[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Nick]

You know, that's really scary.  I've been thinking along these lines
myself.  I'm still trying to come up with a way to avoid the abuse
obvious in giving the S.C. the power to kill any politician.  I was
thinking it might be better to somehow make politicians directly
responsible for the cost of any bills they introduce.  Another important
item is eliminating corruption and bribes, not that that's possible.
I've put up a few of my ideas in text on
http://www.pelagiris.org/~nick/Politics/ anyone care to add or correct
these?
	Nick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:35:20PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I have thought EXACTLY this myself for many years.  This particularly
> applies to the Presidency -- anyone who wants to become the President of
> the world's only hyperpower badly enough to spend anywhere from 40 to
> (reportedly) 170 million dollars to get to the Oval Office, is probably
> the absolute *LAST* person you want there.
> 
> Another thing I've considered is the passage of a Constitutional
> amendment stating that if you are in elected office and you write or
> sponsor a bill that is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of
> the US or of your state, you are immediately removed from office and
> permanently barred from running for public office again.  (It'd probably
> even be a good idea to extend this to anyone who votes for a bill that
> is openly unconstitutional.)  I include in this any bill that the body
> in which it is presented does not have the power or authority to pass,
> like Rep. John Major of New York and his asinine grandstanding bill,
> re-introduced every year, that stated simply "The Second Amendment is
> hereby repealed."
> 
> I'm also, frankly, somewhat in favor of Robert Heinlein's standpoint
> that one should have to earn the franchise by public service, rather
> than having it freely granted.
> 
> 
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