re: #35 Belafon

Here’s what you’d have to design: An enforcement mechanism that is strong enough even if the leader’s party controls the major branches of government, he/she can still be held accountable, but not so strong that it can’t be used to go after the president just because.

The thing is, we theoretically have those protections. The problem is we have politicians more beholden to party than to country. It’s ultimately a moral failing of leadership, and I’m not sure there’s any system (including Plato’s Republic) that can account for such a failure.

As for the constitutional convention. Just imagine the debate on rights? Is the right to privacy a constitutional right? Does that mean abortion is protected or is abortion no longer part of the right to privacy? Or the debate on whether to codify the administrative procedures act and effectively create a fourth branch of government?

There are a billion constitutional questions that would mean a much longer/more detailed constitution than what we have now.