Amendments needed

Jill Lepore, a history professor at Harvard, notes that we haven’t amended the Constitution since 1971.  [OK, in 1992 we did add a clause that Congress couldn’t raise its own salaries, but that doesn’t really count since it was proposed on Sept. 25, 1789.  I am not kidding–look it up.]

Lepore says that the Constitution needs to be more flexible that it is.  Or, as Gouverneur Morris, the man who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution, said:  “Nothing human can be perfect.  Surrounded by difficulties, we did the best we could; leaving it with those who should come after us to take counsel from experience, and exercise prudently the power of amendment.”

Here are a few suggestions:

overturn the Citizens United decision

term limits on federal judges

limit the presidential pardon power

include a penalty for violating the emolument clause

allow naturalized citizens to be President

remove presidential immunity for illegal but “official” acts 

strengthen the War Powers Act

insure that 2/3rds of Congress must approve changes to national landmarks

I got more.