hello everyone this is going to be a new
addition to our political science class
where I will be able to you periodically
some lectures on where we're at and
hopefully be able to bring my life to
the topic now we have already gone over
introduction and are in trials to
ourselves and so I hope that your gotten
to know each other actually you know
obviously you can see a man on campus I
am actually at my my office for my own
personal company into political science
now I think that there's a really great
time to take a political science class
at least for the next year because we
are actually getting involved in the
political campaign and Wednesday is
which is september 16 is going to be the
first time that we're going to have a
political you know campaign knows I'm
sorry second political Republican
political debate so they actually a
pretty interesting debate some of you
may be interested in watching and I hope
you do you know I'm not a big personnel
watch debate I find it a little bit
boring i watch more commentary on the
debate but anyway I say model one module
two and before I get to that I do want you
to remember that
there isn't technically a book for this
class and I did that on purpose and I
know there's a little controversial one
the book is extremely expensive I
haven't found a good cheap political
science book and a lot of people I know
unfortunately not passion about it but I
know there was a lot of people who don't
find that same passion but some people
feel a little bit frustrated because
they prefer a textbook as something that can
be referenced. Your quizzes is going to
be based mostly on lecture so that's a
bit of a positive and some of the modules
and I've updated the tests so it can be more geared  towards that
Some of you are asking for answers and you're not getting any
answer because I'm afraid that you may
actually share the answer to something
to say to another person which I know
that has happened not just in my class
but in other political science classes
on this campus is my mind sharing the
answers especially until after the quiz
is closed
ok now that we've got all that other
stuff taken care of let's get into module
one which is dealing with you know the
political foundation in federalism now
america's based on a constitutional con-
is based on a constitutional democracy
and we say this because I democracy is
not just for the people by the people
but is also based on an actual
Constitution a document a governing
document that allows us to ensure laws
so and then also appear there's also a
true democracy democracy is not only a
few like a different there's different
types of democracy is so not only are a
constitutional democracy Republican
democracy because Republican democracy
means that we are
actually vote for our representatives so
we have some say in who and how your
government based on what we actually the
federalism issues really a relationship
between various government and how we
actually govern so it becomes a really
interests teen tug of war because you'll
have some people who are extremely
attached to this state right this date
should be have more power than the
actual government than the actual
federal central government whereas those
who feel that the federal government
should have more strength tends to do
that as well we think that the states
will have less power so there's a shared
relationship of power
amongst the central government and the
state government and then eventually you
also look at the city's local
municipalities which also include
counties mainly comes that around some of
the more hot button issues such as money
so who should be responsible for
building what, who should be responsible
for taking one aspect of this is you
know it's funny where states really want
autonomy but noon they don't really want
to pay for autonomy because it costs
money to be a place since nearly
essentially a state without a country so
but there have been some other topics
that used to be just primarily a federal
issue and that would be one
immigration rights immigration is truly
tired of the federal government who can
who can determine what a citizen is
and who is not a citizen and as of right
now we're in hot debate over the
Fourteenth Amendment and is really the 14th amendment being abused
the 14th amendment historically words came out of
slavery and you wanted to find a way to
universally make slaves to become a
continual citizens within the country
and how did you do that as you pass an
amendment that would ensure that if they
were born on American soil that has
instantly became a service and yeah but
no one had the long-term implications
which would be for people who immigrated
here should a person who immigrated here
with the primary goal of their child
should that be fair is that fraud you
know these are some really interesting
questions and then what do you do for
people who are not a sort of thing to
come here and whether you know only and
have a kid like this becomes a bit of an
issue even though forty percent of
immigrants are on student visas expired
so they got here somehow but they don't
necessarily follow the law and so they
stayed longer than what they're suppose
so essentially how does the federal
government and the states to do
something that they they really really
want them to do through grants so
there's a money attachment to the new
and that's really how you get the
federal to display the states to do
which lead to when their shared powers
and their checks and balances so that we
can and you know federalism has this
notion of shared our checks and balances
in the shared responsibility of
governing amongst the various branches
and so one of the there's three break
main mentioned in the Constitution this
