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The WallBuilders Show

Constitution Alive, Section 4, Part 3

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Could the Founding Fathers have predicted the complexities of today's federal deficits and commerce regulations? We wrap up our riveting Constitution Alive series with a deep dive into the powers bestowed upon Congress, dissecting the contentious issue of government spending and the near-miss of instituting a balanced budget amendment. The Commerce Clause, often a point of debate, was originally meant to facilitate trade, not to micromanage it. Through our discourse, we uncover the founders' ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith-down politics. This is wall builders. Today we're going to get the conclusion of a three-part series out of our Constitution

0:14.4

Alive series. In that Constitution Alive series we cover every amendment, every

0:18.7

article we walk you through the Constitution and give you the original intent and

0:22.0

this week we've been sharing with you section 4 out of Constitution alive which is about the Congress and this three-part series if you happen to miss yesterday or the day before you can go to our website right now

0:33.0

at Wobbler's Live and grab it but we're going to pick up right where we left

0:36.0

off yesterday with Constitution Alive. This next clause there if you look if you're

0:40.6

on page 12 where we're going through the enumerated powers,

0:43.4

I know we don't like it.

0:45.3

I don't like these trillion dollars deficits, friends,

0:47.3

I think they're immoral, I think they're wrong.

0:49.6

Unfortunately, they are constitutional.

0:51.9

That phrase says, to borrow money on the credit of the United States.

0:55.0

They have, it's one of the powers we put in the bucket and of course we want them to be able to fight

0:58.8

wars at some time you might have to, you know how close we were to amending that part of the Constitution?

1:04.8

We almost had a Ballast Budget Amendment, 1999.

1:07.5

Anybody know?

1:08.1

How close were we?

1:09.4

You got it right there, ma'am.

1:10.8

One vote. One vote. We could have had it with one more vote. Don't tell me your

1:16.7

vote doesn't count. Every vote counts every single time. I think we've got a good lot of

1:21.2

momentum in the country right now. That's probably an amendment we can get done if we put enough support behind it.

1:26.0

But anyway, it is obviously constitutional for them to borrow money right now. Let's rein that one in.

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