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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - That Pesky 2nd Amendment
Description: Perhaps the most prescient act of the framers of the US Constitution was the establishment of an amendment process by which the document could be modified. Not in some instant, light and transient way, but with involvement of the peoples representatives, the States and the people themselves. It’s not easy to do, and, in fact, it should not be. As George Washington himself once said, any amendment can only be performed by an “authentic and explicit act” of the American people.
Twenty-seven times the constitution has been amended*. There remain countless other attempts which failed to pass C...