Required length: At least three-and-a-half pages, double-spaced, but you are welcome to go over in order to make your points.

Format: 12 pt. Times New Roman, with reasonable margins.

Amend the Constitution

Throughout the term, we are reading about, discussing, learning about various problems in our political system: problems that affect our government’s ability to get things done and respond to the people’s needs, that affect the degree to which the rule of law is followed, that affect our institutions’ ability to adequately check each other, that affect the fairness of elections, that affect people’s rights, that create tremendous inequality, that broadly affect the quality of our democracy, etc, etc, etc.

Propose an amendment to our Constitution (presumably the 28th Amendment) For each of the amendments you propose, you should: provide the rough wording of your amendment (you should model the style on the actual existing amendments, which are in the appendix of your textbook) explain your rationale

identify the specific clause in or part of the Constitution that presents (or fails to adequately address) the matter your amendment is addressing.

discuss an objection that you imagine would be raised to your proposal.