If you found yourself transported to early 1788 Philadelphia, say about a year before the U.S. Constitution was signed, an if the Founding Fathers were all willing to hear you out, what would be some of the first things you’d say specifically to warn them and try to prevent some of the bad things that have happened in the real-world timeline since then? Basically, what differences would you want to see made to the U.S. Constitution from the beginning and how would you impress specifically on the Founding Fathers the necessity of diverging from their instincts in specifically those ways?
And keep in mind the Founding Fathers’ beliefs on things like slavery, “the free market”, guns, LGBTQIA+, etc.
A constitution should have an expiry date, when redraft, amendment or ratification of articles should occur with a mandatory new congress.
Senators should not exist. Or should be two senators per state and a Congress proportional to population distribution
Parliamentary instead of a presidential federal union.
All congressional decisions should operate on the basis of consensus minus one instead of first past the post. Or at least 2/3rds minimum rule. Force the suckers to actually deliberate.
A shutdown congress is a dissolved congress, go back to voting if a functioning government can’t be made.
I think I remember from history class that Congress, as it currently exists, was a major source of contention when the government was being planned. States with large populations only wanted something like our current House. States with small populations demanded equal representation, and wanted the equivalent of our Senate. Neither idea could pass on its own. A compromise, combining both ideas, was difficult to pass, but left us where we are now.
I agree with you, though.