Amend the Constitution
Throughout the term, we are reading about, discussing, learning about various problems in our
political system: problems that affect our government’s ability to get things done and respond
to the people’s needs, that affect the degree to which the rule of law is followed, that affect our
institutions’ ability to adequately check each other, that affect the fairness of elections, that
affect people’s rights, that create tremendous inequality, that broadly affect the quality of our
democracy, etc, etc, etc.
Propose an amendment to our Constitution (presumably the 28th Amendment)
For each of the amendments you propose, you should:
provide the rough wording of your amendment (you should model the style on the actual
existing amendments, which are in the appendix of your textbook)
explain your rationale
identify the specific clause in or part of the Constitution that presents (or fails to adequately
address) the matter your amendment is addressing.
discuss an objection that you imagine would be raised to your proposal.
