This is long overdue.
Those guys in Washington have become an aristrocacy. They serve themselves and their monied interests...not the people. They need us to put some paramaters around them.
We also need term limits...maybe one amendment could cover both issues.
Don’t know how that wording is going to work out — does this mean no one can buy lunch for anyone else over a certain dollar amount? Do we each get individually gerrymandered fiefdoms?
A double edged sword.
I’d like to add a second part to that:
Congress shall not appropriate or spend money on any state, county, city, business, organization, or individual without the same benefit being extended to all like entities. (Pork for one means pork for all, or no pork at all!)
The Congress shall make no gifts.
Here is a proposed amendment:
Congress shall not receive monies from the states or localities via any means, except as agreed to by a constitutional amendment, and congress shall not allocate any monies to the states or localities for any purpose, except as agreed to by a constitutional amendment.
If congresscritters cannot take money from the states and if they cannot allocate money (pork) back to the states, it eliminates almost all our problems.
There HAVE to be laws that apply only to Congressmen. Should everyone get funding to run several offices and hire the people necessary to staff them? Should everyone have the same access to classified information? Should everyone have equal access to the Capitol and Congressional office buildings; or should these buildings not exist at all? I could go on.
ML/NJ
I would extend that amendment to apply to members of the Executive and Judicial branches also.
May I suggest:
Congress shall set no restrictions, entitlements or taxation that do not apply equally to all citizens of the United States of America.
I know this sounds crazy: I would have thought that no law COULD be passed that didn’t apply to everyone. But, that implies common sense exists within the Beltway...
It seems to me that we have done this before when various and sundry people advocated passing voting rights for women and lately the so called hate crimes while all of this was already in the Constitution and covered like a big blanket.
Here again we ask that laws apply equally yet that too is already in the document.
The current Constitution need not be changed for these reasons. What needs to be changed is how the Constitution is interpreted by our lawmakers.
Best way to do that is to eliminate the libtards! We might want to keep a few of them around to laugh at, and get rid of the rest by whatever means become necessary to include revolution, revolt and by all means necessary to protect the document as it is written with the original intent.
I can support that, as written!
I will go for that, even though it should go without saying
Actually, the first five words should be adequate.
You’re nuts!
I would make it airtight, and consistent with what the Framers would have written if they understood how devious the statists would become.
“Unless entered into voluntary employment with the United States government, each citizen within the United States is a sovereign individual not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Congress shall pass no law that infringes in any manner on the right to life, liberty or property of any sovereign individual, except in cases of Treason. A citizen leaving voluntary employment in good standing with the United States government shall be a sovereign individual, with all rights to life, liberty and property restored.”
The only loopholes I can think of:
1. Congress placing restrictions on passports for citizens.
2. Congress running wild with mandates on the States. At that point we would need to see whether the 10th Amendment would hold, or if additional neutering of Congress would be necessary.
3. Congress creating an instant path to citizenship for anyone anywhere in the world that wants to come and dilute the culture of liberty.
IMHO, Congress can pass all the laws they like infringing on the life liberty and property of any immigrant, legal or otherwise, but we need to figure out how to limit the path to citizenship.
Our founders didn’t put this in SPECIFICALLY because it SHOULD be common knowledge.
Our legislators ARE citizens. They were intended to leave their ‘normal’ professions and lives for a few terms and SERVE, then go BACK to their normal lives and professions.
How our nation let this get SO far out hand boggles my mind. We are no longer a Republic/Democracy, whatever. We are RULED by an ‘elite’ class and we are the serfs who THEY impose laws upon.
Let’s face it and DO something about it!
It’s LOONG PAST TIME for this common-sense proposal — as well as a number of others circulating on the net — to become part of the Constitution!
An PERSONAL anecdote to stress the nature of the problem:
A number of years ago, I flew into Dulles for a CATS meeting in Washington. The last leg of the trip was on one of those twin engine 20 passenger commuter prop jobs with single seating down each side of the narrow cabin. As we let down into Dulles, I leaned over to the guy across the aisle and said “We must be close to Washington – I just felt my IQ surge 20 points.”
Without missing a beat, the guy came back with “Sorry, SENATOR, I didn’t recognize you.”
And it’s that sense that THEY — our rulers who art in Washington — are so very much smarter and wiser than the rest of us (some of them are) that they can lead, guide and direct OUR lives far better than we can (given the results of the last election, that’s clearly true for the Obama voters as well).
If the current mess is an indicator, what “they” lack is COMMON SENSE! What they possess in quantities unimaginable to most of us is AVARICE and, as Mencken once observed, “...the urge to rule.” It’s why, for example, nearly all of them leave office with much higher net worth than when they entered. And the ones who don’t die in office, head over to K Street to become 7 figure influence peddlers for the highest bidder. It’s a practice that puts incest into the category of a fun family activity.
If we’re to survive as a nation, IT HAS TO STOP — NOW!!!!
Probably appeared before, looks familiar,but ping!