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[โ€“] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

USA:

  • Prison slavery abolished

  • Elected judges with term limits

  • Ranked Choice Voting

  • Bodily autonomy as a right (no banning abortions, gender transitioning, bionics)

  • Separation of Church and State as the actual law of the land

  • Add federal referendums, all constitutional amendments are referendums (but amendments still require 75% of the population)

  • Districts are now no bigger than 50,000 people and they all get a representitive, and all the recognized Amerindian tribes also get their own reps (an agreement was made with the Cherokee for them to get one but it was never fulfilled)

  • 2nd Amendment replaced with something that directly allows federal government to regulate but not ban firearms.

[โ€“] Chrisosaur@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m not big on elected judges. Iโ€™d rather keep them appointed so they wouldnโ€™t have to pander to anyone.

[โ€“] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Appointed judges already failed to prevent that.

Yeah I know, but elections are an overcompensation. Adding term limits and throwing in some anti-corruption reforms would be better I think.

[โ€“] salarua@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i wouldn't go with ranked choice voting. all the systems i know of have their own flaws: IRV can have really weird results with more than three candidates, Borda count disproportionately favors the moderate, and the Condorcet method can completely fail to select a winner. instead, what about approval voting, where instead of ranking candidates, you just check as many boxes as you want?

[โ€“] Psephomancy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

and the Condorcet method can completely fail to select a winner.

That one's not a flaw. All elections can suffer from ties. Pure Condorcet just makes it obvious when there's a tie (and this is very rare). There are a bunch of Condorcet completion methods for resolving the tie.

[โ€“] abejfehr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the body autonomy thing would work against for you mandating vaccines