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Pete Buttigieg: “This country has changed its constitution 29 times through…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Community Conversation between Mayor Randall Woodfin and Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:23

So it's basically First Amendment says that if my corporation wants to buy an election, I should be able to try. You can't do anything. It would take a constitutional amendment. Then let's do a constitutional amendment. Think about this. This country has changed its constitution 29 times through the amendment process. Sometimes it takes 20 years to make it happen. All the more reason we should be working on this. Like yesterday that we once changed our Constitution. (1:04:23–1:04:28)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution has been amended 29 times.

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