Income
tax laws should be simplified in ways that do not allow clever people to cheat
the government.
ARTICLE XVII: How this Third Constitution
Can Be Modified, or Amended, and How It Can Be Abolished When a Fourth
Constitution Is Desired.
The
United States government can be modified or changed through amendments added to
the Third Constitution. It can also be
changed when Congress passes new federal laws.
But to change the federal
government completely and to abolish this Third Constitution, there has to be a
Constitutional Convention to rewrite a new constitution.
To
change the federal government by merely adding amendments to the Third Constitution,
the United States Congress must pass any proposed amendment to the Third
Constitution with a 60% majority. Ratification
by state legislatures is not required as it was under the second
constitution.
The
Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
As mentioned in the first paragraph of this Article, a radically new
constitution and government can be formed through a Constitutional
Convention. It can be achieved in a
fair, orderly, and nonviolent way. The
American people have a right to make a new constitution, through their chosen
representatives, and they have a right to approve or ratify a newly proposed
constitution. Therefore, the decision to
create a new supreme civil document will be considered by the American people
at every presidential election.
If at
least 60% of the American voters request a Constitutional Convention at the
time a new president is elected, then every citizen eligible to vote for a U.S.
president shall register with a national political party. Websites such as www.politics1.com have comprehensive directories of U.S.
political parties, so that citizens can study the platforms and political
philosophies of various political parties.
The
Constitutional Convention will start meeting the first Tuesday in November,
approximately one year after the previous presidential election. The Constitutional Convention delegates will
meet at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.
There will be 435 delegates chosen from the federal legislative
districts using the system of Proportional Representation. Delegates must live in the states they
represent. The delegates will choose within
30 days one of their own attending delegates to be the Chair Person of the Constitutional
Convention, based on a system of Instant Run-off voting.
Formal
discussions and debates of the Convention will use parliamentary procedure, and
delegates will strive for consensus decision-making. The spoken and written words of the delegates
must be publicized, and citizens will be allowed to voice their own opinions in
the process.
The
Convention delegates will work on several revisions of the newly proposed
Constitution, in the constant effort to get 51% of the delegates to accept it. In fact, since the delegates will meet for a
maximum of 6 months, they may use all of that time in order to get a higher
percentage of approval than 51%, after hearing the arguments of delegates and
citizens who disapprove of the newly proposed document. Two years after the previous
presidential election, the American people will vote on the latest proposal of
the Constitutional Convention delegates.
But if the delegates themselves could not agree on a new, supreme civil
document with at least a 51% majority, then the constitution that is currently
in place will continue to be officially valid.
If the proposed
constitution is ratified by the American people, it will not be implemented
until two years later when new presidential and national congressional terms of
office begin, unless 51% of the state legislatures want to implement the newly
ratified constitution sooner.
In
summary, once the American voters decide they want a Constitutional Convention,
they will have one year to pick national political party delegates that will
attend the Constitutional Convention.
The Constitutional Convention delegates will have a maximum of 6 months
to create a new Constitution that is approved by at least 51% of the delegates.
Then at the beginning of the next presidential
term of office, the new constitution will be implemented. This allows two years to prepare the infrastructure
of the new government.
The US
Congress, the President, and the US Supreme Court will not have the right to control
a Constitutional Convention. They can,
however, express their opinions and recommendations in the process. This concludes ARTICLE XVII and the Third
Constitution of the United States.
Postscript:
Democracy-loving
citizens who approve of this Third Constitution may wisely inquire, how can it
be ratified according to the Article V specifications of our current
Constitution? Article V of our current
Constitution only addresses how amendments can be added to the
Constitution. Article V does not address
how to have a Constitutional Convention.
However, Article XVII of the Third Constitution above could be the basis
for a new Twenty-Eighth Amendment that could be added to our current
constitution. The new amendment would
totally revise Article V of our current Constitution which describes two
cumbersome methods for amending the Constitution.
If a
Twenty-Eighth Amendment, modeled after Article XVII in the Third Constitution
above, was passed, it would permit our current members of Congress to pass new
amendments with a 60% majority (in both the House and the Senate) without
needing the previously required additional ratification by - of the state
legislatures. That might be a scary
thought to many. However, it would
establish a mechanism for the American people to have a Constitutional
Convention in the future using a system of Proportional Representation.
Without
a safe, orderly, and fair way in place to have a Constitutional Convention,
there could be widespread, violent insurrection in the streets, if and when
masses of American people stop tolerating a government of the rich, by the
rich, and for the rich. If that ever
happens, the government will simply implement martial law, and that could be
the beginning of a new world order, not by our consent.
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