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Thank you We sneak The constitution We're going to party

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like it's seventeen seventy six As much as we may

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hate them rules come in handy once in a while

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Help us regulate our behavior our safety and even the

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stuff we do for fun that's illegal you're out So

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it's really no shocker that our founding fathers would want

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to come up with a set of rules for america

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Should they get two hundred dollars when they pascoe What

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is surprising is how well the constitution has hung in

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there for over two hundred twenty years I don't look

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a day over two hundred so let's take a good

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look at this resilient blueprint for democracy constitution of the

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united states of america After america won its independence from

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britain it's leaders had to put together a central government

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Toronto what do we do now The first attempt at

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a constitution the articles of confederation was a nice try

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but inadequate How dare you So the constitutional convention was

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convened to reform it in philadelphia in may of seventeen

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eighty seven Thank you The convention was attended by fifty

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five leaders from twelve states Needless to say when you

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get that many people in the same room disagreements are

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bound to happen Okay but the delegates plowed ahead In

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the end they created a federal government that was more

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structured and more powerful but still respectful of the rights

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and freedoms of individuals Oh yeah James madison often called

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the father of our constitution was a key player in

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keeping the rest of the delegates on task He knew

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that they would never agree on everything And we're going

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to make money but needed to agree on the important

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stuff The country would be a federal system of government

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with three distinct branches Legislative executive and judicial It would

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have a serious of checks and balances to keep everyone

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honest And states and individuals were to retain some exclusive

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powers a year You probably think it was all downhill

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from there yet But there was a lot of dispute

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about whether or not there should be a single president

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and how long he should stay in the office as

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long as i want it would be quite a while

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before this guy would come along to resolve the issue

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of slaves right Yeah Or before this gal came along

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to fight for the rights of women Bring it on

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But the new constitution did cover a lot of ground

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It established two bodies of legislation in the house and

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the senate a supreme court and the ability to add

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amendments in the future It also made it pretty clear

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who was in charge Oh yeah brother Since most colonists

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were fed up with the monarchy our founding fathers insured

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from the first words that this was a popular sovereignty

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whose power came on lee through the consent of the

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people being governed Yeah After four months of debates and

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compromise the delegates were more than ready to head for

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home I know i am But there was one thing

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missing from this first constitution Am i missing something A

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bill of rights at it His amendments one through ten

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The bill of rights was ratified in seventeen ninety one

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Restricting government's ability to infringe upon individual rights and guaranteeing

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personal freedoms were twice in a row Since its ratification

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and seventeen eighty nine the u s constitution has been

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amended twenty seven times with twenty six still standing His

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law Yeah it's been an inspiration for countless other countries

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and is the oldest written constitution in the world Oh

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what's your secret Not bad for a bunch of old

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guys stuck in a room without the internet huh What 00:04:38.562 --> [endTime] is that Oh yeah Stop twisting jim

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