The key to reclaiming America
An amendment changing one sentence of the Constitution would completely correct the problems we are now having with the runaway Congress.
Article I, Section 6:quote: The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.Change to:
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, including expenses incurred, to be ascertained and paid by their respective State.
Article I, Section 6:quote: The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.Change to:
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, including expenses incurred, to be ascertained and paid by their respective State.
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Yes, yes. Obviously the key to reclaiming America is "An amendment changing one sentence of the Constitution would completely correct the problems we are now having with the runaway Congress."
What could possibly go wrong with that?0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
Yes, yes. Obviously the key to reclaiming America is "An amendment changing one sentence of the Constitution would completely correct the problems we are now having with the runaway Congress."
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Not a damned thing.0 -
It would just perpetuate the "good old boy" system on a different level. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cbyerly
It would just perpetuate the "good old boy" system on a different level.
The sentence from the Constitution that I quoted has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that Congressmen are federal employees responsible to the federal government, not the states and citizens they are supposed to represent.
The court has also decided that because Congressmen are not employed by their states, they cannot be recalled by their constituents, they cannot be made to actually represent their states. Indeed, so long as they do not turn on their own kind, they represent only themselves.
The change I proposed would make them state employees, beholden to their states and constituents, and ultimately responsible to them.
They would not be able to vote themselves perks, salary increases, unlimited expense accounts, lavish retirement benefits, and on and on.
A Senator or Representative that ignores the wishes of his constituents, as did nearly all of those that voted for say Obamacare, could be swiftly and surely jerked out of Washington and consigned to the political scrap heap.
That threat, I believe, would make our Congressmen far more concerned with the well-being of their constituents rather than themselves and their parties.
cbyerly, if you believe otherwise, I invite you to explain your position and put forward your argument in detail, if you can.0
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