Over at Balkinization Sanford Levinson cotinues his discussion of what's wrong with our constitution - adding the Vice Presidency to the list. While the original design of the position is one of the best examples of why we should not venerate the constitution (hmmm, John Kerry as George Bush's vice president - wouldn't that have worked out well?), the current design of the position has some problems too. If you were redesigning the US government, would you change it? Is it bad to be locked into one figure the way we are? Would it make more sense to have a vice president serve as a caretaker into early elections for a new president could be called? What do you think? Should there be formal mechanisms in place that allow for an easier removal of the vice president than our constitution presently allows?
Posted by armand at June 2, 2007 02:05 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics