#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson and regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky talk about the ways in which the Constitution of the United States is impeding and even preventing good government, with a particular focus on the coming election of 2024. Topics include the need for a uniform national election procedures act; the many problems of the Electoral College; and the possibility that in the next four years we may need to invoke the 25^th Amendment, which was passed in 1967 to prepare for the possibility that a President might be incapacitated before the end of his term. We also look briefly at civilian control of the military and the future of the religious freedom principles of the First Amendment.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to this podcast introduction to this week's program Dr. Lindsey Trevinsky, my dear friend and a regular guest, a huge crowd favorite.
0:10.0	We talk about the Constitution. This was her suggestion, but it's one of my favorite subjects.
0:16.0	What do we need to think about with respect to the Constitution?
0:19.0	And our focus was mostly on what's going to happen in 2024.
0:23.4	So, concerned, for example, that the 25th Amendment may be needed
0:27.3	before whoever is the next president finishes that term.
0:31.9	They're both octogenarians or nearly so. We talk about the
0:35.5	electoral college and it's increasing strain because the difference between
0:39.8	the electoral college results and the popular vote is becoming a more pronounced problem.
0:45.9	We talk about the possibility of eliminating the Electoral College, or maybe just reforming it.
0:51.9	She thinks it can be reformed reformed I think it should be
0:53.8	abolished even though in doing so I'm I'm not showing deep North Dakota patriotism
0:59.7	since we here in North Dakota get two senators with only 780,000 people,
1:07.0	whereas California gets two senators with about 50 million people.
1:11.0	Do the math.
1:12.0	In other words, a senator from North Dakota is about 45 times more powerful than a senator from California.
1:21.0	And that doesn't seem right. We know why the founding fathers did it, but that was a long, long, long time ago.
1:27.0	That one's deeply embedded right in the text of the Constitution in the United States.
1:32.0	We have a kind of philosophical difference,
1:34.8	it's maybe an ideological one,
1:36.3	but I think I'm actually more of a centrist
1:38.7	than Lindsay.
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