Explains the basic principles of the Constitution and the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, explaining how checks and balances function in a working democracy and the challenges posed by recent political and judicial leadership.

"External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those...