Because Substack’s internal search engine was bad to begin with, and now no longer allows me to link to a page of search results, here is every installment in Some Constitutional Amendments, my series where I propose some constitutional amendments. (Early installments link out to my old Wordpress blog.)
Introduction: “Some Principles for Proposing Constitutional Amendments (On One’s Blog)” — Introduction and brief discussion of aims (1 October 2021)
#1: “Geld the Veto” — Ending the executive’s eternal accrual of power by giving the legislature the power to take it back (3 October 2021)
#2: “The People’s House Holds the Purse-Strings” — Fixing the broken Origination Clause (21 October 2021)
#3: “Death to Gerrymanders” — I don’t like gerrymandering, so I solved it (19 July 2022)
#4: “Expand the House, You Cowards” — There are currently 435 members of the House, and it has been locked there for a century. There should be 11,000. (16 June 2023)
INTERLUDE: “The Constitution of the United States” — As she is, not as she says. (7 August 2023)
#5, Part I: “This Is No Way To Elect A President” — On the unhappy failure of the electoral college, and the even worse idea of election by national popular vote (2 March 2024)
#5, Part II: “Towards An Unelected President” — Proposing the gubernatorial electoral
conclavecollege (23 March 2024)#5, Part III: “Highlights from the Comments on Towards an Unelected President” — Exactly what it says on the tin (23 May 2024)
#6, Part I: “A Senate, If You Can Keep It” — Spoiler alert: we didn’t. (19 June 2025)
#6, Part IIa: “Replacing the Seventeenth Amendment” — A lengthy draft proposal to fix the Senate that the readers squarely rejected. Non-essential reading. (8 July 2025)
#6, Part IIIa: “Your Correspondent Replies to Every Single Commenter” — In the wake of my proposal’s failure, I discuss the critical comments and proposed alternatives. Non-essential reading. (10 Nov 2025)
#6, Final Part: “Two Amendments on the Senate” — Making the Senate a cooling rod for democracy, as the Founders intended. (2 Dec 2025)