Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's Thursdays. So we're getting to your questions.

Foundations of Freedom Thursday is what we call it. And it's your chance to send in your questions about the Constitution, founding fathers, declaration, what's going on in D.C. right now or maybe in in your own state or your community, and applying that biblical, historical, constitutional perspective to the issues of the day. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And we've got actually, guys, we don't do this very often, a follow-up question. So we covered a topic, I don't know, I think it was last week, actually, and I got a follow-up question to it.

And so we'll take this question from Joel diving back into a great topic. He said, today's

Wall Builders show addressed the question about people having to pass a test on the Constitution

before being able to run for Congress. You rightly explain how adding that requirement would be

unconstitutional without a

constitutional amendment, and you address different angles of how it has been tried before.

But why wouldn't we be able to make a party rule? We have other party rules to determine if someone

can run as a Republican. Why couldn't we make the requirement to run in the party to show a

basic understanding of the Constitution? We aren't taking away their ability to run in the party to show a basic understanding of the Constitution.

We aren't taking away their ability to run as an independent or in a different party,

so I don't see how that would be unconstitutional.

Joel from Davenport, thank you for sending that question in.

Well, guys, interesting angle here, and I know parties do have some rules, but I don't know.

I honestly have no idea. Like does the state

constitution typically in a state limit what the party can do or is this a potential solution?

Well, since running for public office is something that is under the state law, the state

constitution, federal law, federal constitution, you can't create more requirements no one can

create more requirements for running for a federal office than what then what those laws and

constitution require however there is an angle on this that does that does make sense and states like

colorado is actually a state that kind of does this um Colorado, and I guess I'll, let me back up and say it this way.

What a party can do is they can vet the candidates and they can give them an official party

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