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All right, David, Tim, we got quite a few questions here. First one's in from Paul. And it is a

constitutional question. He said I read Article 7 of the Constitution. I'm trying to find

where it's dated back to the declaration.

I'm not sure if I understand this point. Thank you. So I think he might be, I think we talk about this in Constitutional Live, David, where we basically talk about how you tie the declaration and the Constitution together. And of course, we have talked about JQA's quote about, you know, the declaration being the

foundation. You build the house of the Constitution on. But there's also this attestation clause in

Article 7, I think he's talking about. Yeah. And it really does go back to the fact that when you

try to separate the declaration of the Constitution, the Constitution doesn't work well.

Three great examples on that. We'll go back

into the slavery era. When slavery was going on, the anti-slavery people said, wait a minute,

the Constitution is based on the Declaration. The Declaration says, all men are created equal. They're

endowed by the creator with in natal rights, including liberty. And at that point in time,

particularly 1830s and 40s,

Democrats in Congress, after Andrew Jackson said, wait a minute, we didn't take an oath to a poll

the declaration. We took an open to a poll to the Constitution, and the Constitution doesn't

say anything about that. We saw the same repeat of that with the live debates in the 1960s and

70s, when pro-life people said,

wait a minute, the declaration says there's an atable right to life. And Democrats said, well,

we didn't take note to uphold the declaration as the Constitution. It doesn't say anything about

life. And then we saw it even in, in 20 years ago, with same-sex marriage before Bergerfeld and the tens there 2010s

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