Fixing Our Broken Constitution

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  1. Distraff

    Distraff Well-Known Member

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    Here are my proposals.
    1. Fix up the 2nd amendment. Get rid of the part about militias and expressly allow the government to have a standing army. Forbid the use of the draft, we got robots now anyway.
    2. Congressional approval is needed for all military actions and declarations of war.
    3. Replace the electoral college with a popular vote.
    4. Require that all House and state legislative districts be drawn by non-partisan commissions with the help of computer programs. No more gerrymandering.
    5. For all budgets or bills that increase spending beyond inflation, add regulations (can eliminate regulations to offset), increase taxes, or increases the deficit, 60% of the vote in both houses should be required.
    6. Specify that states most follow the constitution, federal law, and cannot have a standing army or leave the union. Allow the federal government to specify what states can't make laws about.
    7. Get rid of the 10th amendment and allow congress to do things not forbidden by the constitution. But if it isn't expressly allowed by the constitution, then it will require 60% of the vote in both houses.
    8. Constitutional amendments currently require ratification by a majority of state legislatures. Get rid of that.
    9. Replace the Senate with a proportional representation body.
    10. Get rid of all senate or house rules that require more than 50% vote to call something for a vote or require the approval of a panel or leader to get something to a vote.
    11. Eliminate the presidential pardon and executive orders.
    12. Add term limits to Supreme Court justices and congress.
    13. Ban corporate funding of election races, any kind of favors or gifts to politicians, or for government officials to join the industries until 15 years after leaving office. Limit individual donations.
    14. Require that all voters take a simple citizenship test or voting test created by a non-partisan panel. Voters must be auto-registered and present ID on voting.
     
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  2. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    1. No. The government is already expressly allowed to have a standing army, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with the 2A.
    2. Congress is already required for declarations of war. "All military actions" requiring Congressional approval is too vague, but would go along with reasonable limitations on Executive military actions.
    3. No. I'd prefer we remain the United States and not subject to waves of instantaneous secession movements, tax revolts and the resulting violence and instability.
    4. OK. But you'll find, despite prevailing Complex lie narratives, that it's the Democrats, not Republicans, who would never allow this, and endless civil litigation will result in resistance, ALL of it on behalf of "minorities." You'll be classified endlessly as a racist seeking to bring back Jim Crow or setting up "U.S. Apartheid," 100% guaranteed.
    5. Sounds great, and again, get ready for endless, unanimous Democratic Party resistance with some portion of GOP joining them.
    6. No. The Bill of Rights already applies to the States via other law 14>5. States are already subservient to federal law way more than they should be via the illicit expansion of the Commerce Clause in the 20th Century by illicit, activist jurisprudence.
    7. No, do the opposite, put the teeth back in the 10th Amendment.
    8. No. We are a Constitutional Republic of sovereign states for very good reasons.
    9. No. We are a Constitutional Republic for very good reasons.
    10. No. Let's make it even harder to pass laws instead.
    11. OK on both.
    12. OK on both, age of 75 for SCOTUS, 5 terms for House, 2 for Senate. But let's go further, 15 year term limits for all high executive level government posts in all agencies and branches other than Defense. Prohibition of -any- executive level public servant working in anything resembling a lobby for 20 years after leaving public service. Ban all "speaking fees," "book deals," "media consulting or hosting," or any other income other than practicing a trade, profession or working in employment in the non government-dependent private sector for a period of 20 years after public service. No high public official shall be allowed to form, be associated or affiliated with, or derive benefit from any nonprofit, government grants, government contracts of any type of nature for a period of 20 years after leaving service.
    13. OK, but the same limitations should be applied to both MSM that do not meet stringent standards of objectivity enough to qualify as "free press," and political activism concealed as "entertainment."
    14. Sure thing. And again, get ready to be called a racist, xenophobic white nationalist inaccurately... in addition to bringing back Jim Crow.
     
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    15. end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.
     
