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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Congress Shall Make No Law...Yada Yada Yada!

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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2.4771 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The topic of birthright citizenship inspires our in-house constitutional scholar to take a look at the amendments! 

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0:00.0

Congress shall make no law. Yada, yada, yada. It's one more thing.

0:05.2

Armstrong and Getty.

0:06.4

One more thing.

0:09.7

Joe just yada, yada, yada, yada, james Madison.

0:14.4

Talking about the 14th Amendment during the show.

0:17.0

Did you just yada, yada, yada, yada the Bill of Rights?

0:19.5

He did.

0:20.5

We were talking about the 14th Amendment and the question of birthright citizenship,

0:24.5

which is a hot conversational topic these days, and actually really interesting.

0:28.8

And I mentioned that the 14th Amendment is actually five paragraphs long,

0:33.9

and it would take a long time to read to you.

0:38.3

The first part is about all persons born or naturalized, yada, yada, yada, the birthright thing.

0:44.3

Second part is representatives, she'll be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers.

0:49.3

But the next part's about streaming contracts, which is really weird.

0:53.1

Right, exactly. Yep, you've got to be able to cancel them.

0:55.9

Third one's about senators and congresspeople who may or may not have been involved in an insurrection or rebellion.

1:04.2

You remember that one came up after January 6th and a couple more paragraphs.

1:09.4

Nobody knows.

1:10.3

But I was looking at the amendments, and it would appear that in a close race, the shortest amendment is the eighth amendment.

1:22.1

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

1:28.6

Cruel or unusual.

1:31.6

Cruel and unusual.

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