Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110118:01:47:00
14th amendment. what we lack is a state check on federal power. it just equalizes the playing fe field. >> we elect members to the house of representatives and senate. i want to come back to the two key provisions here. states can get together and override a congressional enactment and you want to take away the power of the federal government to tax which as we all know for better or worse is the income tax which is the critical provision and you take those away and the capacity of the federal government to lead us in a coherent way disappears. >> that proposal, which was one of ten proposals ...