If you were in charge of a continental congress what would you change? - How would you fix shit?

[Eris!]

Personally I'd repeal every amendment after the 10th.

 

[mr.moon1488]

The founding culture, race, and faith have a right to self-defense which supersedes all other rights.

It's retarded to create a system with no mechanism for sustaining itself.

 

[soft kitty]

I would change who is eligible to vote. If you don't own land, you're no longer eligible (age, race, and sex no longer matter, only that you own land). I'd get rid of most regulations. I'd also get rid of most social welfare programs. I would keep WIC and SNAP but change SNAP to only include actual food, much like WIC does. Get rid of Medicare and Social Security, too.

You shouldn't be forced to enroll in these programs, I believe the private sector can deliver more effective alternatives. Abolish the income & sin taxes and cap property tax at 1%. Sales tax stays.

I'd also do everything I can to make it easier for people to compete with the payment processors & social media giants.

Oh yes, and I'd also change the way birthright citizenship works. People born to parents of non-legal citizens, even if they are born in the US, would no longer be citizens, Instead they would become citizens of their parent's country of origin. This is how it should've been from the beginning.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

If I can actually change something that probably could not have been changed? Abolish slavery then and there to reduce the flow and future bullshit.

 

[FruitFighter]

First off I'd make sure slavery was either permanently built into the Constitution or completely banned. Importing a bunch of Africans as slaves and then setting them loose after pissing them off is basically why America is in so much trouble today.
Also, I'd lock in limited suffrage as part of the Constitution. Letting women and anyone who is popped out within the US border vote has and always will be a terrible idea. Suffrage should never have been extended beyond white men. Don't let the herd run the farm, universal suffrage is a recipe for disaster.
Keep in mind that no matter how you write a constitution or its amendments, it will probably re-interpreted for political gains later on down the road. See Obergefell v. Hodges.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

I love America so I'd make a law FORCING people to give themselves PATS on the back every hour of the day, but not on weekends, in order to make the people feel proud of making their country great. If someone doesn't pat himself on the back then there's gonna be a STATE MANDATED George Floyd situation escalation

 

[Witthel]

Make it a requirement that there be at least four-to-five political parties at any given time, cuz the two-party system is the greatest reason why modern US politics are so fucked.

 

[Eris!]

Make it a requirement that there be at least four-to-five political parties at any given time, cuz the two-party system is the greatest reason why modern US politics are so fucked.

I wonder if there's any meaningful way to ban political parties that wouldn't just result in unofficial backroom political parties.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

Make it a requirement that there be at least four-to-five political parties at any given time, cuz the two-party system is the greatest reason why modern US politics are so fucked.

The way ALL democracies work is such that even if you had the most politically diverse government in the history of mankind it WOULDN'T make any difference because you NEED a consensus to pass reform. This is something that Schumpeter wrote about and it's totally true.

IF you implement a system where more fringe parties get more seats, let's say you get 10 fascists and 12 communists in government, it won't affect anything because compromise still needs to be made.

 

[Dildo]

I'd dissolve it, but before doing so insist on reimbursing the British with the tea that was lost and a full apology for the shit show that followed.

 

[Distant Stare]

The founding culture, race, and faith have a right to self-defense which supersedes all other rights.

It's retarded to create a system with no mechanism for sustaining itself.

This. The best way to do this would be to put in a clause that prevents immigration that would over time change the demographic balance. Set the maximum percent non-white/Christian at 10% or something.

Restrict the amount of money you can make during office to the median salary of the population. Also limit the number of people in Congress to 100 total. Congress has the same problem right now that the Roman Senate had, there are too many people to reach any consensus and debate takes too long.

I would also take a the lead from the early Roman Republic and make assassination of dictators by any citizen legal. Then also allow for the assassination of anyone who proposes legislation against the Second Amendment.

If I had the power to do so, I would expel all African slaves and freemen.

 

[Biden's Chosen]

My gender

 

[Marissa Moira]

I'd make their breakfast contain more than just an egg and toast.

 

[ZombiefiedFerret]

Mini-skirts must be worn by all hot bitches.

 

[Eris!]

I would also take a the lead from the early Roman Republic and make assassination of dictators by any citizen legal.

This is the true meaning of the second amendment. It is the right to rebel.

 

[Distant Stare]

This is the true meaning of the second amendment. It is the right to rebel.

You should read Lone Star Planet by H Beam Piper.

The reason for which this young hero cut down that monster of political iniquity, S. Austin Maverick. On the very morning of his justly-merited death, Austin Maverick, using the powers of his political influence, rammed through the Finance and Revenue Committee a bill entitled 'An Act for the Taxing of Personal Incomes, and for the Levying of a Withholding Tax.' Fellow citizens, words fail me to express my horror of this diabolic proposition, this proposed instrument of tyrannical extortion, borrowed from the Dark Ages of the Twentieth Century! Why, if this young nobleman had not taken his blade in hand, I'd have killed the sonofabitch, myself!"

He leaned forward, extending the belt and holsters to the defendant. "I therefore restore to you your weapons, taken from you when, in compliance with the law, you were formally arrested. Buckle them on, and, assuming your weapons again, go forth from this court a free man, Wilbur Whately. And take with you that machete with which you vindicated the liberties and rights of all New Texans. Bear it reverently to your home, hang it among your lares and penates, cherish it, and dying, mention it within your will, bequeathing it as a rich legacy unto your issue! Court adjourned; next session 0900 tomorrow. For Chrissake, let's get out of here before the barbecue's over!" Some of the spectators, drooling for barbecued supercow, began crowding and jostling toward the exits; more of them were pushing to the front of the courtroom, cheering and waving their hip-flasks. The prosecution and about half of the friends of the court hastily left by a side door, probably to issue statements disassociating themselves from the deceased Maverick.

"So that's the court that's going to try the men who killed Ambassador Cumshaw," I commented, as Gail and I went out. "Why, the purpose of that court seems to be to acquit murderers." "Murderers?" She was indignant. "That wasn't murder. He just killed a politician. All the court could do was determine whether or not the politician needed it, and while I never heard about Maverick's income-tax proposition, I can't see how they could have brought in any other kind of a verdict. Of all the outrageous things!