Most classrooms reduce the U.S. Constitution to "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." Constitutional scholar Bill Norton says that's accurate — and that it's exactly why so many Americans never truly understand the document. In this preview of The Jenny Beth Show's upcoming founding-principles training series, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Norton to reveal how the Founders actually built the Constitution as a deliberate "mixed form of government," and why understanding how it was constructed changes everything.
It's the on-ramp to a four-lesson, eight-episode study of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — recorded so everyday citizens can read the founding documents the way the Founders intended. The full training begins airing Monday, July 6.
In this conversation:
• Why founding principles are a lens on today's fights — the SAVE America Act, securing the border in law, and more
• Fixing what's broken, facing what's genuinely new, and not becoming what we hate
• "Speaking the Language of Liberty," and the patriot who stood up and called herself a tyrant
• Liberty Village: a 30-acre founding-era America rising in the Utah desert
• The night Jenny Beth first met the activists who helped build this movement
Tea Party Patriots Action is fighting to pass the SAVE America Act — you can reach your senators through the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Learn more and watch the full training at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — Why We Paused the Daily Show for Constitution Training
01:05 — Meet Bill Norton: Four Lessons, Eight Episodes
02:59 — Founding Principles vs. Today's Biggest Fights
06:04 — The "Equal and Opposite Reaction" Test
07:35 — How the Constitution Was Actually Built
10:06 — The Patriot Who Called Herself a Tyrant
13:23 — America's 250th and the July 4 Plan
14:08 — Liberty Village: Founding-Era America in Utah
20:51 — How Jenny Beth Met Bill Norton in 2011
22:58 — Sleeping in a Car to Stop Obamacare
27:24 — Founding-Level Americans Are Still Here
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