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There’s already a de facto supermajority requirement in that you need the senate, which represents states, and the house, which represents people. Also, it tur
by bradleyjg 4y ago
There’s already a de facto supermajority requirement in that you need the senate, which represents states, and the house, which represents people.
Also, it turns out that when the legislature doesn’t act, because it was deliberately hobbled by its designers, you end up with an ultra powerful executive rather than things being left to the states.
It would be better if more Americans recognized the flaws in the design of our system of government instead of quasi-worshipping the Founding Fathers and insisting that any problems are because we are unworthy of their great design.
- brightball 4y agoThat’s a valid point. IMO the executive should have been more limited.
- bink 4y ago> hobbled by its designers Minor quibble, but the filibuster is nowhere in the Constitution. And it was most recently modified in 1975.
- bradleyjg 4y agoThe legislature was split in two because it was considered the most dangerous branch. Or at least that’s one of the explanations they gave when arguing for its ratification.