Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.

There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.

Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

To remind the current regime.

We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.

All the action to get back in their box and stay there.

Lift-off.

We have a lift-down.

From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

Yeah. This is Heritage Explains. Imagine that it's the turn of the 20th century. You're an immigrant from Poland, Ireland, or Germany.

You stand on the deck of a steamship as it nears an unfamiliar

harbor in the new world. The journey has been long and difficult. All you have are the clothes

on your back, a few coins in your pocket, and the promise that life will be better here. All

that you ever knew lies behind you, an ocean away. As the sea stains your eyes and memories of home cloud your mind, you feel cold and lonely.

Anything could happen on these new foreign shores.

The promise of a new life is only that.

A promise.

But then the mist on the waters clears, and a figure emerges, towering from the sea into the heights.

She stands on a pedestal, one arm, holding a great torch aloft to the sky.

There's a crown on her head, and she's robed down to her feet, which stand, you can just make out, on a broken shackle and chain.

In her other hand is a tabula and sata,

a Roman-style tablet symbolizing law and civilization,

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