It's like an obstacle for voting rights. Do you know who is accidentally responsible for the filibuster? Is that a lesson that they brought up? I think it's Aaron Burr. It was Aaron Burr and he didn't even mean to do it. He just kept talking. He just was like, we don't need this, we don't need to have this rule where you can like vote to cut off debate, whatever. (00:52–00:55)
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Asserts that Aaron Burr is responsible for the filibuster.
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