I think perhaps there should be an option for a compact of States - a required minimum of perhaps 20 - to either issue a veto before it reaches the President's desk, or a line item veto, or a call for a plebiscite. The problem with that is getting all the state legislatures to act quickly enough.
Why an "option" instead of a "requirement" and why the states instead of the people? Is a flaw of the Constitution that it did not give any procedural checks directly to the people against runaway legislation?
"getting ... legislatures to act quickly enough" - isn't a problem that legislatures are acting too quickly? E.g., how much debate was there before the last $2T 3000 page spending bill or the $40B Ukrainian laundromat aid?
I think perhaps there should be an option for a compact of States - a required minimum of perhaps 20 - to either issue a veto before it reaches the President's desk, or a line item veto, or a call for a plebiscite. The problem with that is getting all the state legislatures to act quickly enough.
Why an "option" instead of a "requirement" and why the states instead of the people? Is a flaw of the Constitution that it did not give any procedural checks directly to the people against runaway legislation?
"getting ... legislatures to act quickly enough" - isn't a problem that legislatures are acting too quickly? E.g., how much debate was there before the last $2T 3000 page spending bill or the $40B Ukrainian laundromat aid?
There’s a reason why our founders did not desire a direct democracy.