The
Constitution of the United States
Proposed
revision -first draft with comments
Preamble
We
the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility (and end
rebellions and quarrels among the states), provide for the common
defense, promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Ancestors),
create and establish the Federal Government and delegate certain
powers under the Constitution for the United States of America.
Article
I - The Legislative Branch
Section 1 - The
Legislature
All legislative Powers
herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,
which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Proposed
change: Establish an
all female body of legislature dealing with women’s issues or
mandate a 50% representation in current legislature
The
House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every
second Year by the People of the several States (13 original
colonies), and the Electors in each State shall have the
Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of
the State Legislature.
Definition
of Electors: Any
citizen with the right to vote
History
of the Electoral College:
A compromise among the Founding Fathers who were divided between
having the Congress chose the President and Vice-President and the
Popular Vote. Currently, the Electoral College chooses the President
and the Vice President; as Americans, we vote for electors who vote
for the President and Vice President.
Voting
districts are subject to political party manipulation, candidates too
often switch political parties to their own benefit. Minor parties
and unaffiliated voters are rarely represented.
Qualifications
Representatives
and Electors must have attained the Age of twenty five Years, and
have been a citizen of the United States for at least seven years.
The actual Enumeration
or list of members of the House of Representatives shall be made
within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the
United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such
Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives
shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand. Each state shall
have at least one representative.
When
vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive
Authority of that state shall issue Writs of Election to fill such
Vacancies.
Definition
of Writs of Election: A
written order issued by a court, requiring the party to whom it is
addressed to hold an election.
The
House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other
Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Definition
of Impeachment: A formal
accusation of treason or other high crime or misdemeanors, a
violation of the public trust.
The Senate of the
United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State,
elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall
have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of
the State legislatures.
When
vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate,
the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election
to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any
State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary
appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the
legislature may direct.
Note: The current
system, using electronic voting is subject to fraud and needs to be
changed.
Additionally,
executive authority to appoint individuals to Congress is subject to
fraud.
Proposed
change: Select
qualified lawmakers, similar to jury selection except on a voluntary
basis, from citizens for a term of one year at a pay rate of $100,000
per person per term. Retain Congressional office staff and review
performance yearly. Eliminate Congressional pensions, cost of
Congressional election campaigns, including use of Air Force One, its
primary occupant – the President and the Secret Service, all
currently charged to the American taxpayer
Immediately
after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election,
they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The
Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the
Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration
of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the
sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year.
Senators
must be at least thirty years old, and have been a citizen of the
United States for at least nine years.
The
Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate,
but shall have no Vote, unless the Senate is equally divided.
The
Senate shall choose
their other Officers, and also a President pro
tempore,
(temporary) in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall
exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The
Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.
When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath (or
Affirmation.) When the President of the United States is tried, the
Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without
the (Concurrence)
agreement of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment
in Cases of Impeachment
shall include removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and
enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.
The Party convicted shall be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial,
Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section 4 -
Elections, Meetings
The
Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and
Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the states’
legislature; however, the Congress may at any time by Law make or
alter such Regulations, except as to the places of choosing
Senators.
The
Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, beginning at
noon on the third day of January unless they shall by Law appoint a
different Day.
Each
House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications
of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum
to do Business.
Definition
of Quorum: The minimum
number of members required to pass legislation, usually a majority.
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.
Definition
of Adjournment: To
suspend proceedings until another stated time.
Each
House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members
for disorderly Behavior, and, with the agreement of two-thirds, expel
a Member.
Each
House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time
publish the same, excepting such Parts as they 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.
NOTE: Audit attendance
records, success rate in passing new legislation and enforcement.
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.
The
Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their
Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of
the United States.
No law varying the
compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives
shall take effect until an election of the Representatives shall have
intervened. In all Cases, except Treason,
Felony and Breach of the Peace, the Congress shall 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.
NOTE: Does Congress
have an Ethics Code? How does Congress police itself?
No
Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civilian office under the Authority of
the United States which shall have been created, or the payment of
fees which shall have been increased during such time; and no Person
holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of
either House while in Office.
Section 7 - Revenue
Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
All
bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of
Representatives. The Senate may propose or concur
with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every
Bill which passes the House of Representatives and the Senate shall
be presented to the President of the United States before it becomes
a law of the United States. If the President approves of the bill he
shall sign it. If not, the President shall return the Bill, with his
Objections, to that House in which it shall have originated. That
House will then enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and
proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds 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 two thirds 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.
