that it was all just here. and of course 230 years ago i tell them none of it was here. none of it was here. it was in the ideas of the founders, the people who we call the founders who did two incredible things in their lifetime, in their generation that had never been done before in human history. they wrote a constitution that would be ratified by the people who live under it, it never happened before. they would have never imagined that we would have lasted 230 years, at least until the age of donald trump. they led an armed insur eption against a colonial power, we call that the revolutionary war. that succeeded, too. they do something terrible in their generation that will last for the rest of our days, madam president, and that is they perpetuated human slavery. the building we re standing in today was built by enslaved human beings because of the decisions that they made. but i tell the kids that come and visit me, there is a reason why they re notten there are not