Preamble
We the People of the United States, in order to form an even more perfect Union, find that the values of Dignity, Liberty, Privacy, Justice, Equality, Solidarity, and Democracy into this Republic are necessary not only to the security of a Free state, but to the prosperity of one as well. To accomplish these ends, We the People acknowledge universal Dignity, establish the Rule of Law, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, secure the Necessities of life, uphold Equal treatment under the Law, separate and divide Power, protect from Tyranny, and pass the Blessing of Liberty to all People within these United States, do ordain and establish this third Constitution as The Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I: The People
This Constitution of the United States and all the states and territories thereof acknowledge and respect all of the following inherit and unalienable rights of the People:
Section 1: Dignity
All persons have a right to Life, basic Dignity, and respect;
To access a private and clean washroom for bathing and for reliving oneself;-And
To raise one’s own biological children.
All persons who have not attained to the Age of eighteen Years shall have the right to a safe and wholesome environment to mature, and the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in absence of a conviction of a parent or guardian with a child related crime, or if such parents or guardians are unfit to be around or take care of children in a domestic court of law.
All persons, including prisoners of War and captured terrorists, within occupied territory of the United States during times of War or Peace not fully integrated, as well as imprisoned foreign persons and civilians, shall be entitled to all the basic rights under international humanitarian Law and this Constitution.
No punishment by death or execution shall be enforced.
No eugenic practice shall be held, nor shall any human be cloned or trafficked.
No genetic engineering or modification shall be made on any person, outside of academic research approved by the Congress, that is not absolutely medically necessary and scientifically sound.
No animal abuse shall be inflicted, farm animals except, but such exempted animals shall be required to be unconscious and abuse be painless, and no person shall be classified or treated as an animal under law.
Section 2: Liberty
All persons shall have a right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
To the freedom of belief, opinion, speech, thought, and expression. Such protections shall include but not be limited to; Symbolic speech; Defacing or destroying any replica or illustration of a government flag or symbol; Speech contrary to the interests of any Government;-And speech not materially and substantially interfering with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of a state-required educational environment or in the operations of other necessary government functions. Such speech shall not be construed to protect the following: Speech that spreads specific and precise objective misinformation to the public, if said person is marginally influential and of influential size that such misinformation may reasonably spread quickly towards a large amount of people, with intent to mislead; Credible and likely threats to Life or Safety; incitement of Credible and likely violent and lawless action; Defamation of a persons likeness, image, and reputation, but shall not be criminal; severe public nudity; material generated by artificial intelligence;-And production or possession of general or child sexual abuse materials.
To believe and practice any religion or spiritual practice;
To associate with whomever, peacefully assemble and protest, and to unionize against a place of private business;
To petition the Government for a redress of grievances;
To participate as the press or in the arts or the sciences, preserving Academic and press freedom and independence;
To defend themselves and property with appropriate force and for those with sound mind to keep and bear Arms not capable of mass destruction;
To access information intended for public consumption and classified information that is no longer absolutely necessary for national security;
From housing any Soldier in times of Peace without consent, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law;
To document and record the actions of any acting government Officer or elected Official, along with the enforcement of the Law, except in circumstances where the security of persons is at stake or for a strong government security risk;
To own lawfully acquired physical, digital, or intellectual property for the purposes of lawful personal use or private business;
To bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom;-And
To seek asylum from tyranny or political oppression or fear of life in accordance with international law.
No person shall be a slave or in servitude or be required to perform forced or compulsory labor.
Section 3: Privacy
The right of the people to privacy within personal matters, property, digital data, and effects, without a warrant or probable cause, shall not be infringed, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, plain view, or exigent circumstance, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized;
To anonymity on the internet and digital spaces, and no government shall require disclosure of identity and identifiable characteristics without a warrant or probable cause, except for the processing of government services and ensuring the protection of voting;
To the protection of personal data, and that such data be processed securely and equally with explicit consent of all persons concerned, and access such data, with a legitimate lawful basis;-And
From continued video or audio surveillance or monitoring of the general public or of public spaces from any government of or within the United States or any state, digital or physical, by means of digital or technological communication or record keeping without a warrant, in times of Peace, but may surveil to protect Officers or servants, buildings, and services of the Government or the international borders of the United States;
No government of or within the United States or any state, shall inquire information that may connect to personally identifiable information from any private entity with the absence of a warrant, probable cause, or exigent circumstance, and in such cases, shall not be used to obtain information about a wide collection of people or from a database, without any aforementioned just cause for every person within said collection or database.
No private entity may voluntarily provide any government within the United States or any state direct personally identifiable information without any aforementioned just cause, but may provide general data, video, or audio surveillance;
Section 4: Justice
All persons shall have a right to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law;
To due process of the law;
To be informed of their charges by their arresting Officer at the time of Arrest when possible;
From being held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, or a Felony, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the Armed Forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger;
From being subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;
From being compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against themself, and such silence shall not be used as evidence of guilt;
From having private property be taken for public use, not private, without just compensation, but this clause shall not be construed to allow the transfer of private property from one private entity to another;
To a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of their peers;
To be informed of the nature and cause of any legal accusation;
To be confronted with the witnesses against them in a court of law;
To, in all criminal prosecutions, have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in their favor, and to have the Assistance of effective and professional Counsel for their defense;-And
To have a trial by jury in Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed one-thousand dollars, adjusted for inflation to the year of ratification.
