One idea would be getting back to how the country was founded. It's amazing that some of the most critical legal concepts in our nation are written down in a sentence or two. There is indeed ambiguity that the courts are left to sort out but, in many ways, that's a feature more than a bug. For instance this is the entirety of the 1st Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
If that was written today, it would be 700 pages long and packed with irrelevancies and obfuscation. The goal of those 700 pages was, at some point, to provide clarity, but that's obviously been an abysmal failure. In practice nobody knows exactly what they mean, even including the people signing it into law. And even those who do study those 700 pages will frequently come up with radically different interpretations. So you gain nothing, but make things completely incomprehensible to near 100% of the population.
And the same is true of contracts and the like. People are increasingly governed and compelled by language that may as well be Greek.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
If that was written today, it would be 700 pages long and packed with irrelevancies and obfuscation. The goal of those 700 pages was, at some point, to provide clarity, but that's obviously been an abysmal failure. In practice nobody knows exactly what they mean, even including the people signing it into law. And even those who do study those 700 pages will frequently come up with radically different interpretations. So you gain nothing, but make things completely incomprehensible to near 100% of the population.
And the same is true of contracts and the like. People are increasingly governed and compelled by language that may as well be Greek.
[1] - https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text