Welcome to Walgullers. Today we've got a special program for you. It's the second episode of

building on the American Heritage

Series it's called Foundations of American Government. We're going to go

straight to the television set right here you're going to get to hear it on audio

building on the American Heritage Series foundations of American government.

All right David I've been excited about this show because we're really getting to the heart of the matter.

We've been the most successful nation in history. What is the cause for the effect of America's success?

When you look at what we've been able to do and we have 4% of the world's population and 32% of the world's gross domestic product,

and it's not because we have more natural resources. I mean Africa, other

continents have a lot more resources than we do. We've been blessed to be able to take

the resources we have and produce wealth at an unbelievable rate, produce

stability. We're the longest ongoing constitutional

and public in the world, and it's not an accident because if it is, nobody else has

stumbled on the cause. I mean, look at every other nation, 192 nations at the

UN, they don't have the stability, the prosperity, so where to come from?

That's where you have to go back and look at the foundations. So when you look at it in our case,

it is the Declaration of Independence, and in that document, you start and four words up top that give the five

fundamental principles on which American government operates. So this is the

formula that produces the result. That's it. Now that you get those five

principles that then give you 27 grievances saying now here's the

five principles and there's 27 examples of where Great Britain has violated these principles

and we can't stay a nation if we can't do these five things and then they close at the end with a very clear

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