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The WallBuilders Show

Constitution Alive, Section 5, Part 2 - The Enumerated Powers Of Congress

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What is Congress actually allowed to do? Where are the jurisdictional lines? Are there areas Congress was meant to stay out of? What is a Constitutional Republic all about? Our Constitution is still alive and applicable today! As citizens, we all have a duty to study the Constitution, to understand where our rights and our freedoms are laid out in that document, and how our government structure should work. The reason our government continues to overstep its boundaries is because, “we the peo...

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We stand undivided, forever united, fighting hand in hand for the liberty we burn, for glory and honor, for our sons and daughters, ever mindful of it.

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And along the lessons we learn, let the torch of freedom burn.

0:45.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith in the culture. This is Wal-Bilders Live and we appreciate you joining us today.

0:49.0

If you're listening online, you can get a list of our stations around the country carrying the program right there at our website, Wal-BildersLive.com

0:57.0

And you can also get our archives, so programs over the last few months available right there on the website.

1:02.0

You can listen to some of those Thursday programs where we dive into the foundational freedoms of America.

1:07.0

We call it Foundations of Freedom Thursday. Listen to those Friday programs, you get some good news.

1:12.0

We call it Good News Friday and it's an opportunity for David and Tim Barton to share with us some good news from around the nation and around the world sometimes on things that are happening in the culture.

1:21.0

We know there's a lot of bad things happening. We're not ignoring those things. We talk about those as well.

1:26.0

But on Fridays, it's kind of fun to just kind of go through a lot of that good news that often gets buried by the major media.

1:32.0

We want to encourage you where you can see those victories where when you do get engaged and you do your partisan citizen, good things can happen.

1:40.0

So be sure to tune in on Fridays for good news Fridays and also on our website.

1:44.0

You can get those Friday programs and get some good news.

1:46.0

All right, we're going to dive in today where we left off yesterday.

1:50.0

We are bringing to you this week a Constitution alive with David Barton and Rick Green.

1:55.0

And that's where David and I went into Independence Hall and his library and recorded this Constitution class in order to teach people, clause by clause.

2:04.0

We go through the whole Constitution, all seven articles, all 27 amendments, and we look specifically for the areas where citizens can have an impact right now in America and helping to restore our Constitution.

2:19.0

And so this particular series that we're sharing this week, it actually comes out a section five of our full program.

2:25.0

And that's where we're diving into the enumerated powers of Congress.

2:29.0

And we're learning what do they actually have authority to do? Where are those jurisdictional lines? What are they allowed to do?

2:35.0

And what are some of the things they're specifically not allowed to do? We the people set that up. That's what a Constitutional Republic is all about.

2:41.0

We draw the lines. We say, this is the territory that you have. If you will, this is the authority that you have.

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