Welcome to episode of episode 48 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. Happy Thanksgiving. The best American holiday.

I am, of course, thankful for a great deal, not least the glorious victory that the Jacksonville Jaguarial

has staged last Sunday against the evil empire, the Tennessee Titans, perhaps the most

perfidious tyranny in the history of the world.

Look, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary, very pretty phrase.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'll tell you this much.

They pale in comparison to Jacksonville, Jaguars 34, Tennessee Titans 14, which is the most delicious

of all sentences in the English language.

Even Shakespeare couldn't manage that one.

Perhaps because he's a Seahawks fan.

Now, as is typical,

I have been thinking about what I'm thankful for this year.

And this got me thinking, of course, about America and its Constitution.

And that got me thinking about an answer that Justice Antonin Scalia gave in front of the

Senate Judiciary Committee a few years ago, in which he made the case that the

heart and soul of the American system is not the Bill of Rights, but is in fact separation of

powers, and indeed that it's our separation of powers that ultimately keeps America free.

Here's what Scalia said.

So, when I speak to these groups, the first point I make, and I think it's even a little more fundamental

than the one that Stephen has just put forward.

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