Your narrating voice is good enough,no need to impersonate historical figures when reading their quotes.

In an approachable tone and format the author (Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michael Warren) has found a way to teach many important and deep principles that most Americans simply gloss over or know very little about. Hon. Michael Warren, already a published author and co-founder of Patriot Week, has now taken on a new medium to help educate and inform a society desperately lacking in even basic foundational understanding of America’s first principles. A weekly show full of research and interesting facts, this podcast has become a “must listen” for me.

Excellent constitutional review. Let us not forget Federalism, and that our rights are endowed by our creator whether individuals choose to acknowledge it or not! Thank God for our founders’ foresight.

There’s so much more to these issues than you let on in your shockingly superficial treatment of them. For instance, the phrase “self-evident” was substituted by an editor (Franklin) for a rather thoughtless phrase “sacred and undeniable” used by Jefferson. Both Jefferson and Franklin questioned, or entirely rejected, the supernatural nonsense that you desperately ramble on and on about. Why was Franklin’s language a stroke of genius? Because it likely was informed by a decent appreciation of the work of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. The Declaration’s audience in 1776 included a great many people who had been (and whose parents’ parents’ parents for generations had been) browbeaten into accepting religion as “true.” And yet, the Enlightenment was all about realizing there’s a better way than religion. And the Declaration is all about communicating the *ideas* of the Enlightenment (Hume, Kant, the Social Contract thinking of Hobbes and Locke — do be sure to *read* Chapters 12 and 13 of the Leviathan), to a still-mostly-unenlightened audience. Some years ago, Charles Hyneman and Donald Lutz (for me, Lutz was a much-admires professor in college) undertook the monumental task of reading through thousands of pamphlets and other texts published during the American Colonial and Founding period. You may want to look up in their published collection, what they found about how the discourse in America radically *changed* between July 1776 and the summer of 1787 — political discourse stopped being expressed in religious terms. And Enlightenment thinking became the norm rather than the exception. It is fair to say that’s what Jefferson and Franklin and Adams, and Thomas Paine (a lifelong Deist and savage critic of the Bible) and most of the Founders *intended* when the Declaration was voted upon. Read Hume’s On Miracles, and READ Chapter 12 of the Leviathan. Study Kant’s rather persuasive moral philosophy. And then you will understand far better what the Founders sought to lay the foundation to build upon. The building / masonic metaphor in the last sentence, incidentally, is hardly accidental. Best wishes. Think more deeply. Read better.

A high quality, well done series!

Like nothing taught in school. I wish I had learned this when I was younger. Very helpful.