Individual accountability us a shortcut to achieving goals
that might be worth a Constitutional Amendment to enshrine as default practice. The Right has been effective in getting legislators to cotton to a no taxes pledge, an onerous demand which will bite the signers. This piece advocates a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics. That would take ages to do. But we could immediately create a pledge that would be enforceable. The pledge would be to put all political contributions above a certain amount (say $100) in escow pending legislation which mandates public financing of all campaigns. Something like this would enable media to determine, using Maplight.com and other watchdog sites, compliance. Candidates who refused to do this would suffer at the polls.
