Jill Lepore

The National Constitution Center had three different teams of constitutional scholars write a kind of revised constitution.

They had conservatives, progressives and libertarians.

And they they were very interesting things that they came up with.

But they all changed Article five.

Yeah.

They all made it easier to amend the Constitution, which was interesting that that was a thing that they recognized as a shared concern.

But yeah, because Article 5 doesn't work anymore, you can't revise Article 5.

You know, I think, so the Bill of Rights, okay, people were happy about that.

Right.

Then there's the 11th and 12th Amendment get in.

They're just kind of like just sort of obvious structural problems that then they get addressed.

And then people start trying to do big things.

I think the 12th Amendment was 1803.

1804 is the first time people in New England start really pressing essentially to abolish the Electoral College.

Yeah.

Because the Electoral College is so unfair to New England.

They're not that, I mean, because the slave states in the South have disproportionate power because of the Free Fist Club.

Yeah.

And they're not going to overturn the three fifths clause, but they start trying to like tinker with the electoral college as a way to undermine the three fifths clause.

Not out of an abolitionist sentiment, but out of a like we want more power sentiment.