The Michael Barry Joe, I would like to start out wishing each and every one of you are

beloved listeners a happy 4th of July and a safe 4th of July. I hope you get to pop firecrackers.

I hope you have great barbecue plenty of beer. Good times much fellowship with your family.

If you end up out on the boat or in the backyard wherever you are, I hope you enjoy yourself.

But today is also very important today and it's important that we remember why we're celebrating

and that is the greatness of this country. If you've listened to this show for very long, you know

that I have a love and admiration which I freely profess for the late great Supreme Court Justice

Antonin Scalia. And I'd like to share with you some beautiful words about our country

that Justice Scalia gave before the House Judiciary Committee on the real key to what makes

America special and distinct. I speak to students especially law students but also college

students and even high school students quite frequently about the Constitution because I feel

we're not teaching it very well. I speak to law students from the best law schools,

people presumably especially interested in the law and I ask them how many of you have read

the Federalist Papers. And well a lot of hands will go out and no not just number 48 and the big

ones. How many of you have read the Federalist Papers covered a cover? Never more than about 5%.

And that is very sad. I mean, especially if you're interested in the Constitution. Here's a

document that says what the framers of it thought they were doing. It's such a profound

exposition of political science that it is studied in political science courses in Europe.

And yet we have raised a generation of Americans who are not familiar with it. 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. I ask them, what do you think is the reason that America is such

a free country? What is it in our Constitution that makes us what we are? And I guarantee you

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