Constitutional Convention

I often wish for a new Constitution - one which fixes the problems we're currently beset by. The original Constitutional Convention had only 55 delegates. If I were to create a new Constitutional Convention, endowed with the power to create a new American Constitution, here are the 55 people I would want to write it, by (rough) category:

 

Retired Politicians:

 

Barrack Obama, former President

Al Gore, former Vice President

David Souter, former Supreme Court Justice

Admiral Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor

Julian Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Steven Chu, former Secretary of Energy

Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security

Samantha Power, former United Nations Ambassador, Administrator of the Agency of International Development

 

Current Politicians:

 

Kamala Harris, Vice President

Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justice

General Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense

Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior

Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United Nations Ambassador

Bernie Sanders, Senator of Vermont

Amy Klobuchar, Senator of Minnesota

Elizabeth Warren, Senator of Massachusetts

Tammy Duckworth, Senator of Illinois

Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington

Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan

Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico

Ilhan Omar, Representative of Minnesota

Rashida Tlaib, Representative of Michigan

Leondra Kruger, Associate Justice

Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston

 

Political Operatives and Theorists:

 

Stacey Abrams, voting rights activist

Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard

Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter

Angela Davis, activist

Margaret Raymond, legal theorist

Madonna Thunder Hawk, activist

Jody Williams, activist

 

Labor and Nonprofit Leaders:

 

Liz Shuler, President of AFL-CIO

Cristina Jimenez Moreta, co-founder United We Dream

Teresa Romero, President of United Farm Workers

Alexis McGill Johnson, President of Planned Parenthood

Susan Herman, former President of the American Civil Liberties Union

Ben Jealous, former President of the NAACP

Deepak Bhargava, former director of Community Change

Van Jones, co-founder the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green for All

Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the National Holocaust Museum

 

Historians, Economists, Authors, and Journalists:

 

Ezra Klein, founder of Vox

Bob Woodward, journalist and author

Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalist and author

Ibram X. Kendi, journalist and author

Danielle Citron, author

Monica Muñoz Martinez, historian

Kim Phillips-Fein, author

Jill Lepore, historian

Amory Lovins, economist

Paul Krugman, economist and author

David Card, economist

Esther Duflo, economist