When will Americans have equal representation according to the constitution?

Question

Have you noticed that almost all politicians are lawyers? It is my opinion that lawyers keep our laws complex to secure themselves with power.

When will complex laws be made simple and straight forward, and when will Americans have equal representation?

Answer 1

Citizen representation in the federal government was supposed to reside in the House of Representatives as per the original constitution.

The Senate was appointed by the House of Representatives and the job of the Senate was to represent the interests of the States in the federal government.

With the passage of the 21st amendment (I think that is the one if memory serves) the election process for Senators was changed from appointment to popular vote.

This change effectively removed any representation of individual States in the federal government and made States puppets of the federal government to a large degree.

Add to the mix the reduction of multiple political parties down to primarily just two for the last 80 years and you have a formula where the federal government no longer has to really listen to the citizen nor or they afraid of the citizen vote.

Thus neither citizens nor the states are represented in the federal government.

What has this birthed in our political/governmental world? An atmosphere where a new class (remember upper class, middle class and lower class?) was and is continuing to be created.

It is a political class.

Now, I look with slanted eye at attempts to "classify" people as first of all I don't think there is a natural division of people and any classification is arbitrary to a large degree. And if arbitrary, then those that decide the class divisions (economically?) are doing so for reasons of agenda.

To me this seems very logical and clear.

Thus, class (upper, middle & lower) is an artificial demarcation of the American public for the purpose of shoring up and expanding the power and control of another class....

The political class.

The only class warfare Americans should be engaged in is that which is between the citizen class and the political class.

And, strangely enough, if one reads the original constitution and bill of rights, it is very clear that the founding fathers of our nation saw this battle between citizen and the federal government as the only true class warfare that needs to be fought.

And, consequently, if we would adhere to the original document and its clear intent to limit the size and power of the federal government, we can see that any one citizen DOES have the power to fight "city hall" and do something about stripping out of government the cancer that is the political class.

Answer 2

Laws will always be used to reward some behaviors over others. In order to allow for changes in society laws must be somewhat elastic. As to equal representation you must be referring to our system of electing senators with 2 for each state it seems unfair that California has just as many as Wyoming. Senators were originally conceived as advocates for the states not for the people(the house of Representatives had that function, therefore the name) Until the end of the 19th century senators were selected by state governments either through appointment by a states Governor or through a polling of that states assembly or legislature. This problem of what you call unequal representation can be solved by returning to the original intent of the constitution, a thing I would support

Answer 3

Didn't we have a sunshine law passed some years ago that would promote plain English laws? We Americans will have true representation when we get off our complacent butts and take action to get our country back and have our laws enforced equally. We need to ensure that we have our separation of powers and separation of church and state and that all the churches that are involved in politics or are supporting lawbreaking --like the Catholic Church and all churches giving sanctuary to illegal immigrants and promoting politicians in their congregations and from their pulpits -- have their tax exempt status removed.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

"The first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers" "The first thing we do," from Shakespeare's Henry VI.

Things are an unholy mess. I loved Dick Army's proposal of an income tax for the size of a post card.

The answer to you question: It'll happen the day we vote in the people that will do it, and not till then.

Answer 6

You can call the laws complex, but I call them concise. Ever played telephone? Where you get a line of people and they keep passing the words along, and when it reaches the end it's something totally different? That's why they're worded the way they are, so they're not ambigous. I'm not a lawyer, but I understand full well, and it's not like I have an easier time reading them (well, maybe slightly easier).

Answer 7

When you have enough sense to read the Constitution for yourself, the confidence to know that it is written in plain enough language that you are as qualified to understand it as a Supreme Court Justice, the intellectual integrity to accept what it says whether you like it or not, and the courage to say "the emperor is naked" when your elected officials ignore what it says in plain language.

In other words, it isn't likely to happen.

Answer 8

I guess that lawyers tend to gravitate towards politics, and they do express a lot of self-serving ideas in the legislature. That's exactly why laws are complex. It's a very self-serving industry.

Answer 9

Next Tuesday.

Answer 10

When crime, government and the world itself becomes simple and strait forward I'm sure laws will follow suit....till then, it is, what it is.