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Though Thomas Jefferson recommended we redraft our constitution every 19 years, the fact that we could soon face an Article 5 Constitutional Convention scares the hell out of me. It’s also a big problem that the Constitution has only been amended 17 times in the last 233 years, not once in the last 30. I talk with former Senator and current president of the American Constitution Society, RUSS FEINGOLD, and co-author, Peter Prindiville, about their new book, THE CONSTITUTION IN JEOPARDY: The Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It. This episode was recorded as a LiveTalksLA event October 24th in Santa Monica.
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RUSS FEINGOLD served nearly two decades in the United States Senate, sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired its Sub-committee on the Constitution. He is now president of the American Constitution Society and an affiliated scholar of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the bestselling author of While America.

PETER PRINDIVILLE is a nonresident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He previously was a fellow on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a high school history and civics teacher. Prindiville earned a law degree from Stanford; master’s degrees from Notre Dame and University College Cork, Ireland, where he was a Mitchell Scholar; and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown.

Ruling the Supreme Court Isn’t Enough. The Right Wants To Amend The Constitution
A conservative movement to rewrite the US constitution is gaining momentum – potentially plunging the US into a vast legal unknown
by Russ Feingold – Guardian - 09-19-2022

It’s Time For A Constitutional Convention
With a narrow mandate focused on modernizing US democracy a Con Con with broad representation is the best path to resolve the deepening crisis of US democracy
by Steven Hill - DemocracySOS - 07-27-2022

The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.
by Jill Lepore - NewYorker - 10-26-2022

Let’s Fix How We Fix The Constitution
Sanford Levinson on the ‘enduring dysfunctionality’ of Article V
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A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One
A new book by a former Democratic senator warns of the risks of allowing states to call for a convention. Some in the G.O.P. see it as the only way to rein in the federal government.
by Carl Hulse - NYTimes - 09-04-2022

The US Constitution Is Flawed. But A Constitutional Convention To Fix It Is Scary
by Nicholas Goldberg - LATimes - 09-27-2022

The Constitution in Jeopardy - Prologue and Introduction
by Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville
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