If you could send one warning back to James Madison or Thomas Jefferson to change the world what would it be ?

Question

The suggestion would have to be practical in 1778, politically feasible, and specific enough to accomplish the goal.

As examples, the Electoral College was a necessity because of communication problems, most folk knew that slavery was awful but it was not politically feasible to fix it, and the two party system was something they opposed but did not realize that their rules of winner take all made it inevitable.

What I am asking is what might have been their biggest mistake, and how might they have fixed it had they known. Extra points for more than one thing but it must fit the feasibility and both the mistake and solution criteria.

We are presuming that we want to change the world for the better.
Environmental concerns would also be a good answer but would have to be put in a form that even Jefferson would approve of, given his, and most people if the days feeling that all this was unlimited.

Answer 1

The issue of judicial activism has always been a sore point with me. I think they should have clarified the system of checks and balances between the judiciary, the legislative and executive branches better then they did. Too often appointing judges is just simply too difficult. It is not given the up-or-down vote they should get because it's stuck in committee due to political bickering. The ability to have judges (who are not elected) set legislative policy is not how they wanted this country ran. It completely takes the will of the people out of the picture.

Answer 2

i gotta provide it to my boy TJ, he became an architect, author, diplomat, inventor, president and a brilliant form of greater issues i dont be attentive to too lots approximately James Madison yet Jefferson is my fashionable president and look in any respect his distinctive fields of information via the way jefferson became well known for being terrible at public talking, whilst he study his speach at inauguration basically the 1st few rows could hear him because of the fact no microphones and he became a famously shy individual yet nonetheless my fashionable haha

Answer 3

I'd tell them to put into the constitution that the US govt is not to annex any territory. Their experement in government was most damaged when the republic turned into a world empire.

Answer 4

see if you couldn't sit down with the congress and work out some sort of treaty with the Native Americans in order for them to have States of their own added to the U.S. so there will not be any Indigenous People problems.

Answer 5

hey jefferson when you write that letter about church and state being seperated could you be a little more detailed. and the whole revolution every twenty years man your a nut plan for solid foundations.

Answer 6

and do you want this in three copies and with illustrations?