

# Suggesting a Second Bill of Rights

# For a called Convention of States

## G. Russell Peterman, a citizen

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### Copyright 2018 by Gene Peterman

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## Dedication

### This one is for the American People

With special remembrance of Cousin Jack dying on the drive to take Cherbourg, dad's service as Air Raid Warden and helping build a World War II ship in San Francisco Bay, the twenty years of service in the Air Force by each of my brothers Orlie and Richard [Orlie's service in the Korean War and Richard's service in the Vietnam War], and special thanks to my son MSgt Eric Peterman for his years of service and his willingness to talk about government and law with his dad and to his wife Grace for joining in and making the discussions lively and interesting.

## Part One

## Table of contents:

A list of proposed fifteen Amendments and other included parts of this document

* To use hold control and click on the wanted suggested Amendment or Part of this document and return to the Table of Contents the same way

Proposed Amendment A. Official Language

1. Declaring English is our official language

2. Governmental limits and use

Proposed Amendment B. Family law

1. Spelling out what a marriage is

2. Requirements and rules for Common Law marriage

3. Rules and requirements for Pair bonding

4. Rules and requirements for Adoption

5. Child support

6. Citizens use the bathroom of their gender

Proposed Amendment C. Federal taxation, budgets and Term limits

1. Enforces Balanced Budget and Congressional term limits

2. End inheritance taxation

3. Total tax reduction and earned income credit set at thirty percent

4. Return of overseas funds allowed tax-free

5. Administration must obey the Budgeting power of Congress

6. All Appropriated funds shall be paid to the Treasury

7. No tax for not buying

8. All citizens shall pay full Social Security amount

Proposed Amendment D. Elections and primaries

1. All Primaries are closed primaries

2. Setting rules about Voting and Elections

3. Presidential Primaries/caucuses/straw poll rules and organization

4. Bars spouse of a President and Vice President from seeking high office

5. Creates two equal sized federal Senatorial District in each state

Proposed Amendment E. Congressional rules

1. Setting the Federal Mandatory Retirement age

2. Members of Congress are required to follow/obey the law they pass

3. Public reading time required on all Congressional Bills

4. Allows a limited filibuster to strip all amendments from a bill

5. Truth in reporting News over airways required

6. Grants to Public Broadcasting include C-Span

7. Senatorial rules

Proposed Amendment F. Presidential and Administration restrictions and regulations

1. Require Cost Estimate of new Administration rules

2. Limits to Presidential Wavers to rules and laws

3. Presidential Foreign Agreements require Congressional consent

4. President shall have the right to line item veto

5. President shall have the right to adjust entry and travel

6. Adjust the Calendar to be in sync with the sun

Proposed Amendment G. Citizenship and citizen rights

1. Determining Citizenship at the moment of birth

2. Setting requirements for Citizen Associations and groups

3. Setting rules for Citizen Right to Privacy

4. Citizen gun rights and responsibility to join state militia

5. Restoration of Citizenship rights to felons and sentencing requirements

6. Listed cost of medical pills and treatments

Proposed Amendment H. Education

1. Rules and regulations to return Education to the states

2. Sets maximum dollar amount of a Student Loan

Proposed Amendment I. Administration, the law and Courts

1. Rules and crimes for releasing classified information

2. Set limits to Civil law Punitive Damages awards

3. Set age requirements in Juvenile Law courts

4. Sets out the punishments for Identity Theft and Computer Hacking

5. Allows one month delay for impact studies

6. Social Security Administration shall report Social Security payments made by the dead

7. The right to lawfully assemble/protest not to riot

8. Removal of unused laws

9. National Security Letters

10. Court Decisions and Rulings

Proposed Amendment J. Immigration and illegal immigration

1. Illegal immigrant invasion closes borders

2. Excessive amnesty closes borders

3. Border Agents shall have the right to search

Proposed Amendment K. Public debt

1. Reduces size of House of Representatives to save money

2. Mutual shared sacrifice is required to pay back large public debt

3. State/district/territory bail out for large public debts [bankruptcy]

Proposed Amendment L. Public Lands limits

1. Set at fourteen percent maximum federal land ownership in any state

2. Closing Indian Reservations rules

Proposed Amendment M. Financial concerns

1. Only allows fix rate mortgages on Housing loans

2. Sets maximum interest rate allowed

3. Representatives of the people's housing deduction

4. State and federal difference about drugs, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco

Proposed Amendment N. Sunset provisions

1. Civil Rights laws, rules, quotas, and practices shall sunset every thirty years.

2. Unused laws and ordinances shall sunset in twenty years.

Proposed Amendment O. Abortion

1. Rules for Abortion

2. Life

Part two: Opinion

Part three: Final Comment

Part four: About the Citizen

### Proposed Amendments

Proposed Amendment A. Official Language: This amendment takes effect upon ratification.

**Section 1. Declaring that English is our official language:** Hereafter, The official language of society, learning, business, and government shall be English as spoken and written in these United States.

**Section 2. Governmental limits and use:** No government shall make any law that diminishes the official language but may expend tax [public] monies to aid legal immigrant(s) to learn our language, government, and history. Legal documents and communications with its citizens shall be in one language and that language shall be the official language. Immigrants to our nation must learn our language as step one toward assimilation as an American.

Proposed Amendment B. Family law: Nothing in this amendment changes the past. This Amendment shall only affect family law after ratification.

**Section 1. Spelling out what a Marriage is:** Marriage is for the protection and nurturing of children. Marriage is only between a man and a woman. No government shall make any law that extends the recognized traditional legal name of marriage to any other than a man and woman lawfully married. Any law or court ruling or Presidential Order that does is hereby declared null and void and unenforceable. Over time, tradition has associated certain words with legal marriage of a man and a woman and this amendment shall enforce that tradition by protecting these traditional legal marriage terms/words: bride, groom, wife, husband, spouse, and mate.

Rules and regulations concerning marriage shall be a state right.

**Section 2. Requirements and rules for Common law marriage:** In order to insure and protect the welfare of children, Common law marriage shall be recognized in all states, district, and territories. A Common law marriage is a marriage entered into without a marriage license or legal marriage ceremony.

A common law marriage shall occur in three ways: (1) An unmarried or divorced man of legal age to marry and an unmarried or divorced woman of legal age to marry send a printed and dated announcement that both sign of their union as common law husband and wife to at least ten [10] adult family members or friends. (2) An unmarried or divorced man of legal age to marry and an unmarried or divorced woman of legal age to marry cohabitate, continuously or interrupted, for one calendar year or 365 days shall then be common law husband and wife—and shall be legally married. (3) When an unmarried or divorced man of legal age to marry and an unmarried or divorced woman of legal age to marry have a child together they shall have entered into a Common law marriage whether or not they are currently or have ever cohabitated. One party or the other may demand and pay for a DNA test to determine the truth of a child's birth parents. However, the law shall take refusal by one of the two or both to take a DNA test as the rightness of the Common law claim.

Disillusion or termination of a Common Law marriage shall only be by court order.

**Section 3. Rules and requirements for Pair-bonding:** A mutual life sharing agreement/contract for pair-bonding of two persons of the same sex may be developed by any state, district, or territory if its citizens wish it by majority vote and furthermore shall develop and vote on a list of mutual rights and responsibilities for this union. Federal authority and other states shall honor this agreement if a majority of the citizens of the originating state has voted in agreement with both requirements.

No government shall make any law that calls a pair-bonded couple "married" or "in a marriage" and/or say or write, "Their legal rights are the same as those for a married couple."

Pair bonding shall be a state right.

**Section 4. Rules and requirement for Adoptions** : It is the duty of the federal government, the several states, district, and territories to look after the welfare of all children. All legal court adoptions of children shall transfer all parental rights to the new parents. The adopted child shall be given the last name of the adopting parents or parent and a birth certificate stating the new facts of his/her life. However, an adopted child older than seven shall have legal right if he/she wishes to keep his/her birth last name after the adoption.

All official records, other than the court decree, and materials related to the adoption shall be gathered in one place, sealed, and after five years destroyed. Any challenge to an adoption by one or more biological parent(s) has three years to appeal and challenge.

It shall be up to the court how much importance to place on the child's other family members in placement before, during an adoption case, and in final adoption. For non-family-adoption, the court shall give first preference to a married couple, second preference to a once married but divorced person, third preference to a single unmarried person, fourth preference to a same-sex couple, and fifth preference to a single gay or lesbian person.

**Section 5. Child Support** : A child of a marriage is a child of that marriage. However, if in a divorce action a father challenges that he fathered a child with a paid for DNA test and it proves to be true that father shall be freed from child support payments for that child(s) and the court shall decide on how much to reduce any child support and/or alimony payment. A wife or former wife's refusal to submit to a DNA test or allow her child or children to take the test shall stand as proof of his claim.

Hereafter, any court settlement that denies the father or mother at least one hour twice a month contact with his/her child shall free that father or mother from any and all child support payments for that child and is entitled to reduced alimony payments. However, a mother or father may refuse the mother or father temporary contact with their child if behind on child support payments.

**Section 6. Citizens use the bathroom of their gender:** No government shall make any law that allows citizens without penalty to use the bathroom other than provided for by their legal and recognizable gender other than young children not of school age accompanying a parent, guardian, or grandparent.

Proposed Amendment C. Federal taxation, budgets, and Term limits: All citizens expect certain behavior and duties from their elected representatives. We the people do hereby create avoidable term limits as a punishment for not doing the required duty of producing a yearly balanced budget, and because it is impossible to decide which one or which few caused the delay or failure, all shall be replaced at the end of their present term. All issues in this amendment shall start the first day of October after ratification, but shall affect only newly elected, re-elected or appointed members.

**Section 1. Enforces a Balanced budget and Congressional term limits** : Elected representatives to Congress shall produce each year a balanced budget for the coming [next] year in a timely manner.

(a). Continuing Resolution shall hereafter only be allowable in a time of emergency for up to a year after at least sixty-seven (67) percent of all elected members in both houses of Congress vote for a "Resolution of Emergency" spelling out in clear language that an average eighth grade student can understand what the national emergency is.

All Continuing Resolutions shall have at least an eight (8) percent reduction in all dollar amounts for each/all/every non-restricted item budgeted in the last passed budget. Its use shall end for that year all legislator-franking privileges and all legislator foreign travel reimbursements. Furthermore, it shall end the payment of any/all bonuses and salary increases to all appointed and confirmed Administration officials and reduce the President's discretionary funds by one-half. A Continuing Resolution shall be voted on favorably by at least sixty [60] percent of elected members of both houses of Congress.

The exceptions [restrictions] to all Continuing Resolution(s) reductions are the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, aid(s) to those on disability, Federal Prisons, Homeland Security, continued employment of essential personal, and salaries of Judges.

Only after passing both a Resolution of Emergency and a Continuing Resolution shall any Continuing Resolution lawfully be sent to the President. If both are completed before 1 September, it allows all members of Congress to avoid being term-limited for failure to produce a balance budget.

(b). Failure to place on the President's desk before 1 September of each year a passed complete Congressional Balanced Budget shall cause all elected and appointed members serving at that time in both houses of that Congress to be term-limited.

If a budget is not enacted into law before 1 October, the last passed and signed budget shall continue for another year. For that repeated budget cycle all members of Congressional staff [leadership included] shall be reduced on the public payroll to one personal aid and one secretary, suffer loss of franking privileges, and serve without any foreign travel reimbursements. All repeated budgets shall have eight [8] percent reductions with a two [2] percent increase added each year thereafter with the same restrictions as for Continuing Resolutions.

In addition, failure to enact a budget by 1 October may in part be due to delays by Administrative officials reporting of facts to Congress. Therefore, on October 1st the President's discretionary fund amount last budgeted and his or her travel expenditures last paid shall be reduced and restricted during this second year budget cycle to one half of those last paid/allowed amounts during the upcoming budget year. Furthermore, during that repeated budget cycle not one dollar shall be spent on bonuses or to salary increases to upper Administration political appointee level officials or on non-military new cars, airplanes, and trucks or on any capital improvement(s) to federal offices or buildings or property.

(c) All term-limited elected/appointed members of the House of Representatives and the Senate may complete their present elected/appointed term. However, none shall be allowed in their life-time to file and run for another federal elected office, shall not be allowed to be confirmed by the Senate to another Administration position or commission or agency, shall not hold a classified security clearance unless national security demands it, and shall not ever be allowed to register as a lobbyist or as a foreign agent.

(d). Any budget of the United States submitted by the President to Congress or passed by Congress shall not project a growth rate of more than 2.5 percent, contain no administration department or commission or agency requests derived from base-line accounting, contain payment of the interest on the public debt and contain some payment on the principle [if any], and have more projected income [revenue] than expenditures.

Costs of Congress approved foreign wars and military occupations are budget exceptions if a majority plus one in both houses of Congress votes on a resolution saying that they are exceptions to the balanced budgeting process that year. However, any and all continuing costs of Presidential ordered police actions, military occupations, and agreements with foreign countries not approved by Congress shall not be included as an exception.

Any budget submitted to the President not following the above balanced budget guidelines shall term-limit all elected/appointed members of the House of Representatives and Senate on the date that budget is voted on and passed.

Hereafter, when learning after passage of a budget that a department or sub-section of a department used base line accounting that department or sub-section shall have its approved and unspent monies immediately reduced by ten (10) percent.

(e) Congress shall not in any budget-cycle budget any monies or provide any grants to any township, county, village, town, city, state, region, commission, agency, district, territory, business, association, organization, or educational institution not allowing Coast Guard, border patrol, fire, police, and military recruiters reasonable access and/or do not make an honest good faith effort to help enforce immigration laws. Any budget passed and sent to the President that does not honor these directives shall term-limit all members of that Congress on the date that budget is passed.

(f) No government shall allow sanctuary areas, cities or states to exist without penalties. Hereafter, the federal government shall have the right to withhold all grants and budget line funding, including transportation funds for those entities that do not make a good faith effort to help enforce immigration laws. Once warned and funds are withheld and nothing happens for a year the federal authorities shall began a yearly ten percent removal or employment termination of non-essential federal personal and reduce by ten percent new contracts to businesses in that sanctuary area, city and state. If nothing happens in three years, the federal government shall start moving assets and shutting down as many federal offices and buildings, military bases, and local access to and use of all public lands as prudent. These shall include reduced use of military bases and/or placing all businesses with offices/store/warehouses in that area, city and state on the disapproved list to bid on federal contracts.

(g) Our elected representatives need to be able to judge the management abilities of a group receiving funds. Therefore and hereafter any member(s) of the Administration appearing before the House of Representative or one of its committees or appearing before the Senate or one of its committees to ask for more funds shall provide a detailed list of all the times (dates) and dollar amounts that in the last ten years their department or agency or commission has returned unspent budgeted monies to the general treasury or spent more than budgeted amounts. All members of Congress present in a joint session or single house of Congress or single committee of Congress convened for an increase in funds request that does not ask for and demand the above information shall suffer term limiting at the conclusion of that interview.

(h) Because Congress authorizes and the Administration spends, Congress and its Committees need to talk to the people they confirm that do authorize spending budgeted funds. Therefore, the Senate shall hereafter have the power and right with only a written charge of "Just Cause" to terminate the confirmation of any confirmed person other than Federal Judges by a majority plus one vote.

