These are notes from a presentation offered by Utah County Liberty Forum. The organization is part of the eagle forum. The speaker was Steve R. Christiansen is a state fep for district 47. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• We are in a battle to save our constitutional republic.
• Delivered 12,500 copies of his book to every household in my legislative district.
• Presents Podcast under the same name, ‘restoring liberty rumble/podbean/apple 1 hr. a wk.
• The purpose of his presentation is to educate!
• Seeks to be a reliable source on international topics.

Why am I doing this?

• The country is slipping away. I want to prevent that.
• I am in a positon of influence.
• I’m not afraid to cast ‘hard’ votes.
• Ex: awards: defender of liberty from liberitus (focus on liberty)
• Prolife Utah 1 of 3 guardian lf like award.
• Friend of the taxpayer award in top three as mot physical conservative.
• Believe courageous leadership is needed to address one of the biggest issues of our history.

Key legislative efforts:

Critical race theory ban.

• Forward resolution to ban. Asked how state will prevent critical rce theory?
• told that state board has control over how schools. > To state board of educations to rule in education. Still loopholes in the rules that need to be closed.
• Civics and U.S. History reform. We are in the midst of civils crisis. We’ve been doing a poor job in civics in Utah and the nation. School choice: time is right to try again.
• There is a lot of effort to indoctrination of our kids and upset parents are upset enough we may have a change.

Election integrity.

• audit and reform. Trump won in Utah, so why check it out? We need free elections. Last election was significant flawed. 30 people are helping me. Filed an audit request of audit of election that voter list is up to date. Next year present a bill to reform election.
• 250^th anniversary of declaration of independence. 2026 will be 250 anniversary. Start right now and prepare for 2026 can be an amazing year for patriots.
  1. Tax reduction: Our tax is growing about 5 times faster than population growth. Pushing our government in an oppressive mode.
  2. Civics crisis.
• Only 26 % of citizens can name all three branches of government. In us -33% can’t name even one branch.
• Only 13% know the year the constitution written
• Only 26% could pass the US citizen test.
• Most concerning 74% of senior citizens could pass the test
• Only20 or 45 and young could pass the test.
• Seniors in Utah have to pass the US citizen’s test.

Constitution crisis;

• We are in the midst of one.
• The constitution will hang by a thread. That prophecy is being fulfilled.
• When we see the policies being pasted in DC, we are in the midst of a crisis. Attached on every front.
• Teton dam was constructed in 1976 and a few days later, it broke.
• 13K cattle were killed, 80% of property damage
• Just line the dam. Just like the damn, the constitution is compromised.
• A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates” Thomas Paine
• Principals our government were founded.

Educated Citizenry is essential. We are not as educated as we need to e.

• Quote: if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be Thomas Jefferson
• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives –James Madison
• If you don’t have a pattern of being educated- then improve that pattern
• Get and stay educated
• 20% of those 45 and younger could pass the citizen test.
• Mainstream media is biased and often untruthful
• If thing don’t fit the media agenda, it is not reported or it will be altered.
• How may unarmed black people killed by police? Police killed 13-27 blacks in 2019.
• Very conservative guess 80%
• Very liberal thinker 53 % think 1000 or more.
• Be wide on chose your source of information.
• What percentage of pole killed by police re black? 25%
• What percent of people who had corvid were hospitalized? Was 1-5%.
• Republican 10% or fewer
• Democrats thought 41-50% or more.

Limited government:

• 40 of book:
• “It’s not tyranny we desire; it just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton
• 30 trillion in debt, plus unfunded liabilities 200T
• “The most precious of all possession is power over ourselves” john Locke

Personal responsibility:

• The US constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the purist of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” Benjamin franklin
• Never trouble anther for what you can do yourself. Thomas Jefferson
• 22 Trillion is spent on entitlement programs over the last few decades, and the percentile of poverty has not changed.
• Listen to episode 9. Interviewed Robert woodson.
• Episode 11 interview David martin historian

Morality and religion:

• Can it be that providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue” George Washington.
• “We have no government arms with power capable to contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other “john Adams.
• The more we are moral the more we will feel the fire.
• God ‘expelled’ from the classroom; christens in the US are 65% down from 85% in 1990
• abortions incased from 5 to 15B.