Amend the US Constitution - Will your state be involved?

[spirit]

There's a movement afoot that just might excite you!

The link below points to an article to get you started. The article also contains useful links.

http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/11/15/tired-of-fighting-alligators-drain-the-dc-swamp-with-a-convention-of-states/

Consider getting involved! Thanks

[bae]

I am not convinced that term limits will do anything more than increase the power of the puppet masters.

[creaker]

I am not convinced that term limits will do anything more than increase the power of the puppet masters.

I've never liked that one, either. The people get someone who they like and works well for them? Too bad, they have to leave and you can't vote for them anymore - even as a write-in.

[Florence]

I've never liked that one, either. The people get someone who they like and works well for them? Too bad, they have to leave and you can't vote for them anymore - even as a write-in.

+1

[spirit]

This project is NOT limited to a term-limit amendment. Think more generally - e.g. reducing the power of the federal government. Although a term-limit agreement might be a power limiter, so would a balanced-budget amendment or an amendment to limit federal taxation or an amendment that gets the feds out of the health insurance business.

Regarding the term-limit, I'd rather have randomly selected representatives every 4 or 6 years than the recurring mess that we have in DC under the current rules. An inexperienced but willing to learn citizen with her/his heart in the right place would be miles ahead of the present bunch. Think about it.

[bae]

Those are the top two proposals they have listed on their effort' site. And I think the two proposals are foolish, so I'm uncertain why I would be supportive of them getting together to brew up other random ideas.

[spirit]

Bae - Are there amendments that you'd consider worthy of your time?

[Gregg]

I am not convinced that term limits will do anything more than increase the power of the puppet masters.

Afraid I must concur with that. Shameful, but true.

[redfox]

We have term limits. The ballot. The only amendment I'd consider is the Equal Rights Amendment.

[jp1]

Personally, rather than term limits I'd much rather have publicly funded elections. Get the big money out of elections and maybe the politicians would actually give some thought to what the voters want instead of what big corporate interests want.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Personally, rather than term limits I'd much rather have publicly funded elections.

More than publicly funded elections, money out of politics, though yes that is somewhat easier said than done. And that's the first thing I think of with: amend the constitution, that we really need that amendment. But beyond just things that are necessary for the citizens to have ANY voice in the govt at all (money out of politics), it we're doing wish lists .... what can we do to help 3rd parties?


Get the big money out of elections and maybe the politicians would actually give some thought to what the voters want instead of what big corporate interests want.

+1 Yea we don't even have a voice due to all the money, and term limits often makes this worse (politicians spend even more time raising money).

[bae]

I would like to consider a change to a mixed-member proportional representation system, to break up the pernicious influence that the two major parties have. From my direct observations of the previous presidential election process, party machines are perhaps more of a problem than campaign funding, though of course the two are linked.

[jp1]

bae, I would agree with you. Not having thought about how to make that change I'm curious what change in the constitution would push things in that direction since the constitution doesn't say anything one way or the other about political parties.