The Jenny Beth Show
The Jenny Beth Show
Jenny Beth Martin
The U.S. Constitution: How the Founders Actually Built It | Bill Norton
29 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
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The U.S. Constitution is treated in most classrooms as a tidy list of checks and balances — but constitutional scholar Bill Norton says that framing misses how the Founders actually built it. In this preview of The Jenny Beth Show's upcoming founding-principles training series, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Norton to walk through what's coming: a four-lesson, eight-episode study of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, recorded to help everyday Americans read the founding documents the way the Founders intended.
Norton, an author, longtime constitutional educator, and the education director of the Liberty Village project in southern Utah, explains why the training starts with principles and natural law rather than memorized clauses — and how that lens helps citizens tell the difference between something that is broken, something genuinely new (like artificial intelligence), and the temptation to "become what we hate." Jenny Beth connects each idea to the fights of the week, from the SAVE America Act to securing the border in law.
Along the way: the "mixed form of government" the Founders engineered, the book "Speaking the Language of Liberty," and the unforgettable moment a lifelong patriot stood up in class and called herself a tyrant. Norton also previews Liberty Village — a 30-acre founding-era America rising in the Utah desert — and the night Jenny Beth first met the activists who would later help build this movement.
The full training begins airing Monday, July 6. Learn more at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.