Congress, Candidates Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders: Support Al Carroll's A Proposed New Constitution

To end the buying and selling of elections, overturning Citizens United will not be enough! We need a new constitutional convention, one truly representative of the people, for a new constitution to end the power of elites. Congress, show you are truly of the people! Presidential candidates, show you serve the people and not the big donors!

If it were up to the American
public, the following solutions would have become law many decades, even half a
century or more, before today:

1. Abolishing
the Electoral College.

           

2.
Ending the buying of elections.

           

3.
Limiting election campaigns to three months.

           

4.
Ending wars quickly in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Each war continued over
half a decade after the American public wanted to get out.     

5. Reforming the office of vice president, widely regarded with contempt by most, and
producing candidates that even most voters of the same party as the
presidential candidate did not want.

6.
Ending corporate welfare and other wasteful spending.

           

7.
Ending most foreign military aid, and support for tyrants and dictators around
the world.

           

8.
Limiting the power of the Supreme Court.

           

9.
Ending the political monopoly of wealthy elites.

           

10.
Guaranteeing privacy from government intrusion.

           

Each
of these proposals have widespread bipartisan support and are hugely popular
across the political spectrum by great majorities. But none of these proposals,
not too surprisingly, have majority support among elected political elites,
economic elites, or the leadership of either party.

           

The
constitution itself is the biggest barrier to solving these problems. Not one
of these problems have been, or ever could have been, quickly solved, precisely
because the constitution makes it difficult. Most of these problems require a
constitutional amendment, something made deliberately long and difficult by the
founders. A few of these could be solved temporarily by ordinary laws, which
could then be easily overturned next election.

           

So
why not go to the root of these problems? Why not a new constitution? Support Al Carroll's A Proposed New Constitution at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/614023