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Hey Bob, not a bad idea but I still do not see this as a possible cure and here is why.

 

You said: "A permanent institution Of The People, By The People and For The People established in each State, as a non-partisan, not-for-profit Constitution Lobby, for the purpose of holding all elected and appointed officials accountable to their local, state and federal Constitutions;

 

My Reply: These individuals that will be representing the people still have to be determined by some form or fashion and a lobbying group has no real force and effect of law. Unless I can vote for somebody at the local level that I can screen to see if they truly represent me, I fear I will be stuck with another group of liars trying to manipulate government for their own benefit. Just another costly layer of quasi government without a real method of improving the system.

 

You said: "The Constitution Lobby in each state will be organized and managed by a Coalition of state leaders of different Constitution-oriented organizations, each one a specialist in their own fields with their own constituencies, but working together as a team for the restoration and maintenance of constitutional order;

 

My reply: Working together as a team? That's what the dems and reps do and we see what that has gotten us. Who is going to decide what Constitution-oriented organization are going to be in this Coalition and what specialists are best in their field? The organizations must be at the local level in my opinion with a greater number of participants in both making the decisions and actually participating in the actual judicial process at the appeals level. That is where the law is really arbitrated and determined.

 

You said: "The Constitution Lobby in each state will share incorporating principles, by-laws and standards of operation with the other states and a national entity aligned for the sole purpose of protecting and defending the Constitution;

 

"The Constitution Lobby will have a Board of Directors and Officers; attorneys and appropriate support staff interacting with a network of constitutional monitors established throughout the state";

 

An institution having the organization, power and financial muscle to do whatever it takes to keep elected officials within the boundaries the People have drawn around their power, not only at the state and local level, but as a national body when needed";

 

My Reply: If you could institute such a plan, the working mechanism sounds just like government, just another layer of added expense. I think we need to replace the current judiciary with a superior one that it is more decentralized and with greater number of both participants, judges and electors. I believe the rank and file electorate would not participate and therefore the more educated would have a greater say in the process, negating some of the problems of a direct democracy.

 

You Said: An institution that avoids all political questions and does not rely on the electoral process to achieve accountability in government. All constitutional candidates for government will soon be watching the activities of the Lobby and the responsiveness of current office holders;

 

My Reply: You sound like a politicians talking the talk but with no real way of executing change or knowing what to change to. We cannot continue to allow just 9 people (the Supreme Court) to determine the rule of law for a country of 325+/- million people. The oligarchy has blocked almost everything that you, I and many others have tried to do and setting up a lobbying group might put some pressure on them but it will surely not curtail their various operations. The system is about ready to melt down and unless we have something superior to put in its place, we will get the same results over a again. The free market must take over the judiciary by instituting a direct democratically elected judiciary a the local level. A participatory republic in a sense but that is for the most part voluntary and unsalaried. I have detailed a plan at http://rsjexperiment.wordpress.com that I think takes your idea to a higher level.

 

 


Comment by Anonymously Yours
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Hey Bob one more thing.  You are and have been for many years at least trying to come up with real solutions which is way more than what I can say for most everyone else out there and in my opinion, no one has done more to try to rectify the enormous problems facing our society than you and I will continue to analysis, curtail and perhaps reconsider your ideas as I learn more about it's application and potential ramifications. I look forward to continuing dicussions on this all important matter. The protection of invidual rights, in my opinion, is the single most important issue facing our world and until we can do this to a substantive degree, the world will continue to be mired in conflict, war and resultant poverty.  You are a ture patriot and great invidual and I am very proud to know you. Let's do this.   

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