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.
Section 8 - Powers
of Congress
The
Congress shall have Power to:
Lay
and collect Taxes, Duties, Import taxes and Excise taxes, to pay the
Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare
of the United States. All duties, Import and Excises
taxes shall be uniform throughout the United States
Definition of Excise
taxes: an internal tax on the production, sale or consumption of a
commodity or service.
The
Congress shall have power to borrow money on the credit of the United
States;
Note:
The legislation to establishment the Federal Reserve Bank needs to be
reversed.
The Congress shall have
the power:
To regulate Commerce
with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the
Indian Tribes;
To
establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization i.e. Immigration and
uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United
States;
To coin Money, regulate
the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of
Weights and Measures;
NOTE:
The time has come to establish a uniform, tamper-proof money card.
Eliminate usurious interest rates and policies of banks and credit
card companies and pay-day loan companies. Charge a 5% fee on
international wire transfers. Round monetary transactions to zero
and eliminate the need to coin money. Round monetary transactions to
zero and eliminate costly accounting errors. Eliminate the use of
coin and eliminate the costs to manufacture coins!!! Cash out the
copper weight value of pennies and apply against the National Debt.
The Federal Reserve Bank should be held accountable for the lost gold
that was stolen from the American people when the Gold Standard for
the dollar was changed to legal tender. It is time to revalue the
American currency currently valued at an amount set by the Federal
Reserve Bank, currency valued at an amount that has robbed the
American public of the value of their labor.
It
is time to value every individual as an individual.
Stop
pornography and the objectification of women. Create a separate
legal tribunal for women and stop domestic and other forms of abuse
against women. Insist upon equality among individuals and end
religious discrimination and religious persecution of women. It is
time to stop male domination of women.
Stop
International Bankers and The Federal Reserve Banks that see war as a
means to profit. War at any cost to maintain the wealth of bankers,
oil men, the mortgage industry and others is not acceptable. Market
manipulation to destroy people’s lives is not acceptable. Driving
people into poverty and homelessness is not acceptable.
It is time to establish
a Democracy in America. It is time for Change.
Establish
a pool of citizens who volunteer to represent their State in Congress
and identify through Driver’s License or State I.D. records or
Voluntary Registration. Select lawmakers yearly for a one year term
to be paid at the rate of $100,000 per year. Eliminate pension and
expensive election campaigns often incurred at taxpayer expense.
Americans are tired of the character assassinations that accompany
today’s elections. Maintain a State Office for each state and
state representative housing. Identify and prioritize National and
State issues to be resolved. Create laws to serve the public good.
Ratify laws by popular vote yearly.
Provide universal
healthcare and eliminate fraud and mistakes in the current medical
system.
Fraud
is when doctors perform unnecessary medical procedures and
end-of-life medical procedures that do not add to the quality of life
of patients and may leave the patient or families with staggering
medical bills and bankrupt patient’s funds that were meant to be
the wife or children’s inheritance. Stop taxing inheritances, a
death penalty, and a double-taxation on earned or appreciation gains
on property or income. Fraud is when the doctor or his associates
bill insurance companies or the government for inaccurate charges.
Mistakes
are when a doctor cuts off a patient’s right arm instead of the
patients left arm.
Mistakes
are made when doctors treat nurses as second-class citizens. The
Medical profession needs to police itself. Hospitals are all too
often cold, dirty, cockroach and rat-infested places where the
clinical aspects of medicine overshadow the need for compassion for
the patient and their family and friends. Create jobs by creating
adequate cleaning crews to service hospitals and health care provider
facilities. Create jobs by manufacturing self cleaning pay toilets
and put them on every corner in every major city. Create jobs by
creating cleaning crews to clean toilets in restaurants, create
goodwill by taking a dirty job away from restaurant employees.
Create goodwill by providing safe, clean toilets for citizens,
travelers and tourists. Create goodwill by making hospitals warm,
cozy places in which patients can rest and recuperate and not catch
pneumonia and die. The world is desperately in need of medical
professionals and support personnel; yet in America we are failing to
provide education for qualified individuals.
With
respect to weights and measures, America should go Metric and enjoy
the benefits of standardized parts and tools while reducing costs of
repairs on equipment. Standardization in manufacturing and home
construction and commercial construction might also be achieved, not
to mention being in sync with the rest of the world. Roads and
bridges, America’s infrastructure, are in need of repairs and
maintenance. America needs high-speed and luxury trains and we need
efficient and safe airlines. If the Federal Government wants to take
over an industry, they should take over the airlines and provide
safe, comfortable, affordable air travel for all Americans and those
that travel through American airports.
