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 Presidents 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 Presidents 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. |