Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss his new children’s book, “Heroes of 1776.”
Justice Gorsuch also discussed his experience on the nation’s highest court, working with Justices who hold different opinions.
“You’ve got this beautiful new book that takes us back to 1776, the Declaration of Independence. Tells us how it came together,” Bream said.
“Do you think we’ve kind of lost the sense of what it really meant for these men to craft this and sign on?” Bream asked.
“We are about to celebrate the 250th, and I know there is going to be a lot of parades and ample fireworks, but I was hoping with my coauthor Janie Nitze, and Chris Ellison, our beautiful illustrator, to encourage people to take a moment to reflect on the ideas that inspired this country, the Declaration of Independence,” Gorsuch said.
“How do you research the characters? Decide who you are going to include, so that we get the story?” Bream asked.
“We tried to look to primary sources as much as possible, so to the letters that the founders wrote to each other, to the memoirs that they wrote,” Co-author Janie Nitze said.
“I would tell the story of one of the signers who spent a lot of money buying shoes for the men because as Washington said, ‘you can follow of the trail of the men to Valley Forge by the blood they left behind in the snow because they were shoeless,'” Gorsuch said.
“It was eight long years, people forget that, to make the Declaration happen through the revolution,” Gorsuch continued.
“I think there are three big ideas in the Declaration which I think is kind of our country’s mission statement that we are all created equal, everyone of us. And that yes, we have inalienable rights given to us by God, they are not gifts from government. And third, that we have the right to rule ourselves,” Justice Gorsuch explained.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
