A group of scholars convened by Democracy to rewrite the constitution added a wealth tax but did not clarify the presidential line of succession beyond the VP.

Judge against the published constitutional rewrite (by Democracy journal or the associated group) that the claim refers to, as it stood in June 2021. True: the document includes a wealth tax and makes no provision clarifying the presidential line of succession beyond the vice president. Mostly true: both hold but a detail is slightly off (e.g., the tax provision is a closely related progressive wealth levy, or the group/publication is slightly misidentified). Mixed: one of the two parts holds and the other does not. Mostly false: there is no wealth tax, though the succession point holds only in a narrow sense, or the document does address succession in a limited way. False: the document contains no wealth tax and does clarify succession beyond the VP, or no such project exists.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 A New Constitution for The United States Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “Congress shall have the power and duty to impose a tax on income, wealth, and estates.”

2. E2 A New Constitution for The United States Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “All residents with wealth in excess of two-hundred times the compensation of members of Congress shall pay an annual tax of no less than 2 percent of that excess wealth.”

3. E3 The Democracy Constitution: The Deliberations Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “Our scholars debated for months, mostly over Zoom and via email, about the various aspects of this constitution.”

4. E4 Dissent: Not Popular Enough Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “The proposed constitution gives a citizen-assembly a role in proposing constitutional amendments, but the citizens themselves are not empowered to make binding changes through referendum.”

5. E5 A New Constitution for The United States Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “Congress shall have the power and duty to impose a tax on income, wealth, and estates.”

6. E6 A New Constitution for The United States Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “All residents with wealth in excess of two-hundred times the compensation of members of Congress shall pay an annual tax of no less than 2 percent of that excess wealth.”

7. E7 The Democracy Constitution: The Deliberations Democracy journal · 8 June 2021

   “Our scholars debated for months, mostly over Zoom and via email, about the various aspects of this constitution.”

8. E8 The Democracy Constitution Democracy: A Journal of Ideas · 8 June 2021

   “This special symposium is probably the most ambitious project this journal has ever undertaken: the writing of a new constitution for our country.”

9. E9 The Democracy Constitution Democracy: A Journal of Ideas · 8 June 2021

   “and five other legal scholars who served as “delegates” to our constitutional convention, who comment on different aspects of the process.”

The published Democracy journal constitution has a wealth tax: it gives Congress the "power and duty" to tax wealth and sets an annual tax of at least 2 percent on wealth above a threshold (E1, E2). E3, E8 and E9 confirm that the journal convened a group of scholars to write it. None of the evidence shows what the document says about presidential succession beyond the vice president. Because the evidence is silent on that half of the claim, it cannot be resolved under the criteria.