This is CBS, Sign In The World, I'm John Batchler.

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches

law at NYU in the University of Chicago.

And we immediately get in our time machine and go to 1789, the early hours of the American

Republican experiment.

We're looking at the removal debate of 1789 having to do with the powers of the executive,

the executive itself, as these founders were debating what it is that they have created

in their revolution, a revolt, civil disorder with Mother Britain.

We go to Article II, Section II of the Constitution, which I learned from Richard linking to an article

by David Alvis and flag tailors about the removal of Congress, the Constitution says.

And he shall nominate the President and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and councils, judges of the Supreme Court,

and all the other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise

provided for, and which shall be established by law.

But the Congress may by law vests the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper

in the President alone in the courts of law or in the heads of department.

Section II of the Constitution of the United States, Richard, these dry words begin a debate

that we have all the way here to the 21st century and the power of the President, very good

evening to you.

Yes.

I mean, what you did was to read aloud an incredible mouthful that most people pointed very hard

to understand.

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