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Louie Gohmert: “Out of the same deference and respect for this document that we revere, I think it is important that we use the language…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
Out of the same deference and respect for this document that we revere, I think it is important that we use the language of the Constitution itself. They are not deletions; they are amendments. And, in that respect, we go by the ``amended'' document, not by the ``deleted'' document. There are too many that have fought and died for those amendments to call them deletions.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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govinfo.gov
Jan 6, 2011

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Gohmert emphasizes the importance of referring to constitutional amendments correctly.

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