Let’s try this. Next time your firm has a meeting, why don’t you all read every page of the research reports that go out with corporate approval? Start whipping everyone who did not do the homework, beginning with the CEO.

Do you have an employment contract? Try writing it in one paragraph.

Reading of the details is delegated in all organizations, but it is important that the details are there. The notion that legislators can or should read every bill, or that all should be read on the floor, is completely unrealistic.

Just a thought

Your suggestions do not factor in the culture of bribery and corruption that is endemic in Washington DC and our state and local governments as well.

The only interest our “leadership” has in the Constitution is to use it as a prop, waving it in the face of the citizenry when it suits their purposes, while they cut their backroom deals to increase their political influence and enrich themselves.

This corruption has overtaken both political parties in equal measure.

And to IF: There is a significant movement afoot, championed by Harold Koh, Obama’s choice to be legal adviser to the State Department, to subject the United States for the first time in its history to the jurisdiction of a variety of transnational institutions, such as the International Criminal Court. It doesn’t take much imagination to foresee the mischief an entity with the makeup of the United Nations (that is, with nations like Syria, Libya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, etc. having equal standing with the US, Great Britain, etc.) and with the power to begin criminal proceedings against American elected officials and military leaders could cause. Tragically, Koh seems to have sympathizers in at least 2 current members of the Supreme Court (Ginsberg and Breyer) and almost certainly in Sotomayor.

There are any number of other issues where transnational entities would love to set (or limit) US policy. David’s concern is therefore neither academic nor paranoid, but practical and enlightened.