Most people in this nation do not have a basic understanding of our Constitution and the intent of the Founding Fathers when they wrote it.  There are several ways to begin to get a basic grasp  of the kind of nation they gave us, and the protections contained in the Constitution to attempt to keep it that way.  For quickly getting a foundation laid, my favorite method is to have people look at the Declaration of Independence.  The Declaration and the Constitution go hand in hand.  You cannot understand the latter without understanding the former.  This topic will be covered on our first live broadcast on Blogtalkradio.  I plan on that program being next week as I am waiting on a piece of equipment and the flu (stomach, not H1N1) is going through our home this week.

If you haven’t read the Declaration recently, please take time to do so. (a link is here)  Keep this in mind.  If one lists the abuses that drove them to dissolve the political bonds that tied them together with another group of people, isn’t it just common sense that the nation they formed would have a Constitution that protected the people from those very abuses?  That thought alone gives great insight into the original intent of the Constitution.