In light of all the madness in DC today, Id like to make a counter offer: 1) Rule of Law Reboot: A resolution reaffirming that the US Constitution is a civil law contract, to be obeyed as written. What’s not clear must be clarified by written amendment. What needs to change needs to be changed by written amendment. Details are here: wedeclare.wordpress/2013/10/13/rule-of-law-reboot/, and here: wedeclare.files.wordpress/2013/02/the-united-states-constitution.pdf. 2) A resolution reinforcing that, in the constitution as actually written and amended, there are only five federal crimes that apply to citizens (1. counterfeiting, 2. piracy, 3. high seas felony, 4. offense against the Law of Nations and, 5. treason). Other federal crimes must either be the result of a trans-state-border dispute (murders, other State crimes crossing state lines, for example), or are not federal crimes at all, and the wrongly convicted would be freed. 3) I know that the federal constitution isn’t perfect. I propose the following amendments: a) Sunset Amendment: a 10-year expiration date for all non-constitutionally specified agencies, laws, powers and programs to gracefully remove, or at least review for reinstatement, everything that’s not specifically written into the constitution. Our laws must be simple enough to understand, few enough to know, and important enough to enforce without classes or exceptions. So a regular “spring cleaning” is required. b) To very specifically limit the authority grant of Article I, Section 8:3 (the “Commerce Clause”) to only disputes/issues between states, and not within states. c) To nullify the 16th and 17th Amendments. d) To clarify or even nullify the misinterpreted and increasingly dangerous “Law of Nations”, or jus gentium (Article I, Section 10). e) To modernize references to the Navy (Article I, Section 8:13-14; Article II, Section 2:1, the 5th Amendment) and “high Seas” (Article I, Section 8:10) to delimit authority and armament in the air and space as well. f) To nullify the 14th Amendment. Remember, the 13th Amendment ended slavery. The 14th is badly misunderstood, criminally misapplied (to give human rights to corporations, among other things!), and is never applied to good effect anyway. 4) Of course nullify PPACA/ “Obamacare.” But I want politicians out of our healthcare system entirely. More details here: wedeclare.wordpress/2013/10/15/can-politicians-even-define-health-care/. 5) I propose we cut as many nations as possible loose from both our purse strings and browbeating. Peace, commerce and cautious optimism with all nations, entangling alliances with none. 6) Pork (“earmark” or localized spending added to bills) is unconstitutional, and it’s time we call it the crime it is. Farm subsidies, corporate welfare, federal block grants that should originate and end within the states...they all must stop. I will squeal whenever I see pork. That alone will keep me busy.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:17:26 +0000
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