The
Congress shall have the power to provide for the Punishment of
counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
Note: The Congress
should terminate our relationship with the Federal Reserve Bank and
International Bankers!!!
The
Congress shall have the power to establish Post Offices and Post
Roads;
To
promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries; including world-wide brand
protection for manufactured products.
To
establish lower courts and tribunals subject (inferior) to the
authority of the Supreme Court;
America should
prosecute those individuals that have directly benefited through
illegal work contracts between themselves or their companies and the
US government as prohibited by the US Constitution.
The
Congress shall have the power to:
Define
and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and
Offenses against the Law of Nations;
Definition
of Letters of Marque and Reprisal:
A document allowing private citizens to seize citizens or goods of
another nation; retaliation with intent to inflict equal or greater
injury, thus allowing undeclared war.
To raise and support
Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a
longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain
a Navy;
To make Rules for the
Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To
provide for calling forth the Militia, i.e. an army of ordinary
citizens, to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress rebellion and to
fight against invasions;
To provide for
organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, 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 Militia according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress;
To
exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such
District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of
particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become 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 (Storehouses), Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful
Buildings;
Definition
of Arsenal: A government
establishment for storing, development, manufacture, testing or
repair of arms, ammunition and other war material.
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.
Section 9 - Limits
on Congress
Congress
may not prohibit the Immigration of such Persons as any of the States
now existing shall think proper to admit prior to 1808. A tax or
duty may be imposed on such Importation not exceeding ten dollars
for each Person.
The
privilege of the Writ of Habeas
Corpus (or
unlawful restraint) shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of
Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Definition
of Bill of Attainder: –
Legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, usually
treason, without trial and subjecting that person to capital
punishment and dishonor or ex post facto law ( a law made after an
act has been committed) formulated, enacted or operating
retroactively (ex post facto) are unconstitutional.
Definition
of Attainder: – The
loss of all civil rights by a person sentenced to a serious crime.
No
capitation i.e. POLL TAX or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless
in
Proportion
to the Census
or
as previously stated.
The
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from
whatever source derived without allocation among the several United
States, and without regard to any census or list of persons or
property. ( Ratified by the 16th
Amendment February 3 1913)
No
Tax or Duty shall be laid on items, products exported from any State.
No
Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to
the Ports of one State over those of another. Vessels bound to, or
from, one State, are not obligated to enter, clear, or pay Duties in
another.
No
Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, without prior budgeted
approval 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.
No
Title
of Nobility
shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any
Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of
the Congress, accept of any present, payment or bribe, Office, or
Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Section
10 - Powers prohibited to States
Definition
of Bills of Credit: A
legal document (I.O.U.) issued by a government, upon its credit and
faith only, intended to circulate in the community as money
redeemable at a future day
No
state shall make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in
Payment of Debts;
What happened to the
gold standard? What happened to the gold in Fort Knox?
Why are more and more
Americans living in poverty?
Why
are we paying the Federal Reserve Bank interest to print money?
Why do Americans allow
International Bankers and Oil men to dictate our military policy?
Why
haven’t we provided jobs and training to replace jobs sent
overseas?
Why are we not
providing medical training to individuals to meet the needs of
America’s future?
Where
are the farms necessary to provide organic food, safe food, locally
grown food, to reduce our reliance on foreign grown food? Has anyone
considered what will happen if international food sources no longer
exist or are sent to other countries?
No
State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Taxes 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 taxes imposed
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.
No
State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage
(i.e. tax per ton on cargo) keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of
Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact (i.e. contract) with
another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless
actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not allow
delay.
Article
II - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The
President
The executive Power
shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He
shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together
with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as
follows:
Each
State shall appoint, in such Manner as the (State) Legislature may
direct, a Number of Electors? equal to the whole Number of Senators
and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the
Congress. No Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office
of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an
Elector.
Who
are these Electors and why are we not capable of conducting fair
elections using the Popular Vote??? Why is there no Democracy in
America? Why do the interests of corporations and international
bankers out way the interest of the American people?
