Ken Burns

They just go, what?

The people's representatives are giving up their right?

And this, and this is coming not from me, but from Yuval Levin, a conservative scholar of the thing who I had the great fortune of spending some time with.

And so I think that this, you know, we're all, you know, this division, we're so divided.

And

is a mile wide and an inch thick and if you can puncture a little bit of that by going back and saying oh yeah we do share this thing in common we do we are based on ideas not on the color of skin we're not based on the religion thomas jefferson himself said if my neighbor believes in 20 gods or no god at all it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg like that's why we have a first amendment we say oh first amendment freedom of speech

It says freedom of the press, right?

And address their grievances.

But the first thing is no establishment of religion.

All of human history, you can see so much of the conflict based on a state-adopted, sponsored religion.

And you will find people saying, oh, yes, but we can do it here because we are actually this kind of nation.

We are an Islamic nation, or we are a Jewish nation, or we are a Buddhist nation, or we are this.

And in fact...

if we are the first country on earth that was established without a religion established.

And that's very intentional.

Intentional, and it has given us unbelievable strength despite all of the people come along go, yes, but.

And she said even people who did not have ownership of themselves are invested in that.

And earlier in the film, she says the liberty talk, her words, is leaky.

Meaning, you know, you may be reading the newspaper about this thing around the table and the people who are serving you.

they're interested in liberty, perhaps even more than you are.