Is it time for a Constitutional Convention?

When Senator Peter Wirth sat on the panel at the Common Cause luncheon, he suggested as an aside, maybe it was time for a Constitutional Convention.

It strikes me, the State Constitution is a little like Microsoft Windows; it started out with a decent plan, but as the flaws became apparent, they were patched rather than fixed. After enough patches, the program no longer works even with the patches. What we have now, is a government over which, the people have no control.

Steven Terrell writes today, link;

One of the most frustrating things about this special session, especially today, (Day 5) is that virtually any action has been behind closed doors -- party caucuses, meetings between small groups of legislative leaders and the governor.

After all the effort to get webcasting and all the other changes that were supposed to make government public, the first and most fundamental step in regaining control over the spending of the people's power and resources, little has changed.

The heavy hitters in the legislature, still see no need to involve the people in the making of decisions that affect their interests.

What more proof does anyone need, they have lost control over power and resources that are fundamentally their own, than that they are not part of the decision making process on how they are spent?

Let's start over from the beginning. And as each line is written, hold it up to the test; does it create government by the people, for the people, and of the people?

And if it does not, strike the line, write another.




photo Mark Bralley