In this bonus conversation in the First Principles series, Jenny Beth Martin and constitutional scholar Bill Norton follow up on Lesson 2 of his Declaration of Independence training. They dig into the slavery grievance Congress cut from Thomas Jefferson's draft, why your property is inseparable from your life and liberty, and how nice-sounding promises to "transfer ownership" have already played out in Venezuela.
Guest: Bill Norton, constitutional scholar, author of Behind the Bill of Rights and Behind the Declaration of Independence, and co-author of Speaking the Language of Liberty.
Today's topics:
• The slavery grievance Jefferson wrote and Congress deleted, and how history might have changed if it had stayed
• Why Thomas Jefferson signed the ban on the importation of slaves on the very first day the Constitution allowed
• Cotton was not king: what journalist Frederick Olmsted discovered about the real engine of the Southern economy
• Life plus liberty equals property: the equation behind the pursuit of happiness
• New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to transfer building ownership to tenants, and Oscar's warning from Venezuela
• How wealth is actually created, and why the "workers of the world unite" pitch falls apart
• Government waste measured in human lives: every 1.4 million dollars in spending equals one American working lifetime
• When does the individual begin? The scientific answer that reframes the abortion debate
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