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Legislates and operates like this, the worse it gets. the barriers, the firewalls to the constitution have been breached. >> you talk and go in to great detail that the left has been the progressives, the statists, as you call them, have been successful. in other words, beyond their wildest dreams. which is why you say post-constitutional america. now, how does this give more power to the states and what was the anticipated? you quote the federalist papers a lot throughout the book. what were they intending by putting this specific process in to place that it could be used one day? >> first of...

Currently, in matters that relate to the republican rules. i think the real issue is, will the republican party remove the power grabs, which ben ginsburg, who you mentioned, oversaw in the convention rules committee, and i'm submitting a motion to repeal all those power grabs that can be repealed, by the republican national committee. and there's a lot of support on the national committee for that. >> i imagine there would be. and the state, when it comes to national committee, very much state-based power situation. the state base always usually wins those fights, but does it say or does it r...

Without objection, the resolution is on the table. >> conventions aren't supposed to look like that anymore. vocal delegates were objecting to rules put in places en essentially by john sununu, chairman of the rules committee, convention drama in the afternoon that i think the rnc tried very hard to avoid. andrea mitchell is on the convention floor for us in tampa. do we know what that was about on the convention floor and how it resolved? >> it was resolved in mitt romney's favor. they completely muscled the ron paul people. this is where insurgents like ron paul and others like sarah palin b...

The nomination but draw attention and cause an embarrassment. if he had one more state, iowa, nevada, nebraska, he would have been able to get on the official ballot. they actually sent top operatives, one of the top advisors to mitt romney, to nebraska to make sure. now the rules changed so the party's nominee, person who really rolls out the delegates, make sure those state conventions have that kind of power. sununu who knows something about the conventions. actually the last republican nomination fight was 1976. a lot of excitement. you and mitt romney didn't want that kind of excitement. ...

The last several days. next week the rnc, republic national committee and convention will vote on changes of rules. first of all, it has to do with caucus states. states rather than having primaries have informal caucus meetings. in the future they have to bind their delegates to the outcome in the caucus. this year a number of states held their caucuses and then said, well, that's not going to have any effect on what delegates we send to the convention for the nomination. we will will decide that at state conventions that are generally -- are participated in by party insiders. ron paul did pa...