What if...

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Congressional terms will be limited to 12 years.

How many terms can they serve?  I sure don't want a guy to get voted in for 12 years.  That's too long... what if the person turns out to be a nutjob.. stuck w/ him/her for 12 years?

[moot]

Terms are 6 years long, elections are every two years (1/3 of the senators replaced or re-elected), so Groin's amendment would have senators not staying in Congress for more than two terms.

[clerick]

Once public service became a lucrative activity all honesty and objectivity were lost.  Either set term limits or decrease the amount of money a public "servant" can make.  All pay raises should be set up as super-majority vote by the citizens.

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Scrapping the present constitution is not the idea.

Adding one or a few amendments... yeah.

Amendment XXVII

Members of congress shall not be allowed in the National Capital more than 10 days each calendar year.  Voting will take place remotely, using whatever secure real time communication that technology avails. Each Congress member's office in their home districts will be considered the floor of the Congress for voting purposes.  No other locale shall be considered valid for voting purposes.

Amendment XXVIII

No bill passed or considered by Congress shall have more than one subject.

Amendment XXIX

Congressional terms will be limited to 12 years.

Amendment XXX

Congress has no right to limit or stop business in any form whatsoever, nor have the government take any money it has not earned.

Amendment XXXI

The 16th amendment is hereby repealed, and the mere expression of it's reinstatement is grounds for slow and painful execution.

And your suggested replacement would be...?

Why does everyone panic like a 4 year old little girl at the mere thought of having no one to tell them how to live their lives?

**** that. There'll be constitutionalists to secede from whatever abortion of a country wants to flush the Constitution, and to continue in its groove like anyone with Good sense would and already does.

Imagine that.  People living how they would wish to.  God forbid anyone ever having what they want.

[Jackal1]

The real problem in this day and age is the premise of this thread in general.
People in this country need to quit searching for the holy grail of government. It is in place and has been for a long time.
Quit searching for a quick fix and a replacement. Be the government as was intended. Remember you are the government. Act like it.

[FrodeMk3]

Originally posted by moot
**** that.  There'll be constitutionalists to secede from whatever abortion of a country wants to flush the Constitution, and to continue in its groove like anyone with Good sense would and already does.

The heart of the question is, will they be the minority, or the majority?

[FrodeMk3]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
Amendment XXX

Congress has no right to limit or stop business in any form whatsoever, nor have the government take any money it has not earned.

Amendment XXXI

The 16th amendment is hereby repealed, and the mere expression of it's reinstatement is grounds for slow and painful execution.



Why does everyone panic like a 4 year old little girl at the mere thought of having no one to tell them how to live their lives?



Imagine that.  People living how they would wish to.  God forbid anyone ever having what they want.

Amendment XXX...It's arguable that Big Business, and it's influence in gov't., Has been a large part of the problem with current gov't. It's been the attraction of business hiring anyone, including undocumented workers, that has been a MASSIVE part of the Illegal problem. I don't think this one would set well with many people. If anything, Gov't. should be examining the current state of business' practice, to help fix alot of National problems.