[ameribbean expat]

Hoover Inst. now officially off the reservation, rejects Trump but wants a stronger executive at the specific expense of the legislative.

[biggredd1]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/04/author-the-left-is-aggressively-breaking-down-the-resistance-to-transform-america/

[JBW1949]

“...The Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times...”

It is as valid today as the day it was written...The problem is that politicians and judges do not follow what it says because it doesn’t fit their agendas...

[Samurai_Jack]

the way I see it, the primary function of government Should Be to Limit itself.

[certrtwngnut]

How about our employees in D.C. and in our states and communities follow what the constitution says instead of undermining it. That would help a little bit.
These progg/lib/socialist/communists are looking for paradise. There ain’t no paradise. Just hard work and to follow the law.

[Raycpa]

The last thing the federal government was designed for is effectiveness

[Ouderkirk]

>Congress the prime source of dysfunction, it should be moved to the periphery of the policymaking process where its pathologies can do less damage—and presidents should be moved to the center where they can do the most good.

Why not just make a President for life? Maybe a King.

I stopped reading after that point because there was no reason to continue.

First order of business....eliminate the Congressional pension system. They collect their pay and that's it. No health insurance, no perks. Corruption is a capital crime and your family ends up penniless.

[rollo tomasi]

Has this idiot savant ever heard of Administrative Law? Multiple agencies were created by Congress and operated under the Chief Executive; hence his idiotic and oppressive hypothesis/conclusion is already in existence. Look where we are at right now, lol.

The only solution is a limited Federal government restrained by specific enumerated powers that allow States to govern as they see fit. Also a population that understands the concepts of self-government and actual liberty/Natural Law.

[PGalt]

Why is the nation so poorly governed?

Criminals, liars, deceivers, plunderers, thugs, conmen, scumbags, collectivists, socialists, totalitarians are in and around government.

Identify them. DEPOPULATE them from the body politic. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.

It's easy to…

live - free - republic

C'mon November

[central_va]

The republic died at Appomattox.

[central_va]

Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.

[silverleaf]

The problem is not the Constitution
It’s the dysfunctional people servung in elected office
The Founders knew that a Republic that they created could only be sustained by a virtuous people
And that is where we have and are failing
A virtuous people would not elect the collection of miscreants idiots and oligarchs that now consider elected office to,be their “ career”

[Fiddlstix]

Our Constitution IS (was & is) One Of The Greatest Documents Ever Written By The Human Hands!!
'Nuff Said!

[Don Corleone]

Our form of government will work only if honest, God fearing moral people are put into office. That is OUR responsibility as citizens.

[WKUHilltopper]

Hoover Institute...just like the vacuum—you suck. Your tyranny is outdated.

[exDemMom]

The problem is not the Constitution. The problem is the infinitely corruptible nature of human beings, and the ability of the most corrupt among us to wear a veneer of caring and compassion while serving their own ends.

There is no way to draft a constitution that is corruption-proof. The best we can do is try to reach past the media enablers to shine the light directly on corruption and to educate people to use logic, not emotion, to make decisions.

The answer is not to invest ultimate power in the president.

I skimmed through the comments under the article, and every one that I saw correctly noted that the article’s “solution” of investing more power into the president and making Congress into no more than an advisory body is the making of a dictatorship.

[Paladin2]

They want an even weaker Congress and more Dicktatorship. That’ll be good....

[rockrr]

The author appears impatient with government because it doesn’t act quickly enough. I don’t want a government that acts quickly - I want a government that acts in a measured manner. I prefer a government that experiences gridlock - that is a sign that the natural forces of self-regulation are at play.

A legislative branch that only pass laws when they make sense. An executive branch that leaves it to the legislative branch to enact laws. A judiciary branch that doesn’t attempt to pass laws or make policy. That’s what the founding fathers had in mind.

[Lazamataz]

The Hoover Institution, who claims to be on the right, now casts themselves in with Globalists and the left.

[MortMan]

Why is the nation so poorly governed? This is the question that we address in our new book, Relic. What we show is that the fundamentals of an answer can be traced to the Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times.

In other words, because we haven't actually followed our constitution for decades, we must now eviscerate the document to fit what we know does not work.

The author is an idiot (at best).

[Publius]

In 1963, Sen. Joseph Clark (D-PA) wrote a book titled Congress: The Sapless Branch. In that book he suggested exactly the same thing as the author of this article.

It was a bad idea then, and it's a bad idea now.