We are different by the nations.

I know professors drive them crazy to say American exceptionalism.

They hate that.

The average length of a Constitution in the history of the world is 17 years.

This year, we're 232 years under the same Constitution.

So we are unique. We're the exception, not the rule.

Hello and welcome. rule.

Hello and welcome. This is the Ben Shapiro show's Sunday special. I'm excited to welcome today, David Barton from Wall Builders. They focus on America's forgotten history and heroes.

They emphasize the religious, moral, and constitutional heritage of our nation.

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So Wall Builders is an organization that has one of the largest private collections

of founding era memorabilia documents and other materials in the world.

So before we get to, you showing me some of this stuff,

because it's really, really cool.

You're showing some of this to me before we actually began filming this.

How did you get into actually collecting all of this stuff? I got to go back in my story. I was a math and science guy.

Went to college from a math and science scholarship, became a teacher and then became a school principal, and math and science was my deal. I did basketball and

coaching and other things, but I wasn't at all a history guy. Didn't like history, didn't like it in

high school, didn't like in college, didn't like it anytime. And yet not liking history,

I came across two really old documents that I had been taught about in school. And I'd been taught

about those documents, but when I actually read them, they were totally opposite to what I've

been taught about in school. And so now I'm going, wait a minute, here's what I learned,

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