Looking forward to Judge's course.
My naturally cynical thoughts tell me the voters tried voting the bums out in 1994, 2006 and 2008 and congress only gets worse(1994 being the exception short lived). Your state level ideas are OK in some states, but you can forget my liberal state MD doing anything but electing more liberals.
My thoughts are :
1) Term limits for house and Senate as promised in 1994 contract with America. Guess why that didnt get passed..
2) A ‘congress has to live in our world” act. For starters, congress must send their kids to public schools as long as they are office. Next, apply Freedom of Information act to congress like it is applied to the white house.
I’d like to hear a discussion of Obamacare vs. the health care plan that congress enjoys but does not pay for. That discussion should be centered on the ‘equal protection clause’.
Why? The electorate votes for the what they want. If that's the same guy, year after year... you'd be saying that the electorate shouldn't have the right to vote their choice.
A better choice would be to require that anyone who wishes to vote have to pass a civics test, so that only those who understand how the government works can vote. Thus eliminating any @sshat that thinks the President is some magic-man that can pull free stuff out of a hat.