Congress Became the Weakest Branch

marojejian

Read this as part of my effort to understand this question. Seems like a good overview. while the solutions proposed seems good, they also appear to small/tactical

salawat

If they wouldn't have shut down the Office of Technology Assessment, legislators may actually have research collated that's more free of bias than whatever it is that the lobbyists vomit all over them, but we can't have nice things. Fucking Gingrich.

fasterik

I've felt increasingly politically homeless over the past few years. Neither major party appears to care about the two largest problems facing the U.S.: the national debt, and the inability of Congress to assert the powers delegated to it by the Constitution. Though the problems become obvious to one party while the other is in power, they end up doing nothing about it when the pendulum swings back. Getting rid of the filibuster, adding more seats to the House, and states adopting some form of ranked choice voting, would be a good start. Ultimately we will need a broader cultural shift back to the values of the Founders: rule of law, federalism, and limited government. Unfortunately with the rise of populism on the right and left, it doesn't seem like we are headed in the right direction.

JumpCrisscross

The first sentence of Article II is “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” [1]. That should be changed to “the President shall execute the laws of the United States of America.” Rule of law. (My other pet Article II amendment is striking “and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment” from § 2 and switching to direct election for the President.) [1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/