1. What is something about the Constitution that needs changing? How would you change it so that your change solves a problem, but doesn't another set of problems that are worse than the one you're trying to fix?
2. The first amendment gives Americans the right to ask the government to change something it's doing. What is the best way for a citizen to do that -- through his own representative(s), through the Presidency/Executive branch, or in federal court?
3. How has the "balance of power" between federal government, states, and individual citizens been tested in history? Does one of these power bases usually win?
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#2
ReplyDeleteI think that the best way for a citizen to change the constitution is to go through a representative and have them put it before congress.
J.T. Mayes
number one
ReplyDeleteThat is hard to do because the way that something is written and MEANT to be interpreted and how it is interpreted can, and are two very different things. Many people in Congress don't believe the way that the Founding Fathers did so they will do anything within their power to make the Constitution say what they want it to say, which causes problems farther down the line. No matter how you wrote something to change the Constitution today, in a hundred or more years someone will take that to say what it doesn't mean and you're back to square one again.
Question 2
ReplyDeleteI'd say taking a petition to your state's Representative, to show that a lot of people would like the change, would be a good place to start; but it would really depend on the thing you want changed.