The charge of "Just Cause" shall only be leveled against confirmed person(s) for three reasons: (1) appearing before a congressional committee or a house of Congress and refusing to explain an expenditure or lack of, (2) summoned by subpoena and fails/refuses to appear, and (3) refuses to answer questions by claiming protection of the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.

(i) The people expect their elected representatives to show up in person and represent them in the discussion of an issue and by voting. Any member of the House of Representatives and any member of the Senate that fails to appear and misses one hundred (100) roll call votes for any reason [including health and election campaigns] during a Congressional term shall be term-limited on the date of the one hundredth missed vote. A roll-call vote is any vote that records the vote of individual members on the floor or in committee.

Congressional voting rules might later be formulated to avoid/encourage/protect members not appearing for discussion and vote. Therefore, any vote allowed to be cast early, phoned in, radioed in, e-mailed in, texted in, teleconferenced in and/or by any other electronic or telecommunicated means, faxed in, teletyped in, telegrammed in, mailed in, shouted in from the hallway or another room, or carried in by another member (messenger) avoids half of the required and expected work of an elected representative of the people. Therefore, a vote cast by any and all or like any above disallowed method(s) shall be counted as a vote missed.

(j) Unexpected things happen. Therefore, emergency appropriations are allowable after a plain language statement of the nature of and/or reason for the emergency in a resolution passed by majority vote in both Houses of Congress.

**Section 2. End Inheritance taxation** : Government has the right to tax but not to year's later tax again the same unspent monies or property it purchased. No government shall make any law that denies individual citizens that earn monies and have paid all necessary taxes the right to leave all accumulated monies and/or property purchased with already taxed monies during their lifetime to their children or others as they choose without that money or property being taxed again by inheritance taxes. This no tax order includes life insurance monies paid to named heirs upon death of the policyholder and earlier inherited monies, trust funds, or property.

Furthermore, all combination(s) of lawyer(s) fees and/or charges on any challenge suit over a legal will to claim a forced larger share of an inheritance or demand a share different from willed shall not exceed three (3) percent of the forced share or increased share or share demanded. Hereafter, any person(s) challenging a legal will shall whether they win or lose pay all court costs.

**Section 3. Total tax reduction and earned income credit is set at thirty percent** : Hereafter, no government shall make any law that allows a total tax reduction or earn income credit payment to be larger than thirty percent of the total income tax that would have been paid on total monies earned by an individual, divorced individual, married couple, business owner, farm, ranch, business, company or corporation.

**Section 4. Return of overseas funds allowed tax-free** : Government has the right to tax, but no government shall make any law to collect additional tax assessment on any monies that is returned to these United States that individuals, companies, and corporations earn legally overseas in foreign countries and have paid all legal taxes in the country it was earned in.

**Section 5. Administration must obey the Budgeting power of Congress** : Hereafter, no government shall make any law that frees any federal department or agency or commission or special agent from being subject to the budgeting powers of the Congress. The allowed exception shall be for an appointed Special Prosecutor for one calendar year.

Furthermore, any section(s) or part(s) of any law and/or all or parts of a Presidential Order(s) concerning a department or agency or commission that state differently are hereby all declared null and void sixty [60] days after the ratification of this amendment. Failure to comply shall terminate and make null and void that entire law(s) and/or Presidential Order(s) that created the non-complying department, agency, or commission or contract terms with any hired special agent. Congress may re-establish any if it wishes to do so lawfully.

**Section 6. All Appropriated funds shall be paid to the Treasury** : All monies belonging to the United States Government shall be paid into the United States Treasury and payments made from the Treasury shall only be made according to the directives of Congress. All required appropriated funds due to fines, fees, court orders, tariffs, and all other charges shall be paid into the United States Treasury. Any non-allowable business practice or conduct may demand there be restitution and/or a fine. Restitution shall be as the court directs to those persons and/or businesses effected by practice or conduct, but shall not reduce the amount of the fine paid to the United States Treasury. A fine and restitution are two separate things.

No person or business shall get credit for a reduction in the actual fine dollar amounts to be paid into the United States Treasury for any payment(s) made to any other group(s) or entity(s) no matter how deserving they might be. Any elected or appointed or confirmed or paid/hired person authorizing a reduction in a fine if payments are made to other entities shall be grounds for their removal/dismissal/termination/impeachment including the President of the United States, any member(s) of his Cabinet/ and any member(s) of the Federal Court including the Supreme Court that provide or offer the same in any settlement(s).

**Section 7. No tax for not buying:** No government shall have the right to tax or fine any citizen for not buying a demanded thing. A citizen shall have the right to buy or not to buy. There is nothing in this order to deny governments from taxing any item purchased or requiring a payment for a license or requiring a purchased pass to enter a place.

**Section 8. All citizens shall pay the full Social Security amount:** No government shall make any law that allows any citizen not to pay the full Social Security amount set by Congress on their total wages/salary/bonus earned each year and hereby declares all Social Security salary caps or top limits null and void.

Proposed Amendment D. Elections and primaries: This amendment shall take effect on the first November 15 after ratified and require that when all voting registration books/rolls/logs do again open they be blank and all registration shall be new and done in accordance with new residence rules.

**Section 1. All Primaries are closed primaries** : No government shall make any law that allows non-members of political parties to vote to decide the winner or losers in any political party primary other than their own. Hereafter, in all Primaries only voters of a registered political party shall vote for candidates of their registered party. Poll workers shall hand the person wishing to vote the ballet of the party the registration record shows that citizen is registered as a member of and shall not ask a potential voter which one they want.

Whenever local State Primaries and Federal Primaries are held citizens shall vote for their political party's candidates in his or her assigned place on Election Day. They may not vote at the local voting control office(s) on Primary Election Day. Primary elections shall be decided by citizens able to make it to the polls. Early voting shall be allowed for up to three days in areas with early voting rules set forth in Section 2, but absentee voting in primaries shall not be allowed.

**Section 2. Setting rules about Voting and Elections** : It is the duty of a citizen to appear personally to register with the local voting authority, appear on the correct date at the correct polling place, and vote.

No government shall make any law that allows a citizen to have more than one legal residence established by living seven months in that place/house or voting precinct and register before voting. All registration centers shall close one month [30 days] before the voting date. A citizen maintains a residence by living in that house/voting precinct area for at least seven months during the last year before registering. Each person shall when registering state and offer proof that they are a citizen [a driver's license is photographic proof but not proof of citizenship] and offer proof of his/her legal residence and they are the person registering. Government and military service are exceptions to this legal residence time requirement. Having property in dual areas and paying local taxes in more than one area does not give a person the right to vote more than once in any Federal or state primary or election.

No government shall make any law that does not require an individual citizen when voting to show photo identification and a signed voter registration card to identify their name and address on voting registration roll. If they have been dropped from the registration roll and/or cannot show both of the required cards, but wish to vote that individual must write out a request to vote statement or complete a prepared blank statement form in the presents of the vote monitors. A voter request statement shall provide full legal name, his or her listed address, date of birth, telephone and/or cell phone number(s), Social Security number, and state that they are a citizen and have lived in that voting precinct for the last seven months, sign a statement to that effect, and have his or her picture taken before voting. All voting shall cease when the polls close. If voting ends at 7 o'clock no vote cast after that time shall be counted.

Every third year of a President's four-year term the local authority controlling voting shall mail out a voter identification card and all names on returned cards shall be removed from the voter list/roll. No government shall make any law and no court shall make any ruling to force the retention of returned names to remain on the voter list/roll.

(a) Persons voting more than once or causing others to vote more than once in any election are guilty of a crime and shall loose their right to vote. Owning or renting property in two or more states and/or polling places and voting more than once [absentee vote in one place and in person in another] is a crime and shall cause that citizen to loose the right to vote. Completing and signing a false voter registration statement shall cause that person to lose the right to vote. Registering a non-person is a crime and that citizen shall loose the right to vote. Any person found guilty of voter fraud shall lose his/her right to vote. Any person voting the dead or voting as a dead person is a crime and loses the right to vote. State(s) and/or federal government may decide additional punishments and/or penalties for the above crimes.

Any state unwilling to assist in voter fraud investigation/charges shall lose all federal funding until the investigation is completed and charge(s) are filed or proven unnecessary, and any United States Attorney General unwilling to order investigation and/or file charges, if warranted, is subject to have his/her confirmation revoked by a simple majority plus one vote in the Senate. A person in jail or prison shall loose the right to vote while incarcerated, and any person in custodial care for mental illness shall lose the right to vote until discharged as cured and establishes residency.

Each voting authority shall maintain a paper copy of each vote cast encase a recount is needed. Voice print and/or eye identification technologies may be used at some future date if these prove cost effective and reliable.

No order, rule, or governmental law shall allow any reporting of or predictions about the results of any election before all polling stations are closed in that state. Any news media outlet that does report and/or predict election results before all polls are closed in that state shall not have its license renewed as long as the reporting person(s) is still employed.

(b) No government shall make any law that makes it more difficult for any government person and their family members of voting age in foreign countries on Foreign Service outside of the United States or military service, including peace and wartime deployments to vote. These citizens shall vote a month early. The Foreign Service federal election date for all yearly general elections shall be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in October. Their vote(s) shall be collected and forwarded through military channels to the proper voting authority and counted in local level voting tabulations.

No government shall make any law that allows more than three normal business days of early voting in person. Mailed absentee voting is allowed in a general election with a signed reason why the person is not able to vote in person and local voting authorities may deny a person the ability to absentee vote if the reason for the request is not acceptable. No marked, signed, and mailed absentee ballot postmarked more than seven days before or the day after Election Day shall be counted, nor shall any lost or found ballots the next day or later be counted. Election workers shall verify registration number and signature on all Mailed ballots before being counted by equal representatives of all political parties and shall have the task completed within ten days. All mailed absentee ballots not counted within ten days after the date of the election shall not to be counted. No form of phone voting or internet voting or mass mail voting shall be allowed.

No government shall allow early voting at more than one or two sites/places per county with two additional sites allowed in a city with more than 100,000 population, and four more additional sites for cities over one million population. No government shall allow any voting on Election Day at the office of the County Clerk or any other local election control office(s).

Furthermore, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every year shall be a National Federal Holiday hereafter known as "Election Day."

No government shall make any law that allows a run-off election later than ten [10] working days after the election. Any state government failing to hold run-off elections in ten [10] working days shall declare the candidate with the largest vote count at eight o'clock on the morning of the eleventh working day the winner. In case of a tie a coin toss shall decide the issue.

(c) No government shall make any law or rule allowing the election of Citizen Electors actually be elected to the Electoral College. Hereafter, each House of Representatives District shall have one Electoral College vote. Each candidate that wins a majority in a Congressional District shall win that one Electoral College vote. The candidate that wins the most congressional districts in any single state shall earn two [2] electoral votes because all states have two at-large senators. However, if Senatorial Districts have been established, the winner in each Senatorial district gets one electoral vote. Any district election that ends in a tie a coin toss by a chosen representative or party representatives shall decide the district winner.

No winner of a majority of a state's congressional districts shall take all of that state's Electoral College votes. A candidate shall win Electoral College vote credit for what they win.

Hereafter, any candidate asking for a recount shall pay the cost of that recount. If no candidate for President receives a majority of the Electoral College votes, the House of Representatives shall on the third business day after the election decide the issue by majority vote. In the House of Representatives, each state shall have one vote, representatives from Districts and Territories do not vote in the House of Representatives Presidential vote. If after ten votes, no candidate gains a majority in the House of Representatives or a tie occurs on the last tenth vote a coin toss between candidates, or chosen representatives shall decide the winner.

(d). When more citizens vote than are registered, there is an appearance of voter fraud. Hereafter, whenever more than four [4] percent vote than are registered the election shall be declared null and void. Furthermore, whenever one party wins heavily in the election and another wins heavily in the absentee vote that election shall be investigated for possible voter fraud and cancellation. All fraudulent elections shall be declared void and re-voted. Repeat elections shall occur on the tenth [10] working day after the election or declaration of fraud date or cancellation date, the office of voting registration shall be open two of those days, and the vote will have two poll watcher from each party at each voting place.

In a repeat or run-off election, each voter shall appear at the proper polling place, show photo identification and signed voter registration card and no early voting, no non-registered voting, and no absentee voting shall be allowed.

**Section 3. Presidential Primaries/Caucuses/Straw Poll rules and organization** : No government shall make any law that allows any primaries to be held other than in the calendar year of the election and must be for the purpose of selecting delegates to a party convention or reducing the number of candidates for public office to one per party. Party Caucuses, a general Caucuses, or Straw Polls and all other non-primary organized efforts shall not be allowed for the selection of or determining the number of delegates to a party convention and shall have no voice in the selection of party representative(s) to stand for an election. When invited all elected and former elected members of a political party may be non-voting convention members. Only members selected and seated in a state/district/territory delegation shall vote.

No government shall make any law setting a date for a primary different from their allowed time zone. All state and federal primaries shall be organized according to time zones: Eastern Time Zone states shall have January primaries, Central Time Zone states shall have February primaries, Mountain Time Zone states shall have March primaries, and Pacific and all other time zones shall have April primaries. Any state missing its Presidential Primary month shall have its primary in May, and if a state misses May, their primary shall not be held until after all political party conventions are completed.

**Section 4. Bars the spouse of a President or Vice President from seeking high office:** The spouse and all former spouses of a President or a Vice President or former President or former Vice President upsets the usual normal and natural balances between candidates and government in a primary and general election. Having a non-candidate former or present high office holder in the background makes it unfair to any and all other candidate(s) running for the same high office. Therefore, the spouse or a former spouse of a person that is presently serving or has in the past served in the high office of President or Vice President shall hereafter be denied and barred from seeking or filing and running for either the office of President or Vice President of the United States. Furthermore, that same above mentioned spouse or former spouse shall be denied and barred from registering as a lobbyist or foreign agent or be appointed to any office that requires confirmation by the United States Senate.

**Section 5. Creates two equal sized Senatorial Districts in each state:** To improve representation of the people hereafter each state shall divide itself into approximately equal halves [by land mass] forming two Senatorial Districts in that state. The dividing line shall be either generally east-west or north-south or diagonal from the northwest to southeast corner or from the northeast to southwest corner along county boundary lines and no lot, farm, business, voting precinct, township, county, village, town, or city in that state shall be divided. Any Senator the people elect shall have lived in that district for not less than seven months each of five years, and time served in the military, government and Foreign Service shall count as time lived in the district the citizen claims residency in.

Any state government may once every thirty years adjust the dividing line one calendar year before the next national Presidential election by a majority vote of the people. After creation of Senatorial Districts or a change, any Senator(s) serving an elected term shall complete their term without regard for residence requirement and be assigned a Senatorial District by majority vote in the State Senate or in a unicameral legislature.

Once Senatorial Districts have been established the Presidential winner of the state's popular vote or the most districts shall not be awarded two electoral votes. Each candidate shall hereafter earn one Electoral College vote from each Representative District and one vote from each Senatorial District(s) he or she wins. All winner-take-all laws/rules are declared null and void.

Proposed Amendment E. Congressional rules: After ratification, all changes are in force for all new appointees, confirmations, rules, and elections.

**Section 1. Setting the Federal Mandatory Retirement Age** : No federal law shall change the Federal Mandatory retirement age for all elected/appointed/confirmed officials to be less or more than eighty-five years.

