[SIZE=“2”][FONT=“Century Gothic”]Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.[/SIZE][/FONT]
Every citizen shall be guaranteed freedom from coercion.
I think I recognize that as the old ERA from the 1970s. You might want to change “sex” to “gender”, given the change in the past 30 years from gender as an item of grammatical case to an item of human identity.
So no more draft and mandatory jury duty? Because if so, I’m totally behind that.
Woo hoo! Some support! 
I SO agree with this. I don’t care which way you settle it but it should be clear and to the point.
It’s been settled. What’s to settle?
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Whether the right to bear arms is individual or collective.
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Whether it applies to weapons more formidable than those in existence when the Second Amendment was ratified.
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Whether the Second Amendment implies any constitutional right or duty of insurrection (which would be unique in the history of political constitutions).
But really, let’s not get into the bits of clarifying it, because that’ll just lead to another gun thread.
And every citizen shall be exempt from the law of gravity.
I think number (1) has been settled outright. (One of many cites.) Don’t know about (2), and never really heard of (3) before.
Let’s just say that enough people complain that it might be nice to hammer it out.
Taxes are coercive. No taxes, no government. For a brief time, that is, until your local bully starts demanding protection money and becomes a government for all intents and purposes.
[ol][li]A balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, which can only be overruled by a two-thirds majority in the House and a three-quarters majority in the Senate.[/li][li]A line item veto for the President. [/li][li]Term limits - no more than two consecutive terms for a Senator and four for a Representative. Having served those terms, the candidate is ineligible to be re-elected for six years from the day they left office.[/ol][/li]
Regards,
Shodan
An amendment clearly stating a right to privacy.
Any suggested wording?
Neither the federal government nor any state shall make or enforce any law prohibiting consensual transactions among adult citizens.
- No ballots shall list party affiliation, only the candidate name.
- All political parties shall release financial information regarding all aspects of their operations.
- Elected representatives shall release financial information.
- Corporations have no right to privacy or to lobby the government.
- Terms for a Representative are lengthened to three years with a five term max.
- Terms for a Senator are reduced to five years with a three term max.
- Physical presence on the chamber floor during all of the Senate’s meeting hours is required to filibuster.
- The Federal budget must be balanced each fiscal year.
- A right to individual privacy.
- A tenth amendment with some teeth(although I don’t know how to craft one).
- All votes on all issues are publicly recorded.
- Every statute has a sunset date which is directly proportional to the margin with which it passed. It has a three year minimum, but after that add a month or so per percentage point it got over 50%. Sunset dates can not be refreshed en masse, but require individual re-passage of a bill.
- No riders or Omnibus bills(this also eliminates the need for line item veto).
- Each bill must be read, in full, with a quorum of representatives present, before final vote on passage.(1,000+ page bills I’m looking at you).
Actually, most of this isn’t really Constitution level stuff. But put it in there anyway. Representatives have it too damn easy as it is.
Enjoy,
Steven
Taxes are coercive. Voluntary fees are not. No pay, no government service.
False premise; therefore, false conclusion.
Taxes are possible. Voluntary fees are not. No government ever has been or will be adequately financed by voluntary fees alone.