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No way. The threshold of consensus required to put a constitutional amendment through is far higher than that of passing a bill (maybe too high, but that's another conversation). The fact that such an ammendment would consist of terse, high-level, abstract statements rather than pages and pages concrete specifics would also make it harder to achieve consensus because too many people would be afraid of it getting read by SCOTUS in a way they didn't want.

We need to work on federal laws here and not wait for a pie-in-the-sky constitutional ammendment. (State-by-state laws don't make a whole lot of sense on this topic. Glad CA has been test-driving some, but we need a unified approach.).



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