The representatives care little about the will of the people and civil liberties appear to be slipping away with each advance of government power. Elections are rigged and the constitution is failing to protect the People from corruption of government.
The most effective method of improving the constitution is likely the addition of a few amendments to perfect the document, lest the nation slip into anarchy and chaos as her constitution is dissolved or replaced. Below are my proposals for amendments which remove the injustice and strengthen freedom in democracy:
1) The people recognize that failure to participate in an election constitutes a lack of support for the items and candidates to public office in question. Those who fail to participate must have default negative votes recorded as being in opposition to each respective issue and person. Votes in favor must exceed 50% of the registered voters to be accepted by government as a majority support of the item or candidate. No longer shall any person feel compelled to vote for the "lesser of two evils" in order to stop a small faction from advancing a great evil. On the other hand, the people must be allowed to register and change their votes with a national, bio-metric voter ID at any time before the election.
2) The people require their representatives to represent the majority of their constituents. Representatives may not vote in favor of any bill without the majority support of their constituents. Neither may they contradict the established will of the majority. If the majority have established opposition to a bill, the representatives must obtain majority support for any revision of it. If the majority favors a bill, the representative must oppose revisions which lack majority support from their constituents.
3) The people require sufficient quality deliberation of each bill. Both the house and the senate must each deliberate on each bill for no longer than two hours per 24 hours and no less than six hours before final vote with all members present; with no less than three hours dedicated to members in opposition.
4) The people establish freedom from individual accountability for taxation, and pass this accountability at a flat rate to businesses. Taxation must be imposed only by one single flat rate and only on businesses, once for every financial transaction upon the "seller," which title shall default to the provider of the greater value of products, or if they be equal, then of services. The tax rate is adjusted and collected monthly to exactly balance the cost of each spending bill and to implement debt elimination.
5) The people demand a balanced budget where tax revenue is directly tied to spending bills. If the debt exceeds 30% of the revenue, it must be paid off within ten years, otherwise it must be paid off in three years. Government may not enter into debt except, as required, in preparation of military defense against invading forces. The people require fiscal responsibility of their government by a balanced budget with active debt avoidance and elimination.
6) The people require fair governance and blind justice by active government defense of individual privacy, except as needed to prosecute the violation of law in court, or as needed to establish identity. To that end, no law, order, or policy by government shall consider nor cause to be recorded: age, gender, race, medical history or genealogy, physical appearance, religion, political affiliation, wealth or property, income or employment, business or residence history or itinerary, or any other attribute which may be used to single out any person or group smaller than the majority of the population over which the governing document applies.
7) The people encourage competition by separating infrastructure from services. All services will have equal access to infrastructure at the same prices. No company may offer a contract exclusively nor discriminate with a different fee schedule. We require the terms of all business contracts to be published openly and to allow all businesses equal access to the same terms. Any company may use any existing infrastructure at the same price as any other company, non-exclusively. Infrastructure must be owned by companies independent and wholly separate from any company which uses it. Infrastructure includes phone lines, cell phone towers, data lines, power lines, road, satellites, etc. which connect more than one business or residence.
8 ) The people declare the importance of medical care in establishing the general welfare and insuring domestic tranquility. We declare it unlawful for any company to collect information regarding their own employees' medical insurance. Each company must pay their medical benefits directly to their employees in the form of medical benefits vouchers payable to the employee's choice of eligible medical insurance company located anywhere in the country. The insurance company may not record or collect employment related information in any way or for any purpose, including the name of the employer.
9a) The people require the government to issue school vouchers to every child, to receive minor children (1-18 years old) from 7am to 4pm Monday through Friday with counselors who take full responsibility and sole for the children from the time that the children step on the bus/campus to the time they step off it. Any company many bring teachers onto campus, or have the children driven to their campus. A child may choose any teacher for any subject so long as the core subjects are covered, regardless of company affiliation. The government retains the right and responsibility to send counselors with the children and to take children back to the government campus for discipline or other reasons. The government may not employee teachers, nor rate them, nor take any part in the teacher appraisal process. Government must however provide public forums for teachers to be rated and appraised by students, by parents, and by student tests, respectively. Students must be tested in the core subjects every day and have access at any time to sample tests for that day.
