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Civics 101

Amending the Constitution

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The process for changing the Supreme Law of the Land.

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0:00.0

Mr.

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President, it remains my sincere hope that the Senate will have the opportunity to consider the

0:06.0

Flag Amendment today, June 14, National Flag Day.

0:10.0

I'm an amendment to be, yes, an amendment to be yes an amendment to be and I'm hoping that they're

0:15.4

ratify me

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an amendment imposing term limits on capital bill

0:20.1

a constitutional amendment to try to reverse citizens united constitutional amendment to try to reverse citizens united.

0:23.4

It's a constitutional amendment that mandates a balanced budget and

0:27.9

forces the federal government to live within its name.

0:30.3

Oh yeah!

0:33.0

You're listening to Civics 101. I'm Nacapadiche.

0:35.0

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

0:37.0

And today we are talking about amendments.

0:40.0

Not any amendment in particular, but how they happen, the process for amending the Constitution.

0:46.2

I'm really glad that we're talking about this Nick because we talk so much about our

0:51.8

supreme law of the land, what it says and what it means.

0:56.5

But this is another thing entirely.

0:59.2

This is how we change the Constitution. And not to bury the lead as we say in the

1:05.1

journalism business, but this is pretty hard to do, isn't it? By the way,

1:08.3

Hannah, do you know why it lead as in like the introductory section of a story is spelled L-E-D-E in journalism?

1:17.0

I don't think I do know. I figured it was for the same nonsense reason we spelled graph, G-R-A-F.

1:24.5

Well, apparently it's so it wouldn't be confused with the word lead, which meant a strip of

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