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It took an extra 20 years to do away with child labor, that's 20 years of children coughing their lungs out in textile mills or dragging wagons of coals underground instead of going to school because the court chose to distort the Constitution that way.

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Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps is an American legal scholar, novelist, and journalist.

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