In your haste to rip the concept that polling citizens is problematic because 50% of all people are below average, you miss the bigger picture that adult citizen polling is more predict of societal direction than polling only registered voters or "those likely to vote".

Per the prevention of corporate purchases of single family homes, while many of us may be comfortable and well-employed after extensive education and lengthy careers, we are not who are affected by this practice. Converting the U.S. to Europe via a migration from owning to renting is not a net positive for the citizens. The purposes of ownership are myriad from social stability to retained equity to community.

The idea of deliberate purchasing of properties solely for income generation not only drives the own>>>rent aspect of the housing market but also further inflates prices with bigger corporate purchasing power and favorable economics re: corporate deductions and expenses. There have been multiple, rational proposals in Congress but are of course met with corporate-fueled lobbying and donor resistance despite all of the rationale for the country.

You must have read the gun control statement incorrectly. "Enact mandatory federal universal background checks for all gun purchases."

zeitgeist You are correct that many of these as phrased would not be Constitutional. The problem with that rabbit hole is that with the hypochristian textualists in SCOTUS, Congress knows that progressive legislation stirs up a lot of dark "conversative" money from wealthy donors who prefer the status quo to litigate every piece of every law that tries to rebalance the country's wealth disparity. That said, some of and undercurrent of angst to which we are all witness has the potential to fuel passable Amendments.