Stand Up Citizen

Setting the stage for the creation of the Constitution, this episode gives background and context for how the framers created our Constitution.  It is about the times and events that affected them, what influenced and concerned them, and some of the main challenges they wanted to handle when making the Constitution.  An overview of their objectives in designing the document will I hope lead listeners to read the document and realize our good fortune.

We take a tour through the principles our founding generation set out for our country.  There is much more to the Declaration of Independence that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.  We look at the many influences on the founders of our country so we get a good sense of the backdrop of their work.  We also do some testing of those principles in our time and how we are or are not faithful to them.  The consequences of we have gone astray may be grave, and threaten our great experiment in self government.

In this first episode, we look back on our history and refresh our memory of the American experience compared to other nations.  A brief review of the history of other major nations over our 243 year history allows us to see how we have fared.  We set our objective for these podcasts to consult our founders and compare our actions to how they expected citizens to act in our republic.  In this way we can begin to see whether our current generation of citizens and public officials need a new set of principles and guidance, or is any shortcoming due to operator error on our part.