Jill Lepore
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The only method was violence and insurrection.
And so they said, you know, we are preventing an insurrectionary politics from befalling our republic by introducing this peaceful provision.
So that's another reason, like, I don't know, that I really – I'm such an ameliorist.
I'm just not a revolutionary.
Like the idea that like you could just make things better by saying, hey, bunch of us got together.
We disagree about a lot of shit, but we agree about this little thing.
Can we do that, please?
I like that a lot.
And yet neither of those efforts has ever succeeded.
If you go into the amendments project is this database that my students and I put together.
And if you could search by topic and the topic amend will pull up results that are amendments that try to make – that revise Article 5.
It's like a meta-amendment.
Or more difficult to amend.
You know, it was maybe 2020.