What's one law of your country you would change?

[Lucian Hodoboc]

What is one law of your country you would change / amend if you had the authority to do so? Elaborate in regards to the reason for your choice.

 

[Lamb]

Well for a while now we've been having Presidents who seem to have some ultimate power and that isn't what the founding fathers intended when they wrote up the constitution. They're using loopholes and I would like that to end so that one guy can't force something to happen unless it's an extreme emergency.

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

I can relate. The previous president we had in Romania changed the constitution and made the presidential term 5 years instead of 4 like it used to be in the past, and the term has remained 5 years since then. I don't like it.

 

[tango]

I'd like it to be legal to use an RPG to stop antisocial truck drivers from running brake retarders through town. Sadly I can't see that happening any time soon.

 

[Josiah]

What is one law of your country you would change / amend if you had the authority to do so? Elaborate in regards to the reason for your choice.

I would reverse the law that permits innocent, defenseless unborn children to be murdered - for no reason whatsoever. There are 600,000 of those every year in the USA.... 70 per hour. FAR more than die from guns or AIDS or Covid-19. A third of which are Black (more than twice their percentage of the population). I'd change the law to not allow this horrible infanticide.



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[pinacled]

I would remove the electoral college voting system.

Because they're subject to corruption and hide behind anonymity.
Or just remove the anonymity so that they're accountable.

 

[Lamb]

I would remove the electoral college voting system.

Because they're subject to corruption and hide behind anonymity.
Or just remove the anonymity so that they're accountable.

You do realize that the 5 biggest cities in the country would then dictate who wins? Those 5 cities are also failing miserably with their economies, crime, etc. Is that how you want the entire nation to become?

 

[pinacled]

You do realize that the 5 biggest cities in the country would then dictate who wins? Those 5 cities are also failing miserably with their economies, crime, etc. Is that how you want the entire nation to become?

I don't believe 5 cities would alter a course.
Especially if their population declines due to economics.
Did you mean 5 states?

What I predicted this past us presidential election is based on math and observence
By popular vote(general-public) biden won by est; 51%
Where as the electoral votes were closer est; at 60% and did not reflect the population majority.
Obviously the system needs amending.

 

[Josiah]

I would remove the electoral college voting system.

Because they're subject to corruption and hide behind anonymity.
Or just remove the anonymity so that they're accountable.

They are public. They are known. And how they cast their vote is public.


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[hedrick]

The virtual fillibuster in the Senate. It violates the intent of the Framers. They considered the requirement for a supermajority one thing that made the preceding Articles of Confederation weak.

 

[JRT]

I have several suggestions. Take your pick:
1. eliminate the electoral college because it is undemocratic in nature and smaller states are already powerful the senate.
2. limit both congressmen and senators to two terms. Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and for the same reason.
3. eliminate the filibuster.
4. reduce or eliminate lobbying so that big money is no longer setting policy.
5. eliminate gerrymandering and voter suppression.

 

[JRT]

I have several suggestions. Take your pick:
1. eliminate the electoral college because it is undemocratic in nature and smaller states are already powerful the senate.
2. limit both congressmen and senators to two terms. Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and for the same reason.
3. eliminate the filibuster.
4. reduce or eliminate lobbying so that big money is no longer setting policy.
5. eliminate gerrymandering and voter suppression.

*puts tongue in cheek* Now that I think more on this, we could accomplish the same thing by simply dismantling the Republican Party. *takes tongue out of cheek*

 

[pinacled]

I have several suggestions. Take your pick:
1. eliminate the electoral college because it is undemocratic in nature and smaller states are already powerful the senate.
2. limit both congressmen and senators to two terms. Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and for the same reason.
3. eliminate the filibuster.
4. reduce or eliminate lobbying so that big money is no longer setting policy.
5. eliminate gerrymandering and voter suppression.

I agree with one two and five.

 

[Lamb]

*puts tongue on cheek* Now that I think more on this, we could accomplish the same thing by simply dismantling the Republican Party. *takes tongue out of cheek*

I thought you were Canadian? Why are you answering for a different country? You didn't bother to follow directions.

 

[JRT]

I thought you were Canadian? Why are you answering for a different country? You didn't bother to follow directions.

We share the longest undefended border in the world and what happens in the USA deeply affects Canadians as well as Americans. The late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said it well "Canada sharing a continent with the USA is a little like a mouse going to bed with an elephant. No matter how well intentioned the elephant, every twitch and fart profoundly affects the mouse.”

I have been closely following US politics for about 60 years. Sometimes an independent opinion can be helpful.

 

[hedrick]

I think the reason the idea of term limits hasn’t gotten much support is that it would tend to shift influence to staff and lobbyists.

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

We share the longest undefended border in the world and what happens in the USA deeply affects Canadians as well as Americans. The late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said it well "Canada sharing a continent with the USA is a little like a mouse going to bed with an elephant. No matter how well intentioned the elephant, every twitch and fart profoundly affects the mouse.”

I have been closely following US politics for about 60 years. Sometimes an independent opinion can be helpful.

Be that as it may, the thread still requires the forum members to post about a law of their own country that they would change.

 

[JRT]

Thank you Lucien. I would rewrite the Constitution of Canada to drop the monarchy.

 

[Andrew]

Medical marijuana to treat chronic pain in older adults instead of opiods, my dad refuses to take them because it makes him sick and the some elderly people can die from opiods because it makes them too weak

 

[Empire]

Most of the major issues are going to require more than one law to be changed, as they are governed by more than one law.

However...I might consider, with aid from top legal scholars, a tweak to the commerce clause of the constitution, so that it is not so broadly applicable. More regulating actual interstate commerce, and not things that might conceivable have an affect on interstate commerce, or regulating things that once moved in interstate commerce, but now have no affect.