If I were Planetary Commander, I'd tend to not focus on limiting peoples' right but limiting politicians rights.
For example:
* A term limit of one term for each federal office and once one has held a federal elective office, he/she would be forever forbidden from entering the federal district for any purpose unless elected to another federal elective office. (No point in creating a new class of lobbyists ever two years).
* Federal office holders must remain out of office for five calendar years before running for any federal office (just like the Roman republic until Marius screwed up that venerable republican tradition). Go home and live under the laws you helped create so you feel the same pain as every other citizen.
* Every Congress that does not pass a balanced budget by 1 April for the fiscal year that starts 1 September (except during time of a declared war) is automatically prorogued and the incumbents expelled as if they had died. The states will fill vacancies in accordance with the states' laws. Expelled legislators would be forbidden from ever holding federal elective office again.
* All communications with elected federal office holders would be recorded and, unless classified for national security reasons, made public by the officer known as the Censor (just like the Roman republic), to be elected by the majority of the state legislators. The Censor would be responsible for the morals of federal office holders and have the power to indefinitely suspend from voting any federal elected office holder who declined to disclose his communications to the satisfaction of the Censor. Suspended officers could continue in office but not vote on any policy until the Censor removed the suspension.
* Legislators to live in a legislative dorm on Capital hill, without their families (who will remain in their home districts eagerly awaiting the legislators' return from public office) with rooms equal to the amount of square footage allocated to an E-6/Staff Sergeant in the Army, a shared bathroom and a dining facility. No one is allowed into the legislative dorm except legislators and maintenance/cleaning staff and only when the legislators are absent from the building. Constituents must visit legislators in their offices. And citizens not residing in a legislator's district have no legitimate reason to talk to a legislator and therefor are forbidden from doing so.
* When the majority of the state legislatures vote to overturn a decision by any federal judge (including Supreme Court Justices), the decision is reversed (if an appellate court, then the case is returned to the lower court. If original jurisdiction, then the decision is vacated. If 2/3 of the state legislators vote to overturn the decision, the judge is removed from office. If 3/4 of the states vote to overturn the decisions, then the former judge is forever forbidden from holding any federal elective office for the remainder of his life as if he had died and no pension or any federal payments will be allowed to him for life.
That would go a long way towards cleaning up the national cesspool.
