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The Michael Berry Show is on the air. Oh, yeah. I would like to start out wishing each and every one of you our 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 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 Anton and 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 that 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?

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, cover to 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

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