A Useful Constitutional Amendment

[ThomWV]

Let's call this one 2b.

"A well regulated banking system, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to regulate banks shall not be infringed."

Amendment 2b to the U.S. Constitutio

[SDuderstadt]

1. Totally unecessary n/t

[Initech]

2. I'd rather have this one - the 28th:

"No large monetary or non-monetary gifts from non human sources shall have influence over the people's vote in all elections - state, federal, and local, and this right shall not be infringed."

[msongs]

3. "influence" is too vague nt

[Initech]

8. I'd have to have someone better define that for me.

[Scuba]

4. How about "money does not equal free speech" ???

[Occulus]

5. How about this:

Sec. 1: Upon the Passage of this Amendment, the United States Congress is dismissed and new Elections shall be held in the manner and on the schedule prescribed. No Member of Congress currently holding Office shall be further eligible for reelection to any Public Office.

Sec. 2: No Candidate for any Public Office shall receive any Donation, Enumeration, or Honorarium to their Campaign for Office, excepting those Donations made by individual Natural Persons, given in the Manner and within the Limits already present.

Sec. 3: No Corporate Entity shall enjoy Rights of Personhood, and shall not provide any Donation, Enumeration, or Honorarium to any Candidate for any Public Office.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Sec. 1 would be tricky to pass

but the entire proposal is great. We'd need a huge groundswell in 37 states to pass it, though.

[Occulus]

15. We need a strong basis for a Convention

The dismissal of Congress and the revocation of the rights of personhood for corporations would go a long, long way toward solving our legislative problems. The only way to do that is via Convention- the Us Congress will not consider these items, period.

Yes, all of them. Both parties, just to be fair.

[SDuderstadt]

18. This is, seriously...

one of the dumbest ideas ever to be floated here.

You would bar Bernie Sanders or Pat Leahy from ever again holding public office? That's almost as poorly thought through as dismissing the entire Congress, leaving us with none until the next election, thus ensuring an indefinite period of time in which necessary oversight could not be conducted, critical legislation would have no way of being enacted and it would ensure that the "new" Congress would consist entirely of people with no federal legislative experience whatsoever, except for those former members of Congress who weren't currently serving. You would also be removing the individual 2nd in line to succeed the President should something happen to him.

At first, I thought your proposal was meant as a joke. Unfortunately, I now realize you are serious.

[Aerows]

7. I'm in love with that one

It should be the law of the land.

[SDuderstadt]

12. Section 1 is a total...

non-starter.

For sections 2&3, you need to learn the difference between "enumeration" and "remuneration".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. I think the one we really need is

"In all federal, state, county, and municipal laws, regulations, and statutes, the word "person" shall refer only to an individual human being and not to any business entity, no matter how structured."

[Initech]

16. Best one yet.

[Morning Dew]

10. Here's one I'd like to see:

THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

[Tesha]

17. America doesn't believe in that one. :-( (NT)

[madinmaryland]

11. Counting down until the bank-nuts invade this thread.

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[hfojvt]

13. That just raises the question

2b or not 2b?



Oh no, here come the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune


uhm

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[Motown_Johnny]

14. I guess you have decided it is better to suffer .........

otherwise you would not have posted that