1805, Vice President Burr goes before a group of senators, makes a few comments. The Senate responds. They change the Senate rule no longer giving them the ability to end debate. About 50 years after the ratification of the Constitution, 1837 is when the, the results of that error that, that the Senate had made occurs the very first filibuster. And what happened was we began to govern off an accident when people forgot the history of Federalist 22 saying we need to learn from the 2/3 votes, the erroneous things. (04:00–04:13)
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Asserts that the first filibuster occurred in 1837 due to a Senate rule change.
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