It comes very close to those first 10 amendments. The example I used: When we look at copies of the Constitution, going to the Bill of Rights, the 4 or 5 lines in the first amendment, this goes 66 or 67 lines. This is a long, complicated statute. This should not be a constitutional amendment.
Discussing the complexity of a proposed constitutional amendment.
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