is the founder and president of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a progressive advocacy organization working on social justice issues.

is a former four-term member of Congress from Connecticut. He is currently Co-Chairman, Government Relations, Mercury Public Affairs.

is professor emeritus of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, co-author of The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, and co-editor and author of The Failure of Presidential Democracy.

is the Foley & Lardner-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

is Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin.

is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.

is Professor of Law at Boston University and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values. He is the author of several books on constitutional theory and legal history, including his latest, Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All (Norton 2024).

is the Regents Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Fourteenth Amendment. 

The delegates are a collection of writers, professors, and thinkers Democracy convened to write a new constitution. The full list can be seen here.

is the W.R. Irby Chair and Rutledge C. Clement, Jr. Professor in Constitutional Law at Tulane University Law School.