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A new Constitution could save the United States
Our system of government is broken, and it cannot be fixed.
Our government -- at the federal, state and local level -- is firmly in the grasp of corporate monarchs who are beholden to no flag, only their own greed. The majority of the electorate which could change things has been intentionally dumbed-down by an education system which has substituted New Age fads for proven methodology and is inculating students with the mental diseases of socialism, globalism and multiculturalism. The Fourth Estate, the news media, has bought into this devolvement of America because it has lost its way and no longer serves as the watchdog of society but rather as an entertainment medium to lull the complacent masses. The populace has become divided into fractured segments of "victims," each blaming the other and demanding more handouts from government for subsistence, denying all personal responsibility.
In his classic piece of science fiction Starship Troopers, author Robert Heinlein told a tale which foresaw the downfall of democracy and offered a theory about how to re-create society where personal responsibility is the basis of continued democratic rule. I offer here my own concept of how best to re-establish the Republic which our founding fathers sought to create -- by limiting the franchise and by constitutionally limiting the power of money.

 
The Constitution of the New Republic
Of the United States of America

PREAMBLE
 We, the Responsible Citizens of the United States, do hereby ordain and establish this Constitution of the Republic in order to establish responsible government, to provide for a common defense, to ensure the establishment of dependable and accountable justice, to create a framework for fair trade, and to provide that the freedoms and liberties which are the basic rights of all human beings are protected.

ARTICLE I – Supreme Authority
 All power in these reconstituted United States shall come from and reside with its Electors, people who have demonstrated by their actions that they are willing to assume responsibility for the defense of the liberties and freedoms of all residents of the United States.
 Section 1 – Definition of Electorship
An Elector shall be defined as any legal resident of the United States who has honorably completed at least two years’ service with the defined Armed Forces of the United States, or as defined below.
 Upon ratification of this Constitution, those defined as Electors shall include all residents of the United States who have received honorable discharges from the Armed Forces of the former United States (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard); those who have attained at least 10 years’ service in or have retired from the official Militias of the States; and those who have attained at least 10 years’ service in or have honorably retired from law enforcement agencies of the former Federal government, State government or local government; all provided those persons shall not have been convicted of any felony crime and are currently not in active service.
 No person who, upon the ratification of this Constitution, shall have served as an elected representative of the former United States or as an appointed Cabinet-level or judicial position, to include the executive, legislative and judicial branches, may be eligible for Electorship.
 Section 2 – Rights of Electors
 As residents of the United States who have demonstrated their personal commitment to the defense of the welfare of others, Electors shall have certain privileges not available to other Residents, as defined below:
 The voting franchise shall be limited exclusively to Electors.
 No person shall hold elected or appointed public office at any level who is not an Elector, and no person may be considered eligible for employment by the executive branch of the government of the Republic of the United States who is not an Elector.
 Electors shall be given preference when considered for civilian jobs created by the government of the States or local governments within the States, and Congress may define certain jobs to be filled only by Electors.
 Section 3 – Qualifications for Electorship
 Any legal Citizen of the Republic of the United States who has achieved the age of at least sixteen years has the right to attain Electorship through qualified service without regard to physical condition, age, sex, race, gender preference, handicap or infirmity save mental incapacity. Those physically unqualified for direct military service shall instead comprise administrative and service components of the Armed Forces, will receive the same compensation as military members, and may be assigned to hazardous duties as determined by the needs of the Armed Forces. All persons entering the Armed Forces must be without dependents for at least their first two years of service.
 Section 4 – Citizenship
 All residents of the Republic of the United States who are not Electors shall be considered Citizens, and shall have all the same rights, privileges and immunities of Electors save where certain authority and privilege is herein granted to Electors. A Citizen is defined as any person born in the Republic of the United States to parents who are also citizens, or who has undertaken to seek citizenship under rules and regulations as defined by Congress.

