Allow the public to pass a constitutional amendment directly

Liberty
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Pass a Constitutional Amendment that gives the public two powers.
The public should be able to;

  1. Repeal any law with a referendum.
  2. Pass OR repeal a constitutional amendment with a referendum
    This is the law in Switzerland today. It works extremely well there.
    To repeal a law, we should follow the same way Congress votes. The majority of house of representatives districts vote to repeal it + a majority of majority of states must vote to repeal it.
    For a constitutional amendment, the same way we do it now.
    We would hold two rounds of voting, the first would be;
    First 2/3 of of house of representatives districts & 2/3 of states must by majority vote yes.
    Then instead of 75% of the state legislatures ratifying it. Each state (however it chooses it legislature members), would use each seats district to vote instead of the representative themselves.
    We the people have no way of restricting the government without them agreeing.
    We can then ban them from trading stocks. OURSELVES
    We can impose term limits on congress. OURSELVES
    We can outlaw gerrymandering. OURSELVES
    We can demand single topic bills. OURSELVES
    We can put in a line-item-veto for the president to strike individual things from the budget OURSELVES
    We can force congress to pass a balanced budget OURSELVES
    We should be able to directly hold them accountable for messing us over.
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