At age eighty-five years each official shall retire from his or her elected or appointment to Congress or confirmed Administrative office on his/her birthday. This order does include all elected, appointed, and confirmed persons and all lifetime appointed persons to the Federal bench and Supreme Court. All federal judges including members of the Supreme Court shall retire on their eighty-fifth (85th) birthday. This change shall only affect person(s) newly elected, appointed, or confirmed after ratification.

Federal Judges shall retire at half pay [55 percent] with one additional percentage point increase for each two years of service. Members of the Supreme Court shall retire at sixty [65] percent pay with the same increase for service. The Chief Justice shall retire at seventy [75] percent pay with the same increase for service. No judicial retirement pay shall be greater than one hundred [100] percent of their actual working pay [full pay].

In case of the President mandatory age-retirement on his or her eighty-fifth birthday the Vice President shall assume the office and duties for the remainder of that elected term and the members of his/her political party in the Senate shall appoint by majority vote in caucus a new Vice President. In case of a Vice President mandatory age-retirement, the President shall appoint a replacement.

**Section 2. Members of Congress are required to follow/obey the law they pass** : No government shall make any law that allows legislative member(s) permission to not obey the law they pass. No legislature shall make any law that gives any member of the legislature or member of the Administration immunity from its laws or tax regulations unless national security demands it. No government shall allow any citizen with unpaid taxes to stand for election or to be appointed or confirmed to a public office, board, or commission unless national security demands it.

**Section 3. Public reading time required on all Congressional Bills** : Any bill voted out of a committee and brought to the floor of the House of Representatives or Senate must have a seventy-two [72] hour delay between introduction and final vote on the measure. Only a bill(s) offered by leadership after a Resolution of Emergency has been passed by a majority vote shall avoid the mandatory public notice delay. Nonconforming to this delay requirement shall make all such bills passed null and void and unenforceable.

**Section 4. Allows a limited Filibuster to strip all amendments from a bill** : A filibuster shall not be broken unless sixty (60) percent of the members of the House of Representatives or Senate vote for closure. However, an agreed on compromise freely offered by the leadership and freely accepted by the one or more filibustering within the first three hours of a filibuster shall create a "Limited Filibuster" and shall not continue more than twelve hours of one legislative business day. When closure is terminated in a Limited Filibuster, all amendments shall be stripped from the offered legislation and the legislative members shall vote on the core bill within one hour of closure without any new added amendments. Any "Limited Filibuster" bill not gaining a majority vote shall be returned/sent back to Committee for at least thirty [30] days.

A Filibuster happens when a person has the floor and continues to talk. The rules of a filibuster shall be to allow five minutes [300 seconds] break from speaking for each hour. Taking a longer break returns control of the floor to the chair and ends the filibuster. During a filibuster, a person may not hand-off control of the floor to another. If unable to continue, control of the floor returns to the chair. Another type of filibuster may occur when a person is recognized to speak for a time and refuses to stop talking. The chair may if it wishes punish this person afterward by not calling on him or her for up to a full month.

**Section 5. Truth in reporting News over the airways required** : No government shall issue licenses to over-the-public-airways media that do nothing about issuing corrections of erroneous news announced or does not admonish or penalize reporters and/or staff members that create and/or release or knowingly pass on to the public as true known untrue/made-up false news reports and/or announcements.

**Section 6. Grants to Public Broadcasting shall include free C-Span:** All of the public should be able to hear over public radio and see and hear their representatives to Congress over public television not just citizens wealthy enough to purchase cable service. Hereafter, when and if Congress authorizes television or radio networks such as C-Span and/or others that broadcast the people's representatives in chambers, in committee, or on the floor, it shall include a free use grant to Public Broadcasting radio and/or television on all authorized Congressional C-Span radio and television network broadcasts and any and all expense shall be paid by the government.

However, if Public Broadcasting financial aid ends, all Congressional television and radio broadcast networks shall charge users other than state or federal government enough that a profit is made each year or all television and/or radio broadcasts of Congress shall discontinue for five years.

Furthermore, to provide free information access to citizens by other substitute means, the Congress of both houses are hereafter authorized to meet the above requirement by releasing/providing an internet release of C-Span.

**Section 7. Senatorial Rules** : No rule(s) in the United States Senate shall deny the majority the right to pass legislation or make it more difficult or impossible for the majority to pass legislation, resolutions, ratify treaties and Presidential Agreements, and confirm individuals. Hereafter, all United States Senate 60-vote rules are ended except for closure [stop a person from continuing to speak, return the floor to the chair, and end a filibuster]. This does includes and end all mandatory number of day's requirements. In the Senate 51 is a majority or a lesser number if not all are presently elected or appointed. In addition, no rule shall allow a filibuster without a Senator actually standing, taking the floor and talking [no talking means no filibuster].

Any person of authority in the Senate that enforces disallowed rule(s) shall lose his position of authority and be denied re-election to it or any other [including a committee chairmanship role].

Proposed Amendment F. Presidential and Administration restrictions and regulations: No Presidential restrictions and regulations in this amendment shall affect the sitting President upon ratification, but shall the next elected President. However, administration rules take effect 1 October.

**Section 1. Require Cost Estimate of new Administration rules** : No government shall allow any new Administration rule or regulation to be enforced without a cost estimate of its enforcement. Congress shall allow no law nor shall the Judiciary allow any rule or regulation be enforced that gives any Administration Department or agency or commission the right to put forth and enforce any rule(s) or regulation(s) without providing the public with a cost estimate of its enforcement. No department or agency or commission shall have the right to ignore the cost estimate requirement without suffering a mandatory ten [10] percent reduction in the next budget. Any regulation that will cost the federal government more than a million dollars to enforce or fifty thousand dollars for any individual state to comply shall have a lifetime of ninety [90] days unless at least one committee that has oversight in the House of Representatives or Senate pass a resolution of support.

Hereafter, any current or past Administration made rule or regulation that receives a resolution of "no support" from a Congressional committee(s) in both houses that have oversight shall end enforcement of the "no support" wording in ninety days and it shall be rewritten or ended. The entire agency or commission or administrative department failing to comply shall suffer a five [5] percent mandatory reduction in next year's budget. Defiantly continuing a "no support" rule longer than a year shall force a personnel reduction in that agency/department/commission of five percent a month for six months and no new or re-hires for three months after compliance.

**Section 2. Limits to Presidential Waivers to rules and laws** : All Presidential ordered waivers to laws and rules shall have a life of no more than one year unless national security demands it. If one Congressional Committee that has oversight jurisdiction passes a resolution of agreement, the waiver may be reissued once. If both, House and Senate Committee(s) having jurisdiction pass resolutions of support, the President may reissue it yearly for his/her term(s). Without a resolution or resolutions of support, no waiver shall be re-issued by the President, and shall if re-issued be one cause for his/her impeachment.

**Section 3. Presidential Foreign Agreements require Congressional consent** : Any Presidential agreement made with another country, group of counties, or the United Nations that forces America to release monies held or spend any money other than Presidential discretionary funds to implement and maintain the agreement shall have Congressional House of Representatives and Senate Budget Committee(s) authority in form of an affirmative joint resolution or a passed law signed by the President before spending or releasing funds.

**Section 4. President shall have the right to line item veto** : The President has the right to veto/disapprove an entire bill. This amendment shall give the President line item veto rights.

Hereafter, the President shall have the right to draw a line through a part of a line(s) or all of a line(s) or full sentence and write once in the margin of a bill the word "veto" [meaning these words] and initial it. The President's signature of approval of the bill hereafter excludes approval of the lined out parts of lines, lines, or whole sentences. However, the President does not have the right to line item veto just a single word or more words in the middle of a line.

All lines or parts of lines lined out [line item vetoed] must not pertain to or be germane to the core bill. If challenged in court over the germaneness of line item vetoed item(s) and losing the President shall be giving again the right for two working days to approve by signing the bill or veto it. When signing a bill with lines drawn through lines the President's signature shall give approval to all lines not drawn through [lines not line item vetoed].

Congress does have the right to override the President's veto of a full bill but cannot override line item vetoed lines. However, Congress does have the right to pass a new bill(s) about or including the vetoed line(s).

**Section 5. The President shall have the right to adjust entry and travel:** Foreign dangers change and may change rapidly. Therefore, Congress gave the President the right to ban entry of individuals, groups, or classes of people, or people from various countries or regions or continents. This Amendment enforces that right. Furthermore, the President shall have the right to close temporarily for up to one month [30 days] all borders or a particular border, and any of these orders may be reissued as needed.

The President shall have the right to ban travel by citizens of our nation to various places, cities, regions, and or countries; shall have the right to order American Citizens out of a place, city, country or region; and shall have the right to require that citizens returning from certain places talk/provide information to his agents or surrender their passport. The President shall have the right to collect the passport of any citizen that disobeys a leave a place order or travels to a banned place. The President shall decide when to release a held passport or may hold it for his/her term of office.

The President may reissue and end any and all temporary bans as needed. All bans are temporary unless made permanent by Congress. If any Presidential ban is challenged in court that ban cannot be lifted, temporarily blocked or stayed and left open placing our nation open to possible dangers while lawyers argue the court and judges decide they know more about foreign policy dangers than the President. No court shall order a Presidential ban ended or terminated without specific constitutional and legal reasons. Any judge ruling otherwise shall have his/her decision used as one charge for their impeachment.

**Section 6. Adjust the Calendar to be in sync with the sun** : In more than 250 years since the last calendar adjustment [1751-2], the difference between the calendar date and the meteorological date [rotation date around the sun] has separated to about twenty days. To end the debate about global warming and climate change and prove it real or prove it is just a product of calendar drift, the federal government shall order aligned and adjusted the calendar equinox dates [summer and winter] and their Meteorological dates to be in sync with rotations around the sun. The adjusting shall be done during the month of the next February by adding or subtracting days in the first leap year after ratification.

Thereafter, the federal government shall make a calendar adjustment to keep our calendar in closer sync with the sun's rotation during February each century date of 2100, 2200, 2300 and so on. Hereafter, any published comparison of daily temperature shall not be made or allowed printed by calendar date but shall be printed by the number of the day rotation around the sun the earth is on or was. It is possible to compare the temperature of day 87 around the sun every year from 1753 to the present day, but not June 16 due to calendar drift. Nor, is it possible to compare yearly temperatures without adjusting for calendar drift. Therefore, the President shall give the necessary orders to make the above calendar change(s) occur or it shall be one charge for his or her impeachment.

Proposed Amendment G. Citizenship and citizen rights: After ratification, this amendment shall affect all citizens January 1.

**Section 1. Determining Citizenship at the moment of birth** : No government shall make any law that confers American citizenship on a child born on American soil or on American property and any that does is hereafter made null and void. From this day forward at the moment of birth, every child born on American soil or property shall have the same citizenship as his or her parents. If each parent is a citizen of a different country, the child shall have dual citizenship. The child having dual citizenship may at any time after age fourteen with at least one parent/guardian agreeing until age eighteen legally declare he/she is a citizen of one country and not of the other country.

On his/her eighteen birthday, the child now an adult may chose the citizenship of his mother or father. However, if he or she fails to choose, he or she shall on the second day after age thirty be only the citizen of the country of his mother, unless his father is an American citizen.

**Section 2. Setting requirements for Citizen Associations and groups** : No government shall make any law that denies citizens the right to try to improve their lives through lawful association(s) that allows them to freely join and leave. This includes associations, groups, and unions that require timely or monthly payments to maintain individual membership.

(a). A person cannot serve two masters. Public Servants protected under Civil Service rules, regulations, laws, and benefits cannot also be a member of a labor union. A federal worker found to be an active or inactive member of a labor union sixty [60] days after ratification shall not receive any Civil Service benefits nor collect a Civil Service pension. A Civil Service employee shall not advocate for a strike or strike for increased benefits and wages and continue his/her employment.

(b).Spend eighty [80] percent rule: hereafter, eighty [80] percent of all labor Unions/associations/groups total collected monies shall be spent in the state, district, or territory for the benefit of the citizens it was collected from. A group national political or non-member charity donation shall not be counted as part of the eighty percent in-area/state spending, but local/district/state association official's salaries shall. Hereafter, no more than twenty percent of the money collected from members in a district/territory/state may be forwarded to the national level to be spent on or donated to national non-group entities including political candidates or parties. Failure to comply shall end all collections from its members in that state(s), district(s), and territory (s) for six months of all dues, fees, donations and charges.

(c). Spend sixty [60] percent rule: hereafter, all charities, and all foundations and endowments collecting public funds shall spend at least sixty (60) percent of the monies raised for the purpose(s) it was raised. Failure to do so shall close that charity, foundation, or endowment and no one associated with raising those funds shall be allowed to be associated with another charity, foundation, or endowment during their lifetime without facing federal and/or state penalties.

(d). No governmental unit, corporation, company, or employer shall collect and distribute labor union/association/group fees, dues or charity donations through payroll deductions. Payroll deductions taken from and distributed shall be limited to taxes and other personal benefits of the wage earner.

(e). No government shall collect taxes on attendance stipends of one hundred [100] dollars or less a month given to repay a volunteer for showing up, working expenses, returning home, and other expenses caused by volunteer service(s) to any/all government and quasi-governmental units, church, school, volunteer firemen or security guards, volunteer neighborhood watch persons, community service volunteers, and charity volunteers.

No government shall collect taxes on any educational scholarship granted monies, any and all enlistment or re-enlistment border patrol/police/fire/military pay or bonus pay, and/or on any and all special military area service/wartime pay allotments. These untaxed funds shall be listed on state and federal income tax forms as non-taxable monies/income regardless of amount.

Employed teachers that return to school for the summer to further their learning shall be able to deduct on their state and federal income taxes half of the cost of summer school class(s) tuition and other expenses, but these shall not include entertainment, clothing, shoes, computer and printer purchases, non-class required books, meals, and transportation.

**Section 3. Setting rules for citizen right to Privacy** : Every citizen shall have the right of expected privacy. No government shall make a law that diminishes any citizen's right of privacy in/on his/her person, dwelling, vehicle, and correspondence.

Expected and protected private correspondence shall be the United States mail, encrypted e-mails, encrypted voice cell phone calls, encrypted and/or plain voice and/or printed correspondence sent by communication devices over a land line to another citizen(s) receiving same. Unencrypted communications over the air by radio waves or other means cannot be protected but any and all information gathered may not be used in court without prior court approval. Devices that store private information are also protected, including tape, disk, and electronic or digital storage. For any legal authority to look at protected private correspondence or storage of the same shall require a court order, and to do so without a court order shall render all such information gained unusable in court and any/all other information gained from that knowledge shall also be unusable in court.

Hereafter, no government shall allow the sale of digital storage devices such as phones, pads, smart watches, computers and other like devices without having in their make-up and/or operating instructions a way the owner can make the unit blank again or wipe or remove all information from the device and/or its hard drive so that a found or sold device does not [cannot] destroy a citizen's privacy. Furthermore, all makers of encrypting devices shall be able to provide law enforcement a plain paper copy of all encrypted material after a court order or the device cannot be produced and sold.

**Section 4. Citizen gun rights and responsibility to join state militia** : No government shall make a law that makes it a crime for any citizen to show others that he/she has a weapon in order to stop a possible criminal act or uses it to stop a crime, or protect themselves and/or other citizens.

