Defending Freedom: A Constitutional Perspective on Treason and Government Accountability

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Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A 10-year-old homeschooler's question about prosecuting government officials for treason launches us into a fascinating exploration of constitutional law, historical precedent, and the founders' wisdom in limiting political retribution. The WallBuilders team breaks down Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution—where treason stands as the only crime specifically defined by our founding document. With remarkable foresight, the framers narrowly restricted treason to "levying war against the Uni...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Foundations of Freedom Thursday on The Wall Builders Show, always taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.
0:15.1	But today you get to pick which topic will go with that biblical historical historical, and constitutional perspective? Send those questions
0:22.0	into Radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com. And this week, we've got a lot of
0:29.1	great questions that will drive that conversation, and we'll look at all of them from a biblical,
0:33.1	historical, and constitutional perspective. By the way, I'm Ray Green here with David Barton and Tim
0:37.4	Barton, and I'm just going to toss the first question out there. And by the way, I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton,
0:37.9	and I'm just going to toss the first question out there. And by the way, if you like this approach
0:42.8	of these questions from the audience and us trying to get to as many as we can, and given that
0:47.2	biblical, historical, constitutional perspective, there's lots more of these programs on our website
0:51.6	right now at wallbuilders. Show. So just go back and look at our Thursday programs, and that's what we do every Thursday for Foundations of Freedom Thursday.
0:59.5	And our first question up today comes from a 10-year-old homeschooler.
1:03.6	John, thank you for sending this in.
1:05.1	And mom, of course, helped get the email off to us.
1:08.1	He said, hi, wallbuilders.
1:09.0	My mom and I have been listening to your show for a long
1:11.0	time, and recently on one of your shows you mentioned impeaching judges. My question is,
1:15.5	is it possible to prosecute, send a jail, currently serving congressmen, representatives, senators,
1:21.4	judges, or Supreme Court justices, anyone serving in our government for any crime,
1:25.7	but more specifically for treason. Has this ever happened before?
1:29.3	I've heard of impeaching presidents, Nixon, Clinton, Trump, but none have gone to jail. I've heard of
1:33.7	Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Have there been others? And could this happen today? And in your
1:39.7	opinion, should it happen today? It seems like some people in our government don't have the general
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