Video of the National Constitutional Center “the war for the importance of the constitution”

I recently participated in a panel of the national constitutional center about “the war for the constitutional meaning”. The other participants were Prof. Amanda Shanor (Univ. Von Pennsylvania), Prof. Alan Trammell (Washington and Lee) and Prof. Wilfred Codrington, III (Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, serves as a moderator). Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngz4-jsh1zo

We treated a lot of soil, from the advantages and disadvantages of originalism to the question of whether the reconstruction changes are “underestimated” whether we need fundamental constitutional reforms. In the latter question, I have found that many of our current problems are not due to inherent defects in the constitution, but from the failure to force them in more detail.

The committee was part of a larger conference on “constitutional importance in the shadow of the articles of confederation”. Here you will find a video of the full conference and the full list of participants (including many prominent lawyers and Rep. Jamin Raskin, himself as a former lawyer).