Tom Ginsburg on Whether America Should Adopt a New Constitution
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If we were to have a new constitutional convention, which is allowed. Under Article Five of the Constitution, we could have a new convention. Imagine what we'd spend our time talking about. It would be about abortion and uh bathrooms and things like this, we wouldn't be fixing the fundamental problems of American governance. And so um I do think it would be a bad idea for us to um to uh to to launch another effort. And now the good fight.
With Yasha Monk Democratic institutions are under attack in many countries, and one of the big questions is to what extent the right kind of constitution? Can help to provide a bulwark. Against the attacks of demagogues. And
other authoritarian Aspirants. Manual Kant had the ambition of designing constitution That would allow even a race of devils to self govern. Well
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