And the one lesson, there was really only one common thread that united all previous republics in human history, and it was this. Every single one of them had failed. And so they understood. It fell to the United States of America to determine once and for all, can we actually have a Society where we govern ourselves, where our rights are God given, not government granted, where we live under a rule of law, not the rule of individual men, where government is constitutionally limited. or is mankind destined to live under various forms of despotism for the rest of human history? And they really believed, and I believe, that ultimately the United States would be the one to answer that question. (06:33–06:52)
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Asserts that the U.S. was tasked with proving self-governance and constitutionally limited government.
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