Michael Iachetta Activity 27 Web.mp4

activity twenty seven constitutionally limited government right sure we're gonna go a little bit dated detail about some parts of the constitution and my point here is just as I'd love for you to crack open a constitution sometime take a look at its Partch the and to a in this in this activity this video we'll just we'll visit a couple of parts and to extend explain what they do and you'll get to maybe get the hang of how this works so the even before we get to that letter a part to I'll just point out too that an article one should the way the constitution works I'll just say briefly the beginning of it is broken into some articles does the first article each the about the legislature the second article is about the executive branch and the third article is about to the judicial branch and so I will point out that the the the the first article is about the legislature because he's a Republican representative form of government where the legislature ease supposed to be the preeminent branch it is the leader of the government in the system because it's a it's a it's a government in which the people govern themselves through the the representatives in the legislature the the and in those are going in decreasing order of the input we have into those ranches show first the first part of the legislature that's mentioned in activity one is the house of representatives then you get the Senate where the people of lesser ability especially originally was that it was their state legislatures the chose the senators she can see the house of representatives were the only part where the people elect representatives directly said it indirectly second article used the president %HESITATION elected through the electoral college less input by the people last of all the the judges appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate the two last representative branches so the leader is the legislature but it's set up in the way in a way so they can be a check and the people that was the president and the courts are supposed to be a check on the legislature to avoid a a legislative teeny so get back to activity twenty seven a so all legislative powers here in granted shall be vested in the Congress of the United States they needed only certain legislative powers are assigned to the federal legislature all others are reserved to the state legislatures which maximizes self government even further because as we've seen previously we have the maximum self government when we are governor selves through our state legislatures are representatives in our state legislatures show %HESITATION how is this established you the tenth amendment I'll just add is is there was sizing missed the powers that are not here in grand did not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states all powers of government not the sign to the federal government hers reserved to the state governments the way this is accomplished his in his in his you can see is a letter a said this two people who who believe in limited government a limited federal government and maximize self government article one section eight is an extremely important part of the US constitution because it's the part in which the powers of Congress are enumerated relisted and I've I've actually in brackets I've added the numbers to this time and you can see it say %HESITATION it's a pretty small list in a pretty narrow number of things that Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes to borrow money to regulate commerce with foreign nations among several states establish uniform rule of naturalization coin many that provide for the punishment of counterfeiting then you see some stuff about the armed forces antenna and then it ends then there's a period in this is a complete list there's one or two other places if you go over the rest of the constitution the miscellaneous powers listed in a couple of other places but this is the main list and it is said exhaustive list I want to eighteen this is it and show when you see the federal government doing things that are not on this list it's because visually see later in the course time the federal government no longer sees itself bound by this list with if you're going to go by what the constitution is saying these are the powers of Congress these are the powers that are hearing granted all other powers belong to the the state governments sure letter a with article one section eight is doing is making a complete list of these powers which which which puts a limit on what the federal government can do I'll just go to the pad for one second and show you something into my classes as to try to get them to remember if we want to think about where do you look in the constitution the defined with the fellow government can do you can look at one eight I say to my class by ever got a tattoo it would look like this and one of my by sex cool hard going through it in since I since personally I think it would be good to have a that a limited government with maximum self government dealt with that that I love article one section eight you have to decide if you love it or not you may not love it and that's fine we can we can of course still be friends if your love article one section eight the way I do for a day just I want I just am doing the study that you remember they said if anybody ever asks you if this comes up where the powers you listed it it's in article one section eight go come back to the the camera just you know there's there's wasted in a that the federal government has given itself more power %HESITATION over the years especially since nineteen thirty seven or so but giving new meaning to the words in this finished in this article one section and I'm not going to go through all the details of how that's done I will point out that the very last power them what it says is the Congress's power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers the foregoing powers of the previous seventeen it does not say the Congress has power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper he's in that would give them unlimited power in the appointees for them not to have unlimited power **** only lies that are necessary proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers which are contained in that article okay show article one section nine and let it be he's allusive some limits that that the the framers of the constitution wanted to highlight in some cases in other cases what's happening in article one section nine is it's a it's an exception to a power granted in article one section