Original upload date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:13:35 GMT
Believe it or not, about 5 new constitutions are written and 20-30 are amended or revised every year. Although constitution drafting is happening all the time, the process hasn't changed a ton in the
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last couple hundred years, so we partnered with International IDEA and the National Constitutional Center to host a “Constitution Building Tech Fair” in Philadelphia, where leading constitutional experts came together to discuss how technology can address their currently unmet needs and challenges.
We also invited Zach Elkins, a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, to moderate a real time, one of a kind experiment with 7 constitutional designers from around the world (Ukraine, Kenya, Iceland, Liberia, South Africa, Argentina, and the United States). The exercise brought two tools--Constitute (www.constituteproject.org) and Docs--together to create a brand new mock amendment on campaign finance. Each participant had their own Chromebook, researched related clauses in Constitute, and then exported them into a shared document where they worked together to craft their amendment.
See how it all unfolds in the film, and get a more in-depth perspective in the corresponding article that Zach wrote for Medium.
