Monica Lewinsky penned on op-ed Monday calling for a series of constitutional amendments, including age limits for elected officials and a ban on presidential self-pardons. In a piece in Vanity Fai…
Unicameral legislatures are very common in the world today, and they work.
Do you disagree with that? It’s true. No country ever moves from unicameral to bicameral because it’s simpler and easier.
There’s already other veto powers: the President and the Supreme Court can both veto the Legislature. Why does the Legislature need a veto for it’s own decision? That’s just unnecessary.
I’m proposing replacing the president’s veto with the Senate’s
That’s literally the main thing they’d have in this model, the veto.
The reason they have it in addition to the courts is because the courts focus more on using it in cases where a law itself breaks established laws, while the Senate could use it for bills that are hypothetically legal but which still cross some other line like say disproportionately burdening indigenous communities or being unjustly against practices of organized labor.
I said the Senate doesn’t need to exist because:
Do you disagree with that? It’s true. No country ever moves from unicameral to bicameral because it’s simpler and easier.
There’s already other veto powers: the President and the Supreme Court can both veto the Legislature. Why does the Legislature need a veto for it’s own decision? That’s just unnecessary.
I’m proposing replacing the president’s veto with the Senate’s
That’s literally the main thing they’d have in this model, the veto.
The reason they have it in addition to the courts is because the courts focus more on using it in cases where a law itself breaks established laws, while the Senate could use it for bills that are hypothetically legal but which still cross some other line like say disproportionately burdening indigenous communities or being unjustly against practices of organized labor.