WATCH: Mark Levin discusses The Liberty Amendments at Reagan Library with Q&A

Mark Levin recently returned to the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California to talk about his new #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Liberty Amendments.

Levin begins his work, “I undertook this project not because I believe the Constitution, as originally structured, is outdated and outmoded, thereby requiring modernization through amendments, but because the opposite–that is, the necessity and urgency of restoring constitutional republicanism and preserving the civil society from the growing authoritarianism of the federal Leviathan.”

In the interview at the Reagan Library, Levin quotes George Mason, who in September 1787, only days before the close of the Constitutional Convention, identified the danger of the document only giving Congress the power to initiate amendments to the Constitution. Mason believed, “no amendments of the proper kind would ever be obtained by the people, if the Government should become oppressive,” which would likely be the case over time.

The Framers voted to change Article V (regarding the amendments process) to make provision for the states to propose new amendments to the Constitution without congressional approval. By a vote of two-thirds of the states, a convention can be called to adopt new amendments, which must then be ratified by three-quarters of the states before becoming the law of the land.

Levin argues we have reached a place in our history (foreseen by Mason) in which the federal government has become so pervasive and oppressive that it is a threat to our liberty and the American way of life.

Among the amendments he sees as essential to restoring freedom are term limit amendments on Congress and the Supreme Court, as well as ones to limit federal taxing and spending authority, to curtail the power of the federal bureaucracy, to narrowly define Congress’ authority under the Commerce Clause, to return power to the state legislatures to choose their U.S. Senators, to restrict eminent domain authority, and to require proper photo identification to vote in all the states.

Watch the discussion.

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