Constitutional Amendments 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/28/2022
The Amendment Process is the Constitution's Biggest Flaw
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
We are not the "we, the people" of 1789. Changing Article V to make the Constitution more easily amendable is the key to breaking the shackles the document places on democracy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/4/2021
Jefferson Expected the Constitution to Last 19 Years. Where are We Now?
by Jesse Wegman
Our eighteenth-century Constitution combines with twenty-first century partisanship to block meaningful reforms and place basic rights in the hands of the judiciary. A panel of legal scholars weighs in on the possibility of change.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/5/2020
Of the 700 Attempts to Fix or Abolish the Electoral College, this One Nearly Succeeded
by Gillian Brockell
The most serious effort to abolish the Electoral College followed George Wallace's third party bid in 1968, when both major parties realized that a spoiler candidate could throw the election to the House of Representatives and extort political concessions for electoral votes. Southern conservatives, happy with the leverage the system gave them, blocked the amendment in the Senate.
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2-15-15
Why It’s Time for a New Wave of Constitutional Amendments
by David O. Stewart
Four waves of amendments have wrought critical changes in the Constitution. The new Congress should commence a fifth.
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