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Preamble 1
Creating a Capital Congress 19
Reforming the Senate 23
Reforming the House 32
Congressional Term Limits: Extreme or Mainstream? 41
Balancing the Budget: Setting the Stage for a Great Convention Debate 54
Continuity of Government: Preparing for the Unthinkable 69
Perfecting the Presidency 76
The Presidential Term of Choice 80
The Six-Year Term 84
The Alternative: A Presidential Confirmation Election 87
A Lengthened House Term (and Changes in the Senate Term) 93
War-Making Limits: Presidential Downsizing 97
Item Veto 101
Fairness for All: Making the Presidency Possible for Americans Who Are Not "Natural-Born" 104
The New Courts: Supreme But not Eternal 108
The Error of Lifetime Tenure 110
Fixed Terms 115
Not-So-Early Retirement 116
A Balanced Bench 117
Power of the Purse 118
Politics: America's Missing Constitutional Link 121
Of Parties, Presidential Politics, and the Quadrennial Orgy 123
The Regional Lottery Plan for the New Constitution 131
The Electoral College: Mend It, Don't End It 134
Adding Some Political Rules of the Game for the Twenty-first Century 152
A Citizenship of Service: Asking what we can do for our Country ... and Ourselves 154
An American History of Service: Military Calls and Civilian Supplements 157
The Case for Universal National Service (UNS) 166
Universal National Service and America's Future 176
Vox Populi: What do the People Think of Constitutional Change? 179
The Caution Light Blinks Steadily 181
Dissatisfaction with the Status Quo 183
Look Who's Talking 186
Rasmussen Poll on the Proposed New Constitution 190
Calling the Twenty-First-Century Constitutional Convention 198
The Founders' Daring-and Our Timidity 199
The Legal Netherworld Surrounding a New Convention 202
Setting the Ground Rules Prior to the Convention 205
Calling the Convention 211
After the Convention: Ratification and Its Aftermath 216
Conclusion: Getting There from Here 221
Afterword 233
United States Constitution and Amendments 237
Acknowledgments 261
Notes 263
Selected Bibliography 327
Index 335
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