"We'll have a new piece of paper no one believes in, and that's going to solve your problem," he says. The constitution is unconstitutional because it was ratified using a nine out of 13 rule when the existing constitution required 13 out of 13. "If you say, you guys go off by yourselves and make up a bunch of rules, they're not going to use the existing rules as the status quo That bind their decisions."
More than we need rules, argues Michael Munger, we need rules about the rules. So does the United States need a new Constitution? Listen as the Duke University economist and political scientist talks to host Russ Roberts about public choice, consenting to coercion, and whether constitutions matter.