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🗓️ 5 June 2024
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Are there too many people in America’s prisons? And why are some calling for the mass release of convicted criminals? Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Zack Smith explains.
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0:11.0 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
0:15.0 | To remind the current regime, |
0:18.0 | we the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
0:22.8 | All, all, |
0:24.2 | to get back in their box and stay there. |
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0:29.2 | We have a left-down. |
0:32.1 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
0:47.2 | Yeah. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. Founding Father John Adams is well known for his quote, |
0:51.2 | Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. |
0:58.0 | It's a truth that strikes at the heart of our American identity. Without virtue, without regard for our fellow man, and for the rule of law, the delicate balance of the Republic will come undone. |
1:10.0 | America's greatest moments have come from a spirit of virtue and selflessness. |
1:15.7 | But what happens when people don't behave virtuously? |
1:19.4 | When they deliberately bring destruction on others for selfish reasons, what should we, as a society, |
1:25.6 | do? |
1:26.6 | Well, there's many answers to that. From the stocks to the guillotine, |
1:30.2 | nations through the ages, both the good and the evil, have had to come up with ways to defend |
1:35.4 | the rule of law. In our day and age, our most common consequence is the prison system. Convicted |
1:41.6 | criminals are sentenced to periods of time in isolation from the |
1:45.4 | rest of society. There are some that suggest that we are in the midst of a crisis when it comes |
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