That's actually not a bad suggestion and others have raised it; our current institutions are indeed not very well suited to the tasks that lie before us.
So? Pass an Amendment. If you want to turn us into Rome Version 2.0, go for it...
56 posted on 05/17/2008 7:23:28 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
[That's [department of nation-building] actually not a bad suggestion and others have raised it; our current institutions are indeed not very well suited to the tasks that lie before us.] So? Pass an Amendment.
For better or worse, the creation of new departments doesn't require a Constitutional Amendment.