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Episode 6 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. We're covering the first several pages of chapter 3: National Executive Power before the US Constitution but after July 4th, 1776. We discuss pp. 45 thru the top of p.53.

When the Founders signed their names onto the Declaration of Independence, they were committing a capital crime, and they were signing their own death warrants if they were caught.

They took themselves not to be looking for a fight, but rather, refusing any longer to duck the fight that in fact had come to them. And they sought to ground their cause, their reaction, to right reason in the natural law, consistent with Revelation and the Scriptures. They sought to articulate such an argument for their cause in such a way that would be rightly persuasive to any future reader and any of the nations which may inquire as to the source of their actions.

Of course, their cause was initially, in large measure, a reaction against abuse of Executive Power. But such a war required itself strong Executive Power. Therein lies the rub: how can Executive Power be strong yet consistent with the principles of Liberty ?

We're making a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Charles C. Thach's doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins in 1922 called "The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789 made available by Liberty Fund INC in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007. Go out and get your physical copy today. Follow along. We'd like to thank Liberty Fund for making this material available, and we'd like to thank Charles C. Thach for writing it.

This material was required reading in my Ph.D. program in Public Law and American Politics at The Claremont Colleges. It was used on the 6 hour comprehensive exams (6 hours each) and in a course called The Presidency and the Constitution taught by Joseph M. Bessette, who also served on my dissertation committee many years later.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Presidency, anti-grade-inflation-plantation podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Part 2. We cover the DC Court of Appeals 5 March 2026 decision overturning the wrongful conviction of Tyree Benson who was criminalized for innocent conduct.

Benson v. US disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's en banc resolution of Duncan v. Bonta, 2025, which we covered over several episodes in 2025.

We cover up through the middle of page 37 from page 22. We continue there next time at page 37.

https://www.dccourts.gov/court-of-appeals/opinions-and-memorandum-of-judgments?search=benson&date=&date_range=&type=All

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The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake on the corner of Bowles and Wadsworth, down the street from Clement Park and Columbine Library.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of "Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (NY: Quill Press, 1985). By Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

We'd like to thank Quill Press for making this material available. We'd of course like to thank Thomas Sowell for writing it.

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Therefore, welcome Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat .

This is part 1 of multiple on the Second Chapter "The English and American Public Culture."

"The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover."

"Its ideas shaped their habits of mind."

"The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era."

Dreisbach's first sentence in his chapter 2 is:

Ready ?

"Anglo-Americans are people of the Book, and that Book is the Bible."

WOW !

We had the author, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, D.Phil. (Oxford), JD (University of Virginia Law School) on the podcast for Thanksgiving, Fall 2022.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of the book. We'd like to thank Dr. Dreisbach for writing this, and thank Oxford University Press for making it available.

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This episode was filmed Thursday 28 May 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-Bible's-appropriate-influence-on-American-politics podcast.

Therefore, welcome again, through his writing, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, D.Phil., J.D.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Episode 5 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. It should have been episode 4 because we accidentally skipped a ten page section between pp. 23- 33 last time that should have been episode 4, but we will just have those two sections out of chronological order and move on. Today we are doing those pages: pp. 23 -- 33 we had skipped accidentally last time, and then going from where we left off last time on page 40 through to the end of the chapter at p. 44. So, we're discussing pp. 23 through 33, then pp. 40 through 44 to the end of Chapter 2.

When the Founders signed their names onto the Declaration of Independence, they were committing a capital crime, and they were signing their own death warrants if they were caught.

They took themselves not to be looking for a fight, but rather, refusing any longer to duck the fight that in fact had come to them. And they sought to ground their cause, their reaction, to right reason in the natural law, consistent with Revelation and the Scriptures. They sought to articulate such an argument for their cause in such a way that would be rightly persuasive to any future reader and any of the nations which may inquire as to the source of their actions.

Of course, their cause was initially, in large measure, a reaction against Executive Power. But such a war required itself strong Executive Power. Therein lies the rub: how can Executive Power be strong yet consistent with the principles of Liberty ?

We're making a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Charles C. Thach's doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins in 1922 called "The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789 made available by Liberty Fund INC in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007. Go out and get your physical copy today. Follow along. We'd like to thank Liberty Fund for making this material available, and we'd like to thank Charles C. Thach for writing it.

This material was required reading in my Ph.D. program in Public Law and American Politics at The Claremont Colleges. It was used on the 6 hour comprehensive exams (6 hours each) and in a course called The Presidency and the Constitution taught by Joseph M. Bessette, who also served on my dissertation committee many years later.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Presidency, anti-grade-inflation-plantation podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.