Professor Michael Huemer on Better Constitutional Limits for Government, July 13, 2015

Michael Huemer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses why the U. S. Constitution failed to limit the power of our government, with attention to which kinds of constitutional principles have been respected and which have not. He goes on to propose three constitutional modifications that would have a better chance of effectively restraining the government, in both principle and practice: 1. The government should have a supermajority rule for all legislation. 2. There should be a separate negative legislature in addition to the ordinary legislature, which would only work to repeal legislation. 3. There should be a separate constitutional court with stronger powers for enforcing the constitution, including punishment. This is part 1 of 2. Part 2, the Q A, is here: Filmed at Liberty on the Rocks, Flatirons on July 13, 2015