Note: A portion of section 1 of the 22nd amendment is superseded by section 3 of this Amendment. A portion of section 1 of the 14th amendment is superseded by section 4 of this Amendment.
Section 1.
The definition of a Person shall be "a living human."
Eminent domain shall not be used to involuntarily transfer property from Persons to other Persons or corporations, whether directly or indirectly, regardless of compensation.
The corporate veil shall be pierced and corporate officers shall be held liable if negligence by a corporation results in injury or death to Persons.
All treaties passed under Trade Promotion Authority, a/k/a fast-track, shall be null and void, along with Trade Promotion Authority itself.
Any visa, whether temporary or permanent, which is used to replace American workers with foreign ones shall not be lawful.
All official photo identification shall include a photo of the Person's face unencumbered by clothing regardless of the religious beliefs of the Person.
Any religion which files more than one lawsuit per calendar year, starting with the calendar year in which this Amendment passes, shall be defined as a for-profit business. Any religion or organization that calls for the overthrow or substitution of federal, state, or local government shall be defined as a for-profit business, if not a terrorist organization.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 2.
Marijuana shall be legal in the District of Columbia, the States, and the Territories.
Congress and the States shall have concurrent power to tax marijuana and to enforce reasonable legislation, especially with respect to user age limitations and use while driving or riding on highways, railways, seaways, and airways. The District of Columbia, the States, and the Territories shall be required to regulate the use of marijuana as stringently as they regulate alcohol.
Banks shall not be allowed to discriminate against legal businesses which distribute and/or sell marijuana.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 3.
No Person shall be allowed to serve for more than three terms as Representative of any State regardless of whether the terms are consecutive or not. If a Person resigns from a term for any reason, that Person shall be barred from running for the Office of Representative in any State and that Person shall not be eligible for appointment to the Office of Representative in any State. If a Person is appointed and serves as a replacement Representative by a Governor or State legislative body, that partial term shall not count against the three term maximum, but each Person can only be appointed once in his lifetime. This limit shall not be reset by a Person running for the Office of Representative in a different State.
No Person shall be allowed to serve for more than three terms as Senator of any State regardless of whether the terms are consecutive or not. If a Person resigns from a term for any reason, that Person shall be barred from running for the Office of Senator in any State and that Person shall not be eligible for appointment to the Office of Senator in any State. If a Person is appointed and serves as a replacement Senator by a Governor or State legislative body, that partial term shall not count against the three term maximum, but each Person can only be appointed once in his lifetime. This limit shall not be reset by a Person running for the Office of Senator in a different State.
If a Person resigns from a term as Vice President or President for any reason, that Person shall be permanently barred from serving as Vice President or President again, whether via election or appointment.
No Person shall declare his candidacy for the Office of Representative, Senator, Vice President, or President before January 1 of the year in which the relevant election is scheduled to be held. If a Person does so, all State authorities which register candidacies shall be required to deny that Person the right to run for Office for the relevant election. No conventions, caucuses, debates, or primary elections shall be held before January 1 of the year in which the relevant election is scheduled to be held, with the penalty for non-compliance to be 1% of the GDP for the State for that year for each occurrence, payable to the U.S. Treasury Department. If the offending entity is a corporation, the corporate veil shall be pierced and the owners of the corporation shall be held personally liable.
No Person shall be allowed to run for President or Vice President unless that Person has served in the U.S. military, whether on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard, and must have been given an honorable discharge.
This section's passage shall be delayed until the day after election day of the current year if this Amendment passes during a relevant election year between January 1 and election day.
Section 4.
The first sentence of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment shall be vacated and replaced by: "All Persons with at least one parent being a U.S. Citizen at the time of their birth shall be Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside; if such a Citizen shall be born outside the territory of the U.S., he shall be initially considered a Citizen of the State wherein his parent(s) reside(s); if his parents reside in different states, he shall be considered a Citizen of his mother's State. All Persons who are naturalized, but without at least one parent being a U.S. Citizen at the time of their birth, shall be Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 5.
Given that verifiable and secure voting is essential for sustaining a democracy, governments shall be required to verify the identity of all Citizens via identification issued by Congress or the States before being allowed to register to vote or to vote. Only one vote shall be allowed per Person, regardless of the amount of money a single Person possesses.
Recess appointments shall only be made by the President if Congress is in recess for a minimum of ten days. Congress shall have the sole right to determine when it is in session.
The Vice President, President, and their families are free to take vacations anywhere they please at their expense, but all taxpayer-funded vacations shall be held on U.S. territory. The Secret Service shall not accompany the Vice President, President, or their families on foreign vacations. Children of the Vice President or President shall never be considered to be on official business. The spouse of the Vice President or President shall never be considered to be on official business outside the territory of the United States, with the sole exceptions being important funerals and memorials.
Secret Service protection shall not be provided for anyone other than the Vice President and President, the spouse and children of the Vice President and President, leaders of other countries on official visits, and bona fide candidates running for Vice President or President, with "bona fide" being defined as someone running between January 1 and election day of an election year. The President shall be allowed to order Secret Service protection for high-ranking government officials, but this shall only last for a period of seven days at most and cannot be renewed for a period of six months. If the President orders Secret Service protection for someone who is not eligible, he shall be required to reimburse the government for all expenses, as determined by Congress, before he leaves Office. If the President leaves Office before reimbursing the government, Congress shall have the authority to garnish sufficient funds from his savings and/or earnings.
If the President orders the Secret Service or any other government official to violate any paragraph in this section, his order shall rise to the level of High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 6.
Given that it has been more than fifty years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, all affirmative action preferences shall be hereby banned.
All felony defendants, whether in United States, State, or local jurisdictions, shall be given the services of a recognized DNA lab if they cannot afford it, with said service billed to the aforementioned jurisdiction.
All so-called hate crime legislation shall be hereby banned, as it is not reasonable for some groups to possess special rights that other groups do not.
The sex of a Person shall be defined by the genitals he possesses. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall not be required to honor declarations of Persons that they are a different sex than their genitals would indicate. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall be permitted to require non-conforming Persons to use a staff, handicapped, family, or gender-neutral lavatory, but they shall not be allowed to only offer gender-neutral lavatories unless those facilities are single-user. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall not be penalized for the reasonable verification of said genitals, whether in an automated fashion or manually.
There is no right to not be offended.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 7.
If any provision of this Amendment is declared unconstitutional, the remainder of this Amendment shall remain in effect.
Section 1.
The definition of a Person shall be "a living human."
Eminent domain shall not be used to involuntarily transfer property from Persons to other Persons or corporations, whether directly or indirectly, regardless of compensation.
The corporate veil shall be pierced and corporate officers shall be held liable if negligence by a corporation results in injury or death to Persons.
All treaties passed under Trade Promotion Authority, a/k/a fast-track, shall be null and void, along with Trade Promotion Authority itself.
Any visa, whether temporary or permanent, which is used to replace American workers with foreign ones shall not be lawful.
All official photo identification shall include a photo of the Person's face unencumbered by clothing regardless of the religious beliefs of the Person.
Any religion which files more than one lawsuit per calendar year, starting with the calendar year in which this Amendment passes, shall be defined as a for-profit business. Any religion or organization that calls for the overthrow or substitution of federal, state, or local government shall be defined as a for