It is time to start fixing them by convening a convention to discuss amendments to update our antiquated Constitution. That antiquated Constitution is the root cause of many of the public policy debates that befuddle us, as I show below. • The Supreme Court’s role as neutral expositor of the law is under relentless attack for supposedly political decisions by its new conservative majority. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has argued for decades that our nine-member Supreme Court is too small by comparison to others around the world. A coauthor and I have argued the Supreme Court’s credibility problem is exacerbated by our practice of nominating additional Supreme Court justices only when death or resignation creates a vacancy.