00:00How do you understand the nation if you don't look at all the challenges the nation has faced?
00:08A great nation doesn't hide from its past, but looks at it, learns from it, and has been made better
00:14by that past.
00:17The American Revolution was really a key turning point for all of human history.
00:28It is brutal. It is ugly. It's American against American.
00:33It's a struggle within ourselves for the very soul of who we are.
00:39They saw the tyranny of monarchy, and they wanted nothing to do with it.
00:46They had such a deep conviction about independence and that they were willing to step forward and risk everything.
00:53Our citizens were fighting for independence and this radical idea at the time that sovereignty lies with the people.
01:02They use the word experiment because it's unclear if it's going to work.
01:05This is a leap of faith into the unknown.
01:09Could a government based on the people without a king survive?
01:13The role of government is to defend liberty.
01:16We become a republic because Washington refuses to be king.
01:20We were a nation founded on ideals that are about liberty and freedom.
01:24Why do millions of people from all over the world come to America?
01:28Because here anybody can become anything.
01:31The American experiment is democracy.
01:33The original debates among the framers are more relevant than they've been at any point in my lifetime.
01:39This is a pivotal moment to choose.
01:41Who do we want to be?
01:43Are we for some of us?
01:46Or are we for all of us?
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