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Hi, everybody.

Welcome to Your Move.

I'm Mandy Stanley, and it's an election year.

Bet you knew that.

And during every presidential election cycle, folks question whether or not our experiment

with democracy is still working.

And my answer to that question is, well, it will continue to work as long as we, the people, work it. But everybody's got to do their part. So for the next few minutes, I'm going to define what I'm convinced our part is. And by our, I mean my part and your part. But first, a little U.S. history to set this up. After declaring independence from Britain, our founding fathers, as you know, went to work writing our Constitution.

And creating this timeless document was not a casual endeavor, to say the least,

due in part to the fact that our founding fathers actually disagreed with each other about so many things.

In the end, pretty much everybody

involved was unhappy about something, but happy enough about most of it to ratify it. Which reminds me

of one of my favorite Winston Churchill quotes. He said, democracy is the worst form of government,

except for all the others that have been tried. Anyway, so during the

ratification process, our wise founding fathers acknowledged there was more work to be done. They needed

to add language that would limit specific government powers in order to protect specific

personal freedoms. And the result, of course, was our Bill of Rights.

Now, we take these rights for granted,

but the notion of placing enforceable limits

on a government to protect the rights of individual citizens

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