15: A Change is Coming: Article 5 and the Amendment Process
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15: A Change is Coming: Article 5 and the Amendment Process
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In this week’s episode we look at how to amend the US Constitution. What is a constitutional convention? Do we have a 28th Amendment or not? And talk about why the constitutional founders built a system designed to change. Let’s go!
00:00:17 Intro
00:01:17 First four articles of the Constitution, review
00:01:34 Founders did not think the Constitution would last
00:02:24 McCulloch v Maryland and Constitutional Interpretation
00:03:35 Why did the articles of confederation fail?
00:04:10 Thomas Jefferson argued for Constitutional Change: he said the Constitution “Not and ill-fitting coat”
00:05:14 Article 5 of the US Constitution
00:06:20 How we Amend the Constitution
00:008:23 What about the 28th Amendment? History of the ERA
00:10:14 Did Biden support the ERA? Not really.
00:11:26 There are a lot of non-constitutional people in the ERA debate
00:12:25 The end of Article 5 and equal state suffrage in the Senate and slavery
00:13:01 The Declaration of Independence says we can overthrow the government
00:13:57 Government exists to secure rights, says the Declaration of Independence
00:15:33 The Declaration of Independence warns us about complacency and settling
00:16:19 Change is the basis for the American political system
00:17:19 Thank you!