“Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment?” Cato Podcast:
July 15th, 2010 admin
(Todd Zywicki) I sat down with Caleb Brown the other day to record a short podcast (10 minutes), “ Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment ?” You can download the Cato’s daily and archived podcasts here .
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