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If you can, voting rights bill, they call this monstrosity that they want to vote on, voting rights bill.

And if they don't get what they want, they're going to say it's because the racist filibuster rules in place, the racist filibuster that was used by Obama and Cory Booker and others, partly white supremacy crowd, no doubt about it.

Rather than get rid of the filibuster, I have a different idea. Why don't we get rid of the Democrat party since it's the Democrat party that has abused the filibuster in the name of slavery, in the name of segregation, in the name of Jim Crow, anti-servor rights act of 64, anti-servor rights act of 65.

The filibuster rule in and of itself is a discriminatory, it's not racist, the Democrat party, throughout its history has been discriminatory and racist, and it's discriminatory and racist as I speak.

It just moves around, it slithers around like a snake, a voting rights bill they call.

Okay, I've spent the better part of this afternoon, re-acquaining myself with the ratification debates, nine of them in particular.

Nine of them in particular, you know, Rhode Island and North Carolina eventually left the Constitutional Convention, you wear that? Now they eventually voted for the Constitution and ratified it.

But they left.

And a lot of the delegates left, some of them were replaced, but nonetheless, as I read through this, because I recalled through my other writings of my other books,

virtually every single state ratification debate involved at one point or another, the section of the Constitution that gives the federal government the power to choose the time and the place in the venue of voting.

And there was grave skepticism and concern that this new federal government that was being created by the states, remember that?

We're not able to abuse its power to determine who would be elected, how they would be elected, that it would abuse its power specifically to enshrine those in Washington, those who got elected from competition.

If HR1 or S1 had in fact been the law of the land or any big chunks of it, or I should say part of the proposed Constitution, we never would have had a Constitution.

As it turns out, it was a very close fight in Massachusetts.

You had Sam Adams against it, you had John Adams for it, as an example. It was a very, very close fight in Virginia. You had Patrick Henry and George Mason against it, and of course Washington Jefferson and Madison for it.

It was a very close battle in New York where you obviously had Hamilton for it, the main author of Federalist Papers, most Federalist Papers, as well as Madison.

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