Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and Problem Solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

Okay, so this is one of those episodes you might think

we produced by getting high and talking politics on our beanbag in the dorm

lounge. But I assure you we are dead clean sober and also I am not allowed back in that dorm lounge at least not without my

disguise. Today's very heavy discussion was prompted by the following question.

If we had to reboot the Constitution, write an entirely new one from scratch,

what would you want it to look like? Think about it for a second. Now my

guess is you would two or three things pop into your head right when I said that

where you're like well I sure want him to clarify this.

And if you think anything like I do, what really happened was you supplied two or three new

amendments to the existing Constitution, something that you'd like to see clarified or

altered or added that rankles you.

That's how I thought about it anyway.

But probably within the existing framework that we already know.

So I'll put forth a question again.

If we had to make a new constitution from scratch,

not just update the existing one, not provide patches,

but create a new one, given our current country, the way things

work, the world as it is, what would it look like?

When I think of it as something new to our current situation, as opposed to revising or updating the existing

document, the thing that stands out in my mind as the most atavistic about the Constitution

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