America Has Separation of Powers
The Kirk Cameron Show
Kirk Cameron
4.9 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With a country divided, the Republican risk and morality being redefined, it's time to get around the campfire, get back to basics, and spark the revival that this country so desperately needs. |
| 0:15.7 | This is the American Campfire Revival with Cook Cameron. |
| 0:23.8 | We've been talking about the genius of the American Republic, |
| 0:28.1 | and I don't say that in an arrogant way. |
| 0:30.3 | I don't say that because I live in America. |
| 0:32.6 | I think people who understand history, |
| 0:35.3 | understand that America has been unique in all of the world, |
| 0:38.3 | not because the people are the most virtuous or the most faithful members of the family of faith, |
| 0:46.5 | but because the form of our government was patterned after God's ideas of government and his |
| 0:53.1 | ideas of the church and the family. |
| 0:55.1 | And to the degree that those ways have been followed, |
| 0:57.9 | it's produced maximal blessing and human flourishing. |
| 1:02.1 | And that's what we want to get back to in this nation that we love. |
| 1:06.1 | And so we talked about the first genius idea of the American Republic |
| 1:10.7 | was that the American Republic was that the American |
| 1:12.6 | Republic was not a democracy. |
| 1:16.3 | Now, we like to talk about the democratic process, and that's good. |
| 1:18.7 | We want to vote. |
| 1:19.4 | We want to be represented by our values represented through our votes. |
| 1:24.4 | But the idea that we are just patterned after the old Greek democracy, |
| 1:28.3 | no, those were tyrannies because you'd have the majority of the people trample over the rights |
| 1:33.9 | of the minority because majority rules in a democracy, right? It's just mob rule. And so we talked |
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