What would you strike from the Constitution?

[lx43]

1. I would have a clause in the constitution prohibiting debt that is issued by the federal govt.

2. The 16th and 17th admendment would be removed.

3. For any taxes or fees to be increased it would require 3/4 majority.

4. For spending to be increased would require 3/4 majority.

5. A balanced budget admendment

6. Restriction on the size spending to no more than 2% of GDP and restriction on the cost of regulation to no more than 1% of GDP.

7. Anytime expenses exceed debt or spending exceeds 2% of GDP no member of Congress or President can run for re-election, hold any office within the federal govt, or lobby the federal govt.

8. Have an expiration date for all laws so that no law stays on the book for more than two years without Congress renewing it.

 

[osan]

Government as such does not exist. It is, therefore,

The 14th and 16th Amendments were never lawfully ratified.


And "We The People" is a fallacy. The "People" never signed, drafted, or ratified the document, only the State governments did.

And since "government" is likewise a fallacy insofar as being anything more substantive than mere notion, the truth is that this nation was itself never legitimately established. A very tiny group of people took it upon themselves to speak for all and this is what we got. It may have been pretty good for a short while, but that did not last long at all.

As such, government does not exist in reality and is, therefore, utter fraud insofar as it has been generally tendered to the greater populations of the earth. In practical terms, "government" is nothing more than small groups of people operating along similar lines of thought, using assumed monopolies on violence and the threats of potentially devastating force to coerce the rest into doing their bidding. How can this ever be confused with freedom by anyone claiming intelligence greater than that of a boiled turnip? That so many people fail to grasp this truth about so-called "government" leaves me with a sinking feeling of utter despair with regard to the future prospects of the human race.

 

[AFPVet]

Strike the 16th Amendment—as well as section 2 of Article 21 since no regulation of intoxicants should be enforced by the federal government. I would revise the General Welfare Clause to reflect a more specific function.

 

[nayjevin]

7. Anytime expenses exceed debt or spending exceeds 2% of GDP no member of Congress or President can run for re-election, hold any office within the federal govt, or lobby the federal govt.

8. Have an expiration date for all laws so that no law stays on the book for more than two years without Congress renewing it.

Interesting ideas I don't think I've heard before.

 

[mczerone]

But, any group of people bound by any Constitution will result in this government every time it is tried = false.

What if the best changes in this thread were incorporated and a new expiriment began?

Step one being to erect a monument in every state with the wording of the document, for every schoolchild to visit.

Get Ron Paul and Thomas Woods and Thomas DiLorenzo and a dozen more geniuses together with the greatest web developers and video producers and teachers of our time and develop a training system for children which emphasizes, I dunno,

- individualism
- rule of law
- honest money

.... and toothpick kids eyes open until they understand it.

Then would a Constitution work?

So tyrannical brainwashing might make a Constitution work?


The only thing that needs to be added to the Constitution is a scope clause: "No persons or States are bound to this Union and may provide for their own welfare and security if they choose to forgo the benefits of membership. Conversely, the Union may not claim any property, tribute, or other form of servitude from its non-member States or persons except where independent arbiters deem such claims as just."

 

[Lisle16]

I would get rid of the Interstate Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, the Supremacy Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, the Taxing and Spending Clause, and the Sixteenth Amendment.