I am convinced that if Jefferson, or Madison, or Hamilton, or pain, if any of them could

hop in a time machine and step into our time, they would be shocked and horrified.

As would Alexis DeToguefield, the French guy who came over here in 1836 and looked around

and wrote Democracy in America and they kind of woke up the world of what's going on here.

What we have right now is very much not what those people have been used to.

Hey everybody, happy July 4th.

This is America's 245th birthday.

You know our second president, John Adams, said that he hoped that every July 4th Americans

would revisit first principles.

Our first principles are enshrined and our Declaration of Independence and in our Constitution,

which of course was written later.

We all know the problems with the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

We know that 41 of the 56 signers were slave owners.

But I don't look at the Declaration of Independence as just a bunch of meaningless stuff written

by dead white men.

I don't.

Because as Martin Luther King said, the Declaration of Independence is a magnificent document

that he said is a promise or a note to which we are all heir.

On one hand, the Constitution of the United States allowed for slavery.

On the other hand, the Constitution of the United States was the basis for abolition.

A lot of things were allowed to be and to happen at the beginning when our country was founded.

And there have been some very serious tragic mistakes and transgressions, horrible violation

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