The republic is always one generation away from forgetting why it is free. Every generation inherits a story it did not live, freedoms it did not establish, and convictions it did not discover for itself. Unless someone explains that inheritance, what was once treasured can slowly become little more than an artifact. Deuteronomy 6 reminds us that truth must first be written upon our own hearts before it can be impressed upon our children. America's Founding generation likewi

America’s Founders understood that liberty could not survive without moral restraint. John Adams envisioned “a government of laws and not of men,” but that principle applies to citizens as surely as rulers. Chapter 27 turns the mirror toward us: if we want to recover ordered liberty, we must become people capable of self-government. Before asking what must change in America, we must ask a harder question: Who governs me?