Ep. 583 Would Constitutional Amendments Do Any Good?

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, recently proposed a series of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. As it turns out, they're actually pretty good. Would they help? Brion McClanahan joins me to figure it all out.

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0:44.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the show.
0:46.4	Brian McClanahan is with me today.
0:48.8	We're going to look at a series of proposed constitutional amendments by the governor of Texas. So this would be not to the Texas Constitution, but to the U.S. Constitution that Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently proposed. And I didn't even know about this. It was brought to my attention by a listener. And when I looked at them, they were surprisingly good. Most of them seem quite all right. In fact, all of them are at least all right, or at least you can make an argument for them, I would say. So to make sure I was still sane in that I found a sitting governor's proposals not too unreasonable, I thought I'd talk to Brian to set me straight if I've gone wrong or to confirm
1:29.3	me, in my opinion, if I am indeed correct. Brian McClanahan, you'll know as a previous guest of the
1:34.4	show. He teaches at my Liberty Classroom.com. He holds a PhD in history, American history,
1:39.9	from the University of South Carolina. And he's the author of numerous books, including the Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution and the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers.
1:51.3	Brian, welcome back to the show.
1:53.0	Hey, thanks for having me, Tom. God to be here.
1:55.1	All right, let's talk about what's going on with Greg Abbott.
1:58.9	I was just telling people about his proposals for constitutional
2:02.7	amendments. He's proposing that there be some kind of amendments convention whereby these
2:08.3	particular amendments get proposed and added to the U.S. Constitution ultimately.
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