WE STILL HAVE MORE TRASH TO TAKE OUT IN 2016! MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!
Posted on 06/05/2016 5:36:54 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
The media’s wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump and the presidential horserace is a distraction from the main event. The point of the horserace—and of all politics—is to run a government capable of dealing effectively with the nation’s problems. But effective government is precisely what we don’t have. America’s greatest challenge is that it is burdened by a government that doesn’t work, and indeed is dysfunctional.
Why is the nation so poorly governed? This is the question that we address in our new book, Relic. What we show is that the fundamentals of an answer can be traced to the Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times.
(Excerpt) Read more at hoover.org ...
Our form of government will work only if honest, God fearing moral people are put into office. That is OUR responsibility as citizens.
So did I. Remember when they were trying to get obamacare enacted? Every hour a new story came out on how broke our medical system was.
Hoover Institute...just like the vacuum—you suck. Your tyranny is outdated.
Sad but true
Yeah, those good old days where we could own other human beings were so much better
The problem is not the Constitution. The problem is the infinitely corruptible nature of human beings, and the ability of the most corrupt among us to wear a veneer of caring and compassion while serving their own ends.
There is no way to draft a constitution that is corruption-proof. The best we can do is try to reach past the media enablers to shine the light directly on corruption and to educate people to use logic, not emotion, to make decisions.
The answer is not to invest ultimate power in the president.
I skimmed through the comments under the article, and every one that I saw correctly noted that the article’s “solution” of investing more power into the president and making Congress into no more than an advisory body is the making of a dictatorship.
They want an even weaker Congress and more Dicktatorship. That’ll be good....
You are absolutely correct! We do not want or need a dictatorship which this article is proposing under a cloak of
gobbledegook! Obama has IGNORED the constitution and THAT is our problem!
The author appears impatient with government because it doesn’t act quickly enough. I don’t want a government that acts quickly - I want a government that acts in a measured manner. I prefer a government that experiences gridlock - that is a sign that the natural forces of self-regulation are at play.
A legislative branch that only pass laws when they make sense. An executive branch that leaves it to the legislative branch to enact laws. A judiciary branch that doesn’t attempt to pass laws or make policy. That’s what the founding fathers had in mind.
Well the bastard southron would-be republic certainly did.
But sadly a growing and now near-dominant part of the citizenry is no longer honest, God fearing, and moral. So we are on the verge of electing to the presidency either a crook or a charlatan, both of them dishonest, not God fearing, and amoral. And we are likely to re-elect to the House and the Senate most of the people we are complaining about. So it seems that nothing short of a near-total collapse is going to make people see the light and return to constitutional principles.
The Hoover Institution, who claims to be on the right, now casts themselves in with Globalists and the left.
In other words, because we haven't actually followed our constitution for decades, we must now eviscerate the document to fit what we know does not work.
The author is an idiot (at best).
Exactly!
With Congress’s pathologies rooted in the Constitution, the ultimate problem is the Constitution itself.
No, it is not! In their wisdom the Founding Fathers knew that the Constitution would require change over time and added a way to modify it in an orderly manner. What we have now are judges who ignore what it says and a president who wants to be king.
It was a bad idea then, and it's a bad idea now.
The problem with the constitution is one of omission. They neglected to create a permanent mechanism to “prune” the government.
The best way to address this imbalance would be to create a special court, not a federal court, but one with justices appointed by the Supreme Courts of the individual states. State justices, who would perform some unusual functions.
First of all, they would review the 8,000 or so cases on appeal to the US Supreme Court from the appellate courts, not deciding on their constitutionality, but on their jurisdiction. That is, taking into account the constitutional arguments of the federal appellate courts, they would decide if the case is indeed a “federal matter”, or one that should be returned to the state or states of origin as “not rising to the level” of the federal courts.
Throughout US history, the federal courts have in effect created vast amounts of “new law”, not based on legislation *or* precedent.
So this court would give the states a say in whether or not the federal courts have the authority to involve themselves in the first place. Importantly, if the court found this with a simple majority, it could still be appealed to the SCOTUS. But if they found this with a 2/3rd majority, its decision would be final.
The other purpose of this court would be to act as the court of origin to decide lawsuits between the states and the federal government. Instead of having to take years for such lawsuits to wend their way through the many layers of the federal courts, the “first say” would be by the states. This would give them the advantage currently enjoyed by the federal government.
...for elected officers and their staff members
That’s about the gist of it...We need to clean house...(and Senate)
There you go.......
WE STILL HAVE MORE TRASH TO TAKE OUT IN 2016! MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!
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