Choosing the
President, Vice-President
The
Electors shall meet in their respective (home) states, and vote by
ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, may
not be a resident of the same state as the Electors. The Electors
shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in
separate ballots the person voted for as Vice-President. The
Electors shall make separate lists of all persons voted for as
President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the
number of votes for each. The Electors shall sign, certify, and
transmit the results, sealed to the seat of the government of the
United States, directed to the President of the Senate;
The
President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and
House of Representatives, open all the certificates and count the
votes.
The
person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be
the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of
Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from
the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the
list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives
shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. In choosing the
President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation
from each state having one vote; a quorum
for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds
of the states and a majority of all the states must be represented
(shall be necessary to a choice).
The
person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall
be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole
number of Electors appointed ( chosen not elected, is this
unconstitutional?), and if no person has a majority, then from the
two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the
Vice-President; a quorum
( the minimum number ) for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of
the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the all Senators
shall be required to vote. No person constitutionally ineligible to
the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President
of the United States.
The
Congress may determine the Time of choosing
the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which
Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a
natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time
of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office
of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who
shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been
fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Presidential,
Congressional Terms
1. The terms of the
President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of
January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the
3d day of January, of the years in which such terms end and the terms
of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall
assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at
noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a
different day.
3. If, at the time
fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President
elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become
President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time
fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall
have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as
President until a President shall have qualified. The Congress may
by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a
Vice President elect 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 or
Vice President shall have qualified.
4. 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 be put upon them, and for the case of the death
of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice
President whenever the right of choose has been delegated to them.
Presidential Term
Limits
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 to which some other person was elected
President shall be elected to the office of the President more than
once.
RECOMMENDATION:
THE PRESIDENT MAY SERVE ONLY ONE TERM OF OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF SIX
YEARS, A VOTE TO RETAIN OR OUST THE PRESIDENT SHALL BE TAKEN AFTER 3
YEARS. IN THE EVENT THAT THE PRESIDENT CAN NO LONGER PERFORM THE
DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT, A NEW PRESIDENT SHALL BE ELECTED. THIS
MEASURE SHOULD REDUCE CAMPAIGN EXPENSES, PAID FOR AT THE EXPENSE OF
TAXPAYERS!!!!
Presidential Disability and
Succession
1. In case of the
removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation,
the Vice President shall become President.
2. Whenever there is a
vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall
nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by
a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3. Whenever the
President transmits to the President pro tempore (temporary) of 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.
4. 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.
Thereafter, when the
President transmits to the President pro tempore 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 department or of such other body
as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. 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.
The
President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a
Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during
the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not
receive within that Period any other payment from the United States,
or any of the states in the union.
Prior
to taking office, the President shall take the following Oath or
Affirmation:
"I
do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of
President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section 2 - Civilian
Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The
President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States, and of the Militia of the United States, when called
into the actual Service of the United States; 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
or postponement of punishment and Pardons for Offenses against the
United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Definition
of Impeachment: prosecution, accusation of wrong doing
He
shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate,
to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present agree;
and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls
(i.e. Officials who reside in foreign countries), 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. 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.
The
President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen
during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions (authority)
which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section 3 - State of
the Union, Convening Congress
He
shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State
of the Union, and recommend for 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
Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the
Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission (grant authority
to) all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4 -
Disqualification
The
President, Vice President and all civilian Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment
for, and Conviction of, Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Article
III - The Judicial Branch
Section 1 - Judicial
powers
The
judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme
Court and in such lower Courts as the Congress may from time to time
establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and lower Courts, shall
hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times,
receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be
diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section
2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials
Judicial
Limits
The Judicial power of
the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law
or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States
by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any
Foreign State.
In
all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls
i.e. foreign officials, and those in which a State shall be Party,
the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.
In all the other Cases 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.
Definition
of Appellate Jurisdiction:
The Supreme Court has the power to review the decisions of lower
courts.
Definition
of Ambassadors:
Appointed government officials who reside in foreign countries and
represent American commercial interests and assist its’ citizens in
those foreign lands.
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.
Section
3 - Treason ( Betrayal,
Disloyalty)
Treason
against the United States shall consist of declaring and waging war
against the United States, 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.
The
Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason.
However,
no Attainder of Treason (the loss of all claims to protection of the
law) shall work Corruption
of Blood
(the ancient English penalty for treason prohibiting the family of
the accused from inheriting property) except during the Life of the
Person accused.
The Congress cannot by legislative act
declare a person guilty of treason. A person cannot by subjected to
capital punishment and dishonor without trial.
