The Constitution in Jeopardy with Russ Feingold

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon welcomes former Senator Russ Feingold to the show. Russ is a three-term senator from Wisconsin and his new book, The Constitution in Jeopardy, talks about Constitutional evolution; how the framers built in mechanisms to change it when necessary. One of those mechanisms is the Constitutional Convention–a convention that the United States has never held. What might a convention change, and what are the dangers of it? Could a convention gut the Constitution and threaten democracy? What would a productive and successful Constitutional Convention look like?

Special thanks to our guest, Russ Feingold, for joining us today. You can order a copy of The Constitution in Jeopardy here.

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Russ Feingold

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. So happy that you're joining me today. I am speaking with Russ
0:10.4	Finegolt. If you are from Wisconsin, you may recognize his name as a three-term senator
0:16.6	from your state. And he now has a new book out called The Constitution in jeopardy. And
0:23.4	in this conversation, we are going to talk all about constitutional conventions, how to
0:28.5	change the Constitution, what needs to change about the Constitution, what doesn't. So
0:33.8	let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And here's where it gets interesting.
0:40.6	I am very excited to be joined today by my neighbor, Russ Finegolt. Thank you for being
0:47.3	here. My pleasure. And when I say neighbor, I mean, he lives in a neighboring state, the
0:52.7	neighboring state of Wisconsin, which of course, if I were a Vikings fan, I would have to
0:57.5	get a dig in about the Packers, but I'm not. I don't care about football. So you can
1:01.3	go ahead, you can go ahead and have your Packers fandom. Yeah, because they can get kind
1:05.9	of rough. It can. That cross-border rivalry can be a little, well, rampages. I'm really
1:13.3	grateful for your time today. And I'm so excited to talk about an issue that people who
1:17.8	listen to this podcast and people who follow me care a lot about, which is about the Constitution.
1:24.5	So first of all, tell us a little bit about your background for people who don't know
1:29.3	the name, Russ Finegolt. Who are you? Well, Sharon, thank you for having me on your
1:34.6	podcast. And we do share that. Some people call it a lake, but it's really an ocean lake
1:40.1	superior. So it's a pleasure to be with a fellow Midwesterner. So my family came here
1:45.8	over a hundred years ago to Jamesville, Wisconsin, from the East Coast. And I was brought up
1:50.6	in the public schools in Jamesville. I went to the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1:54.3	Yes, I'm a badger. Not a go for it. And then I got a couple of lot of degrees. But most
1:59.2	of my career, I was an elected official, a legislator, ten years as a state senator in
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