All governments shall allow only three restrictions to the right to own a gun protected by the Second Amendment. The three restrictions are: (1) Federal/state/local legislative authorities may regulate the hidden or open carry of a weapon. (2) Building/land owners/place owners may post the allowable or disallowable nature of bringing weapons into that place, grounds, area, or commercial carrier. (3) May deny gun ownership to persons struggling with or has a history of mental illness.

Hereafter, when any citizen [whether male or female] eighteen or older purchases a weapon he or she joins the Standby State Militia. Whenever the individual purchases a weapon he/she shall fill out a paper with their name; age; Social Security number; address; telephone and cell phone number if having both; e-mail address [required if any]; date purchased; and the make, model, caliber, and serial number of the weapon purchased, sign it, and mail it to the address established by the state.

Failure to comply may be punishable by a term of up to one year in the county jail as the law decrees and any uncooperative citizen about gun registration or gun use shall have their name placed on the Standby State Militia's Front of the Line List. Any citizen of the state may volunteer for the Front of the Line List. Furthermore, no adult shall be allowed to purchase ammunition in any state other than the one they live in and must be on one of the State Militia lists. Any adult under age 56 failing to obey this ammunition order shall have all weapons and ammunition seized and shall have his or her name moved from the Standby State Militia List to the Front of the Line List.

Hereafter the federal government may have three variations of military age drafts: (1) a set percentage or number of the Front of the Line Draft by lot of citizens called-up from each state, or (2) a full complete draft call-up of all Front of the Line list members of all states, or (3) a full draft by lot with a monthly state quota of all citizens over a given age regardless of sex or religion objections. Standby list must be called first. Conscientious objectors and persons with miner health issues shall be given non-weapon carrying duty such as office, communications centers, hospital, driving, or suitable labor duties during their military service time. In a limited manpower draft beyond the need of paid military volunteers, each person shall be given the right to choose service in a branch of service including the Border Patrol and/or Coast Guard.

Pay and allowances for a drafted person shall never exceed one-half of a paid volunteer of the same rank and a drafted person may not exceed the U.S. Army rank of first level [basic] sergeant or its equivalent. At anytime a drafted person may ask to become an enlisted volunteer, draft legislation shall set at two [2] years the length of draft service, and complete normal expected standby service. States not supplying militia lists to the federal government shall allow the number of citizens needed from that state be set by the Secretary of Defense and ordered by lot of persons of age by driver's license numbers.

The governor shall organize the state standby militia members alphabetically in two lists: (1) Front of the Line List, (2) Standby State Militia list. The governor may callout all or part of the State Militia only after a foreign invasion by making a callout of militia members of a given age range as needed to meet that emergency on a given date at the local county courthouse with their weapons and at least 50 rounds of ammunition. Standby State Militia members shall be paid by the state for state services only after the third day of a callout.

In order to know the age and number of its militia members and the number and kinds of weapons its members own the Governor shall at least once in each elected term add a sheet requesting that information be listed and sent in with their state income tax form. A citizen failing to report gun ownership without an acceptable reason [not needing to file taxes is not an acceptable excuse] or a citizen guilty of a public nuisance gun use or carry may be punished as the state law decrees but in these cases that citizen's name shall also be placed on the Front of the Line List. Furthermore, neither militia list shall be made known to the federal authorities without a majority vote of the people of that state.

In case of the re-establishment of one of the three kinds of draft [individual callout for federal military service] both male and female Front of the Line List state militia members shall be the first called up from age 18 to age 35 and those militia members with special skills up to age 56. Expecting mothers, mothers with nursing babies, and young pre-school children shall be deferred from service until the child's fourth birthday. In a full draft, members in the Front of the Line List shall be called into active military service first by lot or in total. When the Front of the Line is exhausted, the Standby State Militia list for the draft quotas by lot shall be used, and when the Militia is exhausted call-ups from the general population shall began.

Hereafter, any adult not completing the requested information about gun ownership, convicted to a jail term for the same and still claiming unwillingness to join the Standby State Militia shall besides moving to Front of the Line list have his or her gun(s), all ammunition, and driver's license confiscated and shall not be issued another state driver's license until complying. Minors less than eighteen shall not be allowed to own a gun and if found to have one it shall be confiscated, the minor shall be turned over to juvenile authorities, and at age eighteen that minor's name shall be placed on the Front of the Line List whether he or she owns a gun as an adult or not.

**Section 5. Restoration of Citizenship rights to felons and sentencing guideline** : Any citizen arrested, sentenced for a felony or group of felonies, and incarcerated for same looses some rights as a citizen. After a felon has served his/her debt to society that felon shall on the day that he/she is released from court control [probation and parole and early release is still under possible court control until the full time expires] all of his or her rights as an American citizen shall be returned to that citizen, except the right to work as a security guard, night watchman, border agent, policeman, or fireman or/and be elected or appointed to public office. There is nothing in this amendment to hinder persons, businesses, associations, organizations, unions, licensed trades, licensing, and legal bar authorities and/or bonding groups from denying coverage, membership, or employment to ex-convicts.

While incarcerated all convicted felons shall have proper and normal health, eye, and dental care but no heroic measures shall be used to increase or change his or her natural life span or change the nature of his/her natural born life. Each court verdict on charges filed by the incarcerated felon that fails to win his or her case shall add six months to his or her incarceration time.

Hereafter, to reduce the disruption of career criminals in society the second time that individual is sentenced by a court for a felony or a group of felonies the time to be served shall be at least twice [x2] as long as the first total sentence and the felon must now serve seventy-five [75] percent of the time sentenced and still gets his/her citizenship rights back when free from court control with above exceptions. Any person sentenced for a third felony or group of felonies the time of sentence shall be at least three times [x3] as long as the first total sentence and must serve eighty [80] percent of the time and gets his/her rights back leaving court control with above exceptions. The fourth felony or group of felonies sentencing shall be at least four times [x4] the first sentence total time and must serve ninety [90] percent and be out of court control before citizen rights are returned with above exceptions. Any citizen found guilty of a fifth felony or a group of felonies shall be incarcerated as a career criminal for the remainder of his or her natural life without parole or probation or early release. Upon death a career criminal's body and the body of anyone dying in prison shall be cremated and his or her ashes scattered.

Hereafter, all capital felony convictions [found guilty of murder] and given a life sentence that punishment shall be for not less than fifty [50] years in all territories, district, states or federal courts. A convicted for life felon must serve at least ninety [90] percent of that sentenced time and all rights are restored after released from court control with above exceptions.

All prisoners convicted of a murder while in prison shall be executed in all states, district, territories and federal authorities [regardless of state law or state constitution against capital punishment] no later than five years after the date of sentence to allow time for an appeal. No government shall allow a person to remain on death row for more than five years without the court sentence being carried out, except a short [up to 90 day] delay by a court, governor, or Presidential order or an ordered new trial. An order to spend life imprisonment on death row is cruel and unusual punishment.

Hereafter, it shall be a capital crime in all states, districts, or territories to kill an on-duty night watchman, nurse, doctor, ambulance driver, school bus driver, teacher, taxicab driver, security officer, soldier, Coast Guard member, firefighter, police officer, soldier, border patrol officer, U.S. Marshal, National Guard, State Trooper, or Secret Service agent. No government shall make any law that makes the punishment for an above murder of an on-duty person conviction less than death and the sentence shall be ordered to be carried out five years to the day and hour of the sentence.

No government official or court shall halt/stop or order a delay of an execution without commutation of sentence or pardon or order a new trial with new evidence. Whenever normal means of execution are unavailable or in question by the courts, the state and federal authorities are hereby authorized to use either a firing squad of four or more [may include up to half relatives of the victim(s)] or hang the convicted person by the neck with a rope until dead on the original date ordered.

Any criminal that dies in prison or is executed for the crime of murder or treason or terrorism the body shall be cremated and so shall the body parts and/or collected body parts of a murderer or terrorist killed in apprehension or attempted escape or commission of the crime be cremated and the ashes scattered in or over an undisclosed location on land, lake, or sea.

Furthermore and hereafter, to show a gun or show an explosive device or to claim he/she has either or both in the commission of a crime shall add two years to the sentence, to fire a gun or cause an explosion in the commission of a crime shall add four years to the sentence for each firing and each explosion, and for each person wounded/injured in the commission of a gun or explosive device crime shall add six years to the sentence. Sentences for multiple persons wounded or injured and each gun and explosive device show or use crime sentenced time shall be served consecutively without probation, parole, or early release before starting to serve the punishment time for the actual crime.

**Section 6. Listing cost of medical pills and treatment:** Hereafter, to reduce costs or make costs known to citizens every document, pamphlet, book, reference manual or guide, broadside, and handout listing information about medical pills, equipment, and treatments that a doctor or nurse practitioner might write a prescription for shall have an expected listed cost per pill, per item, and/or per treatment. Each company producing and distributing material without the above information shall be subject to a fine of ten thousand dollars per item circulated to medical professionals/personal. Every citizen shall have the right to ask his or her doctor or dentist the expected cost before accepting the prescription or procedure.

Proposed Amendment H. Education: This amendment shall take effect 1 July before the start of the next school year after ratification.

**Section 1. Rules and regulations to return Education to the states** : Public Education [K-12] shall be primarily a state function. Hereafter, this order terminates or reduces in function as Congress directs the federal Department of Education and declares all federal laws/regulations/rules/test requirements null and void except those pertaining to excepted areas listed below.

(a) In accordance with the tenth (10th) amendment to the Constitution, the area of Education shall be the major concern and right of the several states, districts, and territories not the federal government. The exceptions granted for limited federal concern in Education shall be Civil Rights, Handicap and Disabilities, United States Military schools or Military training programs, foreign language assistance programs, assistance to legal immigrants learning American English and American history and government, suggestions relating to state developed GED testing, research and development grants to Colleges and/or Universities, hot lunch program, and agricultural commodities and surpluses.

(b) Congress shall make no law that creates or enforces any national curriculum(s) or any national student assessment(s) or educational required standards, or any required selection of national learning materials, computer programs, and/or textbooks.

(c) Each state(s) Department of Education shall take the lead in developing and keeping currant at least four different GED tests and keep distribution of which test is to be given on test day unknown to the public and Test Monitors. The federal government may only make suggestions about GED tests being developed and the Test developers shall not be forced to implement those suggestions. The state and school district shall after the test only publish the number of students taking the test per district or county or state and release the number passed and number failed. No individual name(s) will be published of a student(s) passing or failing other than on a school district public list of all yearly or semester graduating students. Any state citizen at least fifteen-years-old shall be eligible to take the GED test without personal expense or cost.

If the state government fails to provide GED tests to local school districts on the April set date, they shall have the right to retest in May and if they choose for the next five [5] years may develop, give, score, and handout diploma(s) to those students passing their local generated GED test.

(e) To reduce the dropout rate of some twenty or more percent of students choosing to leave High School early, it is believed that some can pass a GED test before that time. Each local area school or association of schools or all state schools shall on a day of their choosing in the month of April announce the time and place for the yearly GED test.

Each school and school district or several districts [may include public, private, parish, military, home schooled association, religious, parochial, and territory schools larger than two dozen students] may organize and fund countywide GED testing. Individual adults, home schooled students, and other private/religious educational associations with less than twenty-four student body/enrollment shall be included in organized wider testing or in the local school district testing, but shall not be required to pay a share of GED testing costs.

Each April on the day chosen in each school district or county or association or state shall conduct GED testing and offer free of charge an opportunity to take a GED test to any student age fifteen [15] or older and any adult without a diploma. Furthermore, any person shall have the right if their test is passed to attend the spring/winter graduation ceremony of his/her school/district if he/she chooses to publicly receive his/her diploma. All a person wishing to take the GED test any April need do is show up on the right day, at the announced place, at the right time, and take the test. Any failing GED test student may return to class or home, re-enroll in school, enroll in night school, and/or continue his/her own studies for next year's test. Schools will not count as absent any student taking the test. The State and federal governments shall not pay educational funds to the school or school district for a student after the year that the student passes a GED test.

Payment for yearly GED test development costs shall be paid by the state. If the state asks for test development cost sharing, they shall be open to test question criticism and suggestions. Local single district or group of districts cost sharing of local expenses shall include local press releases, test place rental, hiring and paying at least two test monitors for a school district and at least four monitors for county wide testing; and one-half of each monitoring group shall be retired teacher(s), and pay a charge for scoring and reporting test results to the individual and to his/her local school district.

(f) Each state, county, parish, district, school district, military, private, religious, parochial, and territory High School shall offer five courses of studies: (1) a four year College preparatory course of studies with Study Halls. (2) A three year College preparatory course of studies without Study Halls, (3) a four year High School Diploma course of studies reducing core academic studies and required classes to three years each and with added quarter, term, semester, or year long electives as time and funds allow in such areas as: media, social media and the law and employment, typing, basic calculator and smart phone and computer, business, business law, basic computer repair, computer coding, automotive repair, College research, College essay, Public speaking, Public state lands and state geography, hunting and fishing laws, Volunteering as teacher assistant in local school, law enforcement and military careers, bookkeeping, personal money management and budgeting, free-hand drawing, drafting, crafts, metal work, wood work, basic Agriculture, basic accounting, family living, family law, quilting, sewing, cookbook cooking, local agri-business, car and home buying, art, painting, clay sculpting, instrumental music, dance, vocal music, introduction to apprenticeships, careers, local area related economic studies, local area vocational classes, and shall include Study Hall only as an option, (4) four year High School Diploma of general studies with assigned Study Halls. (5) three year High School Diploma of general studies without assigned Study Halls.

Local/state/district/territory school officials are prohibited from adding graduation requirements that destroy any student options and any student may select any offered elective option instead of assigned study hall. Furthermore, all High School students shall be required to pass a three-semester American History class (Exploration and Settlement to the present that includes study of the United States Constitution), and at least one semester state/district/territory history, geography, and state constitution class. Every state GED test shall have at least five American History and the U.S. Constitution questions, and five questions about their state, district, or territory.

Furthermore, no college or university receiving a single dollar of state or federal taxpayer aid or grant shall issue a degree to any student not passing a semester course in American History and a semester course in the U.S. Constitution. Multi-cultural and cultural studies or racial group histories shall not count as the American History requirement.

Hereafter, all local high school districts shall be allowed to hire/recruit local experts with at least five years experience and no criminal record to teach no more than a single elective class without a state teaching licensing or teacher union/association membership. Each local expert shall be assigned an unpaid mentor.

Each eighth grade student shall select any one of these five offered areas of studies and may make changes once a year to his/her next year course of study provided they are counseled when a change may delay the date of his/her graduation. Any high school student may decide to substitute any semester an optional study hall for a locally offered elective with parental permission.

High Schools with less than 500 student body unable to offer instruction in all five separate options may combine students with options 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 in single classrooms as long as individual student selected options are preserved. Larger school(s) with proof of reduced enrollment in an option may seek state permission to combine in the same room two or more options as long as individual options are preserved. Furthermore, no student nineteen-years-old or older shall receive state or federal aid for schooling or busing or engage in any activity that they represent their school to the public. The regular school day shall be at least from 8:30 to 3:30 each school day, but local school boards may extend the day to as early as eight [8] or as late as four [4]. School districts may decide to have a four-day week as long as the required total number of yearly classroom hours is maintained and preserved. Kindergarten or younger student classes shall be half-day classes.

