The Presidency

No McCain-Feingold needed. The President would be Selected every 6 years by each state legislature meeting on the same day as all others and casting a single vote for that state for a person to serve a single 6 year term. The person getting a majority of the 50 votes is president for the next 6 years but that is all he/she can serve.

This would mean that the person you vote for to represent you in the state legislature for the period when that Selection would take place is going to run on a platform that includes who they would vote for president. To equalize the power of the majority and the minority in the consideration; all state legislatures must be bi-cameral where one house is elected based on population and one house is elected based on areas divided solely on land mass. (Sorry Nebraska!) Thus your legislature would have a House like the US House and a Senate like the US Senate. (See a later post on apportionment.)

So the big money that now goes to Presidential campaigns would in most part go to local campaigns. So you you would see ads that say things like "Vote for Joe Blow for District 5 Missouri House General Assembly; he is committed to Sam Smith for President."

There probably would still be National Nominating Conventions but not necessarily.

A Vice President would be Selected by 2/3 of the US House after the President is chosen; from a member of the US Senate who is a member of the same party as that of the person Selected as President.

The US Congress would lack all powers to regulate this election or any other election of either a member of congress or the state legislatures.

More on the Presidency in a subsequent post.

The Judiciary

In the revised constitution the thing that needs fixed the most is the judiciary.

First: get rid of the life appointment; make it a single term of 14 years. This will make sure that it turns over during the term of a subsequent president. In no case may a judge serve past the age of 75.

Second: If a court finds an act of Congress unconstitutional; Congress can reenact that act by 2/3 of each house.

Third the Supreme Court can find a state act unconstitutional if and only if the State Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of the act. The US Supreme Court must rule by 2/3 of all justice appointed at that time on the constitutionality of the act. If a state act is ruled unconstitutional the state legislature can reenact it by 2/3 of each house unless the state has a unicameral then it must be 3/4 (Nebraska has idiots).

Fourth: The Senate of the United States must immediately put to an up or down vote the confirmation of any appointment to the judiciary sent to it by the President. No procedure other than taking the vote is possible and no other action of the Senate can take place until that vote is taken. Any Senator not present or voting present shall be counted as voting in favor of the appointment. No more holding appointments for years while senators deal for bridges to no where.

There will be some other posts about changes to the Constitution that will touch the judiciary but these are the direct changes.