ARTICLE II – Legislative Authority
 Legislative authority granted by this Constitution shall reside in a Congress of the Republic of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
 Section 1 – The House of Representatives
 The House of Representatives of the Republic of the United States shall be composed of members elected every third year by the Electors of the States, who shall be apportioned on the basis of one elected Representative for every one million residents, but each State must have at least one Representative. Reapportionment of the members shall occur once each decade upon the taking of a Census of the States by the government of the Republic. Districts shall be defined by the Legislatures of the several States provided that said Districts must be geographically contiguous and based solely on total population density. 
 No person shall be eligible to be elected as a Representative who is not an Elector, who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, who has not been seven years a Citizen of the United States, and who, when elected, is not a resident of the State which that Elector is elected to represent. When vacancies occur within the House of Representatives, the Executive Authority of the State affected shall issue a writ of election to fill such vacancies.
 The House of Representatives shall establish its own officers and rules, and shall have the sole authority of impeachment of any federal official and the introduction of any legislation involving the raising of taxes.
 Section 2 – The Senate
 The Senate of the Republic of the United States shall be comprised of two Senators from each State elected by the Electors thereof for six years. Upon the ratification of this Constitution, one-third of the Senate shall serve a term of two years, one-third shall serve a term of four years, and one-third shall serve a term of six years, as chosen by random lot.
 No person shall be eligible to be elected as Senator who is not an Elector, who has not attained the age of thirty-five years, who has not been ten years a Citizen of the United States, and who, when elected, is not a resident for at least five years of the State which that Citizen is elected to represent. When vacancies occur within the Senate, the Legislature of the State affected shall select one of its members to serve the remaining term.
 The Vice President of the Republic of the United States shall serve as President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. The Senate shall choose its own officers and rules and shall select its own president pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President or when that Elector is acting as the President of the Republic of the United States.
 The Senate shall have the sole power to try all Impeached federal officers, and when sitting in judgement of the President or Vice President of the Republic of the United States, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside. Senators may vote to remove the impeached official from office, and upon such vote said official may be subject to other prosecution by civil authority.
 Section 3 – Meetings, Adjournment, Protections and Compensation
 Members of Congress shall meet in session at least once per year, or when called into Special Session by the President of the Republic of the United States for a period not to exceed thirty days. Members of each House shall otherwise set their own rules for times and places of meetings and of adjournment. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings and shall publish such records in a manner accessible to all Residents, recording all votes.
 Members of Congress shall determine compensation for all elected and appointed offices of the Republic of the United States, with the proviso that the pay of elected officials of the United States shall not exceed that offered to senior officers of the Armed Forces of the United States. Members of Congress shall in all cases save treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from the same. No Senator or Representative shall be appointed or elected to any other public office during the time for which he or she was elected, and no person holding any other office may be a member of either House during his continuance in office.
 Section 4 – The Legislative Process
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur as on other Bills. Each bill authorizing the expenditure of public funds or raising of tax moniesshall be considered strictly upon its own merits and may not be amended with additional funding or taxing proposals.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States. If the President approves he or she shall sign the bill and it will become law, but if not, the President shall Veto the bill and return it to the House in which it originated with an accounting of the President’s objections. If after reconsideration of the bill that House shall pass it by a two-thirds majority, it shall be sent, along with the objections, to the other House, by which it will be likewise considered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House it shall become law over the President’s objections. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days after it shall have been presented, it shall become law as if the President had signed it, unless Congress has adjourned in the interim.
Every order, resolution or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary save on a question of adjournment shall be presented to the President of the Republic of the United States, or being disapproved by him or her, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
 Section 5 – Powers of Congress
 Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense of the Republic, but in all instances must maintain uniform taxes and tariffs throughout the several States.
 Congress shall have the authority to borrow money on the credit of the United States.
 Congress shall have the authority to regulate commerce with foreign Nations and among the States, and to establish rules for commerce which regulate the power of corporations to ensure that no corporation shall have legal rights exceeding that of Residents and Citizens.
 Congress shall have the authority to establish uniform rules of naturalization and to regulate the entry of foreign nationals seeking status as Citizens of the United States.
 Congress shall have the authority to create uniform laws on bankruptcies, to coin money and regulate the value thereof based upon the gold standard, to fix a standard of weights and measures which is uniform throughout the States, and to provide for the punishment of those who would counterfeit the coin and currency of the United States.
 Congress shall have the authority to establish uniform regulations for copyright and patent.
 Congress shall have the authority to establish Post Offices and Post Roads.
 Congress shall have the authority to constitute tribunals inferior to that of the Supreme Court.
 Congress shall have the authority to Declare War, to provide for the maintenance of the Armed Forces, to provide uniform regulations for the maintenance and conduct of all Residents serving in the Armed Forces, and to provide a means for the joint operation between the Armed Forces of the Republic of the United States and the Militias of the several States.
 Congress shall have the authority to make all laws concerning the governance of the District of Columbia, or other such capitol district as ceded by any State.
 Congress shall have the authority to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Republic of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
 Section 6 – Limitations on Congress
 Congress may not cede to the President of the United States, in his role as Commander-in-Chief, the authority to wage War, but may provide for emergency powers to repel a foreign invasion or attack, such powers not to exceed thirty days without a Declaration of War by Congress.
 Congress may make no law suspending the right of Habeas Corpus to any Citizen or Elector.
 Congress may not raise revenues to gift monies from the public treasury to support governments or individuals of foreign nations, nor to provide solvency for any business or corporation, nor to provide financial solvency for any individual person.
 Congress may pass no Bill of Attainder or Ex Post Facto law.
 Congress may give no preference in regulation of commerce to ports or businesses in any State, and no traffic from any State shall pay any duty when moving to another State. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
 Congress shall pass no law taxing individual productivity based upon income.
 Congress shall grant no title of nobility, nor may any Citizen or Elector of the Republic of the United States accept any such title, gift or emolument from any foreign government except by consent of Congress.
Congress may not grant any pension paid out of the public monies to any person save those who have performed at least twenty years of active service in the Armed Forces or who have been physically incapacitated as a result of such service.
Congress shall pass no law dispensing public monies for charity, but may authorize expenditures to establish emergency loans for Citizens affected by natural disasters or war, such monies to be available at no interest, and to provide for repayment of such loans over a period not to exceed twenty years.
 No money shall be paid out of the public treasury save it has been authorized by an appropriation approved into law; and such appropriations and expenditures shall be published from time to time and accessible to all Citizens and Electors.
 Section 7 – Limitations on the States
 No State shall pass any Bill of Attainder or Ex Post Facto law; raise public monies to gift to any foreign government or individual, nor to provide solvency for any commercial interest, nor to provide solvency for any individual.
 No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation with any foreign nation or individual, nor with any other State.
 No State may create any Duty or Tax on the goods and services produced by any other State.

