Neil Gorsuch

Well...

There may well have been.

I don't know, Megan, but they made serious efforts so that they could speak candidly with one another and find the places where they could agree.

And James Madison said at the end of it all that he really doesn't think the Constitution would have ever happened otherwise.

Interesting.

I'm going to give you the same answer, Megan.

I think you have to have room for us to be able to write our drafts, to talk to one another, to deliberate privately, and then balance that with transparency.

And I think both are important in our line of work.

Those men fought and died and risked everything they had.

And we tell the stories of their suffering, too, between the time they signed the Declaration and that end you just read, where they were hunted men.

A third of them lost their homes.

Many of them were imprisoned, had their wives in prison, their children in prison for those three great ideas in the Declaration.

And we are a creedal nation, Megan.

We are not founded around any religion or any particular ethnicity.

What we share is a commitment to those three ideas.

And I do think those three ideas have led men and women to fight and die for 250 years.

And they're worth our time and our sacrifice and whatever little modest things we can give with what few skills God has given each of us to continue to carry that torch forward.

Because if we don't, it will fall.

Nothing about it is inevitable.

It's up to each of us.