Just a couple more thoughts on possible constitutional amendments against lame duck sessions. It occurs to me that if you don’t want to shorten the term of the lame duck session and swear the new congressman in immediately, other constitutional amendments could be put in place to stipulate that all laws passed in a lame duck session have a sunset clause of “X” months or until the new Congress meets. Another possibility is to pass an amendment that requires all legislation passed in the lame duck session to be confirmed by the new congress when they convene. I suppose that a constitutional amendment could also ban the Congress from ratifying treaties in the Lame Duck session.
OK, those aren’t bad ideas either. Hey, you’re pretty smart. I nominate you! :)