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I'm no lawyer, constitutional scholar, or political scientist. I don't expect people here are either. But those people exist. It's time to organize them and make a new constitution.

What're the first steps?

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think step 1 would be identify and clearly define what went wrong with this one. Then you can take steps to address the failures.

[–] BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well the impeachment process is totally unworkable. And there aren't real consequences for elected officials who abuse their office. An amendment could potentially address those issues. That was originally what I was contacting attorneys for - advocating for a 28th amendment.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well yeah, but that would be pretty far down on my list. We have a lot of issues that are much more foundational. We need to address money in politics. We need better ways of electing politicians so we don’t end up with a 2 party system.

[–] BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hence why I think a change limited to an amendment may no longer be enough

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't need to year down what's there. Those are still reforms.

[–] BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It'd have to be one hell of an amendment in that case.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not unprecedented.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A term limit for the legislative and judicial branches would be nice. No supreme court justice for longer than, say, 24 years. Can't be reelected senator if you served in that capacity for a cumulative 20 years. Something like that.

[–] BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, term limits are necessary. But I was thinking more along the lines of at-large legislators instead of tying them to districts, finding ways to encourage experts in various fields to join congress instead of it devolving into nothing but lawyers and real estate owners, anti-corruption language with enough teeth to scare away the riff-raff, mandating that literally all communications (verbal and written) of elected officials are recorded and public record no more than 30 days after the fact, etc etc.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Ending the district voting to end with gerrymandering once and for all. Proportional voting...

There is a lot. None of it conflicts with the existing constitution, though.