Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us on this amazing Thursday. It's Foundations of Freedom Thursday here at Walboehner, so it's a chance to hit some of those foundational topics. It was a founder by the name of George Mason said that no free government nor the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. And so we do foundational principles on Thursday. So if you got any questions about application of those principles or celebration of the 250th of the declaration coming up, maybe we want to talk about some of those principles, constitution questions, history questions, Bible questions, whatever you got.

Settleman, Radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton.

And guys, I'll just jump right in, man. First one's coming from Andrew. He said President Trump's invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, I-E-E-E-P-A to implement tariffs.

Is this constitutional?

Well, guys, I'm already learning something from the question.

I didn't realize that's the act that gave the president the ability to do a tariff without Congress.

It makes sense now to know that there had to be one back there somewhere because otherwise, you know, you'd have to wait on Congress to

do the tariff. So I guess y'all know much about this 77 Act? Is it a blanket tariff authority

for the president? I don't know much about the act, but I know something about the way Trump

is using these old laws, and I'm

really impressed with it. And going back to an interview we had last week where we were talking,

our acts two weeks ago now with Bill Federer and how the tariffs were really the heart of

economics for the federal government until after really World War II. But I've been really impressed without

Trump has been able to say here's what needs to be done, what laws are on the books that are supposed to do this.

And so going all the way back to immigration, the 1798 law that he did, the alien, the Alien Enemies Act. act you know he started in that to

support people and so what I have seen him do is he's going back and finding

laws that are already on the books that already cover what he wants to be

enforcing that have already been passed by Congress already been signed by

president that this is what America is supposed to do,

and he's resurrecting those old ignored laws, and literally they are ignored. And so it's not

that he's doing anything new, it's that he's going back and finding things that haven't been

enforced and just started enforcing them. That's what really impressed me about what he's doing

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