The Constitution's 26th and 28th Amendments

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This episode marks the finale in Trey and Ken’s three-year journey through the U.S. Constitution! In this final episode of the Constitution series, Trey and Ken discuss the 26th and 27th Amendments, exploring their historical significance and political implications. They also look at the journey of the Equal Rights Amendment and its “almost” status as a 28th Amendment. The hosts close by discussing the possibility of amending the U.S. Constitution in the future. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support atpatreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.4	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.
1:19.6	And I am joined again by Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.
1:24.8	And today, it is for a historic moment. It is for Trey and Ken presents the
1:30.8	Constitution one last time. Ken, I'm excited. It's amazing. We've been doing this three years,
1:38.0	and I think we're going to wrap it up today. Yes. And the other thing that is so apropos is we started. I went back to double check this. We started this at the end of October. And here we are ending it at the end of October. And it's, I mean, it's not quite to the day, but it is pretty, it's as close as you could make it and not have been tended to make it that way.
2:04.6	As we've been talking about this all started with, people wanted us to read the Constitution, supporters really interesting reading into the Constitution.
2:10.9	And I said, well, what did you guys think about?
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2:19.7	Why don't we actually, you know,
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