Origins: From Kings to Executives

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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David French is off doing David French things, so Sarah Isgur takes over the podcast and invites Judge Charles Eskridge of the Southern District of Texas and Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas to discuss all things Texas—and the powers of the executive branch. The Agenda: —What’s exciting about Locke? —Here comes the Old Whig —King of England vs. the American president —Appeal to heaven —Second terms are bad news —The shallow state —Departmentalism and lawsuits Show Notes: —Origins Pt. 2 —Origins Pt. 4 —Origins Pt. 7 —Massachusetts Constitution —Previous AO episode with Judges Eskridge and Starr Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.8	Music Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isgar. David French is off doing whatever it is that a David French does.
1:10.5	But we have an incredible
1:12.0	episode today because, as promised, we are revisiting the origins of the Constitution class,
1:18.1	where we look at some of the primary documents around the time of the adoption and ratification
1:22.9	of the Constitution and talk about what the heck anyone thought it meant back then. So we said we were
1:29.3	going to do treason next time. We've decided we're doing treason next time because we need to do
1:35.5	executive power this time. So we are doing origins on executive power with Judge Charles Eskridge
1:42.3	of the Southern District of Texas and Judge Brantley Star of the Northern
1:46.2	District of Texas. And if you want to hear more about the class, or of course, just listen to our last
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