The Politics Guys Present: The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 10

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This episode provides an in-depth analysis of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution, exploring the limitations it places on states and the historical context behind these provisions. Key topics covered include Limits on state powers in treaties, currency, and military Historical context of Article 1, Section 10 The Contracts Clause and property rights Case studies: Dartmouth College and Minnesota Mortgage Federalism and the role of Congress versus states ⁠⁠Read Trey's Substack for a deep dive into the Federalist Papers⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Politics Guys on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the excellent ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sustainable Planet⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/politicsguys⁠⁠⁠⁠ or⁠⁠⁠⁠ politicsguys.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Democracy Group⁠⁠⁠⁠, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vand-roles,
0:05.5	The Government, Huck the Government, Love, the Government, Hout the Government,
0:09.6	Welcome to the Politics Guys, presents the U.S. Constitution.
0:15.1	The main politics, guys, is a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American
0:20.1	politics and policy.
0:21.6	What we're now also bringing you are in-depth series on topics in American politics and policies.
0:27.9	Our Politics Guys Presents series will dive deeply one week at a time into a particular element of U.S. politics.
0:36.2	In The Politics Guys Presents the U.S. Constitution, I the politics, guys, presents the U.S. Constitution.
0:39.3	I, Dr. Trey Orndorf, and my co-host, Dr. Ken Katkin,
0:43.3	will be diving into the U.S. Constitution, article by article,
0:47.3	clause by clause.
0:49.3	This multi-year project was originally only for supporters,
0:53.3	but is now generally available to you,
0:57.2	the listening public.
0:58.0	If you like these shows, remember that the politics guys are presenting other topics right
1:04.0	now to supporters.
1:05.3	So head down to the show notes to get access to all of the politics guys and now all of
1:10.6	the politics guys presents series.
1:13.2	In the meantime, I hope you enjoy yourself as you join me and Ken Katkin on our journey through the U.S. Constitution.
1:21.6	Yeah, it's been a lot of fun kind of slowly but surely making our way through the Constitution, you know, one little piece at a time.
1:31.2	And today is no different. So, but what we'll make today maybe a little bit different is
1:38.2	is we're going to be finally finishing up our journey through the first article of the Constitution, where we have dealt with, well,
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