Necessary electoral reforms for the USA

The U.S. needs the following electoral reforms:

Unicameral legislatures (abolish the senates) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicameralism

Party-list proportional representation for legislative elections - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation

Instant runoff voting for executive elections (mayor, governor, president) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

Election of the president solely by the popular vote (abolish the Electoral College).


That is all.

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Explicitly, yes; implicitly, this was intended to be the basis of all aspects of US politics: that the many couldn't bully the few, and the few couldn't bully the many, and that what was made law applied equivalently for everyone.  Moreover, when a good portion of the judiciary vocally or quietly would wish to "legislate from the bench," I think all bets on classical definitions being accurate are off (rather, we should restore the classical definition first).

By "legislate from the bench," in this case, I borrow a definition of judicial activism from Simon Dodd: "if it uses the judicial power to strike down a law that is not unconstitutional, or to uphold a law which is unconstitutional ... [T]he conflation of 'action' with 'activism' is false; the court cannot be activist simply by adhering to the constitution.  By contrast, it cannot be anything other than activist if it defers to the legislature by creating legislative authority where none existed.  One can be activist not only by taking action where none is required, but by refusing to take action when it IS required."

_{Dodd, Simon, simon@simondodd.org.  "Less nebulous than you'd think."  22 August 2005.  http://simondodd.org/noise2signal/useruploads/docs/sjd0802.pdf}