Any reasonable person who has not been bought out would agree the conservative justices of the scotus today are immoral and insincere picking and choosing what to interpret the way they choose to interpret it because the founders intended the constitution to be organic, to change with the times.

I started this video with the opinion that this author was probably an attention-seeking scam, but finished with a deep respect for his experience, knowledge, & sticking to the premises of our original Constitution! Well done, sir! I humbly applaud your determination & respect your integrity!

Ranked choice voting! I'm convinced that if we started there we could open up the door to expanding and diversifying the party system. Love "the method" this author used. We actors have been employing this method of understanding for years. It is quite fruitful. Thanks for writing this book and for airing this segment.

Good for him! Pursuing curiosities and learning to better ourselves is commendable.

As Murica and the world on the edge of falling to fascism this is timely.

I love the idea of making electron day a big party.

Thank you A.J. Jabobs for so much information that you uncovered and shared.

What a joyful person!! Loved this!

Good to remember our fight for independence was aided by French support of supplies, ships, and soldiers. We are all interdependent on each other in this world.

Confirmation of a philosophical legitimacy is what this is, authentication of the relevant attitudes for any era was the intention of a democratic constitution to replace authoritarian impunity. (It's not rocket science) Thank you.

I'm surprised that he didn't mention the Haudenosaunee as it pertains to the founders and the US Constitution. The founders had data about democracy and what worked back then.

I've always wondered what the constitution & bill of rights would like if we wrote them today. For example, the first amendment should be four separate amendments - religion, speech, press, and assembly should each be dealt with separately and specifically. And could we design a more representative congress? By that I mean more than just spread out geographically. Maybe we'd leave the Senate alone so some geographic representation is maintained. But the House might be better spread out through the tax brackets. If 20% of the people are in the $20 to $30 thousand bracket then that's who 20% of the representatives should represent. If billionaires are only 1% then they should be represented by 1% of the House. Remember the old phrase, "No taxation without representation"? Well why not make that representation reflect exactly what the taxation looks like?

Thank you A. J. Jabobs for teaching me more about the Constitution.

Wonderful!!

A.J. Jacobs is my new hero!! Absolutely wonderful interview.

Awesome! What a wonderful approach to learn something…mo better. And hey, maybe “Let them eat cake!” will develop a new meaning.

Inspiring and thought provoking. Also the author's acceptance of his children being embarrassed of their father. Haven't we all (children) experienced the feeling and feeling guilty for our father's disappointment in us? This dynamic is part of growing up (on both our parts).

And make Election Day a national holiday!

I was going to try this but just didn’t have the constitution for it. 😢

This is great. Thanks.

Democracy IS sweet!

Original meaning, is what the individual thinks it is.

This was great, very informative. As to loading a musket how long it took depended on the skill of person. A skilled musketeer could reload a musket in about 15 to 20 seconds on average.

Election Cake is a great tradition. Democracy is Sweet!

I had no idea Fred Savage was involved in these kind of discussions

I believe he was the one who wrote The Year of Living Biblically which was fun 3:01 ok yup, he did. Think I’ll pick this one up too.

Re our Revolution, we had happy circumstances, of England stretched between wars, disabled by having an ocean between it and its supply line, and the fact that France and Spain also helped us, certainly for their own benefit, but they did help us. Also, England was in debt for rescuing a very large business, too big to fail, and taxing already disgruntled Colonists to rescue said business. We were lucky. Yes, we fought and deserved credit for our win, but we were also blessed with circumstances. We need to remember the lessons from that war. All of them.

The points from this experiment: Time Changed, we must change too. * The Constitution was created in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation in 1789. At that time, they don't have many things as today. So, the constitution need to update. Agree ! * This author is talking about gun ( old gun vs new gun ). At that time, gun is not advanced as gun we have in the market now. So, gun law need to update too. Agree ! * This author is talking about 2 parties system in the govt is not working. They disagree and nothing done. Very True ! * This author is talking about more than 1 president and more than 1 VP. This is a good idea. In a company, they may have 1 Pres + more VPs for each division, each region, each product, ect... We can do that with the govt too ! For Example: If the President is D-party, then, we need, 2 VP ( one for R-party and one for I-party ) or whatever the party that win by the population votes. If the President is R-party, then, we need, 2 VP ( one for D-party and one for I-party ) or whatever the party that win by the population votes. If the President is I-party, then, we need, 2 VP ( one for R-party and one for D-party ) or whatever the party that win by the population votes. OR Population of each party will vote for their President and Vice-President, whoever wins will work with other Pres & VP of the other parties. Pres & VP ( D-party ) + Pres & VP ( R-party ) + Pres & VP ( I-party ). Total of 3 Pres and 3 VP of 3 parties ( this will be the first new system in the U.S. history ). We should do this. The 2 parties ( D ) and ( R ) is too toxic right now. People want to change. This is new generation. This is USA. We don't need to stay the same. We don't need to copy the Europe System. We moved from England to New-England, we must create our new style, new system, new way to do thing for the better. Because, people come from around the world and bring many good ideas, creative ideas, to this new country, we have more chances to do better, be better, future will better. Stop fighting as enemies. We are here in America, we are Americans. Work together will work. Fight with each other will never move far or move forward. Everyone needs to reach out to make change !!! And change is what we desperately need.

What works and what doesn’t. I think we used to this but now too many just push backwards rather than reach foreward. Democracy won’t save itself!

Actually, the colonies all of them had their own documents that were similar to constitutions. Each of those was somewhat different. And the colonies had experience of many years operating under those varying rules. So there actually WAS a fairly good level of practical experience available at the time when the Constitution was written. They were not simply making it up for the first time at the Constitutional Convention. Instead, they were drawing from the experiences gained from each of the colonies over many years of experience, regarding what provisions had worked either poorly or well.

The US constitution was not the first! The first modern constitution was of the Dutch Republic from 1579 (Unie van Utrecht), article 1 was Freedom of Religion, important because the most powerful empire Spain would burn the heretics (Jews; Muslims and Protestants) at the stake. Since 1579 all taxes; budgets, wars and peace are decided by the Dutch Parliament.

The USA still lives for important functions in the 18th century of the Constitution. For example the US Justice system still works at the speed only comparable to that of the Pony Express.

The American miracle is that it is (one of) the youngest country and yet has the oldest constitution written by and for the people. … Australia introduced the secret ballot. And we have compulsory. Which has cons - people with zero interest vote and their vote dilutes mine, and pros - far less likely to be swept up in radical fads: for the same reason.. apathy serves cooling mechanism.

"May I please have a serving of 'Election Cake'?"

I like to write on my laptop with the screen turned all the way down. You have to go back and fix a lot of typos but it frees you up to look around the room or out the window while you write.

The obsolete Second Amendment went obsolete when the military no longer was armed by its volunteers who could provide their own guns. This makes the Constitution mute on gun ownership of any kind. Therefore, guns and gun ownership can and especially now, be regulated.

This kicks the crap out of Super -Size Me

Founding fathers? Found what?

Did he own sl*ves too ?

Cool project, but what a nerd

He lived like the Founding Fathers? Really? So he kept slaves and didn’t give women equal rights? He didn’t “live constitutionally”, he cherry picked what suited him as a white guy in order to sell books. Offensive AF to see this guy pretend that he actually lived it.

Man with too much time on his hands has ridiculous take on the constitution. Do better

again, scrotus, is that stuff your dog leaves in the yard after it eats. is scrotus aware enough to compare bump stocks.