Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

People often say that something is as easy as one, two, three. Today on Home School Heartbeat, host and Constitutional Law professor Mike Farris explains the three steps to begin your study of the U.S. Constitution.

Constitutional Literacy with Michael Farris

If we’re going to be a free people, we’ve got to remain true to the Constitution. Mike Farris teaches the constitutional history and legal theory that are essential to American self-government in a DVD series, Constitutional Literacy with Michael Farris. Help preserve liberty and get Constitutionally literate. Follow the link to learn more or order.

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Mike Farris:
There is a widespread and growing realization that our nation has gotten terribly off course when it comes to our Constitution. As our federal government grows in its power, we have to ask ourselves: has our nation actually preserved, protected, and defended the Constitution? And to answer this question, we must know what that Constitution actually says. This is why I created my new Constitutional Literacy DVD series.

Effective citizenship starts with a good working knowledge of the Constitution. Very few people today have an appropriate knowledge of the Constitution, including our elected officials. There are three elements to becoming truly constitutionally literate: First, find out what the Constitution actually says. Second, explore what the Founding Fathers meant by those words in the Constitution. And third, we need to look at Supreme Court rulings and precedents and compare what the Supreme Court has said to what the Founding Fathers have said.

Even though the Supreme Court is not always faithful to the Constitution, its cases create precedents. A thorough study of these precedents must be done if you want to understand how our nation has gotten so far away from the original meaning of the Constitution. And knowing this can help us get it back on track.

I’m Mike Farris.