"Let's face it: The founding fathers didn't have a very large universe of rights they were talking about," Akwei said in an interview.
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"I suspect they probably took a decision that, politically, it made sense not to completely alienate people in Congress on something that, in their opinion, doesn't matter when they sign it as long as they sign it," said Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International USA's managing director for government relations.
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