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God's -- and Huckabee's -- Standards

Arkansas Times | January 24, 2008

Mike Huckabee said last week he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to bring it in line with "God's standards." That's a big job that would entail adoption of a number of amendments, and since the candidate didn't specify, I thought I'd help him out by recommending a few.

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Tags: 2008 presidential election, Mike Huckabee

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