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We the People

The Constitution Drafting Project: A Discussion of Five New Amendments

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we are sharing audio from a program hosted live from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and presented in partnership with ASU’s Center for Constitution Design. The program centered around a discussion of the National Constitution Center’s landmark Constitution Drafting Project, and featured members from each project team— Georgetown Law’s Caroline Fredrickson of Team Progressive, the Goldwater Institute’s Timothy Sandefur of Team Libertarian, and ASU’s Ilan Wurman of Team Conservative. They discuss their approaches to constitution drafting, review points of consensus and disagreement, and reflect on the importance of cross-partisan dialogue in today’s constitutional environment. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was presented live on February 1, 2024. Resources: National Constitution Center, Constitution Drafting Project National Constitution Center, Constitution Drafting Project, “The Proposed Amendments” (PDF) Center for Constitutional Design at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, 2024 Model Constitutional Convention NCC America’s Town Hall program, Justice Stephen Breyer on the Importance of Civics Education (Oct. 6, 2022) Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (2024) Erwin Chemerinsky, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (2018) The Preamble to the Constitution The Declaration of Independence Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.  You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0

Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution

0:06.6

Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

0:11.0

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit charted by Congress to increase awareness

0:16.1

and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

0:20.7

This week we're sharing audio from a program recorded at Arizona State University in partnership

0:26.8

at the ASU Center for Constitutional Design.

0:30.0

We reconvened our Constitution drafting team, Carolyn Fredrickson, Timothy Sandfer, and

0:34.6

Elon Worman to discuss their five proposed constitutional amendments and to prepare for a live

0:40.5

convention that will be reconvening at ASU in the spring.

0:45.0

Enjoy the show.

0:47.0

Thank you so much, Dean Lindquist, and welcome friends.

0:52.0

I'm so excited to be here in Emissary from the National

0:55.8

Constitution Center in Philadelphia, bringing this project which is so full of light here to Arizona

1:02.1

State and it's so exciting that you're going to

1:04.3

reconvene in the spring and hold an actual convention to discuss the amendments.

1:10.6

Friends this was one of the most uplifting and optimistic projects that the NCC has been privileged to sponsor as Dean Lankwis said.

1:19.0

We brought together three teams of America's greatest libertarian progressive and

1:26.0

conservative constitutional scholars and ask them to draft

1:30.8

constitutions from scratch.

1:33.1

We were surprised that the constitutions they produced

1:36.4

had many areas of overlap,

1:38.0

so we reconvene them for a Zoom convention

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