Welcome back to celebrity bytes on the think-liberty network. I'm your host billion gaps and you can follow me personally on twitter at William underscore gassing and follow think-liberty on facebook twitter or wherever your social media outlet is give us a follow on a like for updates on new episodes and more so for this episode. I'm going to briefly outline some of the things that you need to have an understanding of before going to move in to this new series, called American tyrants and in this series I'm gonna be going over some of the presidents in history that are celebrated is being some of the greatest presidents we've ever had, but were in fact some of the most dangerous expansion interests of presidential power disregard of the Constitution or Congress in part or in whole and in at least one case essentially rule America as a tyrant, but before we get into all of that, let's get into a little bit of revolutionary history. Now before, during and after the American revolution debates among the founding fathers themselves raged about how our government should look someone in the monarchy like England, someone to democracy, summer Republic but when the fun constitution was finally ratified and put into practice in its final form in 17 eighty nine, we became a constitutional Republic now, what that means is that we may be operated as a Republic that Just to say that the people rule and have their voices heard via representation in the government but the government is also strictly limited, as to what it can and can't do by the constitution itself and the entire point here is that the founding fathers directed us away from being a monarchy away from the absolute ironical ruled that they just bought an entire war against they saw the explicit dangers of having one person in power over an entire country and how easily one person Trample the rights of the individual under such a governmental system, once that was all settled, the battle began to decide what the office of the President would look like. The founders were essentially split into two camps on this. Some followed Adams and hamilton who wanted to strong executive hand to guide the new country they preferred that sweeping powers to be given to the executive office in order to centralize government power and give the executive branch ease of authority others, such as jefferson In Madison we're concerned that creating a strong executive could undermine the carefully laid checks and balances that would help to ensure that the government did not turn on its own people. Now an essence, some only one of the President acted as an adviser to Congress with no real authority in the government itself, but in the end it was decided that the President would act as the chief executive that is the head of the executive branch. He would decide Department, has Ads and ultimately be responsible for the at the time very small number of departments within the branch almost all decisions from the office of the President would have to be reviewed and voted on by Congress strictly adhere to the checks and balances laid out and the responsibilities outline for the executive and legislative branches in the constitution that even the state of the Union address the annual speech from the President to the American people was originally mandated by the Constitution in article two section three clause, one that the President quote shell from time to time give to the Congress the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures, measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Unquote and I notice this doesn't specify how Congress is to be updated, nor how often and it is very clearly meant for Congress, not for the people and that in and of itself, is an interest Expansion of presidential power, one that I'll be addressing in the next episode, but I digress for those of you still following along you might recognize this is being not anywhere close to the gargantuan amount of power that the modern President currently wheels. So how did we go from there to here. Well, this is a small part of what I'll be covering in the series, but the gist of it is that the same principle of incremental ism that is leading us down the road of terrorism today has been applied to many of the different levels and systems of government for centuries, including our own The office of the President is no exception and that's all I've got for you, for this particular episode. But I hope you'll tune in next week for the first episode of the American tyrant series in order to become more liberty. Centered with us, I'm William gaston, with thinkliberty