Astead Herndon

I'm surprised.

Yeah.

I like that framework because it speaks to the unfinished work and the work to be done going ahead.

Okay, Heather, I would love to do an exercise with you and rethink how we should talk about our historical founding documents.

But like any good history lesson, we're going to need some classroom tools.

So hold on a moment.

They go, feminism has gone too far.

You go, why?

Because of the Sadie Hawkins dance?

All right, we're back, and thank you to everyone for joining us.

I am here with Heather Cox Richardson, and we're gonna try a little bit of an exercise.

So for those listening, I am currently seated next to a whiteboard where we are going to write a founding document together, thinking about America's next 250 years.

What can we take from things like the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence?

What things aren't in there that might make us a better democracy going forward?

Heather, is there something that comes to your mind initially?

You know, I do still remember it from Schoolhouse Rock.

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, what is it, ensure domestic tranquility?

Let's start there.

We the people.

One person, one vote.