Constitution = obama snickers
As long as you are not a lawyer and don't go hunting with Dick Cheney, not much can happen...
Just repeal the income tax amendment. That money is the source of all corruption in the federal government.
How about you and me and you and you and you and you and you and everyone else within sight of this post, pick a few States where an incumbent is an unfaithful representative, and agree to go to that State and work in the Primary to get someone else elected in the screwup’s district? We could share motel rooms for a week, say, and canvass and hand out flyers and call voters, working with the local Republicans. If we had maybe a dozen per group and we stayed in inexpensive motels and worked long hours for a new Candidate, we might just be able to remove some of the less productive members of Congress.
I’m retired, it’d be worth it to try to unseat a Kennedy, Kerry, Frank, Reid, Byrd, Dodd, etc.
I think instead of term limits, we should adopt recall measures, especially for Senators, where either a certain percentage of voters signatures or a super majority in the state legislator can call for an immediate vote on whether or not the said Congressman or Senator should be fired.
Think of how many would have been recalled during the bail outs! Might make them think twice before they go all kids in a candy store on us again.
The term limits amendment has a lot of following.
But, better than the term limits would be: making sure that the electorate, all of it, is well informed on the issues, at least the most important ones, and that that same electorate have some very basic understanding of how our type of democracy works, and that they should be very informed about each of the candidates, and where each one of those candidates stands on all the issues.
If we can’t get the whole electorate to be so well-informed, then perhaps only those with enough knowledge about our form of government, and each of the candidates and the issues, should be allowed to vote.
At least then, we could be sure that the dummies and the ignorant and the ill-informed and brain-washed wouldn’t be destroying our country.
Term limits are good, but, a well-informed and idiot-proof election process would be more preferable. Well-informed people tend to make better decisions, and one of those decisions would be throwing out those that are harmful to our democracy and our well-being, which of course includes career politicians.
The Original Thirteenth Article of Amendment To The Constitution For The United States
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
The original 13th Amendment would have resolved most of the problems you seem to address, but likely introduce some new ones - such as a landed bureaucracy of feather-bedded union flunkies worse than we have today. Somehow I do think that would be preferable, as the worst decision of the US supreme Court would likely not have been allowed, that being the 1886 decision in a tax case that violated the current 14th Amendment; Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R. Co., 118 U.S. 394 ^. Without that, most of the lobbyists and third-party non-profits would have no standing.
Don't worry, be happy; Resident Buttock Obummer's gonna change it!
No more Constitutional Amendments.
We could have term limits with the very next primary election. I say primary because in a general election I don’t want to vote for a liberal.
So you have to impose term limits in a primary election.
I would love to see term limitations but don’t think it’s gonna happen any time soon. But voters can do it anyway.
Sad part is, about 98% of the incumbents get re-elected. Even if they’ve been convicted of a crime (usually) and even if they’re dead (because if they’re elected, the governor has the right to appoint someone from the same party.
While we’re at fixing things, we ought to ban electing people who are convicted felons, or who are dead.
We are a nation of too many laws. Every law is trying to fix something. More laws probably won’t work.