15: A Change is Coming: Article 5 and the Amendment Process

In this week’s episode we look at how to amend the US Constitution. What is a constitutional convention? Do we have a 28th Amendment or not? And talk about why the constitutional founders built a system designed to change. Let’s go!

00:00:17 Intro

00:01:17 First four articles of the Constitution, review

00:01:34 Founders did not think the Constitution would last

00:02:24 McCulloch v Maryland and Constitutional Interpretation

00:03:35 Why did the articles of confederation fail?

00:04:10 Thomas Jefferson argued for Constitutional Change: he said the Constitution “Not and ill-fitting coat”

00:05:14 Article 5 of the US Constitution

00:06:20 How we Amend the Constitution

00:008:23 What about the 28th Amendment? History of the ERA

00:10:14 Did Biden support the ERA? Not really.

00:11:26 There are a lot of non-constitutional people in the ERA debate

00:12:25 The end of Article 5 and equal state suffrage in the Senate and slavery

00:13:01 The Declaration of Independence says we can overthrow the government

00:13:57 Government exists to secure rights, says the Declaration of Independence

00:15:33 The Declaration of Independence warns us about complacency and settling

00:16:19 Change is the basis for the American political system

00:17:19 Thank you!