Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180107:16:25:00
Legislatures to the congress that we have a convention of states or a constitutional convention and so that's what's been going on here. let me just provide a little bit of context. this is something that happens about every 70 years interestingly in our political landscape as a nation and in 1790 to 1830 there were the antifederal lists that filed for state conventions, constitutional conventions to limit the federal power. then of course in 1861 the confederates filed a fleury of papers. and then the segregationists in 1963 started an effort of calling for constitutional conventions to limit...
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