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[schnee]

I was just looking at Albert's The World’s Most Difficult Constitution to Amend? (published in the California Law Review in 2005, and available in a more convenient form here). This states, at the very beginning of section I:

There have been roughly 12,000 attempts to amend the United States Constitution since its creation 235 years ago

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[thewayne]

I did not know there had been that many amendment attempts, that's quite something! I see an immediate need for three: remove lifetime appointments for the Supreme Court, eliminate the Electoral College, and do something about the Second Amendment. But I'm not holding my breath.

[schnee]

It's a lot, but the figure also depends on how you define an attempt. For instance, would Biden's recent proposal count? His word carries a lot of weight, but one could well argue that it's only a proposal at this stage, not an attempt.

I largely agree with your proposals, and would add one more: clarify the 9th by adding a thorough but explicitly non-exhaustive list of rights thus retained.