At the moment the Republicans almost control enough state legislatures to call a convention of states. Assuming they could all agree on something useful, what amendment or amendments do you think should be made?
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I've got a whole pile, but my main one is this:
The Reasonable Length amendment: Every piece of proposed legislation (state, federal, or local) must be made publicly available for comment for a length no less than 1 week for every 350 words in the bill. Any change to the bill - no matter how minor (even changing a single comma or something) - will result in the timer being reset.
I'll do you one better:
Every proposed bill should be first voted on, and if it passes the standard vote, it should then be tested for let's say "reasonableness". That is, those who voted against can nominate any person in the country who can legally vote, even the worst retard they can find if they want, and give that person - let's call him a "citizen representative" - a week to read the bill, and then grill him on what exactly the bill does, how it works, and how it interacts with any other existing bill. If the "citizen representative" answers all questions correctly, they get a huge sum of money (to motivate them) and the bill can pass. If the citizen gets anything wrong, anyone who voted for the bill gets all his limbs broken and fed to a pack of starving pitbulls.
The first time I've heard the expression "ignorance of the law isn't an excuse" was when I was like 5 years old, and it sounds reasonable if you don't think about it, but any developed country in the world right now has an insane legal system that even professional lawyers don't understand. It's completely unreasonable to expect Joe Blow to follow all laws when even someone who has had law as a career for the last 40 years is unable to do so. Legislation must be simple and easy to understand, and anyone who wants to make it complicated and inaccessible must be removed with extreme prejudice.
My country has under 11 million people and around 2,5 million laws, bylaws, etc. That's not even remotely reasonable and the people responsible for this are disgusting pieces of shit who have no place in a functioning society. The law really doesn't need to be more complicated than the ten commandments, without the overtly religious ones. People had that figured out millennia ago.