forgetting the fact that the U.S. has been, in fact, the largest Arms dealer, and technology, therefore, peddler for multiple decades, picking ‘to provide for the Common Defense’, as an ex. of the Framers short-sightedness, shows a very specific blindness of your own.

as in, it’s in the Preamble of Document..

“The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.preamble.html

If “we the people’s” government is financing campaigns then it is “we the people’s” hand that feeds the legislators, and they may be less inclined to serve those that currently give them the money needed to be reelected (i.e., run a better smear campaign than their opponent).

When the framers made the constitution a war was an affair where regular people could take their hunting riffles to go fight the enemy, so all you needed were some local militias getting together to ensure the defense of the country. In todays reality you need huge amounts of resources to ensure know-how and application of modern technology at a level that matches those of our potential enemies. International terror organizations with potential access to weapons of mass destruction, were also completely beyond what the founders were able to imagine and prepare for.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125495801640171987.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

let’s call this: “the hand that feeds you owns you.”, True.

you’re proposing “Public(Government) Campaign Financing”

what are we to assume of that outcome?

and, with this: “When the constitution was written most of what federal government is doing today couldn’t even be imagined.”, where do you think the term UnConstitutional comes from? any idea of why the 9th & 10th Amendments are/were part of the “Bill of Rights”–necessary for the ratification of the Constitution, to begin with?

past that, why not, you know, spell out where the Vision of the Framers was, so, short-sighted?

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act needs to be repealed now in light of its failures. I would argue it’s worse to make the mistake of keeping it in tact after the world has fallen apart and the emperor has clearly been seen to have no clothes.

It’s all about the delta (change). You are held to greater accountability when you have more light and this Congress has plenty of light.

Perhaps the day will come fairly soon Barry when the current Congress bumps former Senator Phil Gramm off the number two spot of your list of villains and into the number three spot.

The banks own Congress.
Not going to be easy to regulate anything

I hate to say it, but, it isn’t ‘private contributions’ that is the problem. The problem is that there is so much that they can buy.

We’ve, obviously, forgotten that the Federal Government was intended to be Limited in Size, and Scope.

for a refresher, see: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
esp. Amendments IX and X
and, further: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

LSS: the FedGov’s ‘powers’ are explicitly enumerated and, further, proscribed. That the SCOTUS has, also, been hijacked is a different problem..

We were given a Republic to keep problems Localized and Managable; Centralization is our Ill, not the assemblage endeavoring to survive it.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/assemblage