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The Wall Builders Show on a Thursday, which means we're doing Foundations of Freedom Thursday.

If you would like to help drive the conversation, you can send your questions to radio at

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It can be a constitutional question,

maybe something the Trump administration's doing or your local government, question about the

jurisdictions of government, whatever it might be. Send it on, radio at wallbuilders.com. Rick Green

here with David Barton and Tim Barton, and they are going to take a stab at each of these

questions we're going to try to get to today. The first was a short question, guys. Carl said, what are the true origins of the left

right political associations in the U.S.? So how did we come up with the concept of left?

You're on the left or you're on the right. And of course, today most people associate Republicans

to the right and Democrats to the left. But where did we get this whole left, right thing?

What created the intersection? Well, you know, it's a great question, and it is a really a subjective

answer in a lot of ways. If you're in the U.S. House of Representatives and you're a member of the

House and you're looking up at the Speaker,

then those that are on the right as you look at the Speaker are the Republicans and those on the

left are the liberals or the Democrats or whatever we want to call them now. But if you turn it

around and you're the Speaker looking out, when you look at your Republicans, they're on the left. And when you look at the Democrats, they're on the right. So the perspective is who's looking at it and from where? So this really goes back to the American Revolution, but it doesn't have much to do with America. It has to do with the downstream affects the American Revolution. After the American Revolution,

other nations started saying, hey, this is a good deal. Let's get rid of our king. Let's go to

a representative formal government. One of those nations was France, who had been our ally.

And so France came up with their original constitution of 1789. Now, the deal is, even though

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