Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form an even more perfect Union, establish Justice, 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 second Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I: The People
This Constitution of the United States and above all the states and territories thereof acknowledges and respects all of the following inherit and unalienable rights of the people:
Section 1: Dignity
All persons have a right to basic Human Dignity and respect;
To life, and no punishment by death or execution shall be enforced;
All persons who have no attained to the Age of eighteen Years shall have the right to a safe and wholesome environment to mature, and no child shall be forced to be under the care of a guardian found to be abusive in the past in a court of Law.
To access speedy emergency services for physical or mental ailments;
To access a washroom for bathing and for reliving oneself;
All persons, including prisoners of War, within occupied territory of the United States during times of War or Peace not fully integrated, as well as enemy combatants, shall be entitled to all the basic human rights under international humanitarian Law.
No eugenic practice shall be held, nor shall any human be cloned or trafficked.
No animal abuse shall be inflicted, farm animals except, but such exception shall require animals be unconscious and abuse be painless.
Section 2: Liberty
All persons shall have a right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
To the freedom of speech and thought, and to believe or express one’s ideas and defacing or destroying any replica or illustration of a government flag or symbol, but such speech shall not be construed to protect speech that intentionally spreads specific and precise misinformation to the public, if said person is a public person of influential size that such misinformation may reasonably spread quickly, and towards a large amount of people;
To believe and practice any religion or religious practice;
To associate and peacefully assemble and to unionize;
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 to keep and bear Arms;
To access information intended for public consumption and classified information that is no longer absolutely necessary for national security;
To house any Soldier in times of Peace without consent, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law;
To anonymity on the internet and digital spaces;
To record enforcement of the Law;
To own lawfully acquired physical, digital, or intellectual property for the purposes of 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: Justice
All persons shall have a right to the presumption of innocence until proved guilty in a court of law;
To due process of the law;
To be informed of their charges at the time of Arrest if 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;
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 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.
No excessive bail nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel, degrading, or unusual punishments or torture inflicted, nor any collective punishment.
Section 4: Equality
All persons are understood to be created equally.
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.
All persons who are citizens shall also be legal residents of the United States and of the State or Territory thereof.
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.
Section 5: Solidarity
All persons shall have the right to the basic necessities of life;
To work in a safe and dignified environment and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation, receiving a living wage to provide sufficient food and clothing and simple recreation, 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 live with natural clean air, clean water, and protected wildlife;-And
All persons applying for asylum within the United States with no other nationality or citizenship shall become legal residents of the United States and be eligible for citizenship.
Section 6: Elections and Petitions
All petitions by legal residents and signed only by legal residents, but not under any for-profit or non-profit organization, within the United States shall be valid for the purposes of this Constitution. Such petitions may be hosted on Internet platforms but require proof of legal residence or of citizenship.
No election within the United States shall include more than one candidate from the same party, nor shall any political party engage in any conspiracy with any other political party.
No non-citizen shall vote in any federal or state election within this Constitution, unless such persons reside in the United States for a time longer than two Years.
Section 7: Guarantee
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, and the President, through appropriate executive action, protect and ensure the rights for all persons within the United States Constitution.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the People.
No elected official, 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.
Any military or civil Officer, including the President and Vice President, violating any of the rights enumerated in this Constitution through a court of Law or Impeachment shall be tried for Treason under this Constitution.
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. 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, or other crime, 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. Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. Each state shall be entitled to the same amount of Representatives prior to this Constitution.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers. 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: 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 4: Elections
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature 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 3d day of January.
Writs of Election shall be proposed by petition of one sixth 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. Such petitions may be conducted by any citizen, but all signatures must be of citizens.
Section 5: 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.
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.
Section 6: 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 and 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 taking office and reclaim such assets upon leaving office. All assets shall be published for public view upon divestment.
Each Member of each House and legislators of the several States shall keep a regularly published Journal of their Proceedings, excepting such Parts requiring Secrecy by Law; and of all Yeas and Nays for any legislation, motion, or resolution, shall be entered on the Journal.
Members of Congress and legislators of the several States, shall convene with their constituents no less than than twelve times a year.
Section 7: 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.
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 two thirds 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 two thirds 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 legal resident of the United States shall have the right to address, individually or in association with other citizens or legal resident persons, a Petition to the Congress or the state legislature thereof 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 8: Powers of Congress and not the States
The Congress shall have the sole Power To lay and collect Taxes, 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 lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration;
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.
To regulate the Immigration process and guarantee the right to seek asylum;
To define Citizenship and establish the Rules for Naturalization, but no process shall be longer than two years including residency duration;
To institute a retirement Age for persons seeking benefits and Welfare from the United States or the state thereof;
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 counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To limit, regulate, and prohibit the usage of the Internet of persons under eighteen years of age;
To regulate Internet services;
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;
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, 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 budget in times of Peace;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the Armed Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions from foreign governments;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the 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) as may, by Cession of particular States, 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;-And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 9: Powers of Congress and the States
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 provide for calling forth the Militia to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions from foreign governments;
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 10: Powers Denied to Congress
No law shall make or enforce any law which 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 its jurisdiction 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 or of the state legislature thereof.
