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Skaka Moloch, you may not be familiar with some of the political threads we've had here in the past, but I wanted to let you know about something that I've written about a few times before because it relates to the quote that you use in your signature (& also to this topic "Protest" too).
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it."
The quote you use from Lincoln's inaugural address is akin to some great Jefferson quotes as well. At the end of the quote it says, "...they can exercise their constitutional right to amend or their revolutionary right to dismember & overthrow it." So, that leaves "exercise their constitutional right to amend" the first course of action for "to the people whenever they have grown weary of the existing government."
What I've proposed before is a constitutional amendment that limits all terms of (at least major) political office to only one term. To me, this more than campaign finance reform (which will never get off the ground anyway because there will always be loopholes) is the only solution to solving the crisis of corruption in which our government & our nation finds itself.
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