Hey everybody, welcome to a special post-election edition of the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast.

I'm Andy, and for the second week in a row, I want to depart from our standard leadership-centric content to talk about, well, to talk about what everybody else is talking about, the state of the state, the future of our nation. In light of what we have

just gone through, or you might say suffered through, you can't help but wonder, is this experiment

and representative government even still working? And my answer to that question is it will

continue to work as long as we the people work it. But everybody's

got to do their part, right? So for the next few minutes, I'm going to define what I'm convinced

is our part. By our, I mean my part and your part. But first, a little U.S. history to set this up.

After declaring independence from Britain, our founding fathers

went to work writing our Constitution. You know that. Creating this timeless document was not a casual

endeavor to say the least. Due in part of the fact that our founding fathers disagreed with each

other about so many things. In the end, pretty much everybody involved

was unhappy about something, but happy enough about most things to ratify it. Which reminds me of

one of my favorite Winston Churchill quotes. He said, democracy is the worst form of government,

except for all the others that have been tried.

And I think we would all agree.

Anyway, during the ratification process, our wise founding fathers acknowledged there was more work

to be done.

They needed to add language that would limit specific government powers in order to

protect specific personal freedoms.

The result was, of course, the Bill of Rights.

And we take these rights for granted, or at least I know I do, but the notion of placing enforceable

limits on government to protect the rights of individual citizens was largely unprecedented in the

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