdale College.

The Founding Fathers understood they were risking their "lives and fortunes and honor, but most of them thought that it was a risk that was worth taking, that was justified because their cause was right," he says.

It was clear from the start of the war that no man was better equipped to handle the challenges of leading the Continental Army against the British than George Washington.

"One of the subtitles of great biographies of Washington is 'The Indispensable Man,' and that's absolutely what he was," Moreno says of Washington, adding that "he was a man of such a character, that he's sort of embodied the virtue that the American people believed their cause and the cause of republican government depended upon."

Moreno joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" for the second part of an Independence Day series to discuss how the Colonists, under Washington's leadership, defeated the British to win to Revolutionary War. 

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Taxation was not the only reason the colonists declared their independence from Britain, but it was certainly a factor, according to Bill McClay.

"Americans believed in self-government because they lived self-government," says McClay, the Victor Davis Hansen Chair in classical history and western civilization at Hillsdale College. The colonist's desire to maintain self government played a critical role in the decision to declare independence, according to McClay.

The Declaration of Independence served as a "press release to the world," McClay says, adding that the document laid out the "what" and "why" of the revolution, but was "much more than that."

On July 4th, McClay says Americans "can say, our national birthday commences with this document that expresses these very high and noble imperishable sentiments. 'All men are created equal endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.'"

McClay joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" for the first episode of a three part series celebrating Independence Day and discussing America's founding. 

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New England fishermen are facing growing regulations—from the amount of fish they are allowed to catch to large sections of ocean they can no longer work because of “offshore wind development.” 

“The New England fishermen are the most regulated fishermen in the world,” Jerry Leeman says. Leeman has been fishing in Maine his entire life. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all fishermen. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collects data and determines how much of a certain kind of fish the fishermen are allowed to process, Leeman says, but the limits have been so greatly reduced in some categories of fish that it is “making it so unviable for us to even make a profit."

Federal regulations have now reduced the amount of haddock landings for commercial fishermen by more than 80%, Leeman said.  

The reduction in fish that fishermen are allowed to catch and “offshore wind development,” which is taking over “just under 10 million acres” of ocean, prompted Leeman, along with fisherman Dustin Delano, to create the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association to advocate for the region's fishermen. 

The association launched in May to “keep the resource viable for our heritage, for the next generation to be able to process a resource for the U.S. consumer,” Leeman says. If something doesn't change, Leeman says, America will be further "dependent on other nations to feed us with protein resources.” 

Leeman and Delano join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how New England fishermen are being regulated out of their industry, and what they are doing to preserve commercial fishing for the next generation of New Englanders. 

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The woke Left is championing the same "pedophile doctrines" that enable child sex slavery, warns Tim Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who has rescued hundreds of children from sex slavery.

He also warns that taxpayer dollars are in effect funding child sex slavery under President Joe Biden.

Ballard spoke with The Daily Signal last week, speaking alongside Jim Caviezel, the actor best known for playing Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ." Caviezel portrays Ballard in the forthcoming film "Sound of Freedom." The film tells the story of Ballard's first mission to save children from sex slavery in Colombia.

Ballard spoke about the nexus of ideas between a pro-pedophile political party in the Netherlands and the Left's transgender advocacy in the U.S., and he raised the alarm about Biden border policies that fund and enable the exploitation of children.

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The Wagner Group, mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, revolted against the Kremlin over the weekend after its leader claimed the Russian military killed 2,000 of its fighters in Ukraine. 

Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation, explains that “the Wagner Group is essentially a private paramilitary group run by Prigozhin, who was actually imprisoned for corruption at the end of the Soviet Union and then somehow became [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s private chef, and they established a very close relationship.” (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) 

Coates also weighs in on whether she thinks the rank-and-file members of the Russian military have lost confidence in Putin. 

“Well, they’ve certainly lost confidence in the top control of the ministry, particularly [Sergei] Shoigu, the minister of defense, who was never popular,” she says. “And in a way, Putin’s kept him around because he isn’t popular, and he doesn’t threaten Putin’s popularity, and he was an offset to Prigozhin who was an offset to Shoigu.”

“So, that kind of arrangement has worked for a while, but if there is a greater perception within Russia than we realize of how poorly the Ukraine war has gone, given the way it was sold as a three-day war, inevitable triumph, that obviously has not turned out to be the case, and the casualties have been horrific. And if that is starting to sink in, he might have another Afghanistan-style situation on his hands, and this could be a real emblem of that,” Coates says. 

Coates joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to further discuss the events that unfolded in Russia, and what they mean for Putin and his government.

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