A Constitution's Road Trip

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September 17th is Constitution Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the U.S. Constitution and the individual rights and freedoms it protects!

In a video produced by the ACLU, a U.S. pocket constitution sets out on a road trip across America to see find out what people knew about its role within the American society. Things seem to take a downturn, but then some interesting opinions and fire trucks add intrigue.

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Transcript:
How does the Constitution affect my life? - Where should we start? - I wish I knew more about the Constitution. - I don't know what it is. I can't figure it out. - Uh... - I don't know. I don't know anything about it. - The U.S. Constitution is providing freedom. - Freedom and boundaries. - Freedom and equality under the law. - Just the basis for freedom. - How can you go beyond free? - It protects me overall, general. - It protects us and protects others. - So to protect the citizens. - From an overweening government. - Fire truck.- And fire trucks are involved. - People are treated equally. - Whether you're rich or poor or educated or not. - The right to express your--express your thoughts. - Without fear of persecution. - Freedom of speech. - Freedom of speech. - Freedom of speech. - I believe it's called freedom of speech. - It's freedom of speech. - You be yourself. - You've got rights. - Something even political, you can speak out. - Having that freedom to be able to do that, I realize, is something that is not the norm across-- you know, across the world, so yeah, I guess it has, in fact, allowed me to do-- to speak my mind. - Being immigrants, we-- kind of the church unites us, and I think that's very important that we could express our religion. - I was born in India, and when the country was divided, I was in the part called the Muslim majority. You know, you are always afraid that they will kill you and all this. So when I came here, I had no such fear, you know. So I can practice my religion and walk on this street. - Everyone enjoys their privacy. - When you're indoors, you have your own private life. - Privacy-- when you're, like, older and you want to, like, do certain things that you don't want people to intrude on, I feel like that's when freedom of privacy comes into play. That's when it's really, really important. - Now that I'm a citizen, I'm able to vote, so that has helped a lot for my family. - I can't, like, walk to the White House and I'm like, "Oh, here's a law," but through voting, I feel like I finally get a voice, especially when I turn 18, 'cause I feel like I had a decision-making part in, like, what happened in the country as a whole. - It's the foundation of everything, I suppose. - Gives me something to be a part of. - I mean, it's-- produced the, like, outlines that we live by, right? - I think the U.S. actually, you know, in shaping the Constitution, shaped a lot of other countries' independence and rights. - A framework for how our government operates. - I know it's the basis of our form of government and... - It's the basis for everything we do in the country. - Perfect. - What do you think? - Without the Constitution, we wouldn't be America. - I agree. - So that's kind of where I'm at with the Constitution right now. - Next time you want to read something, instead of a book, buy a copy of the Constitution and read it the old-fashioned way. - The U.S. Constitution. - The Constitution. - U.S. Constitution. - The Constitution. - Constitution. - The Constitution. - U.S. Constitution. - The Constitution. - I believe the Constitution is something that brings the country together as a whole. - Just living together and being at peace with each other, just living in harmony. - The Constitution. There you go.