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Pete Buttigieg: “We once changed our Constitution so you couldn't get a beer…”

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 1:04:37

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. We had Prohibition in this country. We once changed our Constitution so you couldn't get a beer. And then after a while we said, this is terrible, and we changed it back. Don't tell me we can't update the Constitution to clarify that a corporation is not a person and that money is not speech. Right. (1:04:37–1:04:45)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution was amended to prohibit alcohol and later amended again to repeal that prohibition.

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