[Paladin2]

Make the passing margin 60% of votes in both the House and Senate as a Constitutional Amendment.

we have pl;enty of laws. Any additional should be well considered and an obvious benefit to the People.

[zeugma]

Make the passing margin 60% of votes in both the House and Senate as a Constitutional Amendment.

we have pl;enty of laws. Any additional should be well considered and an obvious benefit to the People.

I'd agree with that. Passing new laws should need 60%.

Deleting old ones should only take 50%.

Maybe that would give them some incentive to finally work on cleaning up the u.s. code.

[jimt]

A good idea, except I like Heinlein's better, from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. He suggested two legislative bodies, one where a two-thirds vote was required to pass a law, another where a one-third vote could repeal a law.