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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn easy, CONSTITUTIONAL way to solve many of America's problems
Make Congress non-partisan.
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An easy, CONSTITUTIONAL way to solve many of America's problems (Original Post)
jmowreader
Aug 2015
OP
The Constitution was written without any recognition of political parties...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2015
#3
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)1. That would make for some interesting races for Speaker
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. I hate to break it to you,
but a law banning people who are too "partisan" from running for or serving in Congress would be unlikely to survive a constitutional challenge.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)4. Not quite
Anyone who wants to run for Congress, could. But once they get there, instead of having a "Democratic Caucus" and a "Republican Caucus," there'd just be Members of Congress.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5. So they would be banned from caucusing with each other?
Might still be a constitutional issue there.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. The Constitution was written without any recognition of political parties...
They did, however, almost immediately appear.
Parties are an almost natural evolution of electoral politics--people who tend to see things the same way tend to organize themselves.