The NCC’s Constitutional Convention Reports: The Proposed Amendments

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This summer, the NCC’s Constitution Drafting Project teams made up of America’s leading progressive, libertarian, and conservative scholars convened for a virtual constitutional convention to draft and propose a series of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In this episode, team leaders Caroline Fredrickson of team progressive, Ilya Shapiro of team libertarian, and Ilan Wurman of team conservative present and discuss the amendments that the three teams adopted, in a conversation recorded live in Philadelphia. Jeffrey Rosen moderates.  Listen now on We the People

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The Constitution Drafting Project's Proposed Amendments

The National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project brought together three teams of leading constitutional scholars—team libertarian, team progressive, and team conservative—to draft their ideal constitutions. This summer, representatives from all three teams convened for a second phase of the project—a virtual constitutional convention to draft and propose a series of amendments. The result was five new constitutional amendments concerning presidential eligibility, Supreme Court tenure, the amendment process, and more.

Article V

"The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."

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