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> Making the Constitution easier to amend in the future I think that any changes that give more power to gerrymandered legislatures (at the state and federal l
by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Making the Constitution easier to amend in the future
I think that any changes that give more power to gerrymandered legislatures (at the state and federal levels) are a bad idea. That's before we consider the problem that politicians don't represent their voters well, due to lax campaign finance rules, and a voting system that leads to "two big to fail" parties.
More modest proposals would be to allow limits on expenditure on political advertising, Zweitmandat MMP for electing representatives to congress[0], and something like the Lodge-Gossett amendment[1] for making electoral votes proportional to the popular votes within each state (as a compromise short of a full national popular vote).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweitmandat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweitmandat
[1] https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/analysis-fractional-proportional-lodge-gossett-method-awarding-electoral-votes https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/analysis-fractional-prop...