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The NCC’s Constitutional Convention Reports: The Proposed Amendments

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This summer, as a continuation of the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project, teams of leading conservative, libertarian, and progressive scholars  convened for a virtual constitutional convention. After debating and deliberating together, they drafted and proposed a series of amendments to the Constitution. In this episode, we share the presentation that the team leaders made on Monday, discussing the five amendments they all agreed upon. Caroline Fredrickson, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice represented team progressive, Ilan Wurman, associate professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, represented team conservative, and Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, represented team libertarian. Other convention “delegates” included team progressive’s Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School; team libertarian’s Christina Mulligan of Brooklyn Law School and Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute; and team conservative’s  Robert George of Princeton University, Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School, and Colleen Sheehan of Arizona State University.  Read the amendments along with introductions by the team leaders here.  This program is presented in conjunction with the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project. 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.

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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

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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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