eight for example that in article one section eight it says Congress has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations but then article one nine says that as they can regulate commerce with foreign nations except for as that there can be no prohibition of importing slaves into the United States insulate you know a so you can see that's an exception to a power that you created them so that's okay show me this works you kinda a local one section eight the says that Congress is it has the power to lay and collect taxes but then one nine says but no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported for many state so the exceptions are put in article one section nine and sometimes they just wanted to highlight something you too to make things safe for the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be she spend gate in the last in cases their ability or vacation okay so that's something that they just wanted to to make clear that I'm it does not take away from the fact that one eight is a complete list because it because it because as a rule anything missed out on at least he's he's a power reserved to the states okay let me see you can see just briefly system limits on states their stage out of state seller stage show no state shall you see that repeated over and over to us today that the state governments race in one nine the previous ones it's the federal government that has to obey that even though it does not stay the federal government shall not pass a bill of attainder this just understood because this is a constitution for the United States which means the federal government the different states is in Texas has a Texas constitution needs to obey this is the because this is the US constitution the men here because it's it's for the US today though there is a couple places like one nine does and also the Fourteenth Amendment that states have to obey but as a rule states don't obey the US constitution it's the US government the base US constitution you see the Fourteenth Amendment no state shall make or enforce any law so the rule for understanding the US constitution is it's always addressing the US government the federal government in less otherwise stated for example when it says no state shall then you know it's addressing the state governments a day and not the federal government right show live diss the well no bill of rights the the first ten amendments there is very very important to emphasize that this is a list of limits on the federal government they don't apply to the states at all that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to stakes it was steady later of how that will affect a a a how these bill of rights understood but but for the time being just noticed this is always these are limits on the federal government you know from your history classes it there at eight because some people fear fear fear that the federal government would become a tier any and show the user explicit limits and just to be on the safe side in to make sure that in the future the federal government would not come along and start giving itself more power become unlimited you see in the first amendment explicitly states Congress shall make no law and I'll just say you something else that comes up in class is they say well what would what is the first amendment to go right to gay tear so well I would say there's a phrase you used stylish when the religious freedom freedom speech press I have to show my classes to actually look at the constitution don't just accept what people tell you that look what it says show noticed Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion so number one no dish is putting a limit on the federal government which all these ten amendments are doing and in fact strange to say it doesn't guarantee the rights of religion a speech oppressed at all not at all what it's doing is it's saying on these subjects Congress is forbidden to make any laws which means all the power to make these laws are in the state governments only states can make life about religion speech and press know what rights does that guarantee self government first and foremost so the first amendment guarantees the right of self government him while it's putting a limit on the federal government that's an important thing to remember these are all limits on the federal government remember doesn't have to say the federal government shall not is put in the passive voice the the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed misunderstood we're talking to the federal government that the federal government cannot infringe the right to keep and bear arms switch to make all laws concerning against the arms are going to be made by the state governments under this arrangement let's go to the our point slide we will and she suddenly stopped the article one section eight is a limit on the federal government to complete list of the the powers of Congress insist congress' the lawmaking branches the limit on what the federal government can do %HESITATION article one section nine of the bill of rights imprecise limits on the federal government Hey dad article one ten in the Fourteenth Amendment place limits on the state said this last slide %HESITATION actually emphasize the main leash on the federal government is article one section eight the list of powers %HESITATION and the %HESITATION a moment that that Lee she's he's gone in the the federal government is no longer observing one eight is the living and the police come stuff I sometimes ask my students because we're all tied %HESITATION very seems so we might explain later that there's like all these elastic clauses in article one section eight and so I just ask my students so do you want that leads to be made of elastic case if it's elastic then then you dead and that said yes to very modern the post nineteen thirty seven conception that there's a lasting classes that the constitution is elastic they they would say over a dead body start elastic they'll point of having a constitution is to have a limit to know an elastic does you make for a living have I just have to say that the they could be completely wrong and the post nineteen thirty seven approach of unlimited government might be better that's for you to decide but I think for you to be in a position to judge between the two approaches limited versus unlimited you have to have the the act of the limited government approach explain to you properly in then you you're in a position to decide the pros and cons in which you think is better

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