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Abdul El-Sayed: “I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution. The Constitution has a Second Amendment in it, but the Second Amendment…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2026
I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution. The Constitution has a Second Amendment in it, but the Second Amendment, just so we all are clear, even the most conservative folks, they hew to this idea called originalism, and originalism is the idea that you should interpret the Constitution in the context in which the Constitution was written.
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Abdul El-Sayed
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

At a campaign rally discussing the Second Amendment.

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