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You found your way to the intersection of faith and politics. This is Wal-Bolders Live with David Barton and Rick Green.

You've joined us in a four-part series from Constitutional Live. It's actually Section 6 out of Constitutional Live.

That's the chapter where we cover the presidency and we talk about how to get the presidency back into its proper constitutional powers.

Today is the conclusion. It's a four-part series, so if you missed the first three parts earlier this week, they're all available for you right now at Wal-BoldersLive.com.

We're going to pick up right where we left off yesterday. If you would like to learn more about the entire Constitutional Live DVD program and workbook, it can be found at Constitutionalive.com.

We're going to pick up where we left off yesterday. Here's Constitutional Live where we're talking about the presidency.

Over time, beginning with Washington, you started having executive orders from the president to make sure that the laws were faithfully executed.

That's perfectly fine as long as the executive order is executed in a law that Congress has actually passed according to the Constitution.

If you've got a law that's been passed by the House of Senate signed by the president or allowed to go into law by the president without being signed, not overturned by the court.

This is a legitimate law. It creates some agency or some process. The president has to see that that's executed faithfully.

Sometimes they have to issue orders about how it's going to be executed. As long as that is within the purview of how the law was passed, it's perfectly fine.

So presidents have always done executive orders. I think Reagan did. I think it was 280 or something like that. Bush had about 300.

I don't know what the number is on Obama. They've all done it. The difference is when a president issues an executive order that is not a law passed by Congress.

That's a problem. Or when the president issues an executive order that's the exact opposite of what Congress passed as a law.

Let's say that Congress is considering a law. And last year they said no to that law. And this year they might be having it work its way through the committee process.

If the president just says, well, I don't care they're taking too long. I'm going to do it by executive order. That is not the proper constitutional function of an executive order. It's an unconstitutional executive order.

Many presidents have ventured way too far on this issue. Congress needs to stand up and say, we don't agree with that executive order. Here's a law actually reversing it.

So these are battles that again, you've got to have people that are willing to say the Constitution is more important than one party or another party's political agenda.

It's always got to be the process has to be defended. The concepts these guys put in place have to be defended.

This is David Barton with another moment from America's history. The key to a self governing nation is self governing people. And the key to personal self government is to live by the standards and God's word.

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