Liberty: What Did the Founders Mean? | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU
When Thomas Jefferson wrote about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he wasn’t just using poetic language—he was laying down a radical vision for a free society. But what did he and the Founders really mean by “liberty?” And how has that definition changed over time? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explains.
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You won't likely find those words on a college campus even if you spend enough time to get a masters degree.
Hippies gave us Venereal diseases
The US Constitution is an Iroquois document 📃
The Founding Fathers got the idea for an independent republic founded by an organized militia from Native American confederacies like the Iroquois Nation.
France only helped us win the Revolution to spite Britain even after we fought against them in thr French and Indian war.
The Thirteen Colonies literally had to beg France for cash and IOUs they never paid back to survive after the Revolution, the Articles of Confederation failed and the Constitution wasn't nearly enough on its own.
Originally the Articles of Confederation were meant to be America's founding document after the Revolution and the Constitution was only drafted because the Articles of Confederation failed and the Thirteen Colonies were on the verge of internal collapse due to the sanctions and embargoes on British goods meant to compensate Britain after they let us have their independence since they had more important things to worry about than a bunch of whackjobs rioting over tea ☕
Enlightenment thinkers already thought of those way before the Founding Fathers did, and the Founders were also influenced by Native American ideas💡
America didn't win its independence Britain just got tired of dealing with us and had more important things to worry about.
ICE is randomly kidnapping my neighbors who have committed no crimes. Maybe two weeks later, they get released, with injuries. But the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights, Amendment #4: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonoable searches and seizurees, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So, what exactly is this? Some veiled appeal to a Christian theocracy? Because if only religion can define the things you say the law is meant to protect, and that literal interpretations are not valid because a "fair" interpretation requires that we determine a course on which citizens are meant to walk, then how is America meant to be anything but a theocracy? The point of liberty, as you said, is to allow room in the public sphere that the government does not have a hold upon precisely because allowing the government to dictate our own thoughts and beliefs is exactly what the founders stated they would oppose. The sectarianism of Christianity and politics throughout our history simply don't allow such a restrictive reading of the Constitution as layed out in this video.
We as a country must return to what is featured in this video. The Supreme Law of the Law. America as fallen so far from the US Constitution that made us a Republic and now have become a Democracy.
THE best and most concise explanation of America, and what it really is about! And it is THE greatest document, outside of the Bible, for humans to self govern and establish a viable life with each other on Earth. Thank you Prager U
"Live and let live" is something conservatives really hate.
Racist organization prove me wrong
As a younger person 😱 I fear independence and find refuge in the totalitarian state which owns me and tells me what to do and what not to do, from cradle to grave. It is a relief being a serf to my vassal lords at the Democratic party, the party of slavery.
Who has the right to interpret what the Founders wanted?
And,
were the founders so perfect that their intentions should be followed for ever more? Could they have made no mistakes?
And,
who who gets to determine what is
True?
Right?
&
Virtuous?
anyway?
Not that I mean to imply that the answers are easy, but it I think it is more important to think about what is right, than debate what the founders meant.
The problem today is that the Constitution was written for a moral people. Those days are gone, however.
Muchas gracias por este contenido, es realmente genial en su producto final. sobre todo no poen fondo sonoro, nunca lleva, hay tantos clic de este canal que han sido destruidos por el fondo sonoro. Por favor revisen ese aspecto.
5:09 the graphic looks like it’s giving the middle finger.
Great video! Freedom IS different from license. Most Americans fail to understand this due to indoctrination.
It's self evident that anyone can do anything as long as they take responsibility for their needs, take care of their families, don't hurt others, nor impede others from caring for their needs. And don't be a disruptive disturbance making people feel unsafe.
The problem with the hippies was that they stopped producing any value for others yet expected others to produce value for them while they were getting high as kites and doinking anything that moved. And then they let it all hang out into the neighborhood to bring everyone else down.
What the hippies needed to do if they wanted to do the above is first of all keep their personal stuff private. Second they needed to be responsible and be contributing members of society.
Guess what? All the religious people were doing that already. They had their mistresses and kept them discreet. They did all sorts of drugs that made them look 20 years older in private. And they worked responsibly. All while publicly lying saying they lived upright lives.
Freedom. Be responsible about it or get out.