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 for any reason in times of Peace.
No state shall prohibit academically and scientifically proven safe and effective medical care.
The Congress may pass or enforce any law not explicitly granted within this Constitution, but state law shall prevail in any conflict where a power not delegated within this Constitution occurs.
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 Day 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 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 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.
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, 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.
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, inferior Judges to the Supreme Court, 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.
The President shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of three fifths of the Senate, shall appoint no more than one Judge to the Supreme Court for each term the President serves. When multiple vacancies happen under a single presidential term, the most tenured inferior Judge shall fill the vacancy and become a Judge on the Supreme Court. When more than one inferior Judge share tenure, then the Senate shall Consent to which one to appoint.
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 or the appropriate Department set by the Congress shall have a duty to protect the People 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, 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.
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.
No Armed Forces shall act as a posse comitatus or otherwise execute civilian laws, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by this Constitution or Act of Congress, but may support Peace Officers and civilian law enforcement agencies for emergencies involving chemical, nuclear, or biological weapons of mass destruction.
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. 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 shall revoke protections for persons protected by Law or under this Constitution, unless such protections are explicitly permissible in Law to be revoked and follow this Constitution.
No President, without consent from two thirds of the Congress, shall block travel or trade from any foreign nation in time of Peace.
No President shall engage in any surveillance of domestic or foreign persons in times of Peace.
No President shall remove public research information from any government Forum without consent from the Congress.
No President shall file suit in any court of Civil matters while holding Office.
No President shall utilize any institution or mechanism of Government to their own personal exercises or motivations, nor hold any parade or celebration for any living person who is holding or has held any government office.
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, 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.
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.
Any Peace Officer, acting within their official capacity, found to intentionally or negligently infringing on the basic rights found within this Constitution, or acting with excessive force, or giving aid, support, or comfort to such Peace Officers, shall have committed the act of Treason.
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 placed upon a Peace Officer or any 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 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 absent a clear Peace Officer uniform.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall be influenced by their emotional state or personal beliefs while enforcing the Law.
No Peace Officer or executive Officer shall detain any person without reasonable suspicion, including specific and articulable facts of a crime being committed, nor shall any person be arrested for any crime without an arrest warrant or probable cause of a specific crime being committed given the totality of the circumstances and reasonable suspicion.
No Peace Officer shall or executive Officer, when explicitly denied, force any safety onto any persons within emergency or dangerous situations, but otherwise shall keep the public safe.
The Congress and the several states shall have the power to expand any restrictions on Peace Officers within their respective jurisdictions not expressed in this Constitution.
Article IV: Judicial
Section 1: Qualifications
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.
Section 2: Jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of the United States or 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.
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 highest Federal court interpreting this Constitution shall be considered part of this Constitution within their jurisdiction.
Section 3: Treason
Treason, Insurrection, or Rebellion against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort, or knowingly violating the rights within this Constitution as an Officer of the United States, any state, or local government. 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 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 4: 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.
All jurors within the United States shall remain anonymous during and after any trial or investigation.
Section 5: Lawyers
The Congress shall establish a Bar association of the United States as a public corporation. 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.
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 local government in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion from foreign governments; 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.
Section 5: Federal Accountability
The states of this Union shall have the Power, with at least a concurrence of two thirds the state legislatures or three fourths of the state executives, or petition of four fifths of the citizens of the United States, establish a special counsel to investigate unlawful actions taken by any Federal executive or legislative officer, including the President and Members of Congress. Such investigations shall have the power to prosecute such Federal officers with Federal crimes within a Federal court of law without consent from the President or any executive Officer.
Officers convicted shall be convicted of their federal crimes and removed and barred from future Office without the consent from the Congress, but two thirds of Congress may remove such disability.
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 seven tenths of the citizens of the United States, of Impeachment for any Federal officer.
Section 6: Local Governments
The States and Territories of the United States shall be assembled of incorporated local governments. If any law passed by the highest local government contradicts a law by any local government underneath another, then the law of the lower local government shall prevail.
Section 7: Powers to Local Governments
Local governments shall have the power to ensure a living wage for all workers, but the state thereof may establish a minimum wage in concurrence of two thirds of the state’s most numerous legislature, as well as two thirds of the Congress;
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;-And
To set curriculum for public educational institutions according to their state’s constitution and this Constitution.
Section 8: Rights Reserved to States or People
The powers 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.
Section 9: 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.
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 two thirds 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 any personal 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 shall be imposed on the people of the United States for any reason in times of Peace, nor shall any state establish or maintain any standing army in times of Peace.
No state shall limit or prohibit Internet services, but may do so as prescribed by Law.
No state shall prohibit academically and scientifically proven safe and effective medical care.
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: Footnotes
All Debts contracted, Engagements entered into, Laws passed, court Decisions, and Treaties signed, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against and under the United States under this Constitution respectively, 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, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
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 VIII: Ratification
The Ratification of the Conventions of fifty States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.