Roundup: Some Constitutional Amendments
Everything I've written in the Some Constitutional Amendments series
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-I: “A Senate, If You Can Keep It” — Spoiler alert: we didn’t. (19 June 2025)
#6-II: I have ~two more weeks to come up with the title, and I’m gonna use ‘em!