project to if you haven't noticed which
is Congress the President and the
Judiciary right so characters is an
article one of the constitution why is
that important that our forefathers the
writers of the constitution was really
and was really concerned about
institution working very slowly
laws don't get changed very quickly and
they also were concerned about the
organization of the Constitution itself
and so it was not unintentional that
article one would be very first
amendment right so that's something to
consider and because article one and
congress was the very first line that
was important because essentially our
government is built by the people for
the people in congress and and I
strengthens represent the people of
course over time and we can pinpoint
this Jacksonian area and the Jacksonian
Era where he believed that he was the
first people's 2008 and so we did happen
over time where the president has become
the forefront of what all americans are
supposed to believe so we essentially
should support the president be maybe
not the president himself or herself
but before then your congressional leader
used to be and I guess in some instances
it still is the person that you should go to
in regards to getting what you like to
see happen within our weather in your
district and essentially within the
country and there's a lot of pin point
issues it was interesting because we
like to think that Congress should do
exactly what the people in their
district do you know should want but you
know the problem is that they also still
have to think about that not all
implications so what are the long-term
implications of some of their decision
and we must look at their land I think
part of the problem with the Iran deal
is that that's probably part of the
problem with line if there's a whole
which will talk about you know much
later in another video hopefully is that
our main issue is it happens over
there and America and a lot of scholars
have even mentioned this is that america is
uniquely located
you know we're located to where most
americans don't travel outside the
country it's kind of expensive and so
then that also makes says most likely to
not know where other countries are we
are unlikely to actually know where bad
on geography were bad when it comes to
international travel and we tend to not
know multiple languages right so because
we don't have that great of interaction
with people who know multiple languages
we may I guess it depends on
the circles you run in
and you know all these different things
but as integrated as we are we are not
we still do have this soup if you can
say or salad bowl I don't know when you
were raised when you went to school when
I was in school we were taught we were in
salad bowl the now we are soup but I say this because
we do have some resemblance of america's
culture is a mix of other people's
culture right so but if your child
abroad, Italy is different from Greece and
Egypt is different from Iraq and Kuwait
is different from you know the UAE. Russia is
different in Germany in all these
different things so, But america that's not
the case and because of this it puts us
in a unique situation to where, who does this
Iran deal really affect. It's hard to have
this connection between if this Iran deal is going
to effect me or you in our everyday
life because 1 I'm not a Jew
most of you may or may not be you know
most of you are not Jewish as an
assumption that can be bad but because most of
us are not Jewish and there's only a few
of us that
becomes a bit of an issue to try to
relate this
to the topic another issue we have is
that your the doomsday we've been having
the doomsday with Iran for
awhile and so we definitely want to say
that I'm not saying that there's that
the doomsday doesn't happen and that
there's a possibility that it may not
happen I you know it's yeah maybe but
we're we're being told that Iran
getting a nuclear bomb is a bad thing
which I guess that it could be a bad
thing you'll also be a good thing I
don't know but because of this question
mark and because it doesn't necessarily
affect us in the same way as I don't
know mexico having a nuclear weapon or
someone thats pretty darn close to proximity
of America it becomes a bit of
a you're over there were over here so
how do you get americans care if you're
not a Jew and that becomes a problem
with stuff like this so you know the
likelihood of people writing congress their
congressional leader try to get them
to vote on it you know it's probably
likely you're more likely to if your
write a congressional leader you know
to talk about jobs, student loans, and you know
something that's probably more pertinent
to you I want when you're reading and
Congress and looking at a lecture notes
and your powerpoints and all of the
additional material that I did care for
congress I do much you don't focus on
the day various branches the two
printers the Senate and House and look
at the relationship that they interact
with each other but also look at the
unique differences of the senate then
been the House of Reps
and that you need difference is really
kind of important because it makes them
more powerful than the house and you
know two hundred of them so they tend to
have much more clout
and influence than the house does becuase there's so many
people and then you look at the
presidency which is one of my favorite
topics by far and I part of the
presidency is a little difficult to
study because there's only a few people
who study them because you don't have
that much access to them and
you also don't have that many of them
cover so you know I've done some studies on rhetoric
which i think is really fascinating and
I think that the rhetoric becomes really
important note now can can the rhetoric
