a production by Chris Flannery of the Claremont Institute EPISODE 114 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 WE THE PEOPLE September 17 is Constitution Day in America because on that day in 1787, after 4 months of deliberations, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Independence Hall in Philadelphia proposed the Constitution they had drafted to become the Supreme Law of the land. This was the end of one historic deliberation, but it was the beginning of another. The Constitution would be “of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written,” until it was ratified by the people of the United States. LISTEN NOW PREVIOUS EPISODES 9/11 “We can’t mourn adequately without the honoring. And we can’t honor adequately without resolving: resolving, according to our capacities, to be heroes ourselves when needed.” LISTEN NOW MOTHER OF EXILES “To the statue conceived in liberty, Emma Lazarus had given a new birth of freedom.” LISTEN NOW VIEW ALL WHAT IS THE AMERICAN STORY? The American Story is a production by Chris Flannery of the Claremont Institute.
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