Building on the American Heritage Series: Civil Stewardship: Duty vs. Right

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Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Discover the delicate balance of rights and duties that are the foundation of American values as we unravel the link between our cherished freedoms and the inherent responsibilities they carry. With an emphasis on the wisdom of our founding fathers, we dissect how rights like free speech are intertwined with the duty of integrity, and how the true essence of freedom is not about unfettered choice but about choosing responsibly within the rule of law. Listen as we contrast the self-governing e...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the intersection of faith and politics. Today's program is civil stewardships,
0:12.1	duties versus rights.
0:14.4	Gonna learn a lot today as we go to the set
0:16.0	with David Barton and the Building on the American Heritage
0:18.5	series.
0:20.4	Well, David, we all love our freedom.
0:21.8	We love enjoying the blessings of liberty, but with those blessings there also comes a burden or a responsibility to do something about it.
0:28.0	Kind of a play in your role to make sure that that freedom is not only something I enjoy but you get to enjoy it and
0:33.7	our next generation gets to enjoy it.
0:35.4	Our founding fathers who gave us these rights or at least secure them to us.
0:38.6	There were rights given by God and the right and the right and Father secured them.
0:41.2	They said to every right there is a commensurate duty.
0:45.6	So if we have a right to free speech, which we do, we also have the duty to be honest in what
0:50.3	we say and be truthful and be accurate. We got a right to free
0:52.7	space but there's a duty that goes with it. We enjoy liberty. We got a duty to be
0:56.3	involved in government to choose the right kind of leaders to find out the
0:59.0	right things about leaders when we go to vote so we can cast an informed vote.
1:01.8	So if you have the freedom to choose your leaders,
1:04.4	that means you got a duty to go be informed
1:06.7	to when you do it.
1:08.1	So with every single right that's out there, there's a duty.
1:12.3	And if you don't take the duty side of it you
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