In early October, Harvard Law School spent two days on the part of the Constitution Washington would rather you skip. University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson told the audience that the Constitution in its current form “constitutes a clear and present danger, even an existential risk to our national survival,” Harvard Law Today reported.

Levinson has the diagnosis backward, and Article 5 answers his question. My thesis: a reform aimed at Congress can’t depend on Congress’s permission, the founders understood that, and conservatives who treat the convention route like a haunted house have forgotten who built it.

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