I believe a new amendment to the constitution should be passed to require every piece of legislation and every regulation to undergo strict scrutiny and must be proved constitutionally allowed BEFORE A VOTE IS ALLOWED. Furthermore every post-constitutional regulation and piece of legislation must have a sunset clause after 10 years at which point it's effects must be reassessed and a vote to renew made. If the regulation or legislation isn't continued by vote then it expires and dies.
This should be the same at every government level from municipal to federal.
This way, the busybody politicians can work on bettering and revisiting current constitutional regulations and legislation rather than just kissing lobbyist a$$es and seeing how many thousands of unconstitutional bills they can force through during their tenure because they know that once a bill is passed, even if blatantly unconstitutional, it will likely be years before courts get around to declaring it unconstitutional at which point, the damage is done. This technique of passing deliberately unconstitutional bills is knowingly used by politicians who hope to allow their constituents to reap the benefits of the illegal bill before it's shot down.
Everything should be living except the constitution. If we want to change the foundation, we need to tear down the structure. That's why it was made so difficult to alter by our founding fathers. Not impossible though, as history has proven again and again.
There is one reason you try to circumvent a constitutional amendment or rule and that is when you can't get enough of "the people" to support you. If you had the support, you would follow due process. It's actually pretty straightforward to change the constitution but it requires a great amount of solidarity, a majority of "the people" supporting it. You can't fulfill the requirements set forth in our constitution because you're actually trying please a minority of "the people" who are screaming loudest, so you take advantage of our current free-for-all congress who themselves are entirely unfamiliar with our founding or our foundational document and all of the years of work and argument that created it.
This is how we end up with mountains of regulations which violate the constitution and a government who who always defers to post-constitutional regulation as their reasoning behind punishing you.
"The constitution allows it but not this exception we unilaterally wrote later so have fun in jail, you deplorable."
This should be the same at every government level from municipal to federal.
This way, the busybody politicians can work on bettering and revisiting current constitutional regulations and legislation rather than just kissing lobbyist a$$es and seeing how many thousands of unconstitutional bills they can force through during their tenure because they know that once a bill is passed, even if blatantly unconstitutional, it will likely be years before courts get around to declaring it unconstitutional at which point, the damage is done. This technique of passing deliberately unconstitutional bills is knowingly used by politicians who hope to allow their constituents to reap the benefits of the illegal bill before it's shot down.
Everything should be living except the constitution. If we want to change the foundation, we need to tear down the structure. That's why it was made so difficult to alter by our founding fathers. Not impossible though, as history has proven again and again.
There is one reason you try to circumvent a constitutional amendment or rule and that is when you can't get enough of "the people" to support you. If you had the support, you would follow due process. It's actually pretty straightforward to change the constitution but it requires a great amount of solidarity, a majority of "the people" supporting it. You can't fulfill the requirements set forth in our constitution because you're actually trying please a minority of "the people" who are screaming loudest, so you take advantage of our current free-for-all congress who themselves are entirely unfamiliar with our founding or our foundational document and all of the years of work and argument that created it.
This is how we end up with mountains of regulations which violate the constitution and a government who who always defers to post-constitutional regulation as their reasoning behind punishing you.
"The constitution allows it but not this exception we unilaterally wrote later so have fun in jail, you deplorable."
