Ask HN: Can we Form a New Constitutional Congress?

Major fact : A LOT has changed in the 200+ years since this nation was founded, and lately it all seems to be shit hitting a fan -- a very large fan and a large amount of shit--we're all getting splatter from it.<p>It's allowed under the constitution for peaceful assembly, so why couldn't each state elect from it's body 25 individuals to represent that state in a new congress to re-establish what America SHOULD be for a 21st century world?<p>Presumably one w/ less bureaucracy, less waste, and less power at the center. Who knows what this could create, but if we simply gave it a shot, it couldn't be worse than what have now -- Or imagine an online continental congress that everyone could collectively participate in via comments/online-voting/etc?<p>Personally, I feel that the government should have one major purpose the protection of all states - but not at the cost of our freedoms/privacy.<p>The federal gov't should not be allowed more than 5-10% of the tax dollars. All other funds should go to State governments -- w/ states managing their own laws - what's legal/what's not/which drugs to allow, which to ban. Anyone committing a crime nationwide should be tried in the jurisdicition it was committed in by their laws.<p>There are a lot of ideas on the table, like capping CEO pay, how to pay and manage healthcare, flat sales tax vs income tax, Guaranteed Basic Income--but the only way to get them enacted isn't through changing what we already have--what we have is BROKEN w/ a CAPITAL B. We need a fresh start. We need to begin again. That is the ONLY way we can break out of this cycle.