Article III – Executive Branch
 Section 1 – The Presidency
 The executive power of the Republic of the United States shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. This Citizen shall hold office for a term of four years and shall, along with a Vice-President, be elected by a majority vote of the Electors of the Republic, but both offices shall be elected separately. No person may be elected to the office of the Presidency more than twice.
 No person shall be eligible to serve as President or Vice-President who is not a natural born Citizen of the United States, or was a Citizen of the former United States at the time of the ratification of this Constitution, and who is en elector as defined in Article I above. No person shall be elected President or Vice-President who has not attained the age of thirty-five years.
 Congress shall have the authority to create rules to provide for succession to the Presidency in the case of death, disability or removal from office of the President or Vice-President.
 The President and Vice-President shall receive compensation at the same rate paid the highest-ranking members of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the United States.
 Before he or she shall enter office, the President or Vice President shall take the following Oath of Affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the Republic of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Republic of the United States."
 The terms of office of all elected and appointed officials of the United States shall begin at noon on the first day of January, or upon election or appointment to said office.
 Section 2 – Powers of the President
 The President shall serve as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the United States, and of the Militias of the States when those Militias are called into service.
 The President shall select, upon approval of the Senate, each of the department heads of the executive branch and the heads of the various branches of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the United States for  terms not to exceed four years.
 The President shall have the power to grant Pardons and Reprieves for all offenses against the Republic of the United States save treason and impeachment.
The President shall have Power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
The President may not abrogate governmental power to any private person, firm or agency to perform functions of the Executive Branch, to include the regulation of commerce and currency, save where those persons have been appointed as heads or members of departments of the Executive Branch. 
 Section 3 – State of the Union, Convening Congress
 The President shall, from time to time, give information to the Congress regarding the State of the Union, and recommend for their consideration such measures as he or she shall deem expedient and necessary. He or she may, in extraordinary instances, convene both Houses to consider critical matters and may call either House into special session not to exceed thirty days for consideration of legislation urgently needed to repel foreign invasion, declare War or to provide emergency funding to maintain the government of the Republic.
 The President shall receive the Ambassadors and other public ministers of other nations.
 The President shall serve as the chief law enforcement officer of the Republic of the United States and shall take care to see that all laws are faithfully executed.
 The President shall have the sole authority to Commission all officers of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the United States.
 Section 4 – Removal from Office or Disqualification
 The President or Vice President and all civil officers of the Republic of the United States may be removed from office upon impeachment and conviction for the offenses of treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors.

Article IV – The Judicial Branch
 The Judicial power of the Republic of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress shall from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges of the Supreme Court and of its inferior courts shall hold their offices for life, unless impeached and convicted by the Congress in the same manner as for members of the Executive Branch. All persons nominated by the Executive Branch to serve as federal judges must be at least forty years old, Electors, and twenty years a Citizen of the United States.
 Section 1 – Jurisdiction
 The Judicial power of the Court and its inferior courts shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution; the laws of the Republic of the United States and treaties accepted by the same; to all cases affecting Ambassadors, public ministers or other consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies between two or more States; to all controversies to which the United States shall be a party; and between any foreign government, citizen or entity and the United States.
 Section 2 – Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction
 In all cases involving Ambassadors, other public officers or in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all other cases the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as Congress shall make.
 The Trial by Law of all cases, save impeachment, shall be by jury of Electors; and such trial shall be held in the State where such crimes were committed, but when not committed in any State, shall be held in such place and time as established by Congress.
 Section 3 – Treason
 Treason against the Republic of the United States shall be defined as any citizen waging war against the Republic or in adhering to its enemies by giving them aid and comfort, providing materiel to wage war upon the United States or in accepting monies from foreign governments or individuals for the purpose of waging war against the United States. No citizen shall be convicted of Treason save on the testimony of at least two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court.
 The punishment of Treason shall be death by hanging, or such lesser term of imprisonment as Congress shall provide.