presidential rhetoric be so important
that it can change make economic and
domestic changes drastic you know in a
drastic way and the answer is yes and no
depending on the topic it's hard to
imagine a time that the president didn't
give speeches and for many years during
the founding the president will lead and
gives meetings they would prefer to
write a letter to talk to time varies
and then it wasn't until it was not
until it wasn't until
now he became much more interested in
the power speech which makes sense
because we were at war in WWI and
it was a big war, right, a war to end all wars
but the power of speech became a bit
issue an interesting and the president's
even before anyone had this big debate
have had debates back and forth about
what will be more important you know
speaking not speaking but we didn't even
look at everyone can when he does give
his nephew speeches that he does you
know the Gettysburg Address for example
become very informative speech short but
it helped fuel the fight and rally the
troops so there's presidential rhetoric
maybe is it important maybe
part of it is it doesn't happen that
often which made it much more important
when you don't have that's a possibility
maybe at this particular time in our
life where oversaturated with the
president
rhetoric you talk too much so I'll start
tuning out because you talk too much and
when a 24 hour cycle so how often do you
hear our current president speaking I
mean it seems like every week there's
something that's coming out in regards
to a talk and that's one who keeps up
with what he says and does it have that
much of an influence as a 
hundred years ago the president barely
spoke.  They spoke when they needed to really talk, you
know, when an amendment was passing,
when we're at war or when you know
different things like that that's when
you actually heard these people speak
now we keep hearing these people walk
and talk
and talk so what's the difference
between this talk and talk but I guess
preempting television i mean i i really
am not too sure when I'm supposed to be
taking this seriously and maybe sometimes you
don't take it seriously until it in a
box you in a way so that the economic
crisis that we take this seriously maybe
not what you did begin to start taking
him seriously as well and you know
the banks were closing any begins on see the
effects of what he would actually talk
so I mean Nesudaht described how the
billions power at the present actually
has the power to persuade and much of
this persuasion is all not written and
how you when you talk how you talk all
becomes really important so some people
should take that particular last name
but the presidency has its own powers as you read through the
president, lecture notes, clauses, look at where his power
comes from look at how  his
power has gone over time to simply
interpretation of the constitution of
the Constitution according to his
powers haven't changed despite the fact that you
can only wonder what he terms a solution
that we've had about the presidency and
its power and its election process we've
ever had we planned I'm sorry we had two
changes is one we have attached the
popular election to the actual electoral college
 and in the second is that we've
had that you can only won twice but
other than that no other changes have
been made the presidency since it was
founded pretty surprising because we
made changes to Congress all the time. What is the next
astounding thing is if that's the case
that the Constitution hasn't really been
changed then how has the president
presidential power have grown over time and this has grown simply through interpretation of
the constitution so some presidents have
restricted their power and some of them
have grown their power and then also congress
have stepped in to try to increase and
decrease power one of them is what the
war the war powers act 1973 and then we
also have recently under the Bush era
with Rumsfield we've had some of the
decrease power in regards to torture
which
we have never by the way we have never
had a supreme court made a ruling about
against a presidential decisions such as
the right to torture, the right of Habeas Corpus
while america has been at war so
this is the very first time we've had
the president of the Supreme Court of
all Indians the president and times a
declared war so it's pretty significant
wait until after the war is over a tool
against what the president did I guess
they felt that this was to pressing and
you know up to this even know something
else look at even though that the
Supreme Court has ruled that there is to
have the right to habeas corpus at
present but torture is not America has
still only prosecuted one terrorist
so we and and of course as we've been
told torture is not legal but america's
not necessarily torturing on america's
soil.
ok and hoping that I can get to another
within next couple weeks when we do with
the federal bureaucracy, the next module
to end module three and just opened up
this week is dealing with the president
and still still dealing with the present
how the president is governing and
organizational chart so you can see how
big government is over a million 1.4
million employees
that's pretty darn big so and there was
a government that the president be
governing all of them and I see you
should join let me now some of you have
been asking me where should we talk I
usually talk on Sundays so by if you
email me I talk I sometimes show up and
then shot by adaptively get online and
answer everything on on Sundays and new
postings and stuff like that I'm really
enjoying some of your comments in your
aides videos so that's where you and the
other guy ok so look forward to hearing
from you guys soon and have a great
