pennsylvania electoral vote. former vice president joe biden, president it was an emotional thing when biden was declared the winner. there are huge crowds all over the country, out celebrating. huge crowds. millions of people took to the streets to celebrate and sing and dance. it was wild. it was just an amazing feeling. it was the fall of an authoritarian for the time being. and it felt like the redemption of democracy. i m in a great mood. i am in a great mood.
you can t have democracy without participation, without people getting engaged in it. your were not unified by being one ethnicity or one religion [bleep] or one ideology. where unified by one constitution. it s not that the constitution was perfect when we got started. far from it. i mean we were not a democracy. we were a slave republic of white male property owners over the age of 21. but it has been through these successive movements for democratic enlargement that the constitution has become a better, and we have become a more perfect union. a great leader frederick douglass said if there s no struggle there s no progress. power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will. thank you for organizing.
that it is a constitutional democracy. it s government of the people by the people for the people. and if somebody decides to disrupt the basic fabric of our public and to violate the law, we ve got to take that seriously, even if this is a system of lies in the president is not above the law. he s bound by the law like everybody else. we are charging through agreed that we have three coequal branches. we are not coequal branch of government. where the preeminent branch of government. there s a reason why we are in article one. all legislative power is vested in the congress of the united states. so the constitution all sovereign power of the people to create the country, to raid the constitution, flawed into congress. and one is the core job of the president? to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that s it. if the president doesn t take care that the laws are faithfully executed, get rid of him.
wanted back but the only saying that enables me to sleep at night is knowing that he is no longer suffering and in pain. so we have the love, we have the hope, and the ideas and we are hanging on real tightly to his spirit and his soul. i mean, tommy was a person who loves the world, and he loved democracy. and he loved humanity. all living things, and so. i feel like i honor him by doing the work that he d be proud of. [applause]
law. for over charlottesville. never get a device on the. gus we have a system of checks and balances and you don t hold the federal workforce of the people of the country hostage in order to get air away in a policy debate. we re able to get the mexico he wasn t able to get the mexican government papers wiley, was unable to get congress to do it even though we control that was in the senate with republican coal, now suddenly the democrats took over the house, we won 40 seats and he decides to shut the government down. it s just an unacceptable way to do business in a democracy.