what would make you feel more connected to your political system and how would you go about making this change

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Term limits for Senators and Congressmen; take the power away from the Senate and the Congress to raise their own salaries and put that power in some new organization--maybe something like a board of Censors, which would also make rules for lobbyists, receipt of gifts and have the power to remove a member of Congress for corruption (as defined). This board would be apppointed for perhaps 5 year terms and may not be reappointed ever again, members may not vote in elections or have party affiliation and the board must be comprised of specialists in law, economics, philosophy, logic, ethics and religion--serving for only a small salary sufficient to live on with no possibility of a raise while the member is sitting on this board. Members to selected for appointment by lot from a pool of all qualified citizens.

Election day would be a national holiday. Electronic voting machines would be required to give the voter a printed record of the votes recorded when they voted.

Primary elections would be held in all states, they would be open (which means you take the ballot of the party who's candidates you want to choose) and would include any party of a certain size/registration in the given state--this would break the monopoly on public office held by the current two parties.

Further, a President's ability to engage troops on foreign soil would be strictly limited to when Congress actually declared war (without which declaration a President & Congress would be forbidden to spend any money on waging any war). This would not apply to waging defensive war to protect imminent threat to US soil.

Federal Income tax should not be the complicated return system we have now--it should be a graduated rate applied to all income whether earned or from other sources taken at the time it is earned, no returns, no deductions, exemptions, exclusions. The graduated rates should be set in several brackets, calculated to bring in about the same revenue as the current system brings in. Thereafter, increases income ought to take care of the inflationary need of government--it lives on what comes in unless a supermajority of congress agrees to increase the rates and then the rates must increase across all of the established brackets evenly--thus a 2% increase would be a 2% increase on each applicable rate.

Finally, eliminate the Electoral College it distorts the vote of the people in a time when we can actually count the direct vote and there is no fear that the people will be acting like a mob.

How to accomplish, this--major additions to the current Constitution using the usual amendment procedure and no constitutional convention.

Answer 3

If I held a public office I would be more connected to the political system.

I would go about making this change just like all the other politicians do. By being a two faced lier, a cheat, and out for my own benifits!

Answer 4

Repeal and replace the 14th Amendment. Section 1 of the 14th has three consecutive clauses that are vague and have been misused and abused by the Courts so much that it makes me want to stay away from the ballot box for the rest of my life.

Constitutional law ought to constitute a set of rules so that government (the level of government being commanded) can know what it can or cannot do. Constitutional law ought to "provide guidance and discipline for the legislature, which is entitled to know what kind of laws it may pass," and it ought to "mark the limit of [the Court's] authority." (From Romer v. Evans, 1996; morally correct rhetoric but completely hypocritical in reality.)

Declare that the 14th is repealed (we obviously don't need the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sections of it any more) and is replaced with more clearly stated rules for the states to obey.

In place of the Privileges and Immunities Clause, say that states must obey all provisions of the Bill of Rights except for the 2nd, 7th, and 9th amendments, and the Grand Jury Clause of the 5th.

Clarify that the Due Process Clause means exactly what it literally says and that, as Alexander Hamilton once said, it can never be applied to an act of the legislature (or voters). The Clause guarantees fair, standard PROCEDURES, not laws which judges deem acceptable.

Clarify that the Equal Protection Clause means only one thing: RACIAL equality. Not gender, not sexual orientation, not aliens, not equality for persons born out of wedlock, etc., etc.

The Supreme Court has been at its worst when: 1) it steals Presidential elections, 2) it enforces "unenumerated rights," and 3) picks out "minorities" other than racial minorites for "heightened protection."

"The current state of equal protection and fundamental rights is a travesty. The Court has drifted between different [clauses of the 14th] in deriving these rights as if they were so many coat hooks for the Court to use which-ever one is convenient. The various standards set out by the Court for deriving these rights are so vague as to be virtually useless. ... [T]he Fourteenth Amendment remains a hodgepodge of underdeveloped ideas." -- Evan Gerstmann, "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution," (2003) Cambridge University Press, pp 209-210.

And this quote bears repeating, too:

"Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies. No one can fail to recognize the perils to which the last forty years have exposed such governments. ... For myself, it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. If they were in charge, I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs. Of course I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture."

The U.S. Supreme Court is behaving like a bevy of Platonic Guardians. They steal elections and flush the people's moral values down the toilet. They have robbed from me the reason for voting -- that "satisafaction ... that we are all engaged in a common venture."

Answer 5

I'd legalize all drugs and make people responsible for their actions. The idiots would weed themselves out. Then with only responsible people left to vote,the system would be much better...

Answer 6

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