The Constitution Is Basically Fine the Way It Is

Rewriting the document is a fun academic exercise, though.

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Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. Oil on canvas.

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It’s hard to change the Constitution. But it’s not so hard to get legal experts to talk about how they want to change the Constitution. So in a fun exercise, the National Constitution Center (NCC) recently asked teams of heavy-hitting conservative, liberal, and libertarian scholars to rewrite the document however they wanted.

The results are, more than anything, a testament to the enduring power of the original.

Robert VerBruggen

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Robert VerBruggen

Robert VerBruggen is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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