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Living Like Founding Fathers

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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Is This the Only Way to Change the Constitution?

Joel Stein: The Constitution could have gone a thousand different ways depending on who happened to be drunk that day and had to hang over and miss the convention. If AJ had come to me for advice, which he should have as a member of the Stunt Journalist Association, I would have told him to focus on the First Amendment. Every time I see a movie and someone gets a dialysis machine and they start turning the dial at the wrong time, it's all about how horrible the past was. And this is called The Battle Of The Smelly Old Days.

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