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Robert C. Byrd: “We have a responsibility in our day, Mr. President, to reinvigorate that spirit that moved our forefathers to write the…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1987
We have a responsibility in our day, Mr. President, to reinvigorate that spirit that moved our forefathers to write the Constitution. Theirs was a vision that we, in our day, should seek to perpetuate for those future generations who are not even yet knocking at the gates. It is a sobering responsibility.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Jul 17, 1987

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Speaking on the bicentennial of the Constitution.

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