I just read this intriguing piece in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=3&hp What's great about this article is that I think the means that it describes and ends we would all find desirable: a government that votes it's conscience. We differ greatly as to the means. I've been thinking recently that the problem is lack of accountability. First a little history: Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was a unicameral body in which each state held one vote. The ineffectiveness of the federal government under the Articles led Congress to summon a Constitutional Convention in 1787. The issue of how Congress was to be structured was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. James Madison's Virginia Plan called for a bicameral Congress: the lower house would be "of the people," elected directly by the people of the United States and representing public opinion, and a more deliberative upper ho...
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