All persons charged with an offense shall be eligible for pretrial release before conviction, and all persons shall be evaluated for pretrial release by a Judge within forty-eight hours of Arrest, and no monetary bail shall be required for a condition of release, but no person shall be jailed or imprisoned for longer than ninety days without a criminal trial or conviction, or Grand Jury Indictment with a preponderance of the evidence with representation for their defense. Pretrial release may only be denied when a person is charged with a forcible Felony, has a high likelihood of avoiding future trial, or are high-risk to the public.
All persons shall be entitled to a full or reasonable compensation of wages as a direct result of pretrial detention if the person is subsequently acquitted, has charges dismissed with prejudice, or otherwise is found not guilty.
All profits generated from the crimes of any persons found to be guilty of such crimes shall be seized to the injured parties in reasonable proportions to the amount of harm done. If no such parties exist, government thereof shall seize such illegal profits.
No fine shall be higher than ten percent of the person’s annual income in dollars.
No excessive fines imposed, nor cruel, degrading, or unusual punishments or torture inflicted, nor any collective punishment or hostile environment for imprisonment.
No person shall be jailed for any infraction, nor shall any punishment for any infraction extend to imprisonment.
No imprisonment shall be meaningfully void of any potential of conditional and early release.
Any persons who consent to Law enforcement to revoke rights under this Constitution shall be required to understand to the furthest extent possible how such loss of rights shall impact their legal standing, and such Law enforcement shall make a reasonable effort to educate any persons who may consent to such removal of rights for said specific and particular instance.
All suspensions of Habeas Corpus shall be reversed upon any hostilities concluding and rule of Law restored, without consent from the Congress or President.
Section 5: Equality
All persons are understood to be created equally and treated equally under the Law.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State or Territory wherein they reside, and all citizens shall be considered lawful residents within their jurisdiction.
Diversity of protected classes and characteristics, the press and information, shall be respected.
All persons, regardless of citizenship or criminal history, shall be guaranteed these rights under this Constitution, unless such right explicitly states otherwise, and all rights within this Constitution not explicitly for citizens shall apply equally to non-citizens regardless of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs.
No citizenship shall be nullified without explicit consent from the citizen in question.
Section 6: Solidarity
All persons shall have the right to the basic necessities of life, such as safe food, clean water, fresh air, and stable dwelling, to the furthest extent possible for an adequate standard of modern living;
To work in a safe and dignified environment and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted lawful occupation, with periods of rest during the workday and week, and help finding such work;
To adequate protection from the economic and medical fears for the needy, elderly, ill, and unemployed, with entitlement to social security and social services, to achieve the basic necessities and highest standard of health possible;
To conduct business trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
To, as an independent person, receive a living wage, salary, or any other form of monetary compensation, necessary for afford the basic necessities of life and to engage in simple recreation, from their private employer;
To live with natural clean air, clean water, and protected wildlife;-And
No tax shall be laid on retail transactions for necessary goods or services, resale transactions, or primary residential property, nor shall any maximum limit be established for any tax.
Section 7: Democracy
All petitions shall be initiated citizens and signed only by citizens, but not under or associated with any for-profit organization, within the United States shall be valid for the purposes of this Constitution of the state or territory thereof. Such petitions may be hosted on Internet platforms but require proof of citizenship.
No general election within the United States for final say for seat of Government shall include more than one half of the candidates from the same party, nor shall any political party conspire with any other political party to gain an electoral advantage.
No candidate shall begin their election campaign earlier than three months before an election.
No non-citizen shall vote in any federal or state election.
All laws directly affecting the right to vote, election process, or voting eligibility shall require three fifths of the Congress or two thirds of the state legislature thereof.
Section 8: Guarantee
The Congress and state legislatures shall have power to, by appropriate legislation, and the President and state Executive thereof, through appropriate executive action, enforce, protect, and ensure the rights for all persons within this Constitution.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other unenumerated rights retained by the People.
No elected official, or civil or military officer, or civil servant shall take any Oath to any office within or of the United States for a person or specific Office, but rather to this Constitution, any relevant state Constitution, and to the People.
The Senators and Representatives, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, including the President, Vice President, and Supreme Court Judges, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution, and any person who takes such oath to support the Constitution of the United States, who, decided by a judicial court of law not themselves or Impeachment trial, engage in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, shall be denied from such Offices, unless the Congress by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Article II: Legislature
Section 1: Congress
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2: The House of Representatives
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the Upper House of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty Years, and been five Years a Citizen of the United States, nor shall any person be elected as a Representative more than eight times or serve as one for more than sixteen years, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State and District in which they shall be chosen, or attained an Age of full Retirement.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, regardless of citizenship. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of the President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the inhabitants of such State, being eighteen years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such citizens shall bear to the whole number of citizens eighteen years of age in such State.
The Congress shall, and within every subsequent Term of six Years, conduct a Census of the population of the United States for the purposes of apportionment and representation for the House of Representatives. Each state shall be entitled to the same amount of Representatives prior to this Constitution.
The amount of Representatives shall share the number as the cubed root of the population of the United States, and each State shall have at Least three Representatives, and all Districts within the States for Representatives shall include a minimum of three Seats for apportionment. Elections for such Representatives shall employ a method of voting where Candidates meet a Quota equal to the total votes cast divided by the number of seats in said district, or more votes to be elected as a Representative. Voters shall rank Candidates in order of preference, with higher-ranked choices on a ballot counted first. Upon such Candidates meeting such Quotas, all surplus votes above the Quota shall disperse to the voters individual next favorable choice and so on until all Seats are Elected. No District shall represent more than five hundred thousand people within a single district.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers, but if the House of Representatives is unable to elect a Speaker of the House within two elections or two weeks of one being absent, the President shall appoint a Representative to Speaker until the House of Representatives is able to elect a Speaker of the House. Once one has been elected by the House of Representatives, then the appointed Speaker of the House shall be removed from power, unless the Representatives elect on said appointee.
