Reassessing Our Federal and State Constitutions

  The blog Reassessing Our Federal and State Constitutions was written by The Volokh Conspiracy writer Ilya Somin.  Ilya Somin is an Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and is also Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.  Reassessing Our Federal and State Constitutions is about University of Texas Constitutional law professor Sanford Levinson, who wrote about his qualms with State and the Federal Constitution.  Levinson thinks that the Constitutions need to more in depth in their explanations of rights and wrongs.  Somin although agreeing that some changes or new interpretations of the Constitutions should be made, believes it should be done slowly with as little change to them as possible so as not to cause an all out panic with the citizens of the United States. 

     It has been many years since an Amendment to the Constitution has been made and it is my belief that it is not Amendments that Somin fears will cause a panic but if a new Constitutional Convention is put in to place and the public believes that all of their freedoms will be reinterpreted by a new Convention, one will probably see floods of protestors flock the streets and a high flood of public unrest.  It is well documented in the American history that U.S. citizens do not deal with change very well, eventually the public can be brought to see reason when the choices being made by our political leaders end in our benefit.  However I agree with Somin that if their is to be changes made in the US Constitution it is better to do so slowly and take as much time as possible so that interpretations of the Constitution do not lead to a misinterpretation that leads to chaos. 

Somin's target audience seems to be Levinson himself.  While he commends Levinson for his ideas on Constitutional changes, he also discredits Levinsons options for change and reasons that Levinson believes the Constitutions need re-interpretation.