…what would you change about the Constitution?
The goal is to put yourself into their shoes, and not use anything that they couldn’t possibly have known at the time.
Someone asked me this other day, and I’m still thinking about it. But I figured I’d posit to the Board while I continue to think.
I just jumped in to highlight the phrase “Founding Mother”
Try to manage to outlaw slavery and all that would entail (voting rights, full count in a census, et cetera).
I keep thinking about allowances for recall, either of elected officials, appointed judges, or both, but I don’t know that the recall election or vote of conficence type thing was very widespread then.
I would think that probably wouldn’t get much support among the Founders. The Constitution already allowed for the removal of public officers, judges, etc. through impeachment. Additionally, allowing for recall would smatter too much of pure democracy, something that the Founders tried to avoid (hence U.S. Senators being elected by State legislators).
I do agree with your idea about ending slavery; that’s a good one.
Knowing what I know now about the Constitution: I would try to get a right to privacy included in the Bill of Rights. That way, there would be something concrete to refer to in abortion cases instead of a “penumbra.”
This is an almost impossible question to answer. If I lived in the 1700s, I might have been a supporter of slavery, and I might have thought that women’s rights were a ridiculous concept because my socializtion would have been entirely different.