Larry Schweikert

Go back to the, you believe that the United States was founded in a compact between its beginning citizens and God that was actually a covenant?

Yes, yes.

The Mayflower Compact was not just a covenant with each other, but a covenant with God saying that we understand why we're here.

And Jonathan Edwards, or I'm sorry, John Winthrop comes over and says, we're a city set on a hill.

We are here to be different, to look different.

And, you know, when we get up to the Constitution— Hang on, because I want to explore this, because I think it's a very fitting way for us to end the year in the next couple of segments.

The Mayflower—

They were a group of dissenters or outsiders.

I mean, even among, I don't know how to say this, like the Puritans or the people that were anti the Church of England, weren't they considered even too radical for them?

And then they go to Holland, and they're too radical there.

These people have a tough time fitting in, and they don't have a problem with that.

They know they're going to have a tough time fitting in because they believe their lives are dedicated to God.

And you don't need priests to do that.

Their lives are dedicated to God.

When they finally get here, they've missed their mark.

They're supposed to arrive in Virginia.

And the story is amazing.

They arrive on the barren...

rocky coast of Massachusetts, which is being a native Virginian and having gone to Harvard, I tell you that the temperature is quite different, very different living style.

They get there, they almost starve, but they make this compact and they decide to do it