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I'm John Baxter speaking with the editor-in-chief of Law and Liberty,

John Grove, writing for the Civitas Institute about April of 1775, and we come to April of 2025, 250 years later.

Article 1 of the Constitution, John quotes for us, usefully.

All legislative powers herein granted to, including the power to lay and collect taxes, duties,

imposes and excises to the Congress of the United States.

That's the House and the Senate, the Congress of the United States, to lay and collect taxes,

duties, imposts, and excises.

April of 2025, Liberation Day by President Trump and his administration.

John, I'd never seen such a contrast as you pulled off in this essay.

What have we seen happen ever since what appears to be Congress's power usurped by the executive?

Sure. Well, connecting to the conversation we had earlier, my point in the piece was to contrast the zealous defense of institutional power and constitutional arrangements that the Patriots had with, I think, a relative disinterest with this question of, well, regardless of what you think about

tariffs, who is supposed to be doing this? Who's supposed to be making this decision? Where is that

power authorized to be exercised? And so, of course, President Trump

invoked a law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, in which Congress had delegated

some of its authority to the executive. So some of its authority to lay and collect taxes and duties and imposts to the

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