The House of Representatives shall have the Power of Impeachment, but no law shall expand the Power of Impeachment outside of the bounds of this Constitution.
Section 3: Redistricting
Upon a new federal census, new statehood, or lawful court order, the state or states within the United States shall each create a commission for state reapportionment and be overseen by the selected executives of the state thereof. The commission shall be composed of one leader of each political party within the state legislature, and each shall designate one member and the state chairmen of each political party. No member of the commission may be an elected or appointed official of the United States or any state or territory, or be a non-citizen of the United States.
Following completion of the redistricting commission’s proposed representative districts, the State shall convene citizen review committees, with at least one committee representing each county but no more than five per county, composed of no more than one hundred random citizens each, and such committees shall share demographics similar to that of the counties thereof.
No citizen of the committees shall be an elected or appointed official of the United States or any state or territory.
Each committee shall be composed of the smallest average number of citizens within the committees of the county, to enable effective discussion. The purposes of such committees shall be to deliberate the cultural, historical, and demographic coherence of proposed representative districts and to assess if such districts correspond to actual communities within the counties such committees represent. Wherever a county has a sufficiently large population, such committees shall, to the greatest extent possible, represent the distinct subcultures within the county such committee or committees represent.
Each citizen review committee shall be led by an appointed delegate by a judge of jurisdiction of the county thereof. Such delegates shall aid and preside over the citizens deliberations and transmit to the redistricting commission a report of the citizens assessment and critiques of the proposed representative districts.
Upon receiving such reports from all of the counties of the State, the redistricting commission shall revise the initial proposed representative districts as it deems relevant to the assessments granted by the citizen review committees. The revised representative districts shall then be disseminated across the citizen review committees for further review in the same manner as the first proposed representative districts.
A majority of the citizen review committees, upon receiving, reviewing, and deliberating over the revised representative districts, shall certify the revised representative districts. If such majority fails to be established, then the citizen review committees shall continue to revise the current revised representative districts and return another draft to the redistricting commission.
If the successive proposed representative districts from the redistricting commission continue to be rejected by the citizen review committees, the redistricting commission shall certify the most revised representative districts by two-thirds vote without consent from the citizen review committees.
If the redistricting process has continued for longer than one year, then the highest Court of the state or Supreme Court, with advice from the redistricting commission, shall decide the representative districts the state thereof consistent with this Constitution and of representing the communities thereof.
Section 4: The Senate
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the Upper House of the State legislatures.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, reserve Members appointed by the Upper House of the state legislature shall fill vacancies, but the Executive of such State shall issue writs of election to replace such reserve Members: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, nor shall any person be elected as a Senator more than three times, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which they shall be chosen, or attained an Age of the median Age of death within the United States. The State of the Senator thereof shall have the power to set term limits, but not durations, for Senators from their State.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when they shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
Section 5: Elections
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the constitution thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January.
Writs of Election shall be proposed by petition of one tenth of all citizens of a State or Legislative District for state legislatures and Representatives. Such writs of Election shall be issued without consent from the Executive Authority of the State or Legislative District thereof by a referendum of two thirds of all citizens of a State or Legislative District and begin no later than thirty days after the Referendum is complete.
Section 6: Procedures of Congress
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Each Bill shall be reviewed by a committee of Members and experts relevant to the Bill in question, but no Bill shall require the approval of more than one committee.
Each House shall establish a Cabinet to determine Bills brought to the floor. Such Cabinet shall have a number of Members equal to one fifth of Members in the House thereof. Each Party within their House shall have a number of seats within the Cabinet proportional to the number of seats held in the same House. The Speaker Pro Tempore nor the President Pro Tempore shall have a Vote, unless such Cabinet be equally divided.
A bill shall bypass the Cabinet if such bill is Co-sponsored by a number of Members from each Party equal to that of Ten percent divided by the number of Parties within the same House. In the event there are more than ten Parties within such House, the number of Co-sponsors for such bills shall be one per Party.
No bill or joint resolution shall include more than one subject, and such subject shall be clearly and descriptively expressed in the bill’s or joint resolution’s title.
No Member shall serve on the Cabinet for more than two Years in the House of Representatives, nor six Years in the Senate, nor shall any Member be the Speaker or President Pro Tempore of their House.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting, nor any Session last fewer than four hours.
Section 7: Rights and Disabilities of Members
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened, and such compensation shall be no more than twice the median annual income of the citizens of the United States.
Senators and Representatives shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, Breach of the Peace, or High Misdemeanor, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which they was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during their Continuance in Office, nor hold any private office of any private entity.
Senators or Representatives and their spouses, during the Time for which they are elected, shall divest all their assets before assuming such office and reclaim such assets upon leaving office. All assets shall be published for public view upon divestment.
Members of Congress and legislators of the several States, shall convene with their constituents no less than than twelve times a year.
Section 8: Legislative Process
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. Any Bill passing one House shall be voted on within the other House within thirty days.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If they approve they shall sign it, but if not they shall return it, with their Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration three fifths of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by three fifths of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to them, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if they had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by them, or being disapproved by them, shall be repassed by three fifths of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Any citizen or lawful resident of the United States shall have the right to address, individually or in association with other citizens or lawful resident persons, a Petition to the Congress or the state legislature thereof to assemble on a matter of activity which directly affects them that may reasonably be influenced by the Government. Such petitions shall have no less than the equivalent of one percent of the United States population of signatures and no less than one percent the state population for the state legislature.
