"A Republic, If You Can Keep It": The Constitution | One Nation Under God: The Full Story, Episode 6

"A Republic, If You Can Keep It": The Constitution | One Nation Under God: The Full Story, Episode 6 Description: Winning the war didn't mean the country actually worked. This episode traces the fragile years after 1783 — an armed uprising that nearly toppled the government, a Constitutional Convention that came close to falling apart entirely, and the men who built something genuinely new out of the wreckage. In this episode: • Shays' Rebellion and the real, complicated path to the Constitutional Convention • Why the Declaration and the Constitution are really one project in two parts, neither able to stand without the other • What the delegates actually studied before they built this government — including the ancient Greek and Roman confederacies that collapsed before them • Benjamin Franklin's remarkable question to a deadlocked room: had they forgotten the God who carried them through the war? • James Madison's answer to why the Constitution divides power the way it does — "if men were angels, no government would be necessary" • A reluctant George Washington, who compared becoming president to walking toward his own execution • A plain-language primer on what each of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights actually protects • Franklin's famous answer to a simple question outside the Constitutional Convention: "A republic, if you can keep it" • A closing reflection on what Scripture actually says about nations, their leaders, and their need for revival This is Episode 6 of a series. Episode 7 turns to the story this series has deliberately set aside until now — how the founding generation's own uneasy conscience about slavery gave way, within a single lifetime, to a later generation that abandoned that conscience altogether. Walking With Jesus 2026 streams live every Saturday at 10:00 AM. Join us live, leave your questions in the chat, and be part of the conversation. #OneNationUnderGod #Constitution #FoundingFathers #ChristianHistory #BibleStudy #WalkingWithJesus2026 #BenjaminFranklin #GeorgeWashington Feel free to share this with anyone you think would be blessed by it. The more the merrier! Today's Notes: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... ​P​ast episodes: ​Part 1: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (First 12 Colonies 1607 - 1700) Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (George Whitefield 1714-1747) Part 3: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (George Washinton 1732–1755) Part 4: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (Rights From God 1761-1776) part ​1 Part ​5: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (​Rights From God 1761-1776) part 2 ​Part 6: https://tinyurl.com/OneNationUnderGod... (Yorktown 1776-1783) part 1 For More Resources: My testimony: http://bit.ly/ASimpleWalk For getting into the Word daily visit http://TheBibleTeam.com For written messages visit http://KeepSeekingJesus.com YouTube: https://bit.ly/LP_On_YouTube Facebook: http://bit.ly/FB-LarryPittman(BANNED! No longer here!) New Facebook: https://bit.ly/FB_profile_CJB (my one and only alias) Telegram: https://bit.ly/LCP_on_Telegram Creating your own reading plan? http://bit.ly/BiblePlanCreator If you are led by the Holy Spirit to give to this ministry: http://bit.ly/TBT-Donate Christian Standard Bible (CSB) used throughout.