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Rob Bishop: “In the Constitution it says that certain things are self-evident. And what are the things that were self-evident in the…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2011
In the Constitution it says that certain things are self-evident. And what are the things that were self-evident in the Declaration of Independence? ... our Revolutionary War was not about taxes being too high. It was, not as some revisionist historians will say, about impressment of colonials into the British Navy.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah
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Mar 8, 2011

Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses the foundational principles of equality and rights in the Declaration of Independence.

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