Section 9: Powers of the Congress and not the States
The Congress shall have the sole Power To lay and collect Taxes, including income from whatever source derived, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Travel, Trade, and Exchange of goods and services with foreign Nations, and among the several States, but this clause shall not be construed to regulate or limit intrastate commerce, unless two thirds of the Senate consent to such intrastate commerce legislation.
To regulate the Immigration and asylum processes;
To define Citizenship and establish the Rules for Naturalization, but no process shall be longer than two years including residency duration;
To institute an Age of Retirement for persons seeking benefits and Welfare from the United States or the state thereof and to hold public Office;
To uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies and healthcare eligibility throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To establish a Central banking system independent from the Executive as a public corporation to alleviate financial crises and conduct monetary policy set by the Congress. No Officers of such system shall be an officer or director of any bank, banking institution, trust company, or federal Reserve bank or hold stock in any bank, banking institution, or trust company; and before entering upon their duties as a member of any Central baking system they shall certify under oath that they have complied with this requirement;
To provide for the Punishment of crimes within this Constitution when otherwise not specified and counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To regulate Internet services and limit or prohibit the usage of such services of persons who have yet to attain an age of eighteen years;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To secure for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, but no inferior Court shall be disbanded without consent from two thirds of the Congress;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against international Law;
To define and punish Terrorism, domestic and foreign, Insurrection, and Rebellion;
To declare and define War, and all times and states of War for the United States shall be defined as a congressional declaration of War;
To grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support, provide and maintain the Armed Forces, but no monetary support shall exceed five percent of any annual congressional budget in times of Peace;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the Armed Forces;
To refine the rules and proceedings of the Judicial Council;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions from foreign governments, and to the organizing, arming, and disciplining of said Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise Legislation over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square), and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings, along with the security of the Federal Government of the United States, but in all other cases, such District shall have all the same rights and be treated as any other State within this Union;-And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and Ensuring the Rights of the States and the People, vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 10: Powers of Congress and the States
The Congress and the States shall have the power to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures, including a candidate’s own spending, and to authorize the establishment of political committees to receive, spend, and publicly disclose the sources of those contributions and expenditures. But any corporations, limited liability companies, or other private organizations, that enjoy a profit or incur donations of more than one million dollars annually, adjusted for inflation relative to the year this article is ratified, and have more than one hundred employees, shall be prohibited from making any contributions or expenditures in any election of any candidate for public office or the vote upon any ballot measure submitted to the people;
To guarantee all persons clean and healthy water for the purposes of consumption and cleaning;
To ensure a high level of consumer protection and prevent false advertising of goods and services;
To uniform Laws on the subject of Peace Officers and law enforcement;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts;
To protect the environment and wildlife;
To limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age;-And
To limit, regulate, and prohibit gambling and scientifically addictive substances and services.
Section 11: Powers Denied to Congress
No law shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within the jurisdiction of the United States the equal protection of the laws.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion from foreign governments the public Safety may require it, and may only be restricted no longer than thirty Days. Such suspension shall require consent of two thirds of the Congress.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State, nor any tax on any personal property.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States or any state: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress or of the state legislature thereof, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
No compulsory service or selective service in the Armed Forces shall be imposed on the people of the United States in times of Peace, nor shall any compulsory service or selective service be held in times of War where the land of the United States is safe and secure or in the event of a declaration of War against the United States or any defensive-pact Ally.
No law, motion, or resolution shall respect or establish any religion or religious practice.
No law shall prohibit academically and scientifically proven safe and effective medical care.
No law shall directly influence the results of any particular election.
No law shall require private entities to aid the government in law enforcement or surveillance without a warrant or separate subpoena by the Congress.
Article III: Executive
Section 1: Qualifications and Elections
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America, and such executive Power shall be limited in legal institutions in the expressed Law of this Constitution or passed by the Congress.
They shall hold their Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term.
The President and Vice President shall be elected jointly by the direct vote of the citizens of the United States; such elections shall be conducted through a system where Voters rank Candidates in order of choice. Choices ranked higher on a ballot shall be counted first, but if no Candidate receives a majority after counting the first-ranked votes, then the Candidate with the fewest first-choice votes shall be removed from counting. Such ballots that ranked the removed Candidate as their lowest choice shall therefor be counted as the voters’ second-choice. The process shall repeat until one candidate has received a majority of the remaining votes.
The Congress may determine the Day and Place for electing the President and Vice President; which shall be the same throughout the United States.
No Person shall be eligible to President or Vice President who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been twenty Years a Citizen and Resident within the United States, nor have attained the Age of full Retirement, nor shall any person be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall begin at noon on the 20th day of January, and before they enter on the Execution of their Office, they shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of (Vice) President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the People and Constitution of the United States.”
Section 2: Vacancy
In case of the removal of the President from office or of their death, the Vice President shall become President. If removal is done from resignation or Impeachment, then Vice President shall act as the President only until the House elects a new President and Vice President who shall hold the same prerequisites as the former President and Vice President, who shall hold their offices no longer than the rest of the term. Such temporary President and Vice President who finishes such terms shall not have their eligibility effected for candidacy for President or Vice President for any future public election for such offices, but no temporary President or Vice President shall be permitted to hold temporary office again.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that they are unable to discharge the powers and duties of their office, and until they transmit to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is either unable to discharge the powers and duties of their office or refuses to do so when blatantly violating this Constitution, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that no inability exists, they shall resume the powers and duties of their office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of their office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of their office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of their office.
