091724 Ken Davis

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Polus has issued a verbal declaration of disaster. According to
a news release yesterday afternoon yesterday evening, the declaration is
about the Pearl Fire. If you're looking at the map
and see Fort Collins there, look about an hour northwest
and that's where the Pearl Fire is at. It's by
the Red Feather Lakes area and it's burning and verbal

(00:24):
declaration of disaster was declared by the governor and we'll
keep you posted. There have been a little bit of evacuations.
One subdivision of that direction has been evacuated. But it's
photos there with the Colorado and if you want to
see it. But if you're listening and you go, where's
the Pearl fire, we keep hearing about. It's an hour
or so northwest of Fort Collins and so we're not

(00:44):
getting a lot of the Loveland and Northern Colorado Longmont. Hello.
Unless the wind changes, you're not seeing a lot of
it right now, not seeing a lot of that smoke.
It'd be good to have you here on the show.
Jimmy is my name. Pleasure to be here on this
glorious day the Lord has made. It's It's the day
we should celebrate with extra attention because Today is actually

(01:07):
Constitution Day in America. It's a day that we celebrate
and commemorate and reflect upon the great Constitution that is
one of the parts of the backbone of our country.
And with that I want to bring into the conversation
if I could, a legal expert and former deputy Attorney
General for the State of Virginia. I want to bring

(01:27):
into the conversation mister Ken Davis back on the program.
I can welcome back to the show, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Good morning, Jimmy, good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Let's talk about Constitution Day. You have written an op
ed piece for town Hall and talks about the attacks
that happen and are underway, and the minimization of how
people don't whether the minimization of some people think of
the value of our constitution. And you say, this is
a day that we should remember the greatness of this

(01:57):
document talk about it.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, we certainly should remember it and celebrate it. Sadly
today that typically passes with little or no recognition. It
deserves as as a recognition and celebration. It was two
hundred and thirty seven years ago today that the Framers signed.

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The representatives of each of the colonies signed the Constitution
in in Philadelphia and launched our grand experiment in republican
constitutional self government. It is now, and we live in now,
the oldest constitutional republic in the world. It was the

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first republic founded using a written constitution. It was the
first constitution specifically designed to protect the natural, God given
rights of the people, affirmed in the Declaration of Independence,

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the first time in seventeen seventy six, in fact, that
a country had been founded specifically on the concept that
rights are inherent in the people who form the government.
They're not the gift of government, or, as John Kennedy

(03:36):
put it years ago in his inaugural address, the concept
that rights, our rights flow from the hand of God
and not from the generosity of government. So, as I say,
the Constitution some years later, in seventeen eighty seven, was
specifically designed to protect our rights by forming a government

(04:01):
strong enough to protect the rights, but not so strong
as to threaten them. A government of specifically limited, enumerated
powers granted by the people and specifically and carefully allocated
to three separate branches of the federal government. All of

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that is an astounding historical achievement in the history of
this country, and indeed the political history of the world,
and it ought to be as we're saying, it ought
to be celebrated, and it's a sad fact that it
is not the way. So.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Ken Davis, former Deputy Attorney General for Virginia. He has
an op ed piece written at townhall dot com. You
can read about Constitution Day, which is actually today Constitution Day.
It is you just mentioned the enumerated powers and the
powers that are given to the government and not given
to the government in the constant have the three separate branches.
I think one of the saddest parts of our Constitution

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that we have lost. I guess the saddest things that
we have lost in understanding our Constitution is that it
clearly says that any power, any authority, anything not designated
clearly in this Constitution is supposed to be handled only
by the states and not by the federal bureaucracy. Is
somewhere along the way, Ken, we seem to have lost that.

(05:27):
But that's clearly stated in the Constitution that if it's
not really actually spelled out in the document, it goes
to the states and the states can make their own decision.
We've lost that part.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well. One of the reasons we've lost it, and it's
not taught in schools or discussed and the press and
understood generally and the people. Is that for a hundred
years since their arrival as a political force at the
turn of the twentieth century, for years, the self proclaimed

(06:03):
so called progressives, really regressives, have put forth relentless attacks
on our founding principles and institutions and Wilson. Beginning with Wilson,
they've repeatedly disparaged the concept of God given rights. They

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prefer the concept of state granted rights. And they've dismissed
the Declaration as a relic And they repeatedly criticize the
Constitution's limitations on national government power. And they say it's
because the Constitution prevents them, the progressives, the credentialed experts,

(06:51):
from doing good things that will make things safer and
cleaner and happier for us. But it's not about the
issues they talk about, really about a one hundred year,
relentless campaign to overcome the Constitution and a mass in
the federal government, unrestrained, consolidated power. It's all about the

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power of the federal government.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Ken Davis, it is a pleasure your op ed pieces
at the town hall dot com to all of you.
Happy Constitution Day. I hope you'll celebrated in the amendment
that I was talking about, by the way, is the
tenth Amendment. If you're going to study anything about the
Constitution today, you might want to read that one because
that's the one that I said that we have a
kind of loss where it talks about reserved powers. Anything
not clearly defined in the Constitution, not delegated by the

(07:43):
Constitution to the federal government should go to the states
or the people. Ken Davis appreciate you hopping on the
program again. He's got a piece on the Constitution at
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