Disclaimer: I have no expert knowledge of the Constitution; in fact, I’ve never read the Constitution in full. Nor do I have any web development skills.
A number of people in the news media and some running for public office have called for the dismantling of Social Security, individual mandate in healthcare and various departments of the Executive branch of the U.S. government by arguing they are unconstitutional. As I am ignorant of such matters, a Constitution wiki might come in handy…
Link the specific text(s) of the Constitution to page(s) which lists the agencies and departments which have been established on the basis of said text. Perhaps further enhancement may link the information pages to the actual agency website. It would also be informative to link Supreme Court decisions to the text of the Constitution with a summary of the cases and a brief discussion of their implications (along the lines of a Nina Totenberg perhaps?).
This would be a wonderful learning and teaching tool.
It could also be expanded to the state constitutions.
Something similar could also be applied to pending legislation in Congress. This has the advantage of using crowd sourcing to decipher deliberately abstruse legislation. This could result in much better governance in that power is constrained not only by other branches of government but by all citizens.
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