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The Brion McClanahan Show

Episode 22: Article V and the States

The Brion McClanahan Show

The Brion McClanahan Show

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4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The States have the ultimate power in the American political system. The Constitution makes that clear. I discuss how the States could control the general government and what needs to be done to kneecap the federal monster in Washington D.C. http://learntruehistory.com

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0:30.2

Hey everybody, Brian McClanahan here. Are you looking for a great website that gives you history

0:35.2

the way it was intended to be told with no PC, no Marxism,

0:40.1

no progressivism. Well, I've got it for you. It's learn truehistory.com. That's learn

0:47.1

true history.com. Learn history from great professors who don't sugarcoat it for you. This is not

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for your delicate flowers.

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That's learntruehistory.com, learn truehistory.com.

1:01.2

This is the Brian McClanahan Show.

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Three, two, one, zero, zero, and stop. Welcome back to the Brian McClainting.

1:22.0

We're going to talk about Article 5 today of the Constitution.

1:27.6

This is a topic that has gained a lot of steam in the last several months, particularly, or I should say last couple of years, particularly with the continual abuse of power by the Obama administration.

1:43.7

When it comes to several issues, I think the thing that has upset people the most is that real

1:50.4

federalism is easily on the ropes.

1:54.1

I mean, I could say that real federalism has been dead for over 150 years.

1:59.8

But what we've seen, particularly in the last half century, is a

2:05.8

continual grab, a power grab by the federal government, or I should say the general

2:11.0

government, at the expense of the states. And Richard Nixon was ingenious in this particular

2:17.4

process when he was president.

2:20.9

They had something that he called something new federalism.

2:24.0

And the idea was that the general government would block grant money to the states.

2:32.2

Now, what they would also do with that money is say, here, we're going to

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