I become a Founder to ask: Does anyone care about the Constitution?
STOSSEL PREGNANT? The First Amendment made my career possible. It allowed me to expose crooks and cheaters. Once, I had a female producer take my urine to two abortion clinics who said I was pregnant! They would have given my producer a fake abortion had I not first said, " No!" I confronted those doctors, and they closed their practices and disappeared.
EXPOSING THE TRUTH: The First Amendment also made citizen journalist James O'Keefe's career possible. O'Keefe complains that authorities prosecute him for violating privacy laws but don't go after activists on the left. Mother Jones won a Polk Award after they ran this illegally recorded undercover video of Mitt Romney.
WE THE PEOPLE: Glenn Beck got huge ratings talking about the Constitution on TV. He once said our president "fully intends to trash the constitution." Now, he says he's "mellowed some," but he still thinks people are not standing up for the Constitution.
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS: I tried to get a legal permit to carry a gun, but officials said I hadn't proved a special need for it. That was in New York City. Chicago and Washington, DC have been forced to change laws to honor the Second Amendment. You should thank our founders for that.
FEDERALISM: You've probably heard people call the states "Laboratories of Democracy." What does it mean? Nick Gillespie of Reason.com says it's about state experimentation: "[California] has high taxes and high services; [Texas] has low taxes and low services. People can sort based on which model they like."
FOUNDER JOHN'S TAKE: Over the last century, Americans experimented, and we became the most prosperous country in the world. Our success is largely because our founders understood the dangers of big government and wrote a Constitution to limit them. We should pay more attention to it. Then we could have what Thomas Jefferson promised -- a "wise and frugal government which shall leave men
