Been pondering this for years and believe there is a method. When Government fails to 'promote the general welfare' it opens itself up to improved methods. More structured methods exist that can be instituted to force our representatives to actually carry out what voters want; not what representatives want. America is not static, it learns - albeit slowly. Additional depressions will eventually force changes. One method would require voters to declare stances on all issues via an electronic QFD analysis, in order for voters stances to have legitimate voting weights. Voters QFD inputs would highlight tradeoffs for each decision. The complexity of QFD would need to be taught but its excellence for determining which way to head ends up being stunningly straightforward and has a common sense reality to it. QFD would end up documenting every stance, all arguments and tradeoffs, and the mathematics dictate which direction/decisions to make. Until a book is written on how to implement it I would recommend reading the next best book: The Law by Frederic Bastiat, (tiny) from ~1860.