Article
IV - The States
Section 1 - Each
State to Honor all others
Full Faith and Credit
shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and
judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by
general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and
Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section 2 - State
citizens, Extradition
The
Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and
Immunities of Citizens in the United States.
A
Person charged in any State with Treason,
Felony, or other Crime, 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.
New
States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new
States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction
or authority 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.
The Congress shall have
Power 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.
Section 4 -
Republican government
The
United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican
Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the
Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Definition
of a Republic form of government:
A group of people working as equals whose head of state is not a
monarch and usually a president. Democracy is one person one vote,
not a political order in which the Supreme power lies in a body of
citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives
only responsible to that body of elitists individuals.
Article
V – The Amendment Process
The
Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application
of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a
Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be
valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when
ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States,
or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other
Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that
no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight
hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first
and fourth
Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State,
without its Consent, shall be deprived
of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Article
VI - Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
All Debts contracted
and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this
Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this
Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and
the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance
thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in
the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.
The Senators and
Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several
State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of
the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath
or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test
shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public
Trust under the United States.
The Rights of Citizens
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.
Note: Freedom of
expression does not include the right to exploit women and children
using pornography
Definition
of redress of grievances:
The right to make a complaint or seek assistance without fear of
punishment
Right to Bear Arms – one of the
top 10 constitutional freedoms to be decided
A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed.
Definition
of militia: An army
composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
Quartering
of Soldiers
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.
Search and Seizure
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.
Trial and Punishment, Compensation
for Takings
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 land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when
in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any
person be
subject for the same offense 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; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.
Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation
of Witnesses
In
all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial
jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by
law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to
be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the
Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
In Suits at common law,
where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right
of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury,
shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States,
than according to the rules of the common law.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Excessive bail shall
not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishments inflicted.
Construction of
Constitution
The
enumeration
(detail listing) in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Powers
of the States and People
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.
The legalization of marijuana is a
right that belongs to the people not the Federal Government.
Citizenship Rights
1. All persons born in the United
States and/or subject to the
jurisdiction
(i.e. authority) are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge (restrict or lessen the rights and legal remedies
allowing protection under U.S. law) the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive
any person of life, liberty, i.e. freedom from unjust and undue
governmental control or property, without
due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction
(territories within its borders and territories under its power and
control) the equal protection of the laws.
2.
Representatives shall be apportioned
or allocated among the several States according to their respective
numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,
excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any
election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President
of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and
Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State,
being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or
in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other
crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
3. No person shall be a
Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the
United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an
oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States,
or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the
United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But
Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such
disability.
4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties
for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be
questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume
or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slave. All such debts, obligations and claims
shall be held illegal and void.
Has
Congress fulfilled its obligation to enforce this amendment?
Slavery Abolished
1.
Neither Slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime to which the individual has been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
i.e. authority.
2. Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
CONGRESS HAS THE
OBLIGATION TO ENFORCE THIS REGULATION!!!!
Why is there still
slavery and involuntary servitude in America today? Why do some men
still consider women as second class citizens or worse – property?
1. The right of
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
The
Federal Government has unlawfully restricted the rights of the
Military to vote.
Americans vote blindly
for Electors and retention of Judges. It is time to change to a true
Democracy vs. a Republic in which an elite group of individuals and
corporations create laws.
We the people demand
one person one vote!!!!!
The
right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged (RESTRICTED) by the United States or by any State on account
of sex (OR SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIP)
Congress
shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation,
why hasn’t the government protected the popular vote, and
individuals right to vote??
The
transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or
possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of
intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby
prohibited.
Presidential Vote for District of
Columbia
1.
The District( of Columbia i.e. Washington, D.C.) constituting the
seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner
as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and
Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and
Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled
if it were a State, however never more than the least populous State;
they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they
shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President
and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they
shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the
twelfth article of amendment.
1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or
other election for President or Vice President, for electors for
President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in
Congress, shall not be denied or abridged (restricted) by the United
States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll
tax (head tax)
or other tax.
Voting Age Set to 18 Years
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.
Note:
The Military, certain schools, and some corporations currently
restrict certain individuals from voting and participation in
candidate selection and have corrupted the fundamental principles on
which this country is based.
Limiting
Changes to Congressional Pay
No
law, varying the compensation for the services of the Congress i.e.
Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of
Representatives shall have intervened.
