This would reduce the size of Federal spending by at least 50%, which means that we could also reduce Federal taxes. Their model was the super-successful Roman Constitution, and also the informal but also super-successful British Constitution. A good model for how the regulatory administration could be tamed and made a regular working part of the Constitution has been presented by Senator Mike Lee in Our Lost Constitution (2016). That’s why the checks and balances found elsewhere in the Constitution were not applied to the Supreme Court. This is not just an exercise in turning back the clock, but an updating the Constitution to today’s knowledge and today’s needs.

Source: Forbes June 26, 2020 20:48 UTC