The Amazing Endurance of the Constitution—The Great American Story with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay (Part 4)
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the fourth and final installment of Charlie's four-part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred McClay, one of the nations foremost historians on America’s founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the amazing endurance of the United States Constitution into the modern era and how the advent of the so-called "expert class" is leading us into a post-constitutional era, which we all must fervently push back against. Get ready for an in-depth dive into what makes the United States Constitution the greatest political document ever created and why it's worth saving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Happy Saturday. The fourth part of my conversation with the wonderful Dr. McClay. |
| 0:06.7 | We get into the modern era and we talk about how the Constitution has endured. The transformation |
| 0:13.4 | of post-Civil War America into an industrial power, what it means to live under a Constitution |
| 0:18.9 | and what is the Constitution and the rise of expert |
| 0:22.2 | knowledge and the administrative state and why we must revive the constitution and why it remains |
| 0:28.1 | better than any other alternative. If you guys want to take the Hillsdale online courses, |
| 0:33.1 | which I take quite often, in fact, I just started the new one, you go to Charlie F-O-R-Hillsdale.com and you enroll for free. |
| 0:43.3 | That's Charlie-F-O-R-Hillsdale.com. And you can take some of the best courses out there to be able to learn about your country, dive deep into these incredibly important ideas. |
| 0:57.4 | You know, people ask me all the time. |
| 0:58.7 | Somebody just asked me at an event in Houston. |
| 1:00.8 | Charlie, where do you learn this stuff? |
| 1:03.3 | Where are you able to make sense of what's happening? |
| 1:06.4 | Well, when I take the Hillsdale online courses, I feel that I'm able to look at what's happening in our |
| 1:11.9 | country with more clarity, and I'm able to talk to you, our audience, with more confidence |
| 1:17.0 | about this. I encourage you to take the introduction to Western philosophy course. Now you might, |
| 1:21.9 | oh, what's a course? What do you mean? It's a video and a short quiz. That's it. And it's so |
| 1:26.2 | fulfilling when you finish it, everybody, you are able to say, hey, I know these ideas. |
| 1:31.4 | The course on the Second World Wars is phenomenal. |
| 1:35.2 | The course on classical children's literature, terrific. |
| 1:38.6 | It's my goal to take every single Hillsdale online course. |
| 1:44.0 | There's one actually right here that I'm working my way through Theology 101, |
| 1:48.6 | the Western Theological Tradition. |
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