The First Step: Commit to Learn the Constitution

To keep our republic for another 250 years requires a commitment to learn. One of the best friends of the United States Constitution, Ezra Taft Benson, invited us all to becomes its best friends in these words:

“We must learn the principles of the Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers.

“Have we read The Federalist papers? Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

“As Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be” (Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 Jan. 1816, in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Albert Ellery Bergh, 20 vols. [1903–5], 14:384).”

This tells me and you something special, sacred even. It means that learning the principles of freedom is not just a one-time thing. We must transform ourselves into freemen and patriots. What would such understanding be worth to you? What would you give up to learn it? Please begin your journey of commitment by writing below what you will do to make this possible.

If you are willing to pay the price of learning what is constitutional and what is not,

I will see you at the Green Dragon Tavern.