It’s Time to Change the Constitution: Erwin Chemerinsky
June 26th, 2025
“Everything in the Constitution was a compromise.”
We discuss why the Constitution—the document we've been taught to revere as the very foundation of American democracy—might actually be responsible for the current crisis in government. It might be leading us away from a more perfect union and toward destruction or even secession.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars. His most recent book is No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, which urges us to think about starting over.
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis