Restructuring Amendment – Proposal 5
I expect this one would be widely popular:
The Redistricting Amendment
Gerrymandering is not allowed for any reason. Redistricting shall be done by non-partisan committees (to which political parties and individuals may make suggestions and file complaints, but shall have no decision-making power).
The non-partisan redistricting committees must be fairly balanced between interested parties. Redistricting plans shall primarily be guided by geographic features: urban, sub-urban, farmland, mountains, coastal areas, rangeland, etc., have reasonably minimized perimeters, and must be approved by a three-member panel of Federal District Court judges drawn randomly from the Judges and Senior Judges in or nearest to the districts involved.
To a large degree, geography is politics. Agricultural regions tend to lean to the Right, while cities tend to lean to the Left. Using geography as a major guide in the creation of districts allows each of these groups a chance to elect Representatives of their choice. Voters should choose their politicians. Politicians should never choose their voters.
Many locations have successfully used non-partisan panels to come up with reasonable redistricting,