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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 384: John Adams and the moral foundations of the U.S. government
Description: The boys drink and review Crowhill's homemade Italian bitters, then discuss John Adams (starting about 3:50).
Pigweed starts off with some historical information on Adams, our second president, including his on-going dispute with Thomas Jefferson.
In a different context, John Adams famously said "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
What does that mean, and how are we to understand that in our modern society?
The equation seems to be that more freedom requires more personal self-restraint and...