"Very interesting. Shows a real knowledge of the Constitution."
Dennis Kucinich, 6/23/09
I've been 'running for President' since Kerry got the Democratic nomination. A choice between two Yale satanic cult frat brothers is not democracy, and I haven't seen any improvement in things since. The Obushma regime flat-out ignores the populace. I'm about real change. Getting out of the genocide business. Stopping the government-approved looting. Restoring a great nation for an insanely great future.
Below is the Constitutional Amendment I propose, which is now a complete revision of the US Constitution. It makes me President, among many other very real changes. It is of course, very legalistic. Unlike Glen Beck etc., I have to be specific. The flag design at the top of this page is to give a graphical interpretation of roughly how much I propose changing things, compared to our current flag. Other sections of this webpage, like the "blog" button, have somewhat more readable stuff as well. There's a lot of stuff that I propose that doesn't rise to Constitutional Amendment status under the "issues" button.
New material in this proposed omnibus Amendment vis-a-vis our current Constitution is underlined, and in most cases hyperlinked to explanatory matter. This page, the top page of this webpage, following this paragraph, rendered as text, should be taken as the exact effective proposal.
Masculine pronouns in the language of this act imply no substantive gender preference.
B. The Citizenry of the United States, within this Constitution itself, or by Amendment, may enact measures prohibited from acts of Congress, or any branch or office of this government, or any of the States, such as bills of attainder, and any such act by the People within this Constitution itself does not diminish said prohibitions at stuatutory or regulatory levels beneath this Constitution.
C. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
D. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, or any State:
No person, citizen, visitor to, or officer of these United States shall be in any way exempt from enforcement of the law, except as specified below for Congress and the Advocary College, and excepting that complaints against certain foreign officials shall be the origination jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
F. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
G. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
H. The right of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
I. No retro-active law or bill of attainder shall be passed by the United States, or by any State.
J. The Congress shall make no law supporting religion, nor any particular religion, nor requiring any religious test or for any office or license under the United States, nor interfering with the materially harmless exercise of any religion, nor abridging the right of free speech, nor of the press, nor abridging the right of the people to peaceably assemble, nor to petition any part of the government for a redress of grievances.
K. The United States shall not require any means test, such as a college degree, for any office or license granted by the United States. L. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
M. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
N. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the Armed Forces or National Guards, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
O. Private property shall not be taken for public use, without just compensation, and private property taken for uses with a private benefit component, such as residential, retail, or sports facility use, shall be compensated at not less than twice the duly assessed value of the property at the time it is taken. P. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Q. The United States shall not restrict Citizens of the age of 18 years or more from trading, possessing, or growing the seed of any species of green seeded plant, (that is not a type arising from extremely unnatural genesis such as genetic engineering,) or from possessing the raw produce of growing such seed, in any quantity. R. No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
S. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of Impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
T. No product sold for human ingestion in the United States, including products intended to be ingested by inhalation of smoke, topical application, et cetera, may be sold without listing the ingredients, in rough order of the quantity of the ingredients, on the packaging. U. The United States government has no sovereign immunity from legal process by any US citizen. V. No jurisdiction under this Constitution may seize any precious metals of the weight unit value of silver or greater, from citizens, or coerce the the sale of such materials at any price not freely agreed to by the particular seller, nor restrict private entities from accepting precious coins and other specie in trade, at prices agreed to by the parties to any particular transaction. Jurisdictions under this Constitution may refrain from accepting specie for payments due, or not, but if accepting specie, at rates agreed to for each transaction. W. Foreign persons entering the United States with no allowed admittance to the United States have no rights implied from rights inate to citizens of the United States, but are entitled to basic human rights, which the Congress may by statute extend, and which shall include freedom from torture, freedom from involuntary servitude, due protection from crime, right to legal counsel, and rights of employment due to a lawful citizen employee even if illegally employed, for the time employed.
X. The right of Citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Y. The right of Citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Z. The right to vote shall not be abridged on the basis of sex.
B. Upon notification to the President by the executive authority of a State, and all its Senators, that said State intends to secede from this union, the President shall remove all removable assets of the United States from said State, and shall facilitate the emigration of those persons wishing to do so. If, from one to two years after notification of intention to secede, the same State's executive authority and all its Senators confirm that intention to the President and the general public, that State shall immediately cease to be a member of these United States. Persons who were Citizens of the United States in the former State shall retain their Citizenship if they shall emigrate to the remaining United States within five years of the secession. C. The right of the Citizens of free States, which excludes territories and the District of Columbia, to keep and bear arms of lethality comparable to a mid-twenteith-century .50 caliber machine gun or less, shall be a matter of regulation by each of the several free States, and shall not be infringed by the United States. D. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
E. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
F. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; authorize privateers; coin money; pass any bill of attainder, retro-active law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility or otherwise place any person or officer above the rule of law. G. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
H. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
I. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. The Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
J. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
K. A Person charged in any State with treason or felony, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
L. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
2. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
3. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, except at large members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.
4. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
5. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
6. Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
7. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
8. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.
9. When vacancies happen in the Senate or House representation from any State, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
At Large vacancies may be filled by unilateral appointment by the President.
B. The House of Representatives
1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States.
2. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
3. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States in proportion to voter turnout in prior elections for President, but each State shall have at least one Representative. The total number of Representatives may be balanced by statute between COngressional precedent, and gain or loss of States. The United States shall continue to conduct a per-decade census for general purposes. 4. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers.
