Our Worst Problem? Our Antiquated Constitution
The good old USA suffers from many vexing problems, as many of the other articles in this magazine show. It is time to start fixing them by convening a convention to discuss amendments to update our antiquated Constitution. That antiquated Constitution is the root cause of many of the public policy debates that befuddle us, as I show below. • The most obvious example is our structural deficit.
- ▪The good old USA suffers from many vexing problems, as many of the other articles in this magazine show.
- ▪It is time to start fixing them by convening a convention to discuss amendments to update our antiquated Constitution.
- ▪That antiquated Constitution is the root cause of many of the public policy debates that befuddle us, as I show below. • The most obvious example is our structural deficit.
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The good old USA suffers from many vexing problems, as many of the other articles in this magazine show. It is time to start fixing them by convening a convention to discuss amendments to update our antiquated Constitution. That antiquated Constitution is the root cause of many of the public policy debates that befuddle us, as I show below. • The most obvious example is our structural deficit. We have accumulated a national debt of $39 trillion and rising, a $112,000 millstone around the necks of each of our grandchildren. Interest payments on the national debt are now the largest item in the federal budget after Social Security.• The Supreme Court’s role as neutral expositor of the law is under relentless attack for supposedly political decisions by its new conservative majority.
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