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Pete Buttigieg: “We haven't done a substantive amendment to the constitution…”

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

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… own states, most of our own states within the US came at it a little differently, had a way you could amend your Constitution. They actually do it more often. We haven't done a substantive amendment to the constitution in about 50 years. What was the last one? There was a technical one in the 90s about congressional pay, but actually one of the last big ones was about lowering the voting age, which went from 21 to 18. (30:02–30:07)

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Asserts that the U.S. has not made a substantive constitutional amendment in about 50 years.

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