This week marked the opening of Utah Valley Universities Center for Constitutional Studies. To celebrate the event UVU kicked off Constitution week with the guest speaker David McCullough.
David McCullough is best known for his work on 1776 and John Adams, and he's a two time Pulitzer Prize winner, two time winner of the National Book Award, and has a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His talk was amazing. He said we're raising a generation of spectators, which is true! We spend our days on Facebook and watching television, watching others live while we sit back, listening to the sound of time whoosh by. We need to get out and live! Experience! Learn!
And we need to remember how Human history is. These are real people, living, making history in their present with no clue how things were going to work out. When the Founders of the United States of America signed the Declaration of Independence, each one of them knew they were committing treason with England; As far as they knew, they were going to their death with this action.
One thing I love about our founders is that each of them were lovers of knowledge and learning, many of them collecting books (it was Benjamin Franklin who invented the Library). And they knew their history! Classical history (much to our benefit).
And one final thought that McCullough said that I loved: "I don't know what I think until I write."
I first developed my love of the Constitution through my Grandpa A. He received his Juris Doctorate in Constitutional Studies. He loved this country, deeply, and it's a love he's passed on to my family.
Sarah
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