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0 pointsdantheman2y ago0 comments

How about something far simpler - reduce to the us government to only enumerated powers. If they want to do something not enumerated pass an amendment.

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mschuster912y ago

That would just end in a situation even worse than now - such a policy requires a government in the continental European parliamentary form to make sure the government always has a parliamentary backing.

nradov2y ago

No, actually it would be far superior. We should strictly limit the power of the Federal government to what was actually intended by the Founders instead of using the Commerce Clause as a loophole. Devolve everything else to the several states.

krapp2y ago

We tried that. It was called the Articles of Confederation[0]. It was an unmitigated disaster, and the reason we have our current Constitution with power actually consolidated under a Federal government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation

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mschuster912y ago

nradov2y ago

krapp2y ago

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation

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