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Steve Cohen: There is a reason why we have amended the Constitution so rarely and why the Framers made it so difficult to amend.

On the recordSeptember 8, 2014
There is a reason why we have amended the Constitution so rarely and why the Framers made it so difficult to amend.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen highlights the rarity and difficulty of constitutional amendments.

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