Wallbuilders Live! With David Barton & Rick Green

Faith, Freedom, and American Foundations

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Sinopsis

Have we fundamentally misunderstood the nature of our unalienable rights? The Declaration's famous phrase "among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" suggests there's much more to our God-given rights than these three foundational principles. We dive deep into how the Founders understood natural rights as observable in nature itself – from self-defense to property rights – and how these extend beyond the Declaration into approximately 17-18 distinct rights protected in the Bill of Rights.This exploration naturally leads us to question modern assumptions about constitutional authority. While today's legal education teaches that Supreme Court opinions effectively become "the law," this directly contradicts the Founders' intent. The Federalist Papers explicitly described the judiciary as "beyond comparison the weakest" branch of government. We examine how Congress actually possesses constitutional authority to remove issues from judicial review