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Some of these are pretty significant changes others not so much but all of them would have had significant long term impacts. If you dont feel like clicking the link here is the list
  1. Change the country's name -So this one would have been interesting as one idea in 1866 from Rep. George Washington Anderson proposed dropping "United States" and just sticking with America. Since then some odd balls like Rep. Lucas Miller (he introduced 46 bills in one day in 1893) wanted to change it to United States of the Earth.
  2. Abolish the presidency -Does it surprise any history lover that this was floated on the eve of the Civil War in 1890 by Missouri Rep. John William Noell. It would have replaced it with a three-person executive council elected by separate regions of the country and each member of the council would have the ability to veto the other two. It was proposed again in 1878 with the three regions being the South, West, and a combined East and Middle.
  3. End term limits for presidents -Only around since 1951 this has seen continued efforts over the years to overturn. However only one (the 18th Amendment) has been repealed and that took another Amendment (the 21st) to do so.
  4. Elect the president by lot -This one I really just have to copy and paste because it is by far the most novel idea I have seen ever proposed. Put forth by Sen. James Hillhouse in 1808 it would do the following.
    He suggested, first, that senators be elected to three-year, rather than six-year, terms, staggered so that one-third of their terms would end each year. The senators whose terms were expiring would then choose a new president from among their ranks, with each drawing a ball from a box. The senator who picked the lone colored ball would become president for one year.
  5. Abolish the vice presidency -I find this one a little interesting as I was unaware that since the very beginning of the country this has been something that has been proposed. By 1897 there had been 7 attempts to abolish the office. Efforts continued into the 1900s with a the office being called "superfluous" in a 1975 hearing due to presidents always saying they would give the VP something to do but it never amount to much.
  6. Add more vice presidents -In 1881 Rep. Nathaniel Job Hammond suggested creating a first, second, and third vice president. In 1964 Sen. Kenneth Keating proposed splitting the office in two with an executive vice president and a legislative vice president.
  7. Abolish the US Senate -Ironically this one was offered by Rep. Victor Berger the first socialist elected to Congress in 1911. All legislative power would have been in the House and thus in his words the legislation the House passed would have been "the supreme law" and the "president shall have no power to veto them, nor shall any court have any power to invalidate them." Talk about something that would have ended up being a complete nightmare if it would have happened.
  8. Abolish the Electoral College -This has been offered numerous times throughout American history and it has been in response to candidates winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College. This has happened 5 times in 1824, 1976, 1888, 2000, and 2016.
  9. Create a court that could overrule even the US Supreme Court -First offered in 1967 by Sen. Garrett Davis it would have created a tribunal with one member appointed by each state. This idea later became known as the "Court of the Union" and regained attention in the 1960s. It was offered at least 15 times between 1963 and 1981.
  10. Limit personal fortunes -Proposed in 1933, often considered the bleakest year of the Great Depression, by Rep. Wesley Lloyd it would have capped personal wealth at $1 million at the time of $25.7 million in todays money.
  11. Allow the American people to vote on wars -First put forth in 1916 by Rep. Denver Samuel Church before the US entered WWI it would have put war up for a popular vote. It did have exceptions for things like the US being invaded by a foreign country. In different variations if was offered in the 1930s as America watch war build up in Europe.
  12. Make war illegal -Offered in 1926 by North Dakota Senator Lynn Frazier a committed isolationist he continued to push this before even his party did not back him causing him to lose his 1940 primary. Imagine this before WWII and the cascading effects it would have had in our response to Pearl Harbor.