Weak spots in the U.S. Constitution?

Government like churches should ask for donations and not be able to impose taxes.
grant

...Is the 17th Amendment, which stripped the States of their representation in the Federal Government.
Next, and just as serious is the Supreme Court. It's members were not defined or fixed, which allowed FDR to stack the Courts. Secondly, their appointments should come from the States and/or the People and not the Federal Government (executive). Consider this, The federal Government makes the rules, enforces the rules and is referee over the rules. It's a rigged game in it's current form.

the very first, and most requested amendment was never ratified. (due to either a serious grammatical change, or sabotage.)

There are other flaws, or things that were in the Articles of Confederation but left out of the Constitution that would have been important to keep but limiting the size of Congressional districts has to be #1 on my list. Districts currently range in size from over 500K to almost 1M people. No one person can represent that many constituents. The number of representatives is not nearly as important as the number of constituents he/she has. The founders distrusted districts larger than 30,000. They were willing to accept as large as 50,000 but no more. There are HUGE improvements that would result by smaller Congressional districts. 435 is an arbitrary number, and there is no legitimate reason for it. Most of our problems stem back to the fixing of the size of the house. (districts were already too large then, and we were already seeing the effects at the time)

We also need to add back 3/4 rules for incurring debt, going to war, etc. We'd be a lot better off if we had retained those from the AoC.

The AoC also had term limits on both Congress and the President. (yes there was a president) No one could serve more than 3 years in any six as a representative, nor more than one year in any three as president.

The Committee of the States is an interesting implementation of the executive branch. Perhaps we should re-examine it in light of our current Imperial Presidency that continuously steals powers from the States.

I also like the idea of a very limited and non permanent judiciary. Courts should be convened only when needed to settle inter-state disputes. Then disbanded once the case is settled. A non permanent judiciary will have a hard time being entrenched and take on the role of making policy rather then applying the law.

The 5000 Year Leap....If taught in schools, and to those running for ANY political office....we wouldn't be in the fix we're in now. Along with all those rights we're given, we're obligated to perform some duties....we're always yelling for rights but not doing the duties required.

the rights start with the basic foundation of natural law.....the duties start at home.

Remember, there's no such thing as free (nothing is), fair (nothing is) and sorry (no one REALLY is).

If voters did their due diligence when checking out who's running for office, as they should.....then we can only blame ourselves. Anyone "seeking" office probably shouldn't be running. It starts with the individual part of "we the people", progressing through local and up from there.

Anyone running for office should do it out of sacrifice to his fellow man....expecting nothing in return but satisfaction for doing a good job, while holding down a day job.

Read the book.....it's a very good lesson in civics, which they haven't taught in schools for years. And as for the Constitution, it should be a bible of sorts as to how to run a prosperous, free republic with little help from the feds. Ron Paul knows precisely what I'm talking about; he obviously read the book.

hmj

The right of Citizens to keep and bear Arms are absolute and can never under any circumstances not even under national Emergency be taken away by any means. No limits can ever be placed on these rights.
The same goes for the every amendment. The rights described are absolute and can never ever for any reason be taken away.
Congress, Senate, The presidents cabinet and the judicial Branch can absolutely never give them selves raises or take any corporate donations and NEVER EVER ALLOWED TO RECEIVE VISITS FROM LOBBYISTS.
No bill can be passed without every member of the house having read it.
No government representative can lie to an American Citizen punishable by water boarding. Only elected officials while holding office can be water boarded. Ordinary Citizens can never be water boarded.

Any Citizen traveling abroad does so under the full protection of the US Government. The US government will do whatever it takes to protect it's Citizens no matter where they are in the world. It is the duty and obligation of the President and congress to protect every American Citizen and failure to do so is Treason punishable by Hanging only.
Giving Tax benefits for Companies moving manufacturing overseas is Treason against The American Citizenry and punishable by water boarding followed by hanging.

I guess I'll keep saying this. I'm not sure how many of you actually consider it.

"All of the privileges granted to this government in this constitution are temporary. Those who grant them(the signers) will be able to take them back at any time without the threat of violence from this government."

Free yourself.

liberty or restrain government that is determined to overcome any such expressed restraints. The state legislates, enforces and judicially "interprets" any and all such organizing documents in accordance with their objectives. Such interpretations are assigned the status of Holy Writ by a population for whom the value of, and desire for, liberty has diminished. A different wording here and there would only serve to call upon different official legislative, executive or judicial rationalizations or cleverly phrased specious interpretations of selective pieces of historical fact as to why any such document or phrasing should, and for the purposes of the State does, mean something slightly different than originally intended. Use of the words "necessary", "inherent" and "implied" come to mind in various historical judicial diversions and constructions concerning a basic organizing document that itself was the product of political compromise. To make use of a familiar observation, the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves.
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"An economy built on fiat money is a society on its way to ashes."

I love the question, because it makes the mistaken assumption that the US Constitution was written to guarantee anyone's rights.

I'm still left wondering how anyone could write a document that 'freed' me before I was even born by claiming authority to enslave me once I was. Further, I've never gotten an answer about how the US Constitution creates any legal obligation between myself and anyone else. After all, it's not a contract. So what is it then, other than a declaration made over two hundred years ago by a bunch of violent criminals who were fed up with the violent criminals who were stealing from them?