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Transcript:
No Kings: Why We Don't Have One
Presented by William Federer

Ask someone what inspired the American system of government, and you’ll usually get one of three answers: Greek democracy. The Roman Republic. Or the European Enlightenment.

These answers aren't wrong. The American Founders studied all of these eras. But if you want to find the deepest, most foundational roots of the American Republic, you have to look much further back than the Enlightenment, back further even than Greece or Rome.

You have to look at the Hebrew Bible.

And to understand how the Bible shaped America, you have to place yourself on a cold, storm-tossed ship called the Mayflower.

When the Mayflower set sail from England in 1620, its intended destination was the Colony of Virginia. But violent gales blew the ship hundreds of miles off course. Instead of reaching Virginia, where they would have simply submitted to the King’s colonial government, the ship’s captain told his passengers they would have to disembark in the wilderness of Massachusetts.

Immediately, they faced a crisis. Of the 102 passengers on board, no one had been appointed by the King of England to take charge under