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Mike Lee: “There are plenty of other constitutionally protected rights…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 18th

Published | Video Starts at 45:22

It's hard to identify a single constitutional right that is not without some limitation, some limitation dealing with, among other things, curtailing the risk of fraud, of manipulating a right to harm or injure others. There are plenty of other constitutionally protected rights where you've got to comply with steps in order to exercise them. The Second Amendment, for example, protects your right to bear arms. And yet, if you want to buy a firearm from any federally licensed firearms dealer, you got to fill out a fairly onerous set of forms. (45:22–45:29)

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Asserts that exercising constitutional rights often requires compliance with certain steps.

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