"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people; they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." -Thomas Jefferson
A hard copy of voting records of all national and local representatives should be sent to every household at the close of every legislative session.
Term limits are not the answer.
We the People are smart and energetic enough to hold our representatives accountable every 2 ,4, or 6 years.
Representatives should receive expenses-only pay after the blackmail and infiltration is eradicated.
Why would we be willing to create a law that would possibly force a proven-great defender of the Contitution and our liberties to leave office even if we the people want to re-elect that person
"Why would we be willing to create a law that would possibly force a proven-great defender of the Contitution and our liberties to leave office even if we the people want to re-elect that person" You make some very good points and all I could offer is- How would we really know? - After a few years they would get comfy in the system and figure out how to "work" it. I'm nobody so that's just my simpleton answer. People have to be in place for a bit to learn where and how to be crooked and get away with it. No one should Want to be a politician, imho. It should not be a rewarding job, kind o
Inextinguishable adj; impossible to extinguish; Not extinguishable; Incapable of being extinguished; unquenchable.
...kind of like jury duty. (sorry, I don't know how the end got chopped off)