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
Section 3: Compensation
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation equal to that of Representatives and Senators, and they shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument, Gift, or Gratuity from the United States, state, Indian Tribe, or foreign entity without permission from the Congress.
The President and Vice President and their spouses, and all principal Officers nominated by the President with consent from the Senate and their spouses, during the Time for which the President and Vice President are elected, shall divest all their assets before taking office and reclaim such assets upon leaving office. All assets shall be published for public view upon divestment.
Section 4: Powers of the President
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; they may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and they shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment, or themselves, their spouse, children, persons the President engages in commerce with, any person the President may have personal relationships with, or any person holding or has held public Office, without Advice and Consent of the Senate. Any unlawful pardon shall be contested by consent of the Congress before the Supreme Court.
They shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, unless such Treaties are defensive-pacts, in which the House of Representatives and Senate shall consent provided two thirds of both Houses present concur; and they shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment or Removal of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
They shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as they shall judge necessary and expedient; they may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, they may adjourn them to such Time as they shall think proper; they shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; they shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
The President and the appropriate Department set by the Congress shall have a duty to protect the People and their Rights to the best of their ability; the Members and Staffers of the Congress; the Supreme Court Judges and their Staffers; themself; the Vice President and any other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President; the President-elect and the Vice President-elect; The immediate families of those individuals listed previously; Former Presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage; Children of a former President of an Age determined by the Congress; Visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments; Other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad when the President directs that such protection be provided; Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within one hundred and twenty days of the general Presidential election and the spouses of such candidates; Former Vice Presidents, their spouses, and their children who are of an Age determined by Congress, but the Congress shall determine the amount of time necessary when the Vice President vacates their Office.
Whenever there is an insurrection or rebellion defined by the Congress, or an open and explicit and unlawful obstruction of the rights, privileges, immunities, or protections expressed in the Constitution in any State against or by its government occurs, the President may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be convened, unless such State is the unlawful aggressor, insurrectionist, or rebel, call into federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number requested by that State if applicable, and use such of the Armed Forces, as they consider necessary to suppress the insurrection. Whenever the President considers it no longer necessary to use the militia or the Armed Forces under this clause, they shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time. This clause shall not be construed to violate the rights of States against unlawful orders from the President or unconstitutional Laws passed by the Congress.
Providing that in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress, in any case in which the Armed Forces of the United States are deployed, introduced in hostilities, or in situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, or in situations of immediate defense, shall be reported within a time defined by the Congress in writing by the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, together with a full account of the circumstances under which such hostilities were initiated, the estimated scope and duration of such hostilities, and the constitutional and legislative authority under which the introduction of hostilities took place.
Section 5: Powers Denied to the President
All powers denied to the President shall be denied to any executive Officer within or of the United States, but this clause shall not be construed to expand the powers of principle or inferior officers or civil servants when not otherwise explicitly granted.
No President, without consent from two thirds of the Congress, shall suspend The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, and may only be restricted no longer than fourteen days, but may wherein such States explicitly and actually unlawfully succeed from the United States.
No Armed Forces shall act as a posse comitatus or otherwise execute civilian laws, nor shall there be any martial law declared or enforced, but may support Peace Officers and civilian law enforcement agencies for emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction or in times of active War.
No President, without consent from the Congress, with such consent granting a specific Time and Place no longer than sixty days, when no War has been declared by the Congress, shall authorize the use of the Armed Forces abroad, except when the United States, its Armed Forces, or its Allies under a defensive-pact Treaty are under imminent lethal or potentially lethal force, carried out through land, sea, air, space, or cyber operations, or through any other domain, including whether or not such force is deployed remotely. Without a declaration of War from the Congress to the hostilities involved, the President shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time upon immediate hostilities concluding.
No President, without consent of the Congress, shall impede travel or trade from any foreign state in times of Peace, nor engage in any continuous surveillance of domestic or foreign persons in times of Peace.
No President shall utilize any institution or mechanism of Government to their own personal exercises or motivations, nor file any suit of Civil matters while holding Office, nor remove public research information from any government Forum without consent from the Congress, nor hold any parade or celebration for any living person who is holding or has held any government office without consent from the Congress.
No President shall decree, sign, or engage in any unlawful order, and any inferior Officer to the President shall disobey any unlawful order.
Section 6: Impeachment
The President, Vice President and all civil and military Officers of the United States, former or serving, shall be removed from Office and barred from any future Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, Insurrection, Rebellion, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Section 7: Peace Officers
Peace Officers, as with any executive Officer, shall have a duty to protect the life, liberty, and property of the People and enforce the laws of the jurisdiction of the United States, any state, or local government.
Before a Peace Officer may enter their position, they shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully enforce the laws of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the People and Constitution of the United States.” Such Peace Officer shall take a similar Oath to the State constitution in which they have jurisdiction.
No Person shall be eligible as a Peace Officer who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-one Years, and been three Years a Citizen and Resident within the United States, completed a process of education and training of at least two years for a Peace Officer position, nor previously terminated as a Peace Officer or position of civil or military authority. The jurisdiction thereof may expand restrictions of eligibility of becoming a Peace Officer more than this Constitution; Such expanded restrictions may restrict the Peace Officer’s freedom of speech and expression when in their official capacity to achieve impartiality and decorum when protecting the People and enforcing the law.
Peace Officers may search and seize property without a warrant if and only if there exists probable cause, arrestees accessible and immediate and nearby area, clear plain-view of unlawful possession or activity, or exigent circumstances not manifested by the Officers in question.
