User:Joshuaelul/AmendmentsIWouldLikeToSee
This is a list of amendments I would love to see added to the U.S. Constitution. Any thing marked with a @@ is an opinion worded a lot like a fact, but that is not necessarily based in a lot of research.
Amendments Already Proposed[edit]
Corporations void to fund elections.[edit]
There is a political action committee already in existence to persuade congress into passing this idea as the 28th Amendment. The organization is called Wolf-PAC.
"28th Amendment"[edit]
Corporations are not people. They have none of the Constitutional rights of human beings. Corporations are not allowed to give money to any politician, directly or indirectly. No politician can raise over $100 from any person or entity. All elections must be publicly financed. [1]
Criticisms[edit]
I would only really change the '$100' part to something more timeless, something that is not in U.S. currency as well. This wording will not prohibit the use of bitcoins, which will be an almost unavoidable addition to our current monetary landscape. @@ [2] How this will go about is uncertain, but I'm convinced that with discussion and more people involved with Wolf-PAC we can come up with a better, timeless, wording to make it a great addition to our constitution.
Naturalized Citizens Having the Right to Run for Office[edit]
I believe that the U.S. restriction, that the presidency can only be a citizen by birth, is an unfair disadvantage to Americans by not allowing qualified, motivated citizens who were American by choice rather than birth a chance at an executive office. It has been proposed in the past, but unfortunately it has not been approved by the 3/4 majority it needed by 2010.
Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment[edit]
Section 1. A person who is a citizen of the United States, who has been for 20 years a citizen of the United States, and who is otherwise eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to that Office by reason of not being a native born citizen of the United States.
Section 2. This article shall not take effect unless it has been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States not later than 7 years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.[3]
Criticisms[edit]
Though the wording, in this particular case, was probably necessary to have congress take it somewhat seriously. I would go as far to say fifteen years and/or if they were a citizen before the age of 18.
Eliminating the Electoral College[edit]
The electoral college made sense back in the days when we got our information via horseback, but in an ages that we can receive information faster than we can think @@ it is completely pointless, in fact harmful to our democracy. To many un-democratic possibilities can be presented because of this rule.[4]
Every Vote Counts Amendment[edit]
- Section 1. The President and Vice President shall be elected by the people of the several States and the district constituting the seat of government of the United States.
- Section 2. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of Senators and Representatives in Congress from that State, except that the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive qualifications with respect to residence and Congress may establish uniform residence and age qualifications.
- Section 3. The persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected.
- Section 4. Each elector shall cast a single vote jointly applicable to President and Vice President. Names of candidates may not be joined unless they shall have consented thereto and no candidate may consent to the candidate's name being joined with that of more than one other person.
- Section 5. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any candidate for President or Vice President before the day on which the President-elect or Vice President-elect has been chosen, and for the case of a tie in any election.
- Section 6. This article shall apply with respect to any election for President and Vice President held after the expiration of the 1-year period which begins on the date of the ratification of this article [5]
Not proposed[edit]
Transparency in Government[edit]
Proposed Wording[edit]
There shall be no law allowing the classification of government documents, or protecting the practice. There shall be no classification of any government documents unless a citizen is named. Redacting names of citizens is allowed.