Rick LaRue has written this article for ELJ. Here is the abstract:

The structural pillars of the U.S. electoral system are eroding and will require repair—i.e., constitutional amendment. Problems with voting, the Electoral College, term lengths, and term limits constitute a civic engineering challenge that calls for a Bill of Structures to complement the Bill of Rights, which becomes plausible to consider in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 2037. The set of amendments would advance: 1) the obligation as well as the right to vote; 2) the replacement of the Electoral College by a national popular vote governed by rules ensuring majority outcomes; 3) new term lengths for representatives (three years) and presidents (a six-year first term and three-year second term) to deliver a three-year election cycle, shrink the presidency’s second-term curse, and counter the permanent campaign; and 4) congressional term limits, but at least two decades long. Amending the Constitution may seem a nonstarter today, even more so given the anti-democratic trends commanding our immediate attention; fifteen years hence, however, it becomes possible to picture amendments that would consequentially improve the performance of our elections and their winners.