On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Greg Broiles wrote:
I suggest adopting two very popular memes to reach this goal - three strikes term limits. A legislator who votes for three different laws which are eventually struck down as unconstitutional shall be removed from office, and unable to serve in the legislature again for at least 25 years.
Perhaps first offenders can be offered the opportunity to participate in a diversion program, whereby they're forced to [re]take classes in constitutional law and civics, and if they succesfully complete the program and don't reoffend within one year, the first violation will be ignored.
How do you propose to deal with such things as the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which incidently included the CDA)? I can see a problem where one sentence or clause gets thrown out of a major bill (say a compromise budget, that someone screwed up one minor ammendment), and if you have that happen 3 times in 6 years, you've lost 90% of your senators! I'm not saying that your idea isn't without merit, just that it's got a few problems that strike me as somewhat major.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------