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The WallBuilders Show

Righteousness And The American Founding

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

America’s 250th is coming fast, and the louder the debate gets, the more we need receipts instead of clichés. We dig into the evidence behind the nation’s uncommon durability—from the University of Chicago’s findings on constitutional lifespans to Donald Lutz’s landmark study mapping who the Founders actually quoted. Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke mattered, but the Bible surfaced as the most cited source, shaping the moral vocabulary of liberty, justice, human dignity, and limited governm...

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0:00.0

You found your way to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builders Show. I'm Rick Green,

0:11.3

America's Constitution coach here with David and Tim Barton. Appreciate you joining us. What an

0:15.6

opportunity we have to take what we bring to legislators. So think about it. These are the people making the laws

0:22.4

in all 50 states. These are the people that are on the front lines, dealing with all the major

0:27.1

issues, trying to head things off at the past, trying to deal with some of the evil that's out

0:30.8

there, the very people that are writing those laws, fighting those fights, the speakers we bring

0:35.8

for them to our pro-family legislators conference,

0:38.8

we want to bring to you our wallbuilders audience. Now, I also recognize that these hundreds

0:43.7

and hundreds of legislators across the country are listening right now, okay, because they love

0:47.2

Wall Builders Radio as well. So I want to thank them for listening to the program. So for them,

0:51.8

this is going to be a repeat today if they were at the conference this year, which they don't all make it every year. But we really do appreciate

0:57.8

having such a large network of these legislators and appreciate the hard work that they do.

1:02.8

I think, you know, we forget and or maybe I forget since I was there as a legislator in the

1:08.7

past. And maybe you have never thought about

1:11.0

the difficulty of being a legislator. Look, these people work hard to preserve our freedom. So we appreciate

1:17.5

the hard work that they do, the sacrifices that they take, and we want to make sure you're inviting

1:23.2

your state legislators to the pro-family legislators conference. So visit wallboulders.com today, go under events, grab that legislator information, and send it to your legislator. So here's the presentation that we're going to be sharing for the next couple of days. Yesterday, we had one from Alex Newman. Today we're going to start with Tim Barton's presentation to the legislators, where he talks about the opportunity in the 250th. He talks about the Christian foundations of the

1:44.3

country, talks about what it's going to take for us to once again be a great nation. And we have to

1:49.4

get back to what made us great in the first place. We have to be reminded that righteousness

1:53.4

exalts a nation. So this can be really good over the next three days. So this is Tim's presentation

1:58.7

at the legislature. One of Tim's presentations. We shared

2:01.2

the one on property rights a few weeks back. This one is on how righteousness exalts a nation.

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