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Dan Schwartz: “When the Constitution was written, there were 5 million…”

Featuring: Dan Schwartz, Republican | Former Nevada State Treasurer

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Dan Schwartz candidate for Nevada’s Congressional District 3 on the Veterans In Politics talk- show

Published | Video Starts at 54:51

I mean, am I? You've got to decide whether Dan Schwartz should be your representative or not. Our government has become dysfunctional. We have a different country. When this country, When the Constitution was written, there were 5 million people who lived scattered along the eastern seaboard. We now have 330 million people living across the continent. It's a different continent. It's a different world. Las Vegas has changed. At one point, we were a happy desert town with slot machines. We've got three or four professional sports teams. (54:51–55:02)

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Compares U.S. population at the time of the Constitution's writing to the present.

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