All High School diploma(s) and GED diploma(s) shall carry the same value for employment, military enlistment, apprenticeship programs, and vocational education programs beyond High School. However, a High School College Preparatory Diploma may receive special consideration in college and/or university acceptance and/or placement. Hereafter, all colleges and universities shall be required to administer entrance exams to all students not in the upper one-third [1/3] of their year's graduating high school group or class and/or have less than a B average in their college preparatory classes in high school. All other students must pass a college entrance exam to gain admittance and none shall be allowed admittance with or without required remedial classes without forfeiting all government funds including research grants.

Hereafter, private academies may be formed for remedial work to aid students failing college entrance exams, but no academy so formed for that purpose shall be affiliated with any tax supported public or private school or religious group, college or university. Furthermore, all higher educational institutions receiving state or federal monies shall not offer a diploma or certificate of completion to any student that has not passed offered courses in state history and constitution, American history, and the U. S. Constitution.

**Section 2. Sets maximum dollar amount of a Student Loan** : No government shall make any law increasing the maximum Student Loan allowed in this amendment. No government shall allow any financial establishment to make any rule that increases or decreases the maximum Student Loan allowed. No Student Loan shall be the greater than the average starting salary of students graduating with a bachelor degree from that institution of higher learning in the student's chosen field the last three years before the student started on their course of study or for a total of $30,000 dollars. Student loans that parent, relatives, family, or friends cosign for shall have a maximum indebtedness limit of $20,000 total dollars and no student shall be allowed to have both without immediate repayment and/or without cancellation of both loans.

No government shall make any laws that deny any student the legal right to refinance their student loan for a lower rate of interest. If a student graduates and cannot find work in his/her field, after five years of not earning a return on his/her educational investment of time and money [finding work in his/her field] that student may/can include all of his/her remaining student loan dollar amount in a personal bankruptcy. The federal or state government may offer forgiveness of half of a student's loan value for time worked in a field or for the government in need of workers in fields/areas.

To make higher education easier for students to select a university and a course of study each institution of higher learning shall provide the following information free of costs to all student loan lending agencies and prospective students including recruitment materials and course of study booklets: (1) The percentage of graduating students [last three years] working in each offered course of study the next year and average salary earned. (2) The percentage of tenured instructional staff that is registered voters of a given political party [percentage for each political party given] and all persons registered as independents shall be counted with the 'not registered with any political party or group. (3) Provide the percentage of both tenured and non-tenured staff that teaches at least one class a semester. (4) Combined group percentage of all tenured staff that is a member of a local [within thirty road miles] church, synod, temple, or mosque. (5) Provide name/type of National academic award(s) won last three years by department and by tenured staff member(s). (6) Average total full time student yearly cost including collected yearly costs for on-campus housing, parking, textbook rental and required computer programs and use fees, average class fees or tuition, and three daily meals in the campus cafeteria based on taking four classes each trimester or semester. (7) The availability of campus health clinic services and average health clinic costs. What if any is free and what is a charged service.

Proposed Amendment I. Administration, the law and Courts: This Amendment shall take effect upon ratification.

**Section 1. Rules and crimes for handling or releasing classified information** : No government shall allow any unauthorized releasing of classified information into the public domain that is not a crime.

(a) If the release of classified or secret information is to an agent of a foreign country or agent of a disallowed foreign entity that crime shall be treason. Knowingly carrying messages for or providing a safe house for and/or raising money for a disallowed foreign entity and/or providing or selling unlawful articles to disallowed foreign entity or foreign cause(s) or an unsanctioned country shall be acts of treason.

(b) Providing classified or secret military information or plans to the enemy shall be treason.

(c) Taking up arms against the United States shall be an act of treason.

(d) Congress shall make no law that allows the release of classified information before it is declassified. Any elected Congressional member or confirmed member or bureaucrat, Civil Servant or military person of our government knowingly leaking same shall have terminated his/her active service in that elected, appointed, inducted, confirmed, or hired, office or position on the conviction date for that release. When found out that person(s) shall be suspended with pay from active duty and remain in his home or apartment during working hours until court actions are complete. Found guilty in court of his or her having knowingly leaked the classified information, shall be considered his /her resignation, shall end his or her service to our government, and be punished as the law allows. Sentencing in court for that activity shall terminate all pensions, pay and all allowances to/for that person.

(e) The punishment for being convicted for treason shall be death. The execution shall take place five years to the hour of the conviction without delay other than a court ordered new trial. A person found guilty of treason shall not be pardoned or have his/her sentence commuted. The body of any person executed for treason shall be cremated and his/her ashes scattered in or over an undisclosed area or place.

(f) Any person found to be careless in the handling of classified information shall have his or her security clearance terminated and it shall never be re-instated for carelessness is not curable. Hereafter, all persons other than former Presidents, former Vice Presidents, and retired military personal with the equivalent rank higher than a U.S. Army one star general shall have their security clearance ended three months after their service to the government ends. If a security clearance is required for private employment, they must reapply and pay a set fee to offset re-investigation costs.

(g) Any media outlet knowingly publishing or re-publishing classified material shall not be prosecuted for treason but shall loose all government [federal and state] tax deductions and grants for ten years and shall pay the full tax on monies earned for that decade or close their doors. However, any reporter or media person found to be involved in the theft or transfer of classified material to the public sector may be tried for treason.

**Section 2. Set limits to Civil Punitive Damage awards:** No government shall make any law that allows unreasonable Civil Court punitive judgments or allows a case to be filed in other than the occurring place or state.

In all Civil cases, the court shall determine the actual dollar amount of the damage. It is not the business of civil juries to make any individual rich or impoverish another from major or minor infraction of human behavior. Hereafter, Punitive [pain, suffering, and punishment] Damages set to punish an individual, company, or corporation or government for their conduct and to stop others from acting in a like manner shall have limits.

Therefore, for all Civil Law settlements the maximum Punitive Damages shall be set at three times [3x] actual damages. However, if that person, company, or corporation or government has already been tried in criminal court for that same conduct or is being tried for that conduct or has been indicted regardless if they have won or lost or will win or lose the case the maximum Punitive Damages shall only be twice [2x] actual damages. No Punitive Damage penalty/award to any individual, person, company or corporation shall exceed one half million dollars [$500,000].

In harassment or abuse [sexual, racial, bullying, and others] on the job case when forced to leave that job the maximum penalty shall be five times yearly earnings, but if the victim remain on that job one year earnings. However, if the employed person(s) involved are punished [terminated from that business and/or indicted] and the victim no longer with or with that business the maximum penalty shall be two years earnings.

In a wrongful job termination case, the maximum total penalty shall be five years earnings or return of job with one-year earnings penalty, not both. In a failure to promote case, the maximum award shall be two years earnings or the promotion, not both. In a wrongful death case, the maximum total penalty shall not exceed five times the United States yearly average salary [national income] and if married and has children an award equal to an average monthly salary until age 62.

In other than job related Civil Court case, the maximum penalty shall be in sexual abuse two and a half times earnings [2.5x], sexual harassment 50,000, general harassment 30,000, and bullying 25,000 dollars. In all other cases of personal discrimination that actual value cannot be determined 50,000 shall be the maximum award.

**Section 3. Set age requirements in Juvenile Law courts** : All juveniles at age twelve shall be responsible for their own actions. At age fourteen, each juvenile court judge shall on each case ask the question: "Did this juvenile commit the act/crime in a child-like manner and for child-like reasons or did this juvenile commit the act/crime in an adult-like manner and for adult-like reasons?" If the answer is "in a child-like manner and for child-like reasons" or "in an adult-like manner and for child like reasons" the juvenile shall be tried for his or her misconduct/crime in juvenile court. However, if the answer is "in an adult-like manner and for adult-like reasons" or "in a child like manner and for adult-like reasons" the juvenile shall be considered an adult and remanded to adult court for trial.

After age twelve, juveniles shall be arrested and taken into juvenile custody without parental/guardian interference. The penalty for interference with the arresting officer(s) by a parent, guardian, family member, or an interested party shall be what the state or federal law allows.

If the juvenile is less than twelve years of age, the parent(s)/guardian(s) shall be given an opportunity [asked] if available to accompany or drive the child to the juvenile facility. However, noncompliance by parent(s)/guardian(s) to a lawful arrest order concerning their under age twelve child/ward shall place the child in the care of Family Services who shall bring the underage child before the juvenile authorities and the parent(s)/guardian(s) shall prove to Family Services investigating agents that the household is a fit place before the child shall be returned to that home.

**Section 4. Sets out the punishments for Identity Theft and Computer Hacking** : Any unauthorized entry and/or use of unauthorized information upset the public order, destroys privacy, may ruin careers and reputations. Therefore, all identity theft [including identity information] and computer hacking shall be felony crimes.

Breaking into a computer [hacking] a person does not own is a crime of breaking and entering. Taking unauthorized things/information from business or government or other people's computer is the crime of theft. Each assumption of identity of another person is a separate crime. Stealing the personal information of another for personal gain is a crime. Selling any personal information of another, freely giving someone's personal information to another, and/or any form of publishing the information of another person is a crime.

No government shall allow any of the above crimes to occur without penalty. Each identity assumed, each theft of information, and each item sold of another person's personal information or business information or government information is a crime, and each item published shall be a separate crime. For any and all crimes of this nature, each punishment shall be served consecutively.

The length of time sentenced for illegal entry of another person's computer or smart phone or digital storage devise shall be equal to the punishment set by that government for forcible or wrongful entry into another person's building, property, home or car. To assume the identity of another for criminal mischief or personal gain shall have a minimum sentence of five [5] years for each identity stolen, for each sold, each published, and shall include loosing the right to use a computer, smart watch, or smart phone again in their lifetime without additional penalties. Each Hacking, Identity theft, publication, or sale sentence shall be a separate sentence and each shall be served consecutively [separately] and upon conviction shall forfeit all worldly goods [items owned, cash and bank account monies, property, and including all inheritances] to the arresting and prosecuting agencies.

(a) Each stealing of someone's personal information to assume that person's identity or stealing that person(s) credit card information or stealing personal information in order to steal his/her money or publication of it for other personal gain reasons upsets the public order and shall be a felony.

(b) Bail, if given after an arrest for Identity Theft and/or Computer Hacking, shall be no less than 100,000 dollars cash only plus $5,000 dollars cash for each illegal entry, each identity used, each published, and each sale of identity information.

(c) No government shall set the punishment for the crime Computer Hacking or Identity Theft other than per item stole, per each use, per publication, and/or per each sale of a false identity or personal information less than the above guidelines.

(d) After serving an Identity Theft and/or Computer Hacking prison term any illegal alien and/or any person not yet a naturalized citizen shall be returned to the country they are a citizen of and hereafter denied re-entry. A naturalized citizen may have his citizenship revoked and returned to country of origin. Any foreign national stealing an American Citizen's identities and personal information for any reason is a crime and shall if allowed entry be arrested. In addition, if that person is a member of a like-minded active computer group all known members shall not be allowed entry.

(e) Any foreign nation whose sponsored policy is stealing identities or doing computer hacking of computer information for corporate and national secrets inside the United States and its territories is a felony that shall not go unpunished. Any nation that sponsors/pays for an active computer hacking program and does nothing to stop that activity when informed that we are aware of that activity allows the United States government to cease being cooperative toward the un-cooperative nation in chosen selective ways and thereafter use our computers to do the same to them and be equally unresponsive.

(f) The federal government shall strive to gain control of believed guilty foreign national individual(s) or members of their group(s) for prosecution and work to stop national sponsored Identity Theft and/or Computer Hacking. If efforts fail, the federal government shall not issue visas to citizens of that country or allow travel from ours to theirs until that country makes progress toward stopping the practice. Any foreign entity or nation that disrupts our internet and computer service shall have allowed and invited our national government to return the treatment or spend funds to re-design the internet so that individual nation(s) may be separated from it.

(g) Each use and sale of information gained by illegal computer hacking by a citizen/foreign person(s) or member of a foreign group(s) shall be a crime and during sentencing, the punishment time shall be equal to the sentence given to an American citizen.

(h) No government shall allow new credit cards to be issued in these United States by any agency/corporation or bank/credit agency without digital, chip protection, and a recent [less than three year] picture in the plastic of the person issued to. Hereafter, all companies and corporations that accept credit card information and collect personal information shall encrypt that information or cease accepting it.

(i) Because of the disruption of business, government, and individual lives any person found guilty of hacking a computer, computer device, or digital storage system shall not be eligible for probation or early release or have use of a computer, phone, smart television or wireless device while in prison.

(j) Any unauthorized entry of computer, storage, or terminal not for the purpose of theft, but to change, delete or corrupt data shall be a crime punished by five years for each piece of date changed, deleted, or corrupted. The bail shall be set no lower than 100,000 dollars cash only bond for each piece of date changed, deleted or corrupted.

(k.) No government shall allow any criminal to profit from his/her crime, not even by telling or writing about it. Any person convicted for an identity or computer crime shall forfeit any and all worldly goods to the arresting and prosecuting authority. Furthermore, for all of this class of felonies all active government(s) or governmental units in that case shall be allowed after conviction to ask the court in separate or combined Civil action to ask for and demand repayment up to the convicted felon's total monies, bonds, stocks, retirement funds, or inheritance for the total dollar amount the crime(s) cost that government or business unit to investigate, arrest, house waiting trial including medical treatment, and prosecute. Incase money, stocks, bonds, and other sources and accounts are only in the spouse's name legally in a marriage half of all money and property belongs to the criminal spouse. Half may be attached, sold [includes the forced sale of property to recover half of the value] so that court ordered costs can be recovered.

(l.) Hereafter, no prisoner shall draw/receive social security or Medicare or Medicaid or welfare benefits or any pension or unemployment aid or make deposits or withdrawal from financial accounts or receive money from friends or relatives while incarcerated nor shall the prisoner have the ability to own a personal cell phone or computer or be allowed to have private access to the internet.

(m) Therefore, because one person may do the crime and split/share the proceeds of the crime with another person that knows where the money comes from and tells no one is guilty of being an accessory to the crime and shall be punished as the courts allow. Hereafter, anyone found guilty, as an accessory to the same crime of computer hacking, identity theft, sale or publication shall when sentenced shall earn the same sentence/punishment.

**Section 5. Allows one-month delay for impact studies:** When construction is not done in a timely manner, its daily costs increase. No government shall make any law that allows wildlife or environmental impact studies to delay a project more than one month [30 days].

No court hold, stay, or injunction(s) or combinations of these shall allow more than a single month [30 days—no additional months] of delay of any construction project for wildlife or/and environment impact studies. Once the construction project has been halted for one month [30 days] no additional short or long term holds [stays] or grants of injunctions by any court shall be allowed for wildlife or environment impact studies. The courts may grant other stays, halts, or injunction as the law allows.

**Section 6. Social Security Administration shall report Social Security payments made by the dead.** A worker makes one monthly payment or withholdings to Social Security as he or she works. When a worker dies, a death benefit is paid. Hereafter, it shall be the duty of the Social Security Administration to report to the FBI or U.S. Marshals as the President directs for investigation of any and all payments made to a social security number after a death benefit has been paid. In addition, a single person makes a single payment and Social Security Administration shall report any social security number(s) receiving multiple [more than one] monthly or quarterly payments and shall report any payments made to non-existing numbers.

