Welcome to the Wobbler Show. Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday in which we are going to do a Foundations of Freedom Thursday. Yes, we're doing all of this just to confuse you. No, not really. The calendar is unique this year. Constitution Day falls on Wednesday today. And we thought, you know, we need to talk about the Constitution, so we're going to swap out, and we're going to do our Foundations of Freedom Thursday show on Wednesday, today, Constitution Day. And then tomorrow, we've got a special guest, Pastor Alan Jackson from Tennessee that will be joining us. So David and Tim Barton, I'm Rick Green. This is David and Tim Barton, and guys, we get to talk about the Constitution today. I love it. Can we start with a happy birthday? 238. Happy birthday to the country. As long as none of us sing, I think that would probably be not good for ratings. Let's do a pen of mine. we'll do a silent version of it.

That would be really good for our radio program. It would really enjoy. If only it were a video podcast. No, it is pretty cool, though. This is, you know, David, you were the first one I ever heard talk about the fact that we break the record every year and just how unique it is to have so much success under a constitutional republic and not have to have a new government every few years and a coup and a, you know, a civil war and all the things that most nations experience. I mean, we're on a pretty good role. Yeah, we're on a pretty good role. Even having gone to a civil war and coming out with the same constitution at the end of that, very, very few nations are able to go through a civil war and recover and keep their former government and come back strong in that same former government. And that's what America's

been able to do. And there is nothing like our Constitution anywhere. You know, the closest you can get

is the Hebrew Republic and they had the Bible for their Constitution. So short of that, we got the, we got the second best

slot in the history of the world. And for a constitutional republic, we are number one. And we've mentioned

it before, but it's worth mention it again. The study done by the academics is it averages 17 to 19 years

per constitution over the last several thousand years of history. So here we are,

not 17 to 19. We're not average. We're way above average. 238. Nobody else had been close to that

number. Well, dad, no. It's 239 today. There you go. There you go. It was 230 at this point. And

just to keep everybody on track, the Constitution was done in 1787.

They finished it on September 17th, which then became Constitution Day.

And so 1787 is 11 years after 1776.

So a lot of people are thinking we're coming up on a 250 years since America declared independence

and we separated from Great Britain, ultimately creating

our own nation. But really, all of the colonies became independent colonies. We weren't a unified

nation yet. That didn't happen until 11 years later with the Constitution of the United States.

And of course, we could go through some of the details and point out that in 1777, they drafted the Articles of Confederation, which they were trying to figure out a way

to work together that ended up being not a good system at all for lots of reasons. It actually

wasn't ratified until the 1780s, but as soon as they drafted in in 7077, they were kind of following that as guidance.

And because of the brokenness of the system, there were a lot of people that were calling for a new

constitution. Everybody from like Noah Webster who did the dictionary, he wrote a lot of early

education books, but even people like James Madison and noted, noted founding fathers

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