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Celeste Maloy: “The government gets its power from the people.”

Featuring: Celeste Maloy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 2nd Congressional District

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Rep. Celeste Maloy speaks at the Utah GOP convention

Published | Video Starts at 01:43

And I know that as Americans, with the help of our Creator, we can mend whatever flaws we have in our system because we get our power, our rights, from our Creator. And The government gets its power from the people. And in the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, that power is divided between the states and the federal government and between the branches. (01:43–01:45)

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Asserts that governmental power in the United States is derived from the people.

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