  4. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    Now for my own "Constitutional" changes in addition to the above I agree with, specifically the term limits and restrictions on public servants in point 12 in the prior post:

    1. Federal public unions or trade organizations of federal employees, or national unions of any government employ are hereby abolished. Federally funded PSAs and PR programs are hereby abolished. No federal funds of any kind shall continue to be disbursed to any jurisdiction, local or state, that using tax revenue directly or indirectly as "dues" to any public union or public worker organization participates in any way, directly or indirectly, in public policy advocacy, public service announcements, media of any kind or nature other than communicating basic operational and training information with respect to performance of work contained in a job description, or in any way towards advocating any government policy whatsoever, directly or indirectly through associated groups. Violation carries treble civil damages, relaxed standing requirements, relaxed burden of proof, and criminal penalties.
    2. All federal government grants of every type and nature are hereby abolished.
    3. All federal affirmative action programs applying to government employment and hiring, promotion, benefits, contracting, school admission, or any other discriminatory treatment based on gender, race, etc., are hereby abolished.
    4. The CIA is hereby abolished. The federal government shall immediately disarm 50% of its agencies currently armed or militarized with a priority towards disarming agencies first that are not habitually involved with crimes of violence.
    5. Qualifications for enjoying the protections of the nation's vital free press are hereby raised such that no entity, company, conglomerate that provides "entertainment" in addition to news reporting, as broadly defined, shall enjoy heightened press protections under the Constitution, any law, regulation or jurisprudence. News and other outlets seeking "press" treatment shall provide only objective reporting of facts in context, free of any partisan, ideological, opinion commentary content whatsoever. Entertainment entities shall still have he same freedom of speech that all Americans enjoy, but shall not receive any heightened protection whatsoever from litigation, criminal prosecution for fraud, or other press protections currently in place and abused by partisan entertainment and advocacy in the guise of "reporting the news."
    6. All government involvement in underwriting, insuring, originating, promoting mortgages and other loans, including student loans, is hereby abolished.
    7. Student loans are hereby subject to all the protections provided under the Bankruptcy Laws of the U.S., including discharge.
    8. Social Security and Medicare are hereby abolished as Unconstitutional, with participants of a certain age grandfathered in.
    9. 80% of "Commerce Clause" related federal jurisprudence is hereby overturned.
    10. High school diploma or GED is required to vote in elections of federal officials. Fluent literacy in the English language of at least an 8th grade level is required to vote in elections of federal officials. The voting age in elections of federal officials is hereby 22, with exception for active military service during such service. No federal employee (other than enlisted service), government contractor and employees deriving more than X% of revenues from government contracts shall be allowed to vote in elections of federal officials. Lifetime minimum federal income tax (not payroll taxes) payment threshold of $10,000 is required to vote in elections of federal officials, once this threshold is met, this minimum income tax payment requirement is met for life.

    Eh, one can dream.
     
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  5. Bob0627

    Bob0627 Well-Known Member

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    Most of your proposals make the Constitution mostly irrelevant and are outright dangerous. Getting rid of the 10th Amendment (#7) which effectively prohibits the federal government from asserting powers not explicitly granted to it by the Constitution is a recipe for a disaster. To be fair some are similar to what I've proposed.

    These are my proposals and they strengthen the Constitution in favor of The People and give them much greater control over their government than they currently have (which is mostly none):

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/proposed-constitutional-amendments.507699/page-2

    (see last post in the thread since I added one more proposed Amendment)
     
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    Get the judiciary to stay in their 'lane'..
     
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    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Thank you for saving me a lot of trouble.
     
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    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Sorry the constitution isn't broken, what is broken is the willingness of the court to enforce it as written.
     
  9. Texas Republican

    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We are post-Constitutional right now. The left has perverted it well beyond what the Founders intended.

    The Constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Now we just have politics as a bloodsport and the left just does whatever it can get away with.
     
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    Belch Well-Known Member

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    Yep. It's just a piece of historically amusing parchment, but has nothing to do with reality.

    The reality is exactly as you describe it, except I wouldn't limit the trashing of the constitution to the left. It's been a bi-partisan effort.
     

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