Ken Burns

But we can have that discussion.

But the key is pursuit.

Or in the Constitution, 11 years later, a more perfect union.

We are a nation in the process of becoming.

And either you're a participant in that becoming, making it more expansive, or you're a participant in the process of becoming.

or you're trying to make it less expansive, or worse, you're cynically sitting it out saying, that's for me.

So take your hat off while the national anthem is on.

Put it over your heart.

I read to my children, my four daughters that range in age from 43 to 15, every 4th of July, I read the Declaration of Independence to them and have for 30 plus years done that.

This is what we do.

And read the Constitution.

It's short.

And it's Article I is not the executive.

It's the legislative, the people's representatives.

And so our founders will come back, and they'd not be surprised if somebody wanted to take more authoritarian control.

They're not surprised.

This is what they knew happened.

That's human nature.

They'd be surprised that the legislative had abdicated.

so much power to the executive.