Post your Consitutional Amendment ideas here

[RCA]

1) There should be an amendment that outlaws all forms of torture, both foreign and domestic. This would immediately clear up all the BS floating around in the news today.

2) Electronics in the voting process needs to be outlawed. The includes diebold touchscreens as well as electronic scanners.

3) Political parties should be outlawed or somehow put on a level playing field with individuals.

With these three amendments 90% of all the shenanigans could be wiped out overnight.

 

[bcreps85]

4) Knowingly authoring, or being involved in the authoring of a law that is unconstitutional will result in the immediate forced resignation of public office.

5) Any time a public official expresses their loyalties to another country, they are forcibly removed from their public office. (LOOKING AT YOU OBAMA)

6) Putting foreign interests above those of America (ie Israel) is treasonous, and punishable by DEATH.

 

[Myerz]

7) Candidates are only allowed to raise $20,000,000 to fund their campaign during each phase, with a total of 3 phases.

8) All presidential debates will be regulated for fair time and Q&A distribution

9) No candidates will be allowed to receive any finances from corporations.

 

[forsmant]

1) The budget must be balanced, with exemptions to times of declared war.

 

[SovereignMN]

1. All voting must have verifible paper trail.
2. Remove anchor-baby clause from 14th amendment.
3. Repeal the 17th amendment so that Senators are appointed by State legislatures.

 

[jabrownie]

1. Maximum of two terms in federal office total.
2. Anyone who's held federal office is never allowed to become a lobbyist.
3. All federal office positions are paid 2x minimum wage.

 

[ChickenHawk]

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

I figure if it's in there twice they will have a harder time saying it doesn't exist.

 

[Banana]

Outlaw owning more than one media outlet, and no media corporation may span more than a state.

 

[Edu]

Right to travel written same as 2nd amendment.
Right to privacy protected, no databases, no national ID. (4th amendment on steroids)
No direct taxes. (oops, that's already there, so how are they doing it?)
The words "United States" shall always mean the government.
The words "several States united" shall always mean the several States united.

And the big one:
The government can never own a human being, even if they volunteer. (ends the IRS instantly)

 

[Richie]

I take issue with people that say that there should be a FEDERAL law prohibiting electronic voting. Have we forgotten who we are? We're Constitutionalists! The Constitutional (and practical) approach would be to work from the state level to bring back paper voting.

 

[obsolescence]

Some of these proposals are very un-libertarian and not Ron Paul-like...

 

[Revolutn]

How about we just reinstate the legally ratified "original" 13th ammendment.

The Titles of Foreign Nobility Clause.
Which said that no one holding a title of foreign nobility could hold office.

This would mean that there would be no......drum roll please....are you ready for it.....

LAWYERS to hold political office.

Reason:
All Attorneys are members of the BAR.
The BAR = the British Accredited Registry.

Reason being in old England, it was the Kings court, and commoners were not permitted to speak in the Kings court. Only specially recognized persons were allowed.
Each of them were Registered
with the court...which remember belongs to the King.

Thus, anyone who is a member of the BAR holds a Title of FOREIGN NOBILITY.


Can you even imagine how much better our society and country would be if lawyers hadn't been mucking about in government for the last nearly 200 years?


Ahhhh now that sounds like an Utopia worth pursuing......

 

[southerntrendkill]

How's this one.

The Government Really, Really, Really...... needs to follow the............

"Constitution of the United States of America."

I'd really like to see that!

 

[yongrel]

Repeal of the 16th & 17th Amendments would be nice.

 

[literatim]

I take issue with people that say that there should be a FEDERAL law prohibiting electronic voting. Have we forgotten who we are? We're Constitutionalists! The Constitutional (and practical) approach would be to work from the state level to bring back paper voting.

Amending the Constitution is a Constitutional approach.

 

[TheConstitutionLives]

Every public servant (police, mayor, tax collector, etc.) every two years must take an exam on the History and Application of the Constitution they swear to uphold. Included in the exam are questions pertaining to Rights vs. Privileges. Define both, etc.

 

[Revolutn]

In order to be eligible to vote you must have a college degree.

WTF?!

I know you're a good guy I followed a lot of your posts in the past man, but 0 points for that idea, that's extremely elitist!


PS
You would also have excluded, me, my co-worker, my brother, my mother, my father, my maternal grandmother, my maternal grandfather, my maternal aunt and her son/my cousin, all of whom I know cast votes on Super Tuesday for RON PAUL in their respective states.

 

[Banana]

Every public servant (police, mayor, tax collector, etc.) every two years take an exam on the History and Application of the Constitution they swear to uphold. Included in the exam are questions pertaining to Rights vs. Privileges. Define both, etc.

ooo, ooo great idea! (a little history: China's bureaucracy was very long standing and relatively successful during medevial times because instead of nobility, they had to pass a rigorous multi-day essay exam with a limited supply of ink and paper and a ration of rice and water in order to hold a political position. The better you did, the higher you could go)

In order to be eligible to vote you must have a college degree.

As much as I would love this, I'm afraid I can't endorse this in good conscience. See, the real problem would be whom will we entrust to administer the exam? Wouldn't that give a routine to usurp power from people? Remember, they used to have literacy tests to exclude blacks in South.

 

[AFM]

I like the amendment that was proposed that said that for every bill proposed, congress must state which clause in the Constitution gives them the power to pass it.

 

[N13]

In the same way that we have spearation of Church and State, we need Spearation of Corporations and State.