Here's a few ideas. Add yours in the comments.
- "we mean it" amendments for the 1A and 2A
- add a house to Congress where people get called up (not elected) like for jury duty for each bill, and get given 5 days to review and vote, and bills must pass all three houses
- require that the Secretary of the Treasury cut spending across the board when Congress deficit spends / let POTUS line-item veto when Congress deficit spends
- codify jury nullification so it is always ok to argue for it
- make it hard to fire police for refusing to follow unlawful orders
- obviously require paper ballots and tamper-evident paper and digital audit trails
- cap absentee ballots at .5% of registered voters
- disallow mail-in voting (except requested absentee ballots as above)
- limit voting to three days -- no weeks of early voting
- term limits: representatives get 1 term, senators get 1 term, legislature members get two max, governors get two max, presidents get to max
- senators should be elected by the legislatures again
- being senator should be a disqualification for being president for at least four years after the end of the senator's term (last term if term limits not added)
S'a good list but, the line-item veto won't fly.
This would be constitutional reforms.
And a couple of them might be unworkable.
I woulldn't vote to pay for pakistani gender-training but, if a stupid item gets onto a bill, there it is.
If the president can veto line-items, it removes much of the use/power of congress.
It's something to be solved. Otherwise, you have to be honest, and ask for an unconstituional dictatorship, and hope it's a benevolent one.
The idea is that this should happen only when Congress spends more (or much more) than there are revenues for.
Would that apply to 'now'?
Wasn't Q3 a good one?