A New New Bill of Rights
The Progressives, since FDR, have been pushing a New Bill of Rights, a document of vague "positive liberties" such as the right of "freedom from fear" which, in practice, would give the government a blank check to do whatever it damned well pleased.
The Libertarian/Republitarian/Conservatarian/Tea Party/Constitutionalist/Originalist/Objectivist/Randian thinkers among us need to respond in kind.
If you were to suggest an actual amendment to a Constitutition (US, State, or Gulch), what would it be?
I will post my suggestions to the thread.
The Libertarian/Republitarian/Conservatarian/Tea Party/Constitutionalist/Originalist/Objectivist/Randian thinkers among us need to respond in kind.
If you were to suggest an actual amendment to a Constitutition (US, State, or Gulch), what would it be?
I will post my suggestions to the thread.
Congress shall create no Law which applies to the citizens of the United States of America that exempts themselves, the judicial or the executive branches, nor any federal employee. This would also eliminate Obamacare, darlings.
(b) Any politician, elected official, or member of the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branch of the Government of these United States, or of any lesser government entity within the boundaries of these United States, who violates section (a) above, shall be declared in absolute malfeasance of their office; they shall immediately be removed from their position and title(s); said office shall be immmediately vacated, they shall be barred from seeking, attaining, or holding future office in ANY capacity with ANY governmental entity, and all gains, monetary, Influential, or Material, shall be forfeit. Further, they shall be subject to arrest and immediate inprisonment, the term of which shall be no less than 25 years, in no less than a maximum security detention facility."
I think the main problem is that the Constitution failed to state a set of basic principles. To get an idea of the importance of principles see David Kelley's "A Short Course in Rule Breaking" - http://www.atlassociety.org/tni/short-co.... For some good thoughts about the problems with our legal system and "legislative law" read Bruno Leoni's "Freedom and the Law" - http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_s.... And for an attempt at framing a Constitution in terms of principles see this page of my website - http://stardrivenovel.com/Constitution.p....
1) The right of the Individual to own property shall not be infringed.
2) Monies necessary for the Government to fund a military force, a police force, and a system of courts shall be raised by voluntary donations.
3) The Government is hereby enjoined and forever prohibited from any spending beyond those listed in Article 2.
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