The Failing Government

    First off, our government is broken. Yeah, it's been around for awhile, which implies it isn't broken, and it'll probably be around for awhile longer, but it should be improved just as it has been for the past 200 years. The system of government follows an archaic piece of paper (yes, the Constitution) that was written in a time when women were second class citizens and African-Americans were slaves - and these "intelligent" individuals that wrote it were just fine with that. That's the writing we've got. The 21st century needs modernization. It's the flow of this decade, and it will continue to be the flow for decades to come. The advancement of technology is overriding incredibly old rules. It is true that some of these rules in the Constitution - fine, laws - are okay to keep, like expressed powers for the President and Congress. But why the random dates and numbers? Why 14? I guess those problems don't matter enough to amend. But something that does really matter is Congress's failing role in government.
    The House of Representatives has a system that is becoming more outdated by each generation, literally. The more people there are, the less effective the House is. The senate is good, but the House is becoming useless, with party affiliation getting in the way of what people actually want. These representatives know their constituency wants a republican or democratic vote, but that's too general. What if some of what people want is republic and some of it democratic? Why not parts of both? Why not another party's idea? Because, in the current system, only democrats and republicans even stand a chance at legislation, because the party affiliation is the main focus of the representatives. They want to be re-elected, so they will vote on whatever fills their party. I guess my main concern is that there's simply too few House members. We need to retain the original 1 : 30,000 ratio, and in the 21st century, we can do that. Before, we were restrained by physical limitation - you can't have 10,000 representatives in one building voting. That's just too unorganized, and truthfully, dangerous. But you can have them all vote from, say, a machine? What if some voted on Mondays and Wednesdays and others voted on Tuesdays and Thursdays? I know nothing of their voting process, but I do know that we could fit a lot more people into the voting process, which would create a much more diverse map of what the people want. That's what they're for anyways, right? To represent the people.