Any Confirmed Administrator failing to demand and oversee that his department administrator(s) comply with this action shall face termination of Confirmation in the Senate by a majority plus one vote and/or any and all involved lower unit administrators' employment shall be terminated.

This Amendment shall be in enforce 1 October after ratification and the penalty for non-compliance shall be a five [5] percent reduction of all Social Security Administration budget items on the next federal budget and each year after an additional five [5] percent until compliance.

**Section 7. The right to lawfully assemble and protest is not the right to riot:** Citizens have the right to lawfully assemble to demonstrate their approval and disapproval in a peaceable manner although disruptive to the routine, and do so when possible with the necessary public safety permits. When a proper assembly [protest] is over no other agency, business, or person should have to pay excessively for clean up or replacement. An out-of-bounds Protestor arrested within one month of the event shall be charged for creating a public disturbance and punished as the law allows.

However, when bystanders fear for their lives, property damaged or stolen, fires set, objects thrown, shot fired, people and/or police injured it is not a protest. It is a riot. Any person arrested within three years of that riot shall be charged as taking part in a riot and if charged with riotous acts shall be punished as the law allows. If sentenced for riotous acts as a rioter no government shall demand less punishment than a minimum of five [5] years sentence and shall forfeit all government(s) employment, and shall upon release lose for ten years access to public housing, lose all direct governmental financial assistance(s), and be denied for ten years from receiving or owning a passport for foreign travel [legal aid shall be an exception].

Hereafter, no government shall make any law that does not make it a felony crime to hire/pay protesters or rioters. No government shall make any law with the punishment for hiring protesters less than one [1] year incarceration for each protester paid to protest and not less than five [5] years for each rioter paid to riot. Free transportation, food, and lodging are not pay. It is not a crime to aid lawful protesters, but it shall hereafter be a crime punishable of up to one year in jail as the law allows for aiding and encouraging rioters and mandatory dismissal from all and any government employment, public aid programs other than legal aid, and deny public housing.

No government shall make or allow any law that allows any elected official to remain in elected office after the date of conviction for being involved in aiding rioters or paying rioters, or encouraging rioting. The date of court sentencing for rioting or related charge shall end their service to this country.

**Section 8. Removal of unused laws:** Not all laws or ordinances passed are used to prosecute wrong doers in a court of law. Any unused law or ordinance not used to protect and regulate citizen, business, or government behavior is unnecessary. Hereafter, any law or ordinance that has not been used to prosecute a person, group, company, corporation or government in court during the last twenty-year time period shall be unenforceable for being unnecessary.

There is nothing in this order, which stops or hinders any law-making body from passing the same or similar law or ordinance again.

**Section 9. National Security Letters:** No government official, member of the law enforcement, FBI or CIA shall order or use National Security Letters without Court approval. The Court shall only grant approval for National Security Letters for investigating activities of official representatives of foreign governments.

**Section 10. Court Decisions and Rulings:** The courts and Supreme Court shall find that all judicial legislative rulings not founded in law passed by Congress or understood as written in the Constitution be called into question and shall when deciding a case concerning such shall declare each one unenforceable and vacated.

Furthermore, any defense stating, "If the government wants it, it must be legal," shall not be allowed and that includes the Chevron Defense. These defenses, arguments, and rulings except in time of a Congress Declared War are harmful. They tend toward unlimited administrative power, weaken congress and states, hinder all challenges in court, and are destructive to the survival of our Republic for they push us toward living all facets of our lives as only five members of the Supreme Court might this week allow us to live. Next week, they might change their minds. Hereafter, all governments shall operate within the law and Constitutional intent.

This amendment declares that all past, present, and future judicial ruling found to be unfounded in the laws as written by Congress or as written or understood by the wording in the United States Constitution shall be hereby vacated and unenforceable.

Furthermore, each/all such unfounded issued ruling may be used later as evidence in an impeachment trial of that federal judge(s).

Proposed Amendment J. Immigration and illegal immigration: Our citizens expect all people that come to our country to do so by legal means. No government shall make any law or allow any court practice that allows any illegal entered persons to wander around our nation. No government or court shall make and allow stand any law that allows tax monies to be spent on the illegal entry person regardless of age other than to find, detain, and return him or her to their country or nation they entered from.

**Section 1. Illegal immigrant invasion closes borders** : Whenever more than one (1) million illegal/unregistered persons are estimated to be living in the United States all immigration into our country shall cease for ten years. During closure, the only entrance shall be by temporary [meaning no more than two weeks personal/family/business] travel from federal government recognized safe country(s) or with a Visa or temporary six-month work permit. During closure, no Visa for other reasons shall be issued for more than six months or one school term. The percentage of overstays shall reduce the country of origin's next year Visas by the same percentage. Hereafter, if a country's overstays are over five [5] percent that country shall lose Visa privileges for three years.

**Section 2. Excessive amnesty closes borders** : Whenever amnesty or an easier path to citizenship is given to a group larger than 20,000 illegal immigrants the borders of the United States shall be closed to legal immigration for ten years so the new group can have time to assimilate [become Americans].

During closed border time, no work permits will be issued for more than six months and the percentage of persons on work permits not leaving on time shall reduce next years work permits from that country by the same percentage.

During closed border time, no visas shall be given for more than six-months and the percentage of persons not leaving before or by the proper time shall reduce their country of origin's number of visas and/or work permits for the next year by that same percentage.

The percentage of court released illegal immigrants not reporting for their court hearing or not found for a new removal hearing by the U.S. Marshal's service shall have that same percentage dollar amount budgeted for the next year added to the U.S. Marshal Service and that same amount deducted from the Immigration Court funds. Any federal judge ordering the release of more than three illegals waiting trial in a calendar year shall have his/her judgments used in his/her impeachment hearing and/or trial.

During the closed border term, no educational visa may be issued for longer than one semester at a time with included time to travel to the United States from approved areas or countries.

All illegal immigrants regardless of age shall promptly be returned to the country they entered from after fingerprinted, photographed, and DNA sample taken if captured within five miles of the border. It is not the duty of America taxpayers to provide free transportation home for another country's illegal aliens. All other illegal aliens may appeal a deportation order. However, once an illegal immigrant of any age is taken into custody by local law enforcement or border patrol that person shall not be freed by judicial order to wander around the country while appealing the return order. Any law or court that orders/demands the right of illegal aliens of any age to freely move about our nation while waiting for the courts to act is hereby declared null and void.

Once an illegal immigrant is sent back and he returns illegally that immigrant shall spend up to five years in a federal prison for that crime and be deported again. Each time that illegal immigrant returns illegally the time in prison shall be doubled.

If a country refuses to take their citizens and illegal aliens back that nation/country shall lose all Visa and work permit privileges for five [5] years, travel shall be restricted to and between that nation, the border shall be closed for and to all traffic for thirty days, their Ambassador shall be declared persona non grata [a visa to a leader of that nation or their ambassador to attend the U.N. is an exception], and all of our top level personal in their country shall be recalled and no foreign aid shall be given. Furthermore, the government shall ask all American citizens in that nation to return to the United States.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service officials shall be responsible for keeping control of that believed illegal individual(s) and their underage children until all are found to be here legally and all released or ordered returned.

Any local, city, county, or state government [after first being censured] that interferes with the effort to detain and return illegal immigrants to their proper country or openly provides sanctuary to illegal immigrants shall have all of its federal aid, grants, payments to, and all other federal funds withheld until compliance and after the date of compliance future funds shall be reduced by one half for each offending non-compliant year. Furthermore, all or some companies hiring illegals in that state may be put on the not allowed to bid for federal contracts list and all federal lands in that state may be closed to public entry.

Any President or department or agency Administrator or judge that orders the United State Border Patrol or Coast Guard away from the border so it cannot enforce immigration laws and rules [cannot deny entry to non-citizens and contraband] shall be grounds in court to terminate his or her paid service regardless of civil service rules, elected or confirmation status, and shall be one charge for impeachment on the date of that order.

All minor aged children not citizens of our country without legal citizen parents or without guardians detained, applying for and given asylum or in the process of naturalization shall be taken in by State(s) Family Services at federal expense while immigration authorities try for their safe placement or safe return to their native country. If safe placement or return cannot be accomplished in six weeks, the child shall be placed by Family Services in a state foster care program(s) at Federal expense and made available for adoption by qualified citizen(s). The years in foster care and adoption shall count toward the time requirement to become a citizen after age eighteen. If not wishing to become an American citizen or denied naturalization or fails to start the process of naturalization in one calendar year after age eighteen, the child now an adult shall after a court hearing before ordered returned to his/her birth country.

**Section 3. Border agents shall have the right to search:** No government shall make any law that denies Border agents the right to search without a search warrant for disallowed, unlawful or illegal carry or shipped material, items, information or persons into or out of these United States. They shall have the right to apprehend any person(s) entering the country without presentation at a checkpoint, if found within five miles of the border may take that person to the closest checkpoint and return the person to the country they crossed from or detain. Any person or citizen aiding illegal entry shall be guilty of a crime.

Presentation at a point of entry or departure of a traveler or material or illegal entry shall be recognized as consent for a search and any person or thing refusing shall not enter nor shall the material enter as the case may be. That search may include the person(s) traveling including personal wear and adornments, all items in baggage, parcels, crates, boxes, printed material, clothing, carry on items, pets, art objects, corpses, disks, tapes, and all digital storage devices as Border Agents require. The search may be as detailed as Border Agents require and may include search of means of transport to or though a checkpoint such as bicycles, cars, boats, planes, and boats. An even more complete and detailed search may be held whenever Border Agents require. Border Agents shall have the right to confiscate any item and let the passenger(s) proceed or hold the item, hold means of transport, and detain the passenger(s) for the authorities as they deem fit.

No court shall have the authority to order a person or item to enter or leave the country without being searched and screened. No court shall have the right to allow entry or exit of a denied person(s) or item(s) without being searched and only Presidential direct or indirect intervention can order the same such as granting diplomatic privileges to individual officials and their diplomatic pouches.

Proposed Amendment K. Public debt: All public debt is taken on with expectation of repayment or no person or nation will ever loan the United States or any state any money at reasonable rates. Non-payment would reduce our economy to a pay cash or go without nation.

**Section 1. Reduces size of House of Representatives to save money** : The United State Constitution states that all money bills must start in The House of Representatives. Hereafter, the United States Senate may not take a house passed bill and change it purpose by adding spending to a non-spending bill. The House of Representatives has the power of the purse. Huge public debts cannot be possible without the House of Representatives turning a blind eye to its duty to guard against wasteful spending.

Therefore, the House of Representatives shall be reduced in number to do its part to pay back that debt whenever our national debt exceeds six [6] trillion dollars. This order shall take effect the next general election after ratification of this Amendment and the House shall remain reduced in size until reduction to the maximum public debt level is reached.

In the House of Representatives large population states have more representatives to vote for new debt than small or sparsely populated states and shall bare the brunt of the reduction. Therefore, hereafter and until the public debt level is reduced to or below the allowable limit, the total number of Representatives from any one state to the House of Representatives shall be capped at twenty-five [25], but the population per representative shall continue to be computed the usual/traditional way for all states.

**Section 2. Mutual shared sacrifice is required to pay back large public debt** : Mutual shared sacrifice is necessary when the public federal debt is more than six [6] trillion dollars. At that dangerous debt level, all deductions and reductions of tax payments for individuals, companies, institutions, and corporations shall cease for debt repayment. Exceptions to this requirement are child family income tax deductions and/or earn income credit for a single person filing up to twenty [20] thousand or joint filing parents with combined income up to forty [40] thousand dollars, and a farmer or small business with less than $500,000 gross sales.

Until the six trillion dollar debt mark is reached Congress shall make no law that gives a special reduction, deduction, earned income credit, or waiver of income taxes to any individual, government unit, business, corporation, or group other than those exceptions listed above unless national security demands it.

**Section 3. State/district/territory bail out for large public debts [bankruptcy]** : Whenever a state/district/territory cannot manage its money and needs the federal treasury or the federal Congress to bail it out, that state/district/territory shall be reduced in the United States House of Representatives in the next election to one elected Representative and shall continued at that level until the Federal Treasury has been repaid in principle and interest on the assessed bailout amount. A state/district/territory with only one Representative shall have its Senators reduced to one until repayment.

Proposed Amendment L. Public Land limits: Section 1 dealing with federal land ownership shall take effect three years after ratification and those three years shall be spent preparing for this order. Section 2 dealing with Indian Reservation closure shall take effect 1 October after ratification.

**Section 1. Set at fourteen percent maximum federal land ownership in any state** : All land within state boundaries should belong to the citizens of that state, and no citizen would complain about some acres of lands set aside for special purpose or federal use. When the federal government ended the Homestead acts and stopped trying to sell land for the several states some or all open [unoccupied] land should have been returned to the states. That did not happen.

Therefore, this Amendment declares null and void and unenforceable the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 setting aside large tracts of land to collect federal grazing fees on and the 1935 Presidential order to set aside all other unoccupied millions of acres of land for conservation instead of returning some or all of said lands to the states. Control of, sale, and lease of federal lands shall be returned to the United States Congress.

Hereafter, all full or parts of any law, rule, Presidential Order, fee, and/or act or practices of the Bureau of Land Management that continues fee practices based on the 1934 Taylor Grazing act or land management orders and practices based on the 1935 Presidential order setting aside unoccupied federal lands is hereby called into question.

Hereafter, the federal government shall have ownership or direct control of no more than fourteen [14] percent of the total acreage of any state and within three years after this Amendment's ratification shall have released/turn over/transferred all acreage/lands above that percentage to the ownership/control of the individual state government(s). The uncounted exceptions to this order that shall remain under federal control and use are: Federal dams, lakes behind these dams and ten feet beyond high water shoreline if not privately owned, Federal highway and Interstate Highway land, lava covered land around any active volcano [last hundred years], a hundred-fifty feet of un-owned and un-occupied land along either side of a well known and documented major earthquake fault line, all land above 10,000 feet above sea level, and other listed National Parks, Monuments, and/or wild life areas.

These other listed areas are: Agate Fossil Beds N.M., Alamosa N.W.R., Aransas N.W.R., Arapaho N.W.R, Badlands N.P., Bandelier N.M., Baskett Slough N.W.R, Bear Lake N.W.R., Bonneville Salt Flats, Canyon de Chelly N.M., Carlsbad Caverns N.P., Cedar River N.G., Columbia N.W.R., Craters of the Moon N.M, Death Valley N.M., Flint Hills N.W.R, Fossil Butte N.M, Grand Canyon rim to rim, Grand Gulf Primitive Area, Hickison Petroglyph R.S., Kilauea Point Administrative Site, Kodiak N.W.R., Mound City Group N.M., Mount St. Helens Volcanic Monument, Natural Bridges N.M., Railroad Valley W.M.A., Rainbow Bridge N.M, Red Rock Lakes N.W.R, Redwood N.P., Santa Ana N.W.R., Sequoia N.P., Tewaukon N.W.R., Umatilla N.W.R., Washita N.W.R., Wind Cave N.P., Yellowstone N.P., and Indian reservations. These above listed areas are exceptions to the acreage requirements and shall not be counted as part of the fourteen percent.

