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That is the basic idea. >> if you take that and go back to the separation of church and state. its to protect the inalienable right. they used the first amendment and used both terms. it limits the government. congress shall make no law establishing establishment of religion. no individuals are prohibited from anything. congress is told it cant set up a religion and it cant stop anybody practicing their religion. >> glenn: you cant have a state -- you say protecting the state from a religion, we...

You will not believe what we used to teach and how thats all been erased. well do in a second. i want to actually, david, share this, this is from -- >> 1832. public school textbook by noah webster. >> glenn: now he in this, this is school textbook. >> school textbook. >> called the school master to america, one of the three most significant american educators and hes personally responsible for constitutional language. article i, section 8. >> glenn: this says the position of the constitution of...

Stuff up. thats one document. >> one plus thousands of others but it is that one document, and a whole lot more. >> glenn: nicholas? >> this wasnt during your program, but the speech at cpac and it was the real history of the statue of liberty and its not just the french giving us a gift. it was much more than that. >> glenn: you guys didnt think the french were being nice, did you? no. let me ask you this. i want to transition into are we a democracy or republic? republic. anybody want to tell ...

To control, even keep people as slaves one way or another, controlling them. manipulating them. all of the bad traits in humans. we dont progress out of those. >> see what happens is technology progresses but human nature doesnt. we have the same characteristics and desires and abuses. the same virtue and honor that is there. technology that changes. >> glenn: really, the idea was smaller government because the government, if the government is -- then just a handful of people, they take it and t...

You would be amazed. its amazing, amazing stuff. >> yeah. >> glenn: david, go ahead. >> i asked if our founding fathers were alive today, and they were regular citizens how would they react to the action that the government has taken? >> glenn: i have to tell you, this is something i have heard from a -- a great question. from a ton of people there. a lot of people who say they would have been with the torches and the pitchforks and they would have taken this -- wrong. good for you. >> why? >> s...

Than religion and worship is more regulated than religion. we have a number of court cases -- ive been involved with seven cases in the supreme court. we have a number of court cases where the courts are going after people because of what they say in their prayers. i have a case from santa fe, texas, where a federal judge says ill have a marshal graduates and listen and if i hear someone say "jesus" in prison they will get six months in the galveston county jail. that is regulating not only wors...

Im rick folbaum. latest coming up in half an hour on americas news headquarters. now back to glenn beck. terms. "special report" at 6:00 eastern. now back to glenn beck. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: we were talking about what the difference is. by the way, if you just join us, we have a studio full of teenagers from 13 to 19 really bright group of people. you were just randomly selected. and wanted to come to the show. i thank you for that. do you feel the importance of the time period you are living in no...

Good. how many learns something from the program that you went back and said it cant be true. it cant be true. quite a few of you. how many watched the program and went back to the teacher at school can and challenged them? good! good! ashley, what is the thing that you learned from this show? >> you had the list of the goals of the communist party and how many of them had come true. >> surprising, wasnt it? >> yeah. >> i found it ten years ago and looked at it and not all of them have been comp...

Why would somebody want to change us from a republic to a democracy? peter, do we have a mic here? >> republic is ruled by law and democracy is ruled by the majority and the leaders can manipulate the majority to do what they want. >> glenn: wouldnt the people be smart enough to figure out what was going on? >> not always. what about the constitution? can the constitution change? how? who said that? amendments. and why do they have the amendments in there? why do they have that? >> if they think...

Representatives for you. because people dont have time to read over the documents of that nighture. they hire someone to do it for them. make the best choice for them. >> glenn: what is the problem with the republic? >> i guess the people dont necessarily always get what they want. they trust in other people. >> glenn: good. any other problems that anybody can see? what do you think a problem is? >> sometimes the people dont elect the representatives directly. and that can sometimes cause a prob...