Following the Constitution's Original Meaning: With A.J. Jacobs

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A.J. Jacobs joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his book 'The Year of Living Constitutionally' and his year-long effort to live out the principles and constraints of the Constitution. A.J. also discusses the power and role of the Supreme Court, the need for term limits, and the challenges he faced while abiding by the Constitution for one year.

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0:00.0	several of the founders thought we should have three presidents.
0:03.0	So that would have been interesting.
0:04.6	Can you imagine like Trump and Biden,
0:06.6	RFK Jr, all co-working in a state?
0:09.1	Baby, oh my God, you think I need to make mine a double now.
0:14.4	Whoo, baby.
0:16.7	So maybe that's not the solution.
0:18.3	But the solution, but we do need to constrain the power of the president.
0:22.0	And last night's debate to me was such proof
0:24.7	of that. One person should not have that much power over 330 million Americans.
0:30.7	That is un-American to me. Article one,
0:35.0	to me.
0:37.0	Article one, section one of our Constitution says, quote,
0:44.4	all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested
0:47.3	in a Congress of the United States,
0:49.5	which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
0:56.2	Pretty interesting stuff, isn't it?
0:58.2	You know, it's kind of interesting.
0:59.9	Article 2 says, section 1, the executive powers shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.
1:07.8	He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice president chosen for the same term
1:16.0	be elected as follows and then goes into how we elect a president of the United States.
1:23.0	Yeah, pretty interesting stuff.
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