How about repeal the 24th amendment and overrule Harper v Virginia?No, they would be likelier to do something more subtle, like trying to protect poll taxes or literacy tests or something.
Would enough states be in favor of this? Only five states really rebuked the ruling and that’s a far cry from the number needed to pass an amendment.How about repeal the 24th amendment and overrule Harper v Virginia?
How about one stating that literacy tests are constitutional and that Congress has no power to prohibit them as long as they're race-neutral?Would enough states be in favor of this? Only five states really rebuked the ruling and that’s a far cry from the number needed to pass an amendment.
What about a anti-draft amendment? There's potentially enough civilian support, but I doubt the politicians would go along with it.
How about make federal judges popularly elected/subject to recall by the population of the district where they live?Legalize school prayer, drastically reduce the SCOTUS’ powers & drastically expand those of the police (perhaps get rid of, if not”innocent until proven guilty” then the exclusionary rule). Yes, I am aware this is not today but 1969. But first, the conservative backlash against what was widely perceived as the excesses of the
60’s was well underway by 1969(it had been a major, perhaps THE major factor in electing Nixon POTUS the previous year). Second, many Warren court decisions that we justifiably hale today were in fact so
unpopular when they were handed down that they would not have withstood a popular vote. Third, the
white middle class- still the backbone of this country in 1969- has always preferred to uncritically sup-
port the police rather than change them(if I may interject just one note here re contemporary politics,
we are seeing that today as despite BLM, there has been few, if any, major reforms in restricting & pos-
sibly changing US police departments).
The AIP proposed term limiting judges in 1968.That would just politicize every decision they make.
But busing was detested in many northern states.Would enough states be in favor of this? Only five states really rebuked the ruling and that’s a far cry from the number needed to pass an amendment.
Well this is at the height of the anti-war movement.
As someone mentioned above, a War Powers Amendment could be a possibility. I'm curious if the executive branch would get limited in power any other way.
What about a anti-draft amendment? There's potentially enough civilian support, but I doubt the politicians would go along with it.
Likelier would be a requirement that a draft could only be initiated and undertaken for the duration of a congressionally declared war.How about one saying that conscription can be introduced only by two-thirds vote of both houses, which vote must be renewed annually?
Not busing, allowing states to use poll taxes.But busing was detested in many northern states.