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Pete Buttigieg: “We went so far as to change our Constitution so you couldn't…”

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

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Pete Rallies, Live from Des Moines, IA

Published | Video Starts at 30:25

You can't do anything about that short of a constitutional amendment. Well, then let's do that. I mean, we did 29 of them. This would make a pretty good 30th amendment, I should think. We went so far as to change our Constitution so you couldn't get a beer. And then we thought, that's a bad idea. We changed it back. So don't tell me we can't change the Constitution to clear up that money is not speech and corporations are not people. Don't tell me we can't take big swings, take real risks, do big work. (30:25–30:33)

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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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