Term Limits (12 Yrs per house)
Line-Item Veto Amendment
Balanced Budget Amendment
Continuity of government Amendment (mass causality event, emergency house appoinments, emergency temp SCOTUS appointments, emergency quorum)
Treaty Loophole (Bricker) Amendment
New ideas:
-Presidential Term Limits (A single 6 year term)
-Eminent domain reform (overturning kelo)
-Floor privileges in congress for cabinet officers
-Definition of "commerce among the states" (overturning wickard)
-Removing the "punishment" exception to the 13th amendment
-4th amendment expansion (change "papers and effects" to "files and property", incorporate exclusionary rule)
-Explicitly ban religious tests for state office
-Clarify "privileges and immunities"(Overturning slaughterhouse cases)
-DC gets a Congress Person
-State limitations update (change "gold or silver" to "currency of the united states")
-pirate law reform (add "or on aircraft" after "high seas")
-2nd amendment clarification (delete prefratory clause, add "All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property, their state and country, and for other traditional lawful purposes")
-New right (freedom of movement)
-new right ("peaceably assemble or associate for lawful purposes")
-new right ("speech or thought")
- mechanism for state repeal of fed laws (2/3rds)
-14th amendment clarification (delete sec. 3)
-preamble fun (add "evoking the favor of almighty God", remove "general welfare")
-17th amendment reform (state legislature chooses at last session before term expires, citizens can recall)
- Art.1, sec.4 reform (modern spelling of "choose", add "times and" before "places of choosing")
- Art. 1, sec 8, cl 1 reform (modern spelling of "defense", replace "general welfare" with "carry on the government")
- Art. 1, sec 8, cl 5 reform (add "print or" before "coin money")
- postal reform (require self sufficiency after 5 years of passage)
- non-delegation (limit the lawmaking powers of admin agencies)
- environmental powers (explicitly empower congress to regulate certain hazardous air and water pollution)
-prison powers (explicitly empower congress to construct and adminster prisons for federal criminals)
-land powers (explicitly empower congress to acquire new territory)
- art. 1, sec 8, cl 13 (add "or air and space force")
- mechanism for secession (2/3rds of legislature, 3/5ths of people in state for 1 yr or more, debt settlement commission, resettlement rights, rules for compensating people who choose to move to us rather than leave, rules for infrastructure)
-habeas clarification (renew a suspension every 90 days, congress can overturn presidents declaration)
- treasury report (change "time to time" to "annually")
- titles of nobility (add "knightships" to things banned to congres people)
- 3rd amendment reform (also ban law enforcement)
-grand juries (change "capital or infamous crime" to "felony or crime where imprisonment is available")
-6th amendment reform (Add "unless expressly waived by the accused" at the beginning
-7th amendment reform (increase 20 to 500)
-art. 1, sec 10, cl 10 reform (delete "emit bills of credit")
-12th amendment reform (3 highest vote getters for vice prez)
-commander in chief reform (add "air and space force)
- chief executive reform (prez can fire any fed employee at will if a report on it is sent to congress)
- recess appointment reform (no appoint a previously rejected nominee)
-art 2, sec 2, cl. 3 reform (change "he" to "the president")
-standing reform (allow congress to request an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of a fed law from SCOTUS with a 2/3 vote)
- art 3 jury reform (allow accused to expressly waive)
- ex post facto reform (prohibit retroactive civil penalties, partially overturning calder v bull)
- art 4, sec. 3, cl 3 reform (explicitly include federal lands as property)
-right of revolution (add "Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.)
