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Your copy of the platform of the 2016 Republican National Convention

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacts to his wife Melania after she delivered a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacts to his wife Melania after she delivered a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
By Jim Galloway
July 19, 2016

CLEVELAND -- We would never accuse some 2,500 delegates to the Republican National Convention of voting on a document before they actually read it. Nonetheless, the proposed GOP platform was made public only a few hours before a very quick voice vote on Monday.

So for those who merely skimmed these 66 pages before approving them, we offer this:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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