Three combat tours
In Part 1 at 1:42, Miller says he was a prior-service soldier who served three combat tours in the Republic of Vietnam.
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Carl S. Miller
Constitutional educator, courtroom advocate, and narrator of the Know Your Constitution video series.
This profile follows Carl Miller's own words in the three-part Know Your Constitution series. Each biographical point below links directly to the moment he discusses it.
What Miller says about himself
Ranger and 1st Cavalry account
In Part 3 at 4:09, Miller points to his Ranger items and describes his 1st Cavalry / Apache Troop experience in Cambodia.
Project Blue Book
In Part 3 at 7:46, Miller says he graduated from a military program he calls Project Blue Book and describes it as instruction in the Constitution.
Constitutional advocacy
Across the series, Miller describes appearing in court and using constitutional arguments; Part 2 at 5:12 captures his self-description of traveling at common law.
Personal service account
In Part 3 at 4:09, Miller describes Apache Troop / 1st Cavalry service, Cambodia operations, and the military honors and experiences he carries from that period.
Watch the linked moments and read the matching subtitle files for the complete surrounding context.
Miller's Central Instruction
Read the Constitution
"The most important thing that I can teach you about this Constitution is the importance of reading it. You must read the Constitution and understand what physically is involved. You must know your rights and timely assert them."
Carl Miller, Know Your Constitution - Part 1 of 3, approximately 3:24.
Miller's point is direct: a written Constitution can be studied word for word. Start with the original 1787 text, then read the Bill of Rights and the later amendments alongside it.
Miller's Practical Instruction
Keep several copies.
Give them away.
"You can get several versions ... check with your local congressman or state rep ... I highly recommend you go get one. I don't leave home without mine. I usually have three or four of them someplace. And I hand them out also myself."
Carl Miller, Know Your Constitution - Part 1 of 3, approximately 4:23-5:15.
Miller's instruction is practical: secure your own copy, keep it close, read it until you can find the relevant words yourself, and put a copy in another person's hands.
Miller on Rights and First Principles
Read the Constitution
with first principles in view
"These rights come from God ... they are God-inspired. God is the one who endowed us with these rights."
Carl Miller, Know Your Constitution - Part 1 of 3, approximately 0:31.
In Part 3 at 31:05, Miller compares returning to the Constitution with returning to the Bible: he says he reads both repeatedly and continues to find something new.
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Read. Understand. Act.
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His eyewitness Coffee Bean Case account
In Part 3 at 22:13, Miller identifies the reported Montgomery Ward v. Eugene Glasure matter, gives the reported docket number 82-02087, and describes being in the courtroom: "there was 40 of us" when he says the coffee-bean payment exchange occurred.
"If you want that in coffee beans that's okay with me."
Words Miller attributes to Judge James P. Sheehy in his recorded account, at approximately 28:35.
Watch and Read
Know Your Constitution - three-part series
Each entry pairs the local video with its matching subtitle file, allowing the viewer to watch, pause, search, and compare Miller's words in context.
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