Thanks for joining us today on The Wall Builders Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective, and it's Thursday.

So we do Foundations of Freedom Thursday around here. That's a chance for you to send in your questions, And we'll get to as many of those as we can.

You can send those into radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com. I'm Ray Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And we're going to start our questions today, guys, from Nadine.

She said there's so much talk about if Vance can be the Senate speaker, meaning vice president Vance, while serving as VP.

I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on this, since A, it's being said that Adams did this,

but I did not see record of there even being a majority minority speaker position until the late

1800s. And B, it seems like it would be a major crossing of the branches, which is something I

thought the Fountain Fathers felt important to separate. Looking forward to hearing from you guys,

Nadine, great question. Thank you so much for sending that in. Yep, guys. So a lot of this came about,

remember when they were voting for Senate Majority Leader. I think most of the grassroots was

not happy with any of the three options, to be honest, felt like the option that was

least bad was probably Scott, the worst one was Cornyn, and then the guy in the middle one.

And so John Thune now Senate Majority Leader, but during all of that discussion, it was,

okay, well, you know, no matter who they put up, could J.D. Vance as president of the Senate

in his role as vice president, just walk in and run the

Senate? What would that look like? And did John Adams actually do what we heard that, that he

apparently did that? So the answer to that actually is in the place that we ought to look first,

and that's the Constitution. I'm going to read two clauses out of the Constitution.

Article 1, Section 3, now Article two clauses out of the Constitution. Article 1, Section

3. Now, Article 1 is out of the seven articles. This is the longest one, and it deals with

Congress itself. And so this is where the enumerated powers are found, the things that the

Constitution says Congress can do and the federal government can do. So this is the long section, but section three, and I'm going to read paragraph four and paragraph five.

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