Guest: Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, author, and educator with more than three decades studying the American Founders. He is a co-author of "Behind the Bill of Rights" (with Jeremy Nelson of the National Center for Constitutional Studies) and of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" (with Mark Herr of the Center for Self Governance), with "Behind the Declaration of Independence" and "Behind the Constitution of the United States" forthcoming. He owns a construction company, is a lifelong artist and curriculum designer, and serves as the education director of Liberty Village in Hurricane, Utah.

This episode is a preview of the show's upcoming founding-principles training series — four lessons across eight episodes on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — which begins airing Monday, July 6.

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Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome, and why the daily show paused for constitution training

01:03 — Meet Bill Norton: four lessons, eight episodes

02:45 — Applying founding principles to today's biggest fights

04:13 — Beyond Band-Aids: fix what's broken, face what's new, don't become what we hate

05:50 — Jenny Beth's "equal and opposite reaction" test

06:54 — The Declaration, the Constitution, and how it was actually built

08:46 — The Bill of Rights and "Behind the Bill of Rights"

09:58 — "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and the patriot who called herself a tyrant

12:25 — Why Bastiat's "The Law" is the place to start

12:59 — When the training airs, America's 250th, and the July 4 plan

13:58 — Liberty Village: a 30-acre founding-era village in Utah

19:15 — Benjamin Franklin's home as a kids' discovery center

20:37 — How Jenny Beth and Bill Norton first met in 2011

22:44 — Sleeping in a car to stop Obamacare

24:46 — From anger to productive action

26:48 — Rallies are the first step, not the last

27:55 — Founding-level Americans are still here

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