Rye, I think politicians explicitly de-emphasize the 10th to try and draw more power to themselves

They absolutely do.

Reading the commentary from them on the constitution honestly makes it look like they wanted us to change it up in the future

which is largely what the amendments were for

It is FAR EASIER to call a convention of states and address the crises than it is to abolish the state

and you can achieve the same goal.

essentially.

Especially when England has a big ass military waiting to conquer

Semi-hypothetical question: If you were given sole power over reforming the U.S. government, what would your *first* action be?

So much to do can't think of first

So your first action would be to think? Very good answer.

I suppose 😄

Move towards revocation of the departmentalization of government

My first action would be to impose term limits on *every* office, elected or not.

I would like that.

Honestly first action would be meet with experts

A political career should feature advancement for those who perform

and an ultimate retirement

not a coushy seat for 40 plus years.

I wonder if having election for every seat every 2 years would be good or bad

and really, Congress and the Senate shouldn't be doing much more than balancing the budget anyway...

I think the terms are fine.

They just need limits.

i would probably troll people and act like trump, because nobody would let me do anything anyway

The hypothetical was not being resident though

I agree that the current term lengths are fine as-is

Just consider how frustrating it is to have an opposing party in the presidency

was having sole reform power

That's indicative of just how overpowered that position is.

Its really underpowered, but still way more overpowered than it should be.

Is it?

The three branches were designed to be able to counter each other

The Presidency has the ability to abolish the government and reform it in response to any crisis anywhere.

The veto alone should be plenty in a lot of ways

Thing with executive orders too though is that next prez can just erase it

@RyeNorth you mean martial law?

There was an executive order put forward by Obama that increased the scope of presidential power.

I can't seem to find it...

I recall one where it split governance to 12 districts r something

I can't seem to find it. Tim's even mentioned it before.

Anyway, one of the main purposes for many of the government departments is to blur the lines of the constitution so that they can bypass the 10th amendment.