Each state shall have the right to complain about and refuse to agree due to the federal authorities keeping the best and returning the worst. Failure to complete an agreed on land turn over of all excess lands in three years shall give to the affected state the legal right using "non-compliance" to file a court case to claim ownership of all but 100,000 acres of non-listed federal set aside land within the boundaries of that state. After winning in court, any/all other land above the base amount the federal government uses in that state, the federal authorities shall pay a per acre fair market rent or lease to use. Unlisted National Parks and off shore islands or parts of islands claimed by the federal government shall count as part of the federal government's fourteen [14] percent. If all or part of a National Park or National Forest or military base is returned to a state, that state shall decide on its future use and/or status.

This Amendment declares the principle that all land within a state is state land and that each state does freely allow some federal set aside of state land, up to a fourteen [14] percent maximum of unlisted land for federal use. However, when any acre or part of an acre of this federal set aside land is sold and deeded that land reverts to the state. This Amendment does not allow the federal government to claim any additional acreage without state cooperation and compensation than now allowed in any state. If more land is needed by the federal government in one area, the state may grant the request if the federal government gives up an equal amount of agreed on land in another part of the state. However, in case of a war or attack, the federal government may condemn and unoccupied state land by Presidential order for the duration, if and where needed.

Because this error was committed more than eighty [80] years ago this Amendment hereby and hereafter declares null and void and unenforceable any and all full or parts of related orders, rules, regulations, practices, and ordered fees contrary to or are impediments to the implementation of this Amendment including rules or laws or fees made by the Bureau of Lands Management or made by the states, and counties; all full or parts of related laws passed by Congress, states laws and individual county ordnances; and shall includes all or parts of all related Presidential orders.

There is nothing in this amendment that allows the federal government to claim more land in any state(s) than it now holds without state cooperation and compensation.

**Section 2. Closing Indian Reservations rules** : Indian Reservations without enough legal blood members of the tribe(s) will by present law be discontinued. In addition, because we gave the tribe land to live on, it shall be theirs and do hereafter allow them the right to petition for it to close as a reservation.

Hereafter, if and when a reservation is discontinued or reduced in size living blood tribal members shall be counted whether they live on said lands or not and the land acreage below 10,000 feet and above sea level divided into that many lots, plus one for each tribal group on that reservation for a possible headquarters and at least one for school land, and so numbered. Tribal members will vote on the lot number for each set aside. The federal government shall pay to have these lots surveyed in a timely manner.

Each blood member shall draw one number out of a hat/container holding other plot numbers and for a forty-dollar fee paid to the county government shall be given an ownership deed to that numbered and surveyed piece of land. The individual is forbidden to sell any of his/her parcel of land for one calendar year and all tribal and individual assistance from the federal government shall continue for five years. After federal assistance discontinues to the tribe it shall continue to the individual tribal member(s) keeping their land for ten more years. If sold to a tribal member the tax issues below remain in effect, but if sold to non-tribal member normal state property taxes apply from date of sale.

When deeded that land shall be entered in the state's county tax roll/book/record and for the first five years of a tribal member ownership that land shall not be assessed any local or state property taxes. After five years that land shall be assessed one tenth of the property tax due for the sixth year, and assessed an additional tenth each year thereafter until full yearly assessment is reached. This property tax condition shall be the same for Tribal Headquarters owned land. However, one acre of land the Tribal Headquarters building sits on or plans to sit on shall not be taxed and shall rank as a piece of quasi-state property provided it does not have a business on it. If any of this newly deeded land has any businesses on it normal state and federal business rules, taxes, and licenses shall apply two years after deeded. School lands shall be exempt from property tax as a state government local entity and the new school and/or school district shall be part of the county, regional, and state educational system. Indian Reservation roads and right of ways shall become part of the county/region highway system.

Proposed Amendment M. Financial concerns: This amendment concerning all new rules and/or loans written shall take effect the 1 January after ratification.

**Section 1. Only allows fixed rate mortgages on Housing loans** : To end the housing boom, bust, and foreclosure cycles only a fixed interest rate thirty year mortgage shall be allowed on family/individual houses/condominiums and demand fifteen [15] percent down with no allowable penalty charged for paying off the loan early.

(a) Mortgage lending institutions and banks shall not make loans [first, second, third, and additional mortgages included] on personal or family home(s) other than thirty [30] year fixed interest rate loans or mortgages with at least fifteen [15] percent down on each mortgage.

An "A" rated home loan shall be a loan that if one wage earner loses his/her job or due to illness and cannot work the other might continue the purchase. Otherwise, if only one person takes out the home loan, that loan cannot be rated as "A" and must be rated "B" or lower unless his/her unencumbered estate collateral is large enough to pay off the loan on demand.

(b) Any lending agency making variable interest rate mortgage loans for individual/family home(s) shall be accessed a $10,000 dollar fine per month per variable loan written and shall rewrite those loans at their cost and has ninety [90] days to re-do that loan or shall forever cease writing home loans. This order shall includes all owners and/or lien holders that accept direct or mailed payments toward full ownership while holding the deed until the house is paid for and/or collect rents toward ownership.

(c) Personal dwellings/homes shall be considered to be a permanent rented/leased or owned parking place with a lived-in travel-trailer parked for at least seven months of that year, permanently set trailer-homes and double-wide homes, factory manufactured homes, purchased apartments or condominiums, a building the owner lives in and rents out part or uses part of the building for his business, or an on-site constructed homes. The loan value of all homes shall make note of the price and ownership of the land it sits on and any or all parts owned outright or rents or lease payments made on land it sits on shall be in writing in the final loan document that an individual or a married couple sign or the sale shall be null and void.

**Section 2. Sets maximum interest rate allowed** : Except for personal loans and credit to single individuals or joint accounts of married or bonded pairs, the maximum interest rate on all other loans and/or credit, simple interest figured once a year, shall be limited to no more than five [5x] times the Prime Rate.

Personal short-term loans and/or personal credit [one year or less] total interest, fee, and other charges shall be limited to one-quarter [1/4] the total dollar value of that loan or value of credit extended. Any collected combination of total costs of a long term loan or extended credit [longer than one year] to an individual or married couple or bonded pair including interest/charges/fees that shall consume a dollar amount equal to or greater than the entire principal sooner than a ten year period or more than triple the amount of the loan over a thirty year period shall not be allowed.

Furthermore, hereafter whenever a personal loan or credit account is refinanced or involved in a bankruptcy no fees or charges [including late charges] shall be included in the real unpaid balance owed and only the unpaid interest owed on that new unpaid balance since the last full payment shall be included. A full monthly payment demand shall be the monthly, quarterly, or yearly amount listed on the loan papers or requested on the monthly bill as the minimum payment.

**Section 3. Representatives of the people's housing deduction:** The people expect their elected representatives to the House of Representatives and the Senate to live in or around Washington [or state capitals] and maintain a home in their district. To reduce the hardship for elected persons of limited means, hereafter, all elected members of the House of Representative [lower house] and all elected members of the Senate [upper house] shall be able to deduct a limited dollar amount from his/her income taxes for this second residence based on the true cost of monthly rental charges of a home of the area in which the second residence is located. The same limited deduction shall be allowed toward purchased of this second home until the house is paid for or to pay back the amount of an outright purchase.

This total allowed housing rental income tax deduction shall not be larger than twenty [20 percent] of the elected Representative or Senator's total salary until his or her service ends or the house is paid for or the purchase price repaid.

The President or a Governor shall be able to deduct half of all of the full monthly rents charged and personal expenses of living in the White House or Governor's Mansion from his/her income taxes.

**Section 4. State and federal differences over drugs, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco:** Because both the several states and federal government make laws that regulate drugs, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco differences will from time-to-time arise. The state government shall be allowed six years [a time equal to three Representative terms or one Senate term] to try the difference within its borders and try during that time to change the federal law to agree with the wanted change.

If after six years the difference has not been adjusted by a new federal law and that state continues the difference there shall be assessed a yearly fine of one hundred [100] million dollars until the state law is changed. If the state fine/assessment is not paid timely each year [on or before 31 December] the federal government shall deduct that unpaid dollar amount plus an additional fifty [50] million dollar late payment penalty from any payments and/or grants of its choice during the next calendar year to that state except for monies for education, disable persons, Medicare and Medicaid, National Guard, prisoner housing, and law enforcement. Each year after the first assessed year that state allows the difference to continue the fine assessment shall increase fifty [50] million dollars with the penalty for late payment remaining the same.

If at a later date that same state that ended the practice re-creates/allows the same difference again an immediate starting first year assessment of a hundred fifty [150] million dollars shall be assessed the day state law re-creates that same difference and with the above stated yearly increase. Each new attempt after that by that state passing laws to recreate that same difference the assessment fine shall each time increase fifty [50] million dollars with the same late penalty ordered.

No state shall be fined for past differences before ratification. However, those states with past standing differences shall have only three years [half the time] starting on the next 1 January after ratification to try to change federal law. If federal law is not changed and the state law does not agree, state punishment for having and allowing that difference shall start on 1 January of the fourth year with payment demanded on or before December 31 of that year.

Proposed Amendment N. Sunset provisions: Section 1, sets a thirty-year sunset for Civil Rights laws and Section 2, sets a twenty-year sunset on all unused and unnecessary laws and ordinances.

**Section 1: Civil Rights laws, rules, quotas, and practices shall sunset every thirty years.** If racial harmony is to be achieved, we must occasionally mark our progress by reformulating our Civil Rights laws, court orders, quotas, rules and practices. New or reissued Civil Rights laws, quotas, and rules should be based only on the progress yet to be achieved. It is time to stop adjusting general public policies and citizen activities for practices that have been corrected and/or no person is alive that experienced the disallowed treatment or practice. The cost and payment for allowing slavery into our Republic was paid for with the blood and lives of large numbers of all races in our Civil War, including the blood and lives of newly arrived immigrants, newly freed slaves, and Indian tribal members.

Hereafter, let it be known that any and all Civil Rights efforts are for demanding fair and equal treatment for all. Any failures of that effort shall hereby attempt correction by ending the old after thirty years and trying anew. Nothing in this order stops an entity from reissuing or creating, if needed, old or new measures.

Any special legal privilege or protection we give one group of citizens we deny something to all other citizens. True equality is devoid of special privilege or protection. The remaining question is: Can a race enjoying special privilege and special legal protections and all others smarting from what it is denied ever achieve harmony? Might periodically reducing special privilege to that still necessary and letting the unnecessary end gradually reduce public frustrations and move us closer to harmony.

Therefore, all present enforced Civil Rights Laws, quotas, racial diversity rules, court orders, court ordered bussing, racial hiring practices or racial promoting programs and all other such practices shall end 1 January three calendar years after the ratification of this amendment. However, this amendment does allow and is not meant to hinder enforcement or reissuing the old or the creation of new laws, quotas, rules, hiring policies, diversity practices, court orders, and court ordered bussing or racial promotion programs during or at the end of those three years.

There shall be only three requirements for reissuing or creating anew. (1) The word "New" or "revised" shall be the first or second word in the new order/policy/court order or ruling/law/quota or practice. (2) All shall be based on and supported by real American local/state/nation conditions or facts or statistics of the twenty-first century [since the year 2,001 to the present] and not based on the twentieth [1900s], nineteenth [1800s], eighteenth [1700s], or seventeenth [1600s] centuries circumstances or facts or statistics. (3) No state shall use information gained by this issue to draw or redraw representative lines to ensure election of a certain person, group, race, or religion and no state shall draw or redraw representative lines with the purpose to increase or reduce racial participation in our Representative Republic.

Furthermore, it is hereby ordered that every thirty [30] years hereafter any or all Civil Rights elements shall end and any and all may be reissued if the previous ten years conditions or facts or statistics support it. It is the hope the above plan shall help our nation that began with the statement "all men are created equal" achieves greater equality of treatment.

It is hoped that as the distance between the privileged and the denied narrows the privileged will be less loud and boisterous and the denied long forced legally to be silent or be punished will speak. Maybe then, there might be a conversation.

**Section 2: Unused laws and ordinances sunset in twenty years** : If any law or ordinance legally passed has not been used to prosecute in court a single citizen or business or government in twenty [20] years that law or ordinance shall be declared unnecessary and unenforceable and removed.

This amendment shall take effect 1 January two calendar years after ratification. However, there is nothing in this amendment to deny or hinder any law-making body the right to pass the same or similar law again.

Proposed Amendment O. Abortion rules: Abortion became a national policy by means other than a Congress passed and President signed law or an amendment to the Constitution. It became law by a Supreme Court ruling. It is the intent of this amendment to ask the people if they want to make abortion legal, make it only a state issue and limit federal regulations about it to medical care of their employees in Foreign Service and prisoners. Furthermore, nothing in this Amendment hinders or denies the United States Congress or state/district/territory legislatures the right to withhold budgeted tax monies and grants to agencies and groups that practice abortion. This amendment shall take effect six months after ratification.

**Section 1. Rules for Abortion** : Some citizens agree with legal abortion and some disagree. Therefore, hereafter collected tax or other government monies shall not be given in any form to aid an individual, agency, or group providing abortions nor shall any monies be given to any group/agency/person that advocates for or against the practice. No government shall make or allow any law(s) that make it more difficult to have an abortion nor shall any government make any law(s) that make it easier to have an abortion. Hereafter, state/district/ territory legislatures and their medical authorities shall make laws and rules about how an abortion is preformed. This Amendment declares that all federal laws about abortion are null and void and unenforceable, except those dealing with or denying federal monies for abortion.

Each state/district/territory legislatures shall make laws, rules, and regulations about abortion. State/district/territorial medical authorities shall decide if a licensed doctor performing abortions is complying with safe allowed medical practices. If not, the state medical authorities shall remove/stop that doctor from performing that procedure in their state/district/territory for as long as they deem necessary.

Any female over age eighteen may or may not decide to have an abortion. Any female of the marriageable age in the state, district, territory she resides in may without parental consent or telling her parent(s) or guardian(s) decide to and have an abortion. Any female younger than the marriageable age in the state she resides in shall have permission of at least one of her parents or legal guardians.

It is the intent of this amendment to recognize abortion as a legal medical procedure regulated by the citizens through their legislatures and medical authorities of the various states, district, and territories.

**Section 2: Life:** Life starts with the first heartbeat and unless continued by some artificial means ends with the last heartbeat. During that lifetime, that American citizen has rights. However, a new citizen in the womb so depended on his mother may need some adjustment to those rights and adjustments to the rights of the mother. The right of the woman to choose ends with the first heartbeat.

It shall be the duty of the legislature of the various states, district, and territories to declare and adjust the necessary rights of mother and child so that both may live. Hereafter, no American Citizen shall be denied life by being aborted unless its life endangers the life of the mother or in the judgment of medical authorities, the child at full term cannot live outside the womb. In case of need, states, district, and territories may offer limited financial, medical, and other assistance to the bonded and interconnected pair of American Citizens.

## Part two

### Opinion

Writer Note: I published it, reread my published copy, found errors and republished it. Then my friends made suggestions: (1) When a person downloads for amendments, they should first find amendments. (2) Felt my introductory remarks should be part of my opinion after the amendments. (3) They noticed that I had not specified when life starts and a woman's right to choose ends in the abortion amendment. After a full reading, I agreed and made corrections. This document will remain as printed. It is in a final printed copy. Gene Peterman 8/22/18

One voices his or her lack of understanding of our government when using the word **Democracy** to describe our system. How soon we forget saying in the pledge, "And to the Republic for which it stands." What our founders struggled with and argued about was organizing a **Republic** to preserve their liberty. Under the Articles of Confederation, they tried for years **a states rights government** and found it lacking.