Article V – The States
 Section 1 – Each State to honor all others
 Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public Acts, Records and judicial proceedings of every other State. Congress may by law prescribe the manner in which such proceedings shall be available to the citizens of all States.
 Section 2 – States, Citizenship and Extraditions
 The citizens of every State shall be privileged to all rights and immunities available to citizens of every other State. A person charged in any State with treason or any felony or other crime who has fled to any other State to avoid justice shall, upon demand of the Executive Authority of the State from which he or she fled, be returned to the State from which he or she fled to face justice.
 Section 3 – New States; Secession
 New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. Congress shall guarantee every State a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them against Invasion, whether by foreign military or paramilitary operations or by intentional demographic shift of population.
 States have the right to leave this Union upon the vote of two-thirds of the Legislature of such State, and with the agreement of the Executive Authority of that State. No State which has exercised its right to leave the Union may apply to re-join the Union before the period of ten years shall have expired.

Article VI – The Rights of All Citizens
 Section 1 – Religious Freedom
 Congress shall make no law establishing any religion as pre-eminent over any other, nor prohibiting the observation or exercise of religion in any public place, nor prohibiting the recognition of any religion by any public office, officer, entity or branch.
 Section 2 – Freedom of Speech
 Congress shall make no law abridging the right to freedom of speech and expression, save to establish standards regarding vulgarity and decency which may be prohibited in government places and buildings.
 Section 3 – Freedom of the News Media
 Congress shall make no law regarding the freedom of the News Media save to establish standards for slander and libel for the publication of false information.
 Section 4 – Right to Assemble
 Congress shall make no law abridging the right of citizens to peaceably assemble and to petition government for the redress of grievances.
 Section 5 – Ownership of Firearms, Housing Troops
 Congress shall make no law regulating or prohibiting private ownership of firearms or other weapons of personal defense. No citizen shall be forced to house or quarter troops of the Armed Forces save in a manner prescribed by Congress for use during time of war.
Section 6 – Marriage and the Definition of Family
 Because marriage is a religious institution, neither Congress nor the States may make any law regulating, prohibiting or licensing marriage, but that power is reserved exclusively to religious institutions. Congress and the States shall provide regulations enabling all citizens to arrange for the transfer of their assets, pensions, benefits or property to any other person upon their death.
 Section 7 – Right Against Unreasonable Search
 The right of citizens to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; no Warrant shall be issued save upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched or the person or things to be siezed.
 Section 8 – Trial and Punishment
 No person shall be held to answer for any felony save following an indictment by a Grand Jury of Electors, except in the cases arising from the conduct of the Armed Forces or the Militias when in actual service during time of war or other public emergency. No person may be compelled to be a witness against himself, nor may any family member be forced to testify against another family member. No person may be subjected to prosecution for the same offense twice, and no person may be deprived of life, liberty or property without the due process of law, nor may private property be taken for public use without fair and just compensation. 
 Section 9 – Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses; Capital Punishment
 In all criminal trials, the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial within 30 days from the time such person shall be arrested, by a jury of Electors resident of the State or District wherein the crime occurred; and to be informed of the naturea nd cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him or her; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses  in hir or her favor; and to have the assistance of counsel in his defense. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor non-traditional punishments imposed; in capital cases, traditional punishments shall include lethal injection, lethal poisoning by gas, electrocution, hanging or death by firing squad.
 Section 10 – Right to Speedy Trial of Lawsuit; Loser Pays
 In suits at common law, the right of trial by a jury of Electors shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be re-examined by the Court of the United States other than according to the rules of common law. In all suits at common law, the side losing the lawsuit shall be responsible for all costs associated with the trial.
 Section 11 – Powers of the States and of the People
 The powers not delegated specifically by this Constitution to the national government, nor prohibited to the States by it, are reserved exclusively to the States, or to the People.

Article VII – Amendment, Ratification, Debt and Transition
 Section 1 – Amendment
 This Constitution may be amended upon action by the vote of two-thirds of each House; or by the introduction and passage of amendment by three-fourths of the States, provided that no amendment may pre-date the ratification of this Constitution.
 Section 2 – Ratification
 The Legislatures of the various States, elected under the Constitution of 1788, shall convene to consider ratification of this Constitution. This Constitution shall be considered to be ratified and in force upon the vote of 35 of the 50 States.
 Section 3 – Debts and Transition of Government 
 All Debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the Republic of the United States under this Constitution, as under the Constitution of 1788.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.