> May I humbly suggest two things: first, you swap the right to bear arms for the right to hold citizen's initiated referendums. Most states have them, and the

> May I humbly suggest two things: first, you swap the right to bear arms for the right to hold citizen's initiated referendums. Most states have them, and they're pretty terrible. Get 51% of those of your fellow citizens who bother to show up to support it, and a referendum can rewrite any law — worse, an amendment can write anything into the state constitution. Our problem at the moment is that we're too much a democracy and too little a republic. > Second, somehow beef up your fourth estate. I think that the media — particularly their coverage of the primaries — bear a great deal of the blame for today. Making them stronger would exacerbate that.