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On the recordDecember 12, 2022
Many militias seem to believe that there's a constitutional right that allows for the violent overthrow of the government to take it back for the people. Does that right exist?
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Robin Kelly
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Kelly questions the legitimacy of militias' beliefs about constitutional rights.

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