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My amendments to the constitution:

- Every regular law expires in 10 years.

- Congress must vote in each law/bill individually.

- Budget of each agency is voted separately.

- Maximum length of any bill is 10 pages.

- Bills must be presented in their final form 2 weeks before the vote.

- Maximum bills voted per day is 10.

Bill Cypher 7mo ago

The US Constitution is designed to centralize power in the federal government taking it away from the states.

The first charter for the US federal government was the Articles of Confederation and it created a much more severely limited government.

The first ten amendments, aka the bill of rights, were a compromise from the big government pro constitution group to get more of the small government people to switch sides.

They should have stuck to their principles and kept the articles of confederation.

All of this has somehow gone missing from most American history books. I'll let the reader decide if that was intentional.

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Diogenes the Cynic 7mo ago

You a constitutional scholar or somethin?

Bill Cypher 7mo ago

Nope, just love a bit of history that destroys convenient narratives.

Diogenes the Cynic 7mo ago

It'll be interesting to see how far things go in the next decade. People say "regulation is the enemy of capitalism" and then totally ignore the fact that they've been poisoned to death by corporations that have utterly destroyed regulation... Hey, do you know how much PFOA is in your blood? It isn't zero because every human alive has PFOA in their blood, but do you live somewhere that Dupont and Co. was able to dump extensively?

Bill Cypher 7mo ago

PFOAs are a case of every bad thing people say will happen without a government is already happening with a government.

When a company like DuPont can use the government as an extension squashing competition and covering up wrongdoing it isn't exactly capitalism. I also hope as an agorist that taking away the government as a tool would reduce or limit issues like PFOAs.

Diogenes the Cynic 7mo ago

I can't say this makes sense to me. Regulators are fake, we knows this. Lobbyist dollars fuel nearly every regulatory body. So removing even the notion of regulation is what you think will prevent corporations from doing horrible shit? So you think legalizing murder will prevent murders? Or legalizing weed will stop people from smoking weed? Boy, I got news for you on that last one, lmao.

Bill Cypher 7mo ago

I don't expect a utopia, but I do think that taking away the government to look to as a parental trust figure will cause more individuals to rise to the occasion.

If people can't assume moral because legal they must do moral reasoning on their own in a distributed fashion.

Murders already illegal and still happens. Weed isn't immoral so most harm comes from government regulation. Issues like PFOAs are uniquely suited to legality preventing public whistleblowers from stepping up.

Low Information Voter 7mo ago

"Who enforced the law and judged cases before state bureaucrats took it over in the 1800s?" is a question I like to ask.

The Common Law is much older than nation-state bureaucracy.

m00ninite 7mo ago

I suspect it's not that interesting. We mostly learn wars and outcomes in school, not nitty gritty details.

sms 7mo ago

The #Quash: The Arts of Confederation worked. That's why they HAD TO GO.

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