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Bradley Byrne: “I cannot imagine that he and the other people that sat in the Constitutional Convention would have dreamt in a second…”

On the recordAugust 24, 2015
I cannot imagine that he and the other people that sat in the Constitutional Convention would have dreamt in a second that the government they were creating would take away from people the opportunity to create that.
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Bradley Byrne
Alabama

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Byrne reflects on the founding fathers' intentions regarding government and small business.

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