If Congress never passed another law for all eternity, that would be a good thing. All we need, really, is the Constitution anyways.
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I've long thought that a better version of the First Amendment would be:
"Congress shall make no law."
George gammon is kind of a questionable character now, but he had a quote that I still really like.
“The best move any politician make is to get elected, sit at their desk and do nothing for 4 years, and then retire”
I go you one further and say we don't even need the Constitution, because it gave US the mess we have today.
The Articles of Confederation, the OG U.S. constitution was better, but the elites wanted a more powerful government they could control and profit from...
Disagree with this take. The Constitution protects individual liberties agains the state (see 1st and 2nd amendments). That is what makes the US Constitution so unique among nations
I'll grant you those first two Amendments are what have spared the U.S. from the indignities suffered by other nations, but the U.S. Government is ever gunning for them (pun intended), to take them away, along with so many other rights.
Fair. That’s not the fault of the original Constitution, though
Well, even the very "Founding generation" passed the Alien and Sedition Acts and fined and jailed people for criticizing the president and disagreeing with the government. They also imposed higher taxes than King George III did.
I used to be a "constitutionalist" and believed, like Jefferson, that you had to "bind men down with the chains of the Constitution." He was even my favorite President, until I realized even he disregarded the Constitution when it suited his purposes.
I've become convinced that the US Constitution is outdated that we need to evolve in our pursuit of Liberty, toward true self-government, not "representative" self-government in name only.
The elements of the constitution that preserve individual liberties against the state are sound. The elements that do the opposite are unsound. Simple
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it."
- Lysander Spooner
That sounds like a FANTASTIC first step.
Then I say we sunset agencies. Congress will have to regularly vote to re-enable them before the expiration date, and be on record doing so.
We get size and scope data, some will go away for good, and the administrative state will get limits.
Currently, the bureaucracy pumps out 80,000 pages of rules every year to the federal Register. Not one directly approved by Congress.
Government agencies, including Congress, could become think-tanks (if people REALLY feel like we HAVE to have them). They could make RECOMMENDATIONS, not compulsory laws, and people could choose to follow them if they think they are good ideas.
And these entities, like everything else in "government" could be crowd-funded, i.e., paid for VOLUNTARILY if people feel like they are worthy of support, like a GoFundMe campaign.
The only “new laws” I support are laws that undo previous laws, ceding power from the state and granting it to the individual
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