In the Constitution, they listed the rights of the states and outlined a new federal government in a written document of about five thousand words. It was not perfect, but it did include the right to amend it [make changes]. The first way was when two-thirds of both houses approve an amendment and send it to the states for ratification [this system does not involve Presidential action]. In addition, it includes a second way to send amendments to the states incase Congress becomes unresponsive to the people. I quote Article V, "or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments...."

It has been the **American Way** for more than 200 years that whenever something happens in our Republic that we do not like, any citizen(s) or our elected representative(s) can write a possible Constitutional Amendment(s) and try to get it through Congress and before the people. It is important, when ratified and becomes law. However, it is even more important that the American people [citizens] know that they are being asked to decide on issues. **We the people** signify we decide on things.

This suggested list of fifteen Amendments exist because I believe that for the last half century Congress has been unable or unwilling to send issues to the people for their approval or disapproval. Blame it on gridlock or blame it on the ongoing struggle for realignment. Without the seventeenth Amendment, the popular election of Senators, today there would about seventy Republican members in the U.S. Senate. Republicans want to abolish the 17th Amendment. The Democrats fight to keep it because of votes out of large cities gives their party between a dozen and twenty more Senators.

It is my belief that it is time for a Called Convention of States for we are in need of a number of adjustments to right our ship of state. The need grows more desperate every year. Furthermore, this one citizen believes that if the America we know and cherish is long to survive, a Called Convention of States is imperative.

It is my wish that others will also put forth their ideas to a Called Convention of States. It is my hope that the amendments the people ratify from the Called Convention of States will be called **the Second Bill of Rights**.

Years ago, Harry Reid's rules shenanigans in the United States Senate made me believe "he's causing a Called Convention of States." Preparing, I started writing one possible Constitutional Amendment. It combined term limits and balanced budget into a single amendment. Studying the actions of government through the years, I found other areas that I believed were in need. My work turned into a list of fifteen and created a hope that all ratified amendments from a Called Convention of States will be referred to as "the Second Bill of Rights."

I am not a Constitutional Lawyer or even a lawyer. I am just an ordinary citizen. In advance, I do apologize for my occasional lapses into fuzzy thinking, weak phrasing and poor word choice.

It is my purpose in this effort to suggest a need for a list of possible Amendments to other citizens and generate interest in a "Called Convention of States." I do this as a concerned citizen. It is my hope that others are doing the same. I have given you mine. When we get yours, we can have a discussion.

Without any amendments to suggest, a Called Convention of States might be less than successful. I think one is needed and I am putting forth suggestions. This citizen hopes that a Called Convention of States sends amendments to the states and that it be one important step toward correcting legal confusion by discovering the wishes of the people. I believe it is a needed moment in the history of our special Republic.

In truth, the Constitution and its amendments are often confusing, even to lawmakers, Constitutional lawyers and judges. Because most rights of individuals were not included, we the people voted to add a Bill of Rights [ratified the first ten amendments in 1791] and later added others. The last [the 26th Amendment added in 1971] was ratified 47 years ago.

One writer said that we have tried more than 10,000 times to amend the Constitution and have done so only a few times. There was a flurry of attempts in the 1800s, fewer in the 1900s, and none in this century. A brief list of amendments the people have ratified [notice some are about one thing and others more than one]:

I. Freedom of religion, speech or press, assemble and petition

II. The right to bear arms

III. No quartering of troops without owner approval

VI. No unreasonable searches and seizures or warrants without probable cause

V. Grand Jury indictment in capital cases, no double jeopardy, no forced self-incrimination, or judgments without due process

VI. An accused person shall have the right to produce witnesses, confront witnesses, and have benefit of counsel.

VII. Common law suits [civil law] larger than twenty dollars by trial by jury

VIII. Excessive bails, fines or cruel and unusual punishments not allowed

XI. Rights not listed or prohibited are reserved to the people

XII. Electors and the Presidential election

XIII. Outlaws slavery and involuntary service

XIV. [1] Citizen by birth or naturalized subject to our laws.[2] All male citizens over 21 years may vote, except Indians not taxed.[3] Representatives, Senators, Vice Presidents, and Presidents shall not be bound by any other oath than their oath of office.[4] Public debts lawful but not debts of insurrection or rebellion

XV. The right to vote shall not be denied because of race, color, previous condition of servitude

XVI. Congress shall have the right to collect income taxes

XVII. Senators shall be elected by the people not state legislatures and vacancies filled by governor

XVIII. Sale of alcohol forbidden

XIX. Rights of voting extended to Women

XX. [1] Terms of Representatives and Senators end at noon on January 3rd. [2] Terms of President and Vice President ends at noon on January 20th. [3] If President dies, the Vice President becomes President. [4] When Congress may appoint a President or Vice President

XXI. Repeals the 18th amendment, allows the sale of alcohol

XXII. No person shall be elected President more than twice

XXIII. Rights of the District of Columbia

XXIV. Voting rights not denied from unpaid poll taxes or other taxes

XXV. When a President is unable to discharge his duties

XXVI. Eighteen-year-olds can vote

It is common knowledge that we have three branches of government: the legislative makes laws, the executive [administration] enforces laws, and the judiciary settles cases arising from the law. Over the years, lazy lawmakers in Congress left too much about a law to be decided by a Department Secretary or/and administrative bureaucrats [the deep state], Presidential Orders contrary to law allowed to stand have made or changed law, administrative directives/rules have changed or amended laws, and legislative judges have made law or amended laws by their rulings. There is much in our now practiced code of laws not created by our representatives or approved by **We the People**. Due to a divided Congress unable to get the percentage of votes needed to pass and send amendments to the people, our Republic has in the last half century drifted away from the Constitution and away from the rights of the People.

However, some things in the system do allow for correction. Another President and a Constitutional Amendment might cancel previous Presidential Orders. Administration directives might be changed [rewritten] and might be challenged by Department Secretaries and/or congressional oversight committees. However, the most difficult to make right is judicial legislation [law created by judges in court rulings].

It is a huge mistake to think that the final word in our Republic is the Supreme Court. In truth, the final word is that spoken by votes cast by a majority of **We the People**. Any time the Supreme Court makes a ruling we do not like, our citizens should create and send a flood of Amendment(s) suggestions to our Representatives and Senators and press them to get Congress to pass one and send it to the states for ratification. This has not happened successfully in half a century.

Administration directives put into practice laws passed, and misdirected changes are so numerous that both houses of Congress have oversight committees working on this problem full time. In this short space, I would like to look at three other area examples: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1935 Presidential Order about western lands, and Supreme Court decisions about abortion and marriage.

[1]. Congress has had a long history of land policy laws and land sales from the Land Act of 1796 until the 1930s. The Feds ended the Homestead Act and all like laws, [meaning the feds stopped being the real estate agent for western states land sales]. Would you allow an agent that failed to sell your house keep the house—the feds did. When the federal government allows the creation of a state, they let the state have all the land within its boundaries except some set aside for federal uses [in most states that is from less than 1% to 14%]. This did not happen in the West. The fed kept all unsold lands.

In 1934, a depression Congress searching for ways to raise money passed the Taylor Grazing Act to charge grazing fees for open rangeland, ending open range [started with 8 million acres and later expanded to 142 million acres]. Those open range signs you see out west do not mean "Open Range" they mean "no fences."

The next year [1935], President Franklin D Roosevelt issued a Presidential Order setting aside the remaining land [more than 455 millions acres] for conservation. This order sets aside all western land not generating grazing fees for conservation and can never be leased or sold. In fact, the government can charge citizens that own the land [and their tax dollars pay the salaries of conservation agents assigned to it] a fee to enter and may even be denied right of entry. This Presidential 1935 Order made without the approval of Congress has stood unchanged, but not unchallenged for more than eighty years. Only another president or a Constitutional Amendment can rescind [cancel] this 1935 order.

Because of this order, since 1935, western states [twelve are the hardest hit] have not been able to increase settlement [population] and that limits their chances of increasing representation in our federal government. Without the ability to sell or lease open land in their state, or collect grazing fees, or increase sales, property or business taxes for the feds own it and do not sell it. They did not give any/some back to the states when they stopped selling land. For eighty years it has been extremely difficult to increase western state land ownership, population, wealth or expand services to it citizens.

The federal government owns 52 % of the land in twelve western states [more than 80% in Nevada]. Furthermore, numerous Presidents often see their legacy as what lands they set aside. If continued, in coming centuries Presidents [following the Teddy Roosevelt example] will turn much of it into thousands [or tens of thousands] more national parks and wildlife preserves. While this situation continues locals in these states even have great difficulty in running water, sewage, gas, and electric lines for the feds own the land on both sides and the highway right away and are notoriously slow and/or uncooperative about providing permits.

Yes, I know about the mid 1970s [believe 76] law giving some grazing fee money back to the states so heavily earmarked/restricted that all freedom to spend it for state needs does not exist. Numerous localized citizen frustrations have boiled over in disruptions and a dizzying array of court cases have not settled the issue in more than eighty [80] years. The number of land agents to enforce Interior Department policy is larger than the Marine Corps. In addition, all courts are unwilling to rule that the original Presidential Order was illegal. The only solution seems to be another president canceling the 1935 order or a Called Convention of States amendment ratified by the people can return the land question back to Congress and/or the states.

[2]. Abortion was made legal by a Supreme Court decision [legislated by nine Supreme Court Judges—not a law pass by Congress and signed by a President or a Presidential Order]. Since then, we have legislated for and against it, cried over not having enough conservatives on the Supreme Court, marched in protests about it, ruined political careers of over it, and some citizens have even committed crimes over it. Questions remain. For those against abortion: is it easier to get rid of it by a Constitutional Amendment repeal or stack the court with like minds and wait for the right case. For those for abortion: which gives the issue more protection, a court ruling or an amendment?

No one has tried to put the issue before the people. Let the people vote on an Abortion Amendment that makes the Supreme Court ruling that is the law of the land part of the Constitution. Nothing changes. Both sides will want it. Pro-abortionist will vote for more protection than a ruling. Pro-lifers will vote for an Amendment that changes nothing but will be easier to repeal than waiting decades to pack the court and waiting for the right case, which may or may not happen. Remember the people passed and repealed the sale and transportation of alcohol. The question remains for the voter "might repeal be easier or more difficult than packing the court?" A vote against any proposed amendment for or against abortion changes nothing and leaves the issue where it is at present.

However, there remain beyond those issues three unsettled questions to the abortion debate. (1) When does life began? (2) When does a woman's right to choose end? (3) Does that new life have citizenship rights before birth?

I believe life began with the first heartbeat and ends with the last one. After the first heartbeat, does the mother have the right to abort [plan the end of the life of a living citizen without court approval or due process]. I believe a woman's right to choose ends with that first heartbeat. No one would expect any other course of action other than abort when necessary to save the life of the mother or according to medicial authorities the child's medical condition is such that it cannot live outside the womb.

[3] Mankind over untold centuries developed marriage between one man and one woman for the protection of children, protection of the next generation. Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act to make that concept part of our legal framework. However, a Supreme Court ruling cancelled the Defense of Marriage law by stating that marriage in these United States shall hereafter include two people of the same sex. In doing so, the Supreme Court changed what marriage has been for untold centuries in the western world. Did their ruling say companionship is more important than the protection of children? Their apologists will try wheedling out with the word "And" or "Include."

For a half century, **we the people** have not been able to get wanted amendments through congress and sent to the states. We have not been able for half a century to try to make adjustments to the grand American experiment. I for one am ready to try something different and call a Convention of States. When one is called, I will send my efforts to them for consideration. I publish my list in hope that you will prepare and send yours too. Free publication gives you a place to get a clean and uncorrupted copy for political enemies will make changes if they can. Our nation needs you. It is in needs of some adjustments, improvements, and repairs.

According to party politics that have corked the amendment-bottle for 47 years, there are at present Republican majorities in 33 state legislatures, need 34 for a Called Convention of States, and require 37 states for ratification of an Amendment(s). We are close.

In the 1800s, there were flurries of Amendment attempts. I wonder why we had so few in the 1900s and none in this century. Have we gotten to be an "ask for what you can get" society [people], and no longer are a "ask for what your want" society [people]? The first seems like a depressing let down for such a grand experiment. Ask for what you already know you can get and our grand Republic shrivels, and drifts off into the socialistic world of "be like Europe."

Because ratified amendments will have Roman numerals [numbers], I have given my suggested amendments letters.

So that the reader might know a little about who these suggests come from, especially those that live in concrete America and those that see my America as fly-over country, I have included at the end a short Bio sketch.

## Part three

## Final Comment

We consider a vote by a citizen on a proposed amendment a vote for all of its parts. If a citizen votes against an offered amendment, so be it. Nothing changes. Things remain as they are. Only voting for an amendment is a vote for change.

Many amendments have more than one thing in that amendment. It would be nice if a citizen could vote for all wanted sections and leave unchecked [not vote for] the unwanted sections. Scoring would be an almost impossible nightmare, but possible with our computers. It would be my preferred way. Maybe, a list like the one in my table of contents would be helpful to that end. However, I expect a single for or against vote will be cast on each offered amendment.

Regardless, all offered amendment(s) should be made freely available in print and on the internet to read, study, discuss, and think about before voting. I am confident that each decision the American people make will be the right one.

It is no secret; I am for a called Convention of States. In this election year, I am for asking candidates to state legislatures and governorships if they are. If it will help, you have my permission to use any of this for that end. As long as you do not charge specifically for this work, you may copy a full amendment, amendments, or commentary or the entire 60 plus page pamphlet as long as you show where it came from so the reader can download his/her own free copy or a new clear uncorrupted copy. There are those that would do things to it that honorable people would not do.

Sign up at Convention of States. Join the crowd. Spread the word!

## Part four

## About the Citizen

Gene Peterman, married more than fifty years, three sons and a daughter, a second generation Republican and St. Louis Cardinal fan, started working for wages at age twelve washing milk bottles before and after school, served three years in the Army Signal Corp and one in National Guard, and was a National Defense Education Act of 1958 college student [enrolled Fall 1959—graduated Spring 1962], is a retired public school classroom teacher of thirty years, has an M.A. from Vanderbilt in American History, and 42 years community service: 20 years elected service [helped neighbors start local volunteer fire department and was elected to Fire District Board serving as Treasurer and fireman and earned a State Certificate as level three fire instructor] and had 22 years appointed service [20 years Treasurer of local Public Water Supply District and 2 years chairman of County Planning Commission during a failed county-wide zoning attempt]. After retiring from teaching, he wrote [some with his daughter] and self-published historical fiction, science fiction, and free verse poetry as G. Russell Peterman.

It was grand once again to enjoy a Presidential campaign and the result. This 81 year-old man has not felt so positive about his country since the end of World War II, President Eisenhower, the moon landings, the National Defense Act of 1958 allowing this poor boy to go to college, St. Louis Cardinal World Series wins, two sons joining the military to protect and serve, President Reagan, and, of course, President Trump.

In good weather, we fly our flag. God Bless America.

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