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J. D. Vance: “You can't export the Constitution, the written words on a…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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J.D. Vance's Speech on American Conservatism and Statesmanship at the Claremont Institute

Published | Video Starts at 26:24

You cannot swap 10 million people from anywhere else in the world and expect for America to remain unchanged. In the same way, You can't export the Constitution, the written words on a piece of paper to some random country and expect the same kind of government to take hold. That's not something to lament or be sad about it. Something to take pride in that this is a distinctive moment in time with a distinctive place and A distinctive people. (26:24–26:34)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution cannot be simply exported to another country to replicate American governance.

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