Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
Elizabeth Jo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We'll take a look at the genius and the many, many flaws of the constitution.
It is a short document, but let's face it, it's dry, filled with weird capitalization, odd punctuation, and no explanation whatsoever.
Right, so we're starting, of course, from the very beginning with the preamble to the constitution.
So Roman, it's just fifty two words, so why don't you read it for us?
Sure, it's really short.
It comes at the beginning of the original constitution, of course, and it actually does a lot in that one sentence.
First, it tells us
Where the power to enact the Constitution comes from.
And it says, we the people, as we've discussed.
It doesn't come from the states or from you know the from the the king or anything like that.
So it comes from the people directly.
And then second, it identifies the six very lofty goals of the Constitution, things like ensuring domestic tranquility.
Establishing justice, although of course it doesn't define what any of those things
And then finally, it shows us the intent of the framers when it says that this is for ourselves and posterity.
In other words, this is not a document, the original constitution meant to be a kind of temporary solution of the 18th century.
It's meant to be a document that lasts for generations.
That's right.
That that sort of tension is like internal in the preamble itself, right?
And you were talking both about the intent of the people who made it, uh, thinking about a posterity they couldn't possibly imagine, right?
What like five, ten generations later, what would the country look like.
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