How the white house has celebrated the fourth of july through history. Washington journal is next. Good morning. It is Independence Day in america. At the white house later today President Trump will headline a salute to america event involving a flyover the washington on you meant. The head of those festivities ahead of those festivities, we are spending this morning asking viewers how you feel about this country this morning . Are you proud to be an american . If you live in the eastern time zone, call 202 7488000. If you live in the pacific time zone, the number is 202 7488001. You can also send us a text this morning. 202 7488003. Please involve include your name. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now about this question. Asking this question in the wake of a gallup poll last month that found u. S. National pride has fallen to record lows. From that pole, although a majority of adults in the u. S. Say they are either extremely proud or very proud, these
At that event celebrating the fourth of july. Saying, there are plenty of reasons to be proud to be an american. [video clip] the most important day in the history of nations, july 4, 1776. Americanwords, every heart should swell with pride prime a with pride. Every American Family should cheer with delight and every American Patriot should be filled with joy because each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world. And it will soon be greater than ever before. [applause] our founders launched not only a revolution in government but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity. No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of america and no people have done more to promote Human Progress than the citizens of our great nation. It was made possible by patriots who gathered in philadelphia and signed the declaration of independence. [applause] they enshrined a divine truth that changed the world fore
Patriots. That debate has really in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies. More specifically even the real question is what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas legislators. Between 1774 and 1776 the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1774 it was the sugar act. Then a year later the stamp act. In 1767 the townsend act. Then the tea act. Then in 1775 the prohibiting act. Standing behind all these acts was one overarching piece of legislation which i think was the driving force behind all of these particular acts. That was the declaratory act of 1766, which claimed that parliaments authority extended to the american colonies in all cases whatsoever. That meant that parliament was not only supreme over the colonies, but its power and authority was absolutely supreme.
Ok. Lets get started. Lets review the grounds that we have covered so far. Our topic is american constitutionalism. Our goal by the end of the semester is to be able to think more clearly and more deeply about some of the fundamental and pressing political issues of our time. Religious freedom, the proper relationship between church and state, the philosophical and historical arguments for religious freedom. Arguments against religious freedom, arguments that would limit religious freedom. In a few weeks, we will get to First Amendment questions. What does the establishment clause prohibit or allow, the free exercise clause of the First Amendment prohibits and allow . This semester, we will discuss what is harmful to a liberal democracy. That is what we are doing. Last week, we talked about christianity, and what christianity does to politics. commandlly, jesus to give to caesar what is caesar and give to god what is god. This fundamentally alters and radically disturbs the classical c
Thes a right inherent in relationship between individuals and government. His class is about 70 minutes. Ok, lets get started. Lets review the ground we covered so far. The topic is [indiscernible] constitutionalism. End of the the semester is to think more clearly about the political and constitutional issues of our time, what is religious freedom . What are the philosophical and historical arguments for religious freedom . What are the arguments against religious freedom . What would limit religious freedom . What does the free exercise clause in the First Amendment prohibit or allow . We will also talk about whether religion is good for liberal democracy . About thistalked unity and what christianity does the politics . Specifically, jesuss command to give to caesar what is caesars and to give to godwins gods. To godmentally what is gods. This destroys the idea that religious authority im sorry Political Authority comes from got . That is from god. That is the presumption of classic