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Hello, America. Mark Levin. Our number is 877-3813-811-877-3813-811. Well, it's Friday, and I want to give you some food for thought this weekend.

And so what I'm going to do, and I do this from time to time, but I'm going to do it especially so today, is dive deeply into philosophy, our history, our constitutional construct, because of Joe Biden, his conduct and what he has proposed today with this commission to study packing the Supreme Court.

And so you cannot just feel emotionally and understand the dire threat we face from this man, but understand it from a more important substantive perspective.

Now, first of all, let's take a look at what it was, the framers of your constitution were trying to do. They didn't invent the idea of separation of powers.

As those of you who've listened to this program before and read my books, as you know, during the revolutionary period, the most important philosopher was John Locke.

And in his second treatise on government, John Locke talks about rather broadly separation of powers.

During the constitutional period, the most important philosopher, and there were many that they looked to, was Charles de Montesquieu.

And it's Montesquieu, in one short paragraph, in a very long book, who basically spells out separation of powers, between and among the legislative, the judicial, and the executive.

The framers of your constitution having just fought a revolutionary war, putting their lives on the line against the most powerful military force on the face of the earth.

The Forte Revolution, not to destroy their society, which is what's taking place today, but they fought a revolution because they insisted that they wanted a representative republic.

And they looked at history as very smart men.

They looked at what was going on in the contemporary world, and they saw what took place in France. They had an absolute blood bath.

And so having fought a revolution against a monarchy, and having watched mobocracy in France, result in an absolute disaster as they tried to implement the philosophy of Rousseau,

our founding father said, we don't want a mobocracy, and we don't want an autocracy. That is, we don't want a democracy, and we don't want a centralized, authoritarian government.

We want to do something differently. Having looked at human history, having scanned the governments of the world, having a completely blank slate, they created a republic, a representative, federal, constitutional republic.

The keystone to this republic is separation of power. That's the keystone. They were concerned about the mob, that is, factions taking over the government, having temporary control, and imposing their will on the American people.

You see that happening in Congress today. They were also concerned about an individual seizing power as an executive, and imposing his will from the nation's capital.

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