All Peace Officers shall wear, activate, and operate body-worn cameras when enforcing the Law, and such body-worn cameras shall be provided by the appropriate governments thereof. Any member of the public shall request footage from such body-cameras, unless such footage is essential for national security or compromises investigations, which in such cases, shall censor the sensitive information for public consumption.
All uses of deadly force shall be reported within a time defined by the jurisdiction thereof in writing by the relevant Peace Officers to the legislative and executive bodies of such government, together with a full account of the circumstances under which such hostilities were initiated, the estimated scope and duration of such hostilities, and the constitutional and legislative authority under which the introduction of hostilities took place.
All allegations and investigations of misconduct from Peace Officers of federal Law shall be reviewed by a commission by twelve defense Lawyers from the Barr Association of the United States established by the Congress or of state Law reviewed by twelve defense Lawyers from the Barr Association of the state thereof established by said state legislature, and a jury of twelve from the local government the misconduct occurred. The majority of the commission shall have the power to remove and bar any Peace Officers determined to have engaged in accused misconduct from holding any Office in the United States, civilian or military, and shall have the power to hold a Grand Jury to indict the Peace Officers in involved. No criminal charges upon a Peace Officer or executive Officer within or of the United States shall be dropped for any reason until a full criminal trial has concluded.
Section 8: Powers Denied to Peace Officers
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall detain or search any person without reasonable suspicion, including specific and articulable facts of a crime being committed, such articulable facts being reasonable from inferences made, nor shall any person be arrested for any crime without an arrest warrant or probable cause, more than a mere suggestion of a crime, including the given totality of the circumstances and reasonable suspicion.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall detain any person longer than the minimum time necessary, unless such detention uncovers objective and manifested facts that may prolong the detention.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall remain anonymous when enforcing the Law, but may so in times of Investigation as prescribed by Law, nor enforce the Law as a Peace Officer absent a clear Peace Officer uniform.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall be meaningfully influenced by their emotional state or personal beliefs to a detriment while enforcing the Law.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall, when explicitly denied, force safety onto any persons within emergency or dangerous situations, but otherwise shall keep the public safe.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall use deadly force, except when absolutely necessary to protect the life of the Peace Officer or Officers in question or civilians within the area, and such deadly force must be reasonable or proportional to resolve any hostilities.
Article IV: Judicial
Section 1: Qualifications
The President shall nominate, from a curated list of ten from two-thirds of the Judicial Council, and by and with the Advice and Consent of three fifths of the Senate, no more than two Judges to the Supreme Court for each term the President serves.
In the event of multiple vacancies during a single presidential term, the Judicial Council shall nominate a Judge to the Supreme Court, with the Advice and Consent of three fifths of the Senate.
No person shall be appointed to any federal court who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been a resident of the United States for five Years, or have attained the Age seven years less than the median life expectancy of the United States, and two Years a Citizen of the United States, and admitted to the practice of federal Law in the United States for at least ten years.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be the longest serving Judge on the Supreme Court and shall have the power to accept or deny cases appealed to the Supreme Court, but at least four Judges of the Supreme Court may override a denial by the Chief Justice.
Section 2: Jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of the United States and of its Territories, and of any state or local government, shall affect any person who shall inhabit any land within its official borders and adjacent water to said borders, regardless of the person’s nationality or immigration status, with embassies exempt.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; and to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
All judicial decisions made by the highest federal court, when applicable only to limit the actions of a party to the decision, shall be followed by the President and the Congress, and all federal courts shall have the power to issue any order providing for injunctive relief.
All decisions by the Supreme Court interpreting this Constitution shall be considered the official interpretation of this Constitution, but such decisions made within ten years may be overruled by of three fourths of the Congress.
Section 3: Judicial Council
The inferior Judges to the Supreme Court shall be appointed by a Judicial Council consisting of nine members: Three members from the Federal Barr Association, excluding Governors and Delegates of the Federal Barr Association, nominated by the leader of the Federal Barr Association and confirmed by three fifths of the Senate; Three members of non-practicing federal law scholars, nominated by the President from a list of ten candidates created by the Board of Governors of the Federal Barr Association and confirmed by three-fifths of the Senate; Three members who are the longest-serving inferior federal judges by tenure.
No elected member of the Judicial Council shall serve on the council for more than four years, nor share an area of practice within the legal profession, and, within the previous six years, have held any elected legislative or executive Office, nor have held the Office of Delegate or Governor within the Federal Bar Association; nor shall any member hold ownership interest or controlling financial stake in any law firm, private legal institution, or trust company; and before entering upon their duties as a member of such council, they shall certify under oath that they have complied with this requirement;
The Judicial Council shall keep a public Journal of its Decisions for each inferior Judge nominated, including Yeas and Nays of the Members of the council for such nominees, be entered on the Journal.
The members of the council shall elect a leader for a single two year term from within the council itself, and said leader shall nominate candidates for Judges inferior to the Supreme Court. Such nominations shall require two-thirds of the council to then there after be confirmed by the Senate three fifths.
In the event the Judicial Council refuses or fails to select a Judge for whatever reason when otherwise capable, whenever there is a vacancy for longer than sixty days, the President shall unilaterally appoint such vacancies on the Supreme Court or inferior Courts, but such Judges shall be removed from their post with consent of the Senate after completion of the Presidents term.
The Judicial Council may remove an inferior Judge from their post by unanimous consent, as a mode of removal separate from Impeachment.
Members of the Judicial Council shall be considered judicial Officers of the United States and be subject to impeachment and removal from office in the same manner and for the same causes as other civil Officers of the United States.