5. There shall be one nationwide office of Representative At Large, serving a term of two years, and having one vote, elected from the same constituency as the President, on the same election cycle as other Representatives.
C. The Senate
1. The Senate of the United States shall be mainly composed of three Senators from each State, chosen by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
2. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
3. There shall be three nationwide offices of Senator At Large, each elected in similar fashion to, and across the same constituency as, the President, and each serving a term of six years, in three term classes as for other Senators, and they shall each have one vote.
4. The Senate shall elect their speaker.
D. Powers
1. The Congress shall have power:
a. (3.D.1.a.) To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
b. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
c. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the native-American sovereignties;
d. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
e. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
f. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
g. To establish necessary public infrastructure;
h. To promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, but no patents shall issue on living things, nor on instruction sequences for computing devices.
i. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
j. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against international law;
k. To declare war, authorize privateers, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
l. To raise and support the Armed Forces, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
m. To make rules for the government and regulation of the Armed Forces;
n. To provide for calling forth the National Guard to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
o. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the National Guards, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the National Guards according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
p. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over the District of Columbia, which shall remain the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings;
q. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
r. To levy graduated or flat-rate taxes on incomes of individuals and organizations.
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to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
t. (3.D.1.t.) To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
E. Restrictions
1. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
2. The Supreme Court ruling of 1942 in Wickard v. Filburn is hereby explicitly
overturned, to the extent and such that the regulation of commerce by the United States may not interfere with private behaviors that effect commerce only by avoiding the marketplace.
F. Acts procedure
1. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration
three fifths
of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by
three fifths
of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
2. Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
3. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
C. No person except a natural born Citizen of the United States shall be eligible to the office of President or Vice President; neither shall any person be eligible to those offices who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Children, siblings and half-siblings of prior Presidents (who served for 30 or more days) are disqualified from the office of President and Vice President. Grandchildren and other more distant relations are not disqualified, nor are relatives of prior Vice Presidents. D. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term of which some other person was elected President, shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
E. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
F. Whenever the President transmits to the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
G. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
H. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
I. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of March.
J.
The Congress
may by law provide for the case arising on Inauguration Day wherein neither a
President elect nor a
President elect's choice of Vice President
shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner
in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until
a President shall have qualified.
K. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons
from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of
choice shall have devolved upon them.
N. He may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of Impeachment, and excluding offenses by civil or military officers, employees or agents of the executive branch of the United States government, which see Topic 6.K.4 below. O. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. Judicial nominations shall require the consent of half the Senate for appointment, but executive branch nominations shall be interim appointments until overturned by two thirds of the Senate, or until one year has elapsed from the nomination, at which time the appointment shall be fully official.
P. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Q. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive foreign ambassadors and other public ministers; and he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall be most diligent in enforcing the law upon those at the highest levels of government.
B. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, civil or criminal, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; and...
1. --to all cases affecting foreign ambassadors, ministers, and consuls;
2. --to all cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;
3. --to controversies to which the United States will be a party;
4. --to controversies between two or more States;
5. --between Citizens of different States,
6. --between Citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
C. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any lawsuit commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
D. In all cases affecting foreign ambassadors, and other foreign public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be party, and in indictments directed to the Court by the Advocary College, the Supreme Court shall have origination jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
B. Plurality shall be the margin of election for President, Senators At Large and the Representative At Large.
C. All elections for nationwide office shall be judged by the judiciary, without waiting for a complaint, as questions to be decided on the evidence, and this judgement shall be certification of election.
D. The Supreme Court shall establish a regimen for convening a Court of Elections as necessary, drawn from existing judges and facilities, or shall instruct the Congress to establish a standing court for the purpose.
E. The Court of Elections shall have broad power to produce the best possible reflection of the will of the electorate in a particular contest, in timely fashion, to include disenfranchising entire States or parts of States producing inadmissable hearsay vote tallies such as solely electronic tallies, the power to extend terms of office for offices under particularly difficult question, calling recounts and runoffs, excluding minor candidates from runoffs, and so on. Finite-time disenfranchisement
of entire States or other jurisdictions in elections of nationwide offices may be used as a punitive and deterrent measure for jurisdictions proven to harbor systemic election fraud.
F. The Court of Elections shall audit random drawings for those memberships in the Advocary College to be appointed with an element of randomness and shall guarantee the randomness thereof.
C. All then-Senators and then-Representatives who voted for Public Law 107-243 are hereby immediately disqualified from any Constitutional office under the United States, or any office in the statutory chain of succession to the Presidency.
D. All biological descendants of Prescott Bush, father of President George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of 43rd President George Walker Bush, are disqualified from any Congressional office or in the statutory chain of succession to the Presidency, or the Presidency, until the year 2200. E. The first three Senator At Large terms shall be initialized one at a time over the three two-year election cycles following adoption of this omnibus Amendment. The third Senatorial office of each State shall be initiated with a term of two, four or six years, occupying the Senatorial class that each particular State did not have before this Amendment, and they shall all be initiated in the first Congressional election after this Amendment is ratified. F. The five Supreme Court Justices deciding in favor of Citizens United in Citizens United v. FEC are hereby removed from the Supreme Court, and that ruling is hereby overturned. Corporations do not have inate rights of any kind.
