The NCC’s Constitutional Convention Reports: The Proposed Amendments
We the People
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, |
| 0:09.2 | and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:12.8 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit |
| 0:16.0 | chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution |
| 0:20.4 | among the American people. |
| 0:22.0 | This summer, our Constitution drafting project |
| 0:25.7 | met for a virtual constitutional convention. |
| 0:28.7 | These were the three teams of scholars, |
| 0:31.9 | Libertarian, conservative, Conservative and Progressive, who we brought together last year to draft |
| 0:38.2 | amendments to the Constitution in a state of Zoom. |
| 0:41.9 | When they reconvened, it turned out that several of them had proposed similar |
| 0:45.8 | looking amendments and we thought it would be useful to bring them together for a virtual |
| 0:49.3 | convention and all of us were surprised that within just a week or so, |
| 0:55.0 | these remarkable teams of scholars of different perspectives |
| 0:58.0 | were able to agree on the text of five proposed amendments to the Constitution and I'm just so excited to share |
| 1:05.4 | the results of the Convention with you now. This is a panel with the three team |
| 1:10.5 | leaders who came to the Constitution's Center for Constitution Week to present |
| 1:14.2 | their findings. |
| 1:16.1 | Carolyn Fredrickson led Team Progressive, which also included Jamal Green of Columbia Law School |
| 1:20.9 | and Melissa Murray of NYU. |
| 1:23.3 | Carolyn is a distinguished visitor from practice |
| 1:25.4 | at Georgetown Law Center and senior fellow |
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