re: Time machine allows you to go back in time. The one caveat is simple ....

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I would strongly encourage them to make clear the binding finality of joining the Union.
None of this secession bullshite.

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Doubt many if any of the original 14 states would have ratified this. No one has ever knocked down a door to sign a contract with a "binding finality" in it. Even Faust had an escape clause up his sleeve.

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I would have them include term limits on those elected to Congress.

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Yeah. Not terrible in spirit. But wouldn't this just encourage your typical congressperson to get as much graft as possible as quickly as possible before the destined deadline? Make him start off speeding?
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It's a good question, OP. It really is. If nothing else you made me go back and read the damned thing for the first time in like 10 years.

Just the other night right here on tRant I said something like: If Jefferson had known what idiots we would become he probably wouldn't have supported democracy in the first place. But when you really consider the prospects of amending The First Amendment you're forced to consider much. Do we get free speech and press except what's bad for us? Who's us? What's bad? And how much? It's probably better off left untouched. We're destined to fruitcake our way back to the stone age because of it, but who wants to go to the trouble to list ALL the shite you should never write or say? frick us. Just let us be fricked.

I might go for an extra 2 Amendments in the BoR. To make for an even 12, a number as good as 10. (Cuz 11 would kinda suck). This just to prevent some future bothersome bullshite. One would say something like: "Congress shall make no law favoring the rights of the yet borne fetusse over those of its mother when the rights of the two seem discordant." Or some such.

The other would prohibit prohibition by stating that the role of law is to protect the individual from others; that protecting the sane, sound, adult individual from himself would be an intolerable tyranny.

I mean since we're GOING to fruitcake our asses back to the stone age, anyway, we might as well do so with uninhibited whores, drugs, and slot machines.