The US Constitution Needs an Expiration Date

Very recommendable! Plenty of food for thought! I don't think, the whole constitution needs an expiration date!

How to reform constitutional democracies in Western countries! Besides term limits for all elected representatives, more sunset legislation or expiration dates on parts of legislation would be reasonable and effective reforms!

"t's certainly reasonable to expect a government to have to seek reauthorization of its powers at certain intervals. Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789 that "succeeding generations are not responsible for the preceding" and that "no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law." Contending that nineteen years is long enough for any law or constitution to last without the need for reapproval, Jefferson reasoned that if a law "be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.""

The US Constitution Needs an Expiration Date | Mises Wire: A unique feature of the Swiss Federal Constitution is the fact that the central government's power to impose direct taxes on citizens expires every decade or so.