Join us for a timely discussion of our nation’s founding document. University of California Berkley Dean of Law Erwin Chemerinsky, contends in his book that the Constitution concludes inherent flaws that are threats to U.S. democracy.
Much might be fixed by Congress or the Supreme Court, but they seem unlikely to do so. One might logically conclude that amending the Constitution would solve the problem, yet logic seldom takes precedent, given that only fifteen of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed. Chemerinsky contends that without major changes, the Constitution is beyond redemption in that it has created a government that can no longer deal with the urgent issues, such as climate change and wealth inequalities, that threaten our nation and the world. Yet Chemerinsky contends political Armageddon can still be avoided if a new constitutional convention is empowered to replace the Constitution of 1787. Just as the Founding Fathers replaced the faulty Articles of Confederation that same year, we must, rewrite the entire Constitution from start to finish.