Section 4: Treason, Insurrection, or Rebellion
Treason, Insurrection, or Rebellion against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies or giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of such crimes unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, on Confession in a court of criminal Law, or footage of the Act is clear and convincing of wrongdoing.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of such crimes, but no Attainder shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Section 5: Impeachment Procedures
Section 6: Unlawful Cases
The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
No court of Law shall present evidence acquired unlawfully.
Section 7: Impartial Jury
All jurors within the United States shall remain anonymous during their trial, and shall have received a basic education, be impartial to their case, have no conflict of interest or prior involvement to the prosecution and defense, and reside in approximate location to the accusation of the defendant.
No juror shall hear evidence not admitted by the preceding Judge, nor shall any person be present in any deliberation room for formulation of a verdict of any trial with exception of the jurors of such trial.
Jurors shall report misconduct unbefitting of an impartial juror, refusal to determine a verdict, such as Intoxication or substance abuse during trial or deliberation, credible and likely threats to Life or Safety, bribery or coercion for a particular verdict, absence without leave during deliberations, or display a conflict of interest relevant to the trial.
If one fourth of the jury, through anonymous and independent jurors, report such misconduct resulting in a reasonable likelihood of impartiality, then such reports shall be referred to the preceding Judge, in which they may replace such problematic jurors with alternate jurors or declare a mistrial. If more than half of the jurors report misconduct, through anonymous and independent jurors, then such jury shall be invalid for the purposes of the trial thereof and a new jury shall be convened. Such jurors reporting misconduct shall remain anonymous.
No juror shall be questioned in deliberation content, opinions, or reasoning of any verdict by any government Official, and any investigation to wrongdoing of a jury or juror shall be limited to verifiable facts external to deliberation content, nor shall any juror be questioned or testify about content or behavior during deliberation, except when investigating, outside influences, credible and likely threats to Life or Safety, clerical errors, or accidental verdicts, ensuring jury privacy.
Section 8: Federal Bar Association
The Congress shall establish the Federal Bar Association of the United States as a public corporation independent from the President. Every person admitted and licensed to practice federal Law in the United States is and shall be a member of the Bar association of the United States except while holding office as a judge of a court of record.
Each state shall, in a similar manner as to the Congress, establish an official Bar association for the state thereof. Each state Bar association may determine their own method for selecting delegates to the Federal Bar Association House of Delegates, but such methods shall not permit participation from elected Officials from the legislature or executive from the state thereof.
No Officers, Delegates, Governors, or leader of such system shall hold ownership or stock in any law firm, private legal institution, or trust company; and before entering upon their duties as an Officer, Delegate, Governor, or leader, they shall certify under oath that they have complied with this requirement;
The House of Delegates shall be composed of ten delegates for each state for a single three year term and have the power to govern the Federal Barr Association and set policy for federal lawyers in congruence with the Law. No person shall be a Delegate who has not attained the age of twenty-five, nor be a citizen or hold any other Office of Trust or Profit, and shall be licensed to practice federal law.
The Board of Governors shall be composed of fifty Governors elected by the House of Delegates for a single five year term to administer the policies set by the House of Delegates and laws passed by the Congress. No person shall be a Governor who has not attained the age of thirty, nor be a citizen or hold any other Office of Trust or Profit, and shall be licensed to practice federal law.
The Federal Barr Association shall have a leader elected by the House of Delegates for a single six year term, and shall have the qualifications requisite for the Governors of the Board of Governors.
Any person licensed to practice any Law that is disbarred from one State shall be disbarred from all States and the federal government, but may be again eligible for Barment according to federal or state Law.
Article V: States
Section 1: Shared Public Acts
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section 2: Crimes across States
The Persons of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges, Immunities, and Rights of Persons in the several States and of the United States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which they fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Section 3: New States
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
Section 4: Republican Government
The United States shall guarantee to every State, Territory, and County in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion from foreign governments, crime organizations, or terrorist groups; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Any local leader of the District becoming the Seat of the Government of the United States, shall have the power to call the Armed Forces upon Rebellion or Insurrection without consent from the President or the Congress.
States within their jurisdictions may determine the methods of implementation of laws and guarantee of rights from this Constitution and to the allocation of legislative seats, provided that such methods protect the fundamental rights of all People within this Constitution and ensure proportional representation protections for all Citizens.
Section 5: Federal Accountability
The states of this Union shall have the Power, with at least a concurrence of three fifths of the state legislatures or three fourths of the state executives, or petition of one tenth of the citizens of the United States, of Impeachment for any federal officer, including the President.
No state shall be pressured, required, or forced to cooperate with the Federal Government when enforcing federal law passed by the Congress.
Section 6: County and Local Governments
The States of the United States shall be assembled of Counties incorporated and established by the State thereof. Such Counties shall encompass local governments with autonomy provided by the People thereof.
States shall have the power to establish the rules and regulations to any Code of Ordinance of a County or local government not enumerated within this Constitution.
In the event an ordinance passed by the County contradicts an ordinance by a lower local government, then the law of the County shall prevail. In the event an ordinance contradicts state law, then the State shall prevail, but no state shall supersede autonomy of County or local governments over matters explicitly provided for by this Constitution.
Section 7 Powers of County Governments
Counties shall have the power to implement state and federal laws relevant to their jurisdiction through a Code of Ordinances;
To administer county, state, and federal elections and to count the votes thereof in compliance with state and federal law;
To aid in the establishment and provide guidelines for necessary services and public safety to lower local governments;-And
To ensure the local protections of the state constitution and this Constitution.
County governments shall apply and enforce the laws of the state thereof.
