Jill Lepore

Like, how would people know how to read it?

But then there are these practical arguments against these people are called the incorporationists.

They want to actually go back and do the track changes thing.

But the supplementalists win partly because, well, we've already printed it.

Like, like it's in books, like in school books and stuff.

And like, it's going to be a pain.

It's, you know, it's like someone's telling me like changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War is going to cost like $10 billion because of the stationary.

Who even has stationary anymore?

But, but there was that was kind of a thing with the Constitution.

So it has these huge consequences.

Like, I don't know, you guys might not remember this, but some years ago when like there was a lot of constitutional fetishism during the Tea Party movement, the Tea Party caucus read out loud the Constitution on the floor of Congress and they skipped over like the three-fifths clause.

They just like silently removed it because, you know, it is abolished by the 13th Amendment.

Right.

But because the supplementalists and not the incorporationists won, it is still in there.

It's like a record of the thing.

It's like version control or something.

But it is... It's a super odd quality of our Constitution.

And I guess...

Some people think it also contributes to the veneration of the original Constitution because nobody's ever like scratched it up.

I mean, like that would we'd have more of a sense that it is amendable if we pictured it as something where, oh, then there was that like little squiggly line and there's like the bubble where you write in the new thing.