I know of one single amendment to the US Constitution that could work...but unfortunately is guaranteed to never happen because of all the "dark money" forces that would line up against it. Still...it is intriguing enough to be fun to think about.
My idea is to include an amendment that allows a special, nationwide election. The election would be a "vote of confidence" of the citizens of the US for their "representatives" -- Congress in Washington. I am thinking this should be a straight up-or-down confidence vote. If the people vote "no confidence" the entire Congress is instantly dissolved, members (all 535 Representatives and Senators) are out of office, and new elections are held. The ejected members are banned from running for re-election...and the citizens actually have to work to find representatives they can support and trust.
The only part I am not 100% certain about is how to trigger such an election. Maybe a combination scale of actual legislation that is really considered in the two bodies as opposed to dying in some partisan committee combined maybe with an overall average of legislation that actually gets passed? (Pork projects would be excluded).
I think the key is we the people need to have a hammer when we have had several years of inaction in Congress for any number of items --- a Real Democracy is after all a Working Democracy.
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