9b) In defense of educational freedom, the teacher always retains the right to remove any student from the class for any reason and for any duration. Government must ensure that if students are not in class, in testing, or in studying/tutoring, then they are given access to remedial tutoring based on testing results, or else to a wide variety of fun educational, or physical activities. Discipline or police action supersedes all these student rights.
9c) Minor children must be transported to campus in vehicles if they have to cross a road with greater than two lanes to get to school. If a student spends their entire day on a non-government campus, they may be transported from home directly to and from that campus.
9d) Students will be tested on real-world application and problem-solving for each subject that they have already passed in primary and secondary schools. Government testers shall have no other role than to create, administer, grade, and publish reports on all tests in qualified subjects. Testers shall create (if needed) and administer multiple versions of their tests throughout each day to prevent cheating. Tests must not require more than 30 minutes or less than 5 minutes to complete. Tests must be approved and published for nationwide use with at least one corresponding sample test no sooner than 24 hours before the test is to be administered. Test evaluation for approval must be complete no longer than 24 hours after it has been submitted, complete with all reasons for rejection, if that is the case. Tests will be evaluated by local boards of testers. The same sample tests must be used for all versions of the same test. No test may be used more than once per year, and never in the same month that it was used the previous year so that the version cannot be predicted or known prior to entry in any testing environment. They shall administer tests in a room without cellular signal reception. Students, teachers, and testers may separately rate each test on a public government forum.
10) The people embrace identity as the glue of civilization, and the weapon against criminals and their prized weapon of darkness and anonymity. The government shall establish a system for identifying every person on her territories using biometrics and other technologies in conjunction with RFID or other wireless broadcast technologies, which are highly resistant to identity theft. It shall be unlawful for any citizen to prevent this network from establishing the true identity of any other citizen. The government shall ensure that every citizen may use this technology to identify any citizen at any time and in a timely and detailed manner. It shall be unlawful for any government or other organization, or their agents, to use this technology to engage in refuse to engage in commerce or to engage in provocation on the basis of race, gender, age, wealth, profession or income, religion, or political affiliation.
- I have amendments in-progress regarding the rights of minors and CPS, and another regarding compulsory government-run education. The constitution poorly deals with minors and their education, information technology and intellectual property, and identity establishment.
Andy's commentary For reference: 1) in order to form a more perfect union 2) establish justice 3) insure domestic tranquility 4) provide for the common defense 5) promote the general welfare 6) and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
My 2nd amendment proposal applies only to representatives and not to senators, thus checks and balances are enhanced. Representatives must seek out the public will or serve without legislative power. The people establish themselves as the sole object of representation in the house, and dismiss special interests and big business from usurping their power in that body. No one dictates the issues that the reps choose to promote to the people or bring to their attention. If the people feel strongly enough to force their reps' hands with a majority support of all registered voters of each respective district over a majority of the districts, then there is still the senate to stop them, unless there is a house super-majority.
The first proposed amendment relieves the pressure on the voter to oppose issues about which their exists neither interest nor opinion. This places the burden of informing and rallying the people (all of them) on the advocates of each bill. Bills pass when the nation is brought together behind them for a more perfect union (#1) and thus we secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity (#6).
The second proposed amendment binds representatives to represent the people (and not Senators) and not rich special interest, big business, etc. This establishes justice (#2) by returning the power of the people to the people so that the powerful cannot harness the people's power for their own good as they have done with the recent "bailouts" to disastrous proportions. Representatives must bring the people into politics and unify them to exercise their powers, and thus this amendment acts in order to form a more perfect union (#1).
The third proposed amendment moderates filibusters and legislative ramming with healthy debate that insures domestic tranquility (#3).
The fourth proposed amendment a flat tax establishes justice (#2) by leveling the playing field and removing discrimination. It takes the accountability off the people in order to insure domestic tranquility (#3).
The fifth proposed amendment brings fiscal responsibility to establish domestic security (#3) from alarming levels of debt while enabling debt in times of emergency in order to provide for the common defense (#4). The younger are protected from bearing heavy debt brought on by the immediate-gratification and foolish greed of the older (#6), thus establishing some fairness and justice (#2).
The sixth proposed amendment establishes justice (#2) by blind legislation through privacy protection.
Latter amendments to follow are defense of competition (#3 & #5 below) on infrastructure, property, and services, and defense of freedom in education (#2 & #5 below) for teacher, student, and parent alike.
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