I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we'r…

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I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America. ✨ Townhall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008.
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