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Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, van, or...

Love the government, hug the government, love the government, love the politics. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place from bipartisan rational and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist, Oklahoma Christian University.

And I'm joined by the professor of law at Chase Law School.

Ken, Ken, welcome to our Constitution Midweek Show.

It's great to be back.

Yeah, this has been one of our, I think, most exciting projects. I know a lot of individuals have

been excited beginning ours and want to get

it all together. I hinted on the main show. We've got more coming. And we do. We got a lot of fun things

in the future that are going to come out once we get done with all of the Constitution. But today,

let's get right into the meat and to the fun of it all. We are dealing with the sixth amendment.

So we're leaving reconstruction behind and we're moving to the 16th Amendment.

Now, the 16th Amendment is a really important one. Not that, again, the reconstruction amendments aren't,

but it really lays the groundwork for the modern administrative state in the United States. The United States Constitution,

as we've discussed earlier in the series, required that direct taxes be apportioned among the

states according to their population. But the 16th Amendment

makes some changes potentially. It says this, as we always start off with it. Quote,

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