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The WallBuilders Show

The Constitutional Foundations of the American Republic: From Proxy Voting to Revolutionary Principles

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What happens when constitutional principles collide with modern convenience? We dive deep into the controversial issue of proxy voting in Congress that recently divided Republican lawmakers. The Constitution never anticipated representatives would claim their job without showing up, yet a recent dispute over allowing proxy voting for personal circumstances threatened to change centuries of precedent. The stark contrast is unmistakable—we prosecute citizens for voter fraud while conside...

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0:00.0

This is the intersection of faith and culture.

0:09.0

It's the Wal-Bilders show.

0:10.0

It's Thursday.

0:10.7

So we call that Foundations of Freedom Thursday around here at Wall Builders,

0:14.3

meaning that we're going to talk about foundational questions regarding the Constitution

0:17.6

or the Declaration or history or the Bible or whatever foundational

0:21.3

question you might have, send it into us at Radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com.

0:27.5

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. Let's jump in, guys. Lots of great questions

0:31.6

coming from the audience today. First one is a hot topic. I usually say that at the beginning of the

0:36.1

program, I forgot to say it, covering hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:41.9

You talk about a hot topic. It basically shut down Congress last week, at least from what we saw in

0:46.4

the news and the reports. So Elizabeth Brackett sent this question in. She said, is it unconstitutional

0:51.5

to remove vote by proxy in Congress? Apparently, Republicans

0:55.3

joined Democrats to vote down a bill that would have done away with proxy voting. What does the

0:59.3

Constitution say? So first of all, guys, I think the question is actually backwards. I think

1:04.0

the bill was to create proxy voting or to allow for proxy voting, which hadn't been done until

1:10.7

recently with COVID

1:12.0

and all that, but in Nancy Pelosi. But anyway, so I think the real question is, is proxy voting

1:16.8

constitutional or not? So there's a couple of ways to answer that. And it's interesting today,

1:23.5

I talked to several congressmen on this topic. And I didn't bring it up. They did. And they had some

1:30.5

interesting, I guess inside reports on what was in the news last week. But then we also had some

1:37.6

interesting constitutional discussions. And so let's just take proxy voting for a bit. It's,

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