This will be different because we are simply focusing on case studies. Today we are going to talk about bill clinton and for w bush. Next time we will talk about barack obama and donald trump. There will be so little to talk about when we talk about donald trump. With the clinton and george w on the docket today, there are a few things that warrants just some quick musing at the start. The first of which, which always older folksind of like us have to acclimate our psyches to realize that, to you all, bill clinton jen genuinely is a figure of history. None of you have an active recollection, or even a childhood recollection of bill clinton in office. Which actually is kind of amazing. Kind of a hazy figure to you. Thanof you all were older probably was anybody altered the intent when w left office . No. Even w is kind of a childhood figure to all. That just in it of itself just gives a sense of, especially for us, how quickly history can move. And how things pass from current day to hi
Duty. Author kris krisanne haul in early august, how is President Trump doing. Guest well, he is a president. Host and . Guest well, i teach the constitution as it was intended to be applied. And the president s in america have operated outside the realm of their executive authority, constitutionally speaking, for decades. So, to judge trump, for me, is not to judge him against obama or george w. Bush but to use the constitution as a standard. And sometimes he is good, sometimes not so much. And so that is how we view what goes on in washington, dc, not based on Political Party or personality but based on the standard by which all americans should hold their federal government, the constitution. Host when you use that measuring stick, which president s in your view have adhered to the constitution, which havent . Guest its been a very long time since we had a president that was truly constitutional. You look at article 2 of the constitution, and that host which is. Guest the delegated
There would be no federal government. The parties of the contract come together to make the terms of the contract design the contract, and ultimately sign the contract. In our Constitutional Republic, the states on the parties of the contract. There are some who teach that the constitution is an agreement between the people and the federal government. That is not true. It cant be true. We can show that to be false by one simple fact. How was the constitution ratified . Was it ratified by popular vote . You cannot siren the contract into legal being until the contract is you dont exist until the contract is already signed. So the only party that existed that could be the creators of the constitution are the states. In the federal government did not exist until the constitution was ratified, which makes sense. So, states are the creators of the constitution. The constitution created the federal government, therefore the states are the creators of the federal government. So july 2, 1776 t
The president doing . He is the president and . I tc constitution as it was intended to be applied. And the president s in america have operated outside of the realm of their executive authority constitutionally speaking for decades. So, to judge donald trump for me is not to judge him against obama or merge w bush. In your view have adhered to the constitution. Guest it has been a long time since we had a president that was truly constitutional. Look at article ii of the constitution, that is the delegated authority for the executive branch. When we look at that we realize how little power the president has especially autonomously, i show my students you look at the constitution, article 1, the powers delegated to congress, article 2 delegated to the president and article 3 delegated to the judiciary. In america we gravitated more toward an allconsuming executive rather than an executive in service to the legislative. What we have now in america is a bit of an aberration of what the p