It's in the interest of every governor to preserve the power of his individual state.

Amendment 10. Those powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by

it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. That's the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United

States. And this brings the question up that occurs to me frequently. And that question is,

where are the governors? Where are the states in this collection of states that we have?

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott. And on this particular

right angle, I would like to talk about the idea of essentially unused, what seems to me anyway, unused political

power. Now, for those of you who, you know, weren't educated recently in public schools, you

know that the 17th Amendment, which was passed by progressives and left-winger's early part of the 20th century, essentially destroyed the idea of the balance of the legislature.

The Congress was originally set up so that the people would elect representatives to the House of Representatives.

That House would represent the people.

And then the states, meaning the government of the states, would send two senators to the federal government,

and the Senate would be the House of the States. It would represent the interests, not of the people in, let's say, Alabama, but of the state of Alabama.

That was a good system. But, of course, it's a lot harder to

concentrate power if you have dispersed power and its whole idea of the Constitution. So then we went to

popular election of the Senate, and that basically made the Senate into kind of a house of lords.

So if we live in an age, hypothetically, where federal power is being

constantly concentrated and constantly abused, what's the next level of power that could be used

to combat that? Steve, most of the presidents that we elect come from the ranks of governors and certainly seems to be the more effective ones do.

But I genuinely wonder all the time why we don't see more governors doing what Governor Abbott and Governor... governor abbot and and governor desantis

have been doing recently which has been fighting back against federal

encroachment of the of the rights of those states and and steamrolling

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