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To Amend the United States Constitution HA-26-7-09

 

Be it proposed by two thirds of both Houses or two thirds of all States and ratified by three fourths of States after the Democratic and Republican (DR) parties have been dissolved

 

As Amended by the Standard & Poor’s Debt Ceiling and Balanced Budget Amendment Crisis HA-16-7-11

 

The United States Constitution is one of the oldest surviving democratic constitutions in the world today.  By modern standards it is not a particularly well written document, and pales by comparison to several that I have written myself, the New Iraq Constitutional Elections (NICE), Draft Constitution for a Korean Union (DCKU), United Nations Charter Legitimate Edition (UNCLE) and Constitution of the Hospitals & Asylums Non-Governmental Economy (CHANGE) that directs the amendment of the U.S. Constitution in Chapter 8-D.  The US Constitution is the supreme law of the nation and after twelve years of independence the Constitutional Convention unanimously agreed to the original text of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were both written by Thomas Jefferson, who later became President.  Subsequently, the Constitution has undergone a series of twenty-seven amendments beginning with the ten article long Bill of Rights in 1791.  Amendments usually confer more rights to the people, or to better regulate the elections or officials, the XIV Amendment is unique in that it actually caused some repeals to the original Constitution pertaining to the enumeration of (former) slaves. 

 

To redress the disastrous state of the record budget deficit, whose escalation undermines the general economy with illegal and unaffordable market subsidies and a second national crisis pertaining to a judicial slave trade, two new amendments are proposed, a Balanced Budget Amendment to require the federal executive and legislature to produce a balanced budget and a Justice of the Peace Amendment to set term limits for federal judges and discipline the judiciary.  To do the Constitution justice several technical amendments shall be made under the Supremacy clause to both the original constitution and amendments.  First, defunct time and money specific references to the immigration, import and export laws in the original Constitution shall be repealed.  Second, in the original constitution reference to Revolutionary war debt shall be repealed to make the Supremacy clause number one.  Third, the Amendment conferring a Constitutional right to bear arms that so offends first amendment rights and freedoms and human rights shall be repealed.  Fourth, the never contested third amendment ban on quartering troops in private residences, with a loophole for the law, shall be repealed whereas it is such a frequently abused power and all such invasions of privacy under law should be overruled.  Fifth, the fourteenth amendment, that amended the original constitution, needs amendment itself, to cease prejudicing conflicts.  Not to wishing to take the time to explain all the historical and legal ramifications of these amendments, at this time, this summary shall include only the technical amendments themselves with limited explanation.  The reason for these amendments should be self-evident.  The new draft Constitution is of superior quality to the old, and should help bring to light and settle the disputes of the day. 

 

Article I Modern Migration

 

Section 9 Clause 1 states, “The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person”. It should be amended to read, Section 9 Clause 1, “The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States or Congress shall think proper to admit, shall incur a Tax or duty, until such tariffs are progressively eliminated”.

 

Article VI Supreme Supremacy Clause

 

Clause 1 states, “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”.  Having paid all debts in 1838 this clause shall be repealed so that the following two clauses to Article VI are renumbered as follows,

 

1. 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.

 

2. 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.

 

Amendment II (1791)Balanced Budget Amendment (2011)

 

Amendment II states “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”.  Because this is not the appropriate response to the rights and freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment, because the militia is already regulated and most of all because the right to bear arms is not the Supreme law of the people and is in fact regulated by permit.  To better respond to the First Amendment rights and freedoms necessary for a successful free market economy, the government shall be required to balance their budget.  Petitioners will be paid instead of assaulted and the government will be held fiscally responsible.  The proposed balanced budget amendment, as derived from the most recent legislative attempt for a Balanced Budget Amendment by Bob Goodlatte in H.J. 2

 

Section 1. Total outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year, unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of Congress shall provide by law for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a rollcall vote.

 

Section 2. The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased, unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House shall provide by law for such an increase by a roll-call vote.

 

Section 3. Prior to each fiscal year, the President shall transmit to the Congress a proposed budget for the United States Government for that fiscal year in which total outlays do not exceed total receipts.

 

Section 4. No bill to increase revenue shall become law unless approved by a majority of the whole number of each House by a rollcall vote.

 

Section 5. The Congress may waive the provisions of this article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. The provisions of this article may be waived for any fiscal year in which the United States is engaged in military conflict which causes an imminent and serious military threat to national security and is so declared by a joint resolution, adopted by a majority of the whole number of each House, which becomes law.

 

Section 6. The Congress shall enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation, which may rely on estimates of outlays and receipts.

 

Section 7. Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government except those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States Government except for those for repayment of debt principal.

 

Section 8. This article shall take effect beginning with the later of the second fiscal year beginning after its ratification or the first fiscal year beginning after December 31, 2016.'.

 

Amendment III Civil Law Amendment

 

Amendment III (1791) states, “No Soldier shall, in times 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”.  This law is highly abused to torture dissidents not officially in detention.  The actual practice of quartering soldiers is intrinsic to the regulation and discipline of the militia, is not necessary and is not a Constitutional right, but obscure administrative law, that should not be in the Bill of Rights.  Abuse of this power to quarter troops in private homes, is particularly rampant in the local judiciaries in defense of their prisoners or contracted by unscrupulous party politicians.  We shall thus quarter the judiciary in this condemned amendment and rehabilitate the decadent legal system under the following terms,

 

Section 1 The American legal system is a civil-law system based upon written briefs, the civil code and human rights.

 

Section 2 Federal Judges shall be elected to terms of four years in general elections in their respective districts. 

 

Section 3 Justices of the Supreme Court shall be limited to two terms.

 

Section 4 Associate Justices shall choose a new Chief, from amongst themselves, every year.

 

Section 5 Government officials convicted of crimes against humanity shall be removed from office.

 

Section 6 States shall elect district attorneys.

 

Section 7 States shall elect licensed social workers to judge divorce, mental illness, substance abuse courts and ethic committees and licensed funeral directors to avoid probate.

 

Section 8 States shall probate and parole criminal offenders to halfway houses to safely meet international minimum standards of detention below the legal limit of 250 detainees per 100,000 residents.

 

Section 9 the death penalty is abolished.

 

Section 10 Disputes of an international character shall be adjudicated by the Customs Court in New York City.

 

Amendment XIV (1868)

 

Amendment XIV states,

 

Section 1 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”.

 

Section 2 Representatives shall be apportioned 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.

 

Section 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 States, 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 nay 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.

 

Section 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; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

 

Section 5 The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article”.  Having been drafted to redress the serious problems in the wake of the Civil War the vast majority of the XIV Amendment after Section 1 is neither used nor relevant and should be repealed, whereas treason is already punished by removal from office.  Even the applicable sentence pertaining to apportionment of representatives in accordance with the enumeration of persons needs to cease discriminating against Indians, not taxed.  Congress already being imbued with the power to enact law, the result of this amendment would therefore be,

 

Section 1 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.

 

Section 2 Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State.

 

Thus concludes this technical proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States.

 

Sanders, Tony J. Amended Constitution of the United States of America. 20 pgs. HA-26-7-09  

 

Last Amended July 16, 2011