My two amendments

[Samuel Bagenstos]

I tend to think that you'd have to agree that all of the amendments Matt mentions, plus the 19th and 25th, were unambiguous if not essential improvements to the original Constitution.  In general, though, I'd say the amendments have done a pretty good job overall:  There'd be only one or two amendments of the 27, if that, that I wouldn't have wanted to add.

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>>> "Franck, Matthew J" <mfranck at radford.edu> 1/26/2006 11:43 AM >>>
The conversation travelled in a new direction while I taught a class.
But I'll take the question to me as, which one or two of the 27
amendments that have been added to the U.S. Constitution?  Okay, I
committed a slight hyperbole and my list is actually almost twice as
long.  The one that I think we couldn't have done without is the 12th.
Two that became politically necessary although their objects could have
been accomplished otherwise are the 13th and 15th.  For good measure I
would throw in the first sentence of the 14th and its section 5, and
leave it at that.

 

Matt

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From: Samuel Bagenstos [mailto:srbagenstos at wulaw.wustl.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:16 AM
To: SLevinson at law.utexas.edu; Conlawprof at lists.ucla.edu; Franck, Matthew
J; lawcourts-l at usc.edu 
Subject: RE: the ever more mysterious Democratic Party

 

I've got to ask, which one or two?

 

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Samuel R. Bagenstos

Professor of Law

Washington University School of Law

One Brookings Drive

St. Louis, MO  63130

314-935-9097

Personal Web Page:
http://law.wustl.edu/Academics/Faculty/Bagenstos/index.html 

Disability Law Blog:  http://disabilitylaw.blogspot.com/ 

 

>>> "Franck, Matthew J" <mfranck at radford.edu> 1/26/2006 9:48 AM >>>

 

Then again, I can only think of one or two constitutional amendments I

would ever have added to the original Constitution, from among all those

we have had.

 

 

 

Matt

 

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Department of Political Science

Radford University

P.O. Box 6945

Radford, VA 24142-6945

phone 540-831-5854

fax 540-831-6075

e-mail mfranck at radford.edu <BLOCKED::mailto:mfranck at radford.edu> 

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