Section 8: Powers of Local Governments
Local governments shall have the power to establish a Code of Ordinances applicable with the laws of their county, state thereof, and this Constitution;
To administer local government elections and to count the votes thereof in compliance with county ordinances, and state and federal law;
To ensure a living wage for all workers, but the state thereof may establish a minimum living wage floor in concurrence of three fifths of the state’s legislature;
To establish areas for appropriate land-use complying with safety regulations of the state thereof and of the United States;
To lay and maintain roads and rails for public transit and erect buildings and landscape for public use;
To punish violations of their own Code of Ordinances and of the Country Code of Ordinances thereof;
To determine the price of bail and conditions and time of parole from offenses in compliance with state law;
To set curriculum for public educational institutions according to their state’s constitution and this Constitution;-And
To ensure the local protections of the state constitution and this Constitution.
Local governments shall apply and enforce the laws of the state and the ordinances of the county thereof.
Section 9: Rights Reserved to States and People
The powers shared with the Congress, not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.
The People shall have the power to remove any local elected official, civil officer, or civil servant with a petition of two thirds of the persons living within such local government, and such removal shall bar them from serving or holding any future office within such local government. Such local government shall determine who takes duty of such offices upon vacancy. If such local government has no mechanism for such offices, then the state thereof may aid the vacancies until the next local election for said offices conclude.
Section 10: Powers Denied to the States
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the People of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; nor contradict any provision or clause within this Constitution.
No state shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
No state shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.
No state shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
No state shall make or enforce any law limiting the powers of the local governments delegated by this Constitution, but state constitutions shall reign supreme over local Law.
No state shall suspend The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion from foreign governments the public Safety may require it, and may only be restricted within specific regions needed. Such suspension shall require consent of three fourths of the state legislature thereof.
No state shall pass any Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law.
No state shall lay any Tax or Duty on Articles exports, nor any tax on personal residential property.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by any state: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress or of the state legislature thereof, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
No state shall enforce any compulsory service or selective service in the Armed Forces on the people within their state for any reason in times of Peace, nor shall any compulsory service or selective service be held in times of War where the land of the United States is safe and secure, nor shall any state establish or maintain any standing military in times of Peace.
No state shall pass any law, motion, or resolution respecting or establishing any religion or religious practice.
No state shall limit or prohibit Internet services, but may do so as prescribed by federal Law.
No state shall prohibit academically and scientifically proven safe and effective medical care.
No state shall criminalize, penalize, or punish any speech or actions that occur in other states when otherwise lawful in such states within these United States, but they may aid the Federal Government in enforcing federal law.
No law shall directly influence the results of any election.
No law shall require private entities to aid the government in law enforcement or surveillance without a warrant or separate subpoena by the Congress.
No state shall amend their constitution without consent from at least but no less than a simple majority of the People thereof.
Article VI: Amendments
Section 1: Traditional Amendments
Section 2: Petition Amendments
Article VII: Definitions
For the purposes of this Constitution and to prevent Tyranny from the judiciary, the following shall be the correct interpretation of terms:
Essential
United States: Entire government, including but not limited to its branches, departments, and agencies, and and physical area encompassing the current United States, its constituent States, and territories.
State: Highest sovereign political subdivisions and equal constituents encompassing the United States.
Branch: Equal and separate Legislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of the United States government and state governments.
Legislative: Power to make and codify laws.
Executive: Power to enforce current law.
Judicial: Power to interpret current law.
Agency: Government formed, operated, and moderated organization.
Department: Highest form of an agency.
Executive and Judicial procedure
Search: Physical or digital intrusion by any government actor into a person’s body, property, communications, or information relevant direct to such person’s identity not otherwise public.
Seizure: Government actors interfering with a person’s body, movement, property, communications, or personally identifiable information.
Warrant: Judicial authorization for an executive officer to search and seize specific person’s or property within a particular location, time, duration, and scope.
Hunch: Simple feeling of a crime without concrete evidence or specific facts.
Reasonable suspicion: Specific and articulable facts of a crime being committed.
Probable cause: More than a mere suggestion of a crime, including reasonable suspicion and the given totality of the circumstances.
Detain: Brief restriction of the movement of a person.
Arrest: To detain a person into custody a temporary jail for prosecution.
Custody: Strong restriction over the person’s movement.
People
Person: Autonomous individuals capable or formally capable of free-will, including all natural and human beings.
Union: The federal government that binds the States of the Untied States together.
Dignity: Recognized inherent, and inalienable value of every person.
Liberty: Ability for every person to pursue their happiness in a civilized society.
Privacy: Prevention knowledge of personally identifiable information.
Justice: Society ruled by a set of moral and legitimate Law, and such Laws being enacted by reasonable and standardized processes.
Equality: Persons are to be treated the same and without segregation or discrimination under the Law without regard for any immutable characteristic.
Solidarity: Security of the basic necessities of Life and work, and to meaningfully participate and contribute in society.
Citizen: Any born or naturalized person within the United States by law.
Immutable characteristic: Characteristics or traits of a person that are innate, fundamental, or unchangeable.
Personally identifiable information: Any information relating to a person that may reasonably allow any actor to disclose the identity such person without corroborating information, including but limited to biometric, genetic, digital, financial, location, behavioral, and device-generated data.
Article VIII: Footnotes
All Debts contracted, Engagements entered into, Laws passed, court Decisions, and Treaties signed, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall remain valid against and under the United States under this Constitution respectively, insofar as they comply with this Constitution, as under the Federation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Article VIIII: Ratification
The Ratification of the Conventions of thirty seven States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the all the States, and all previous constitutions of the United States shall be inoperative upon Ratification of this Constitution.