A few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a woman came up to me before I was to give a speech and said, “Thank goodness we have the Bill of Rights to protect us from the terrorists.”

She was serious. As I engaged her in conversation, I realized that she really believed that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect us from “the terrorists.” I thought to myself: This poor woman. The public-school system, along with all the … Continue reading Our Ancestors Were Right About the Bill of Rights