17. Sharon Answers Your Questions #1
The Preamble
Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Sharon Answers Your Questions! This marks the first episode of Sharon randomly selecting five questions from her listeners and answering them with wit, heart, and as always -- stone-cold facts. The topics of this episode include: executive orders and Second Amendment sanctuary states. Are executive orders constitutional, and what is a Second Amendment sanctuary? As well, Sharon will explain how to weigh a historical figure’s positive contributions against their problematic beliefs and behaviors. Should past presidents be role models? Sharon will also address how to respond compassionately to people that are unintentionally spreading disinformation online and explain ways that we are currently more united as a country than in the past… These episodes are fueled by YOU. What are you curious about? Drop a voice memo here, and Sharon might answer your question on the next episode of Sharon Answers Your Questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome. Delighted you could be here. This episode is about y'all. |
| 0:06.2 | Y'all have been leaving me voice memos with your questions. And today I am |
| 0:11.5 | delighted to be randomly choosing five and delivering an answer for you. So let's |
| 0:17.8 | dive into the first episode of Sharon answers your questions. I'm Sharon |
| 0:22.2 | McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast. All right, today's first |
| 0:28.5 | question is from Eric. Hi Sharon. This is Eric. Great website by the way. And |
| 0:33.0 | everything. I have a question about executive orders. How does a president come |
| 0:37.7 | to have executive orders? I don't believe they're allowed in the constitution. |
| 0:41.8 | If I remember correctly, how did that power fall to the executive branch? And |
| 0:46.1 | what's your opinion on executive orders? Should there be a limit to them? |
| 0:50.6 | Just kind of expand on that if you would. Okay, that is actually fantastic |
| 0:54.3 | question. Eric and a lot of people have asked me that. So you are not alone in |
| 0:57.6 | wondering this because it is true. When you look at the constitution, it's not |
| 1:02.4 | like it says, and a president can just go ahead and write all the executive orders |
| 1:06.5 | I feel like it's no problem. Whatever you want to say, no bigs. Go ahead and |
| 1:10.6 | write it down. We'll make sure it happens. It does say that, right? This is where |
| 1:14.7 | the executive power comes from the executive power to write executive orders. |
| 1:20.1 | It comes from article two of the constitution. And this is what it says. The |
| 1:23.8 | executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States. This has |
| 1:31.0 | been interpreted to mean that a president has the power of executive orders. |
| 1:36.9 | This goes all the way back to George Washington. He wrote the very first |
| 1:40.3 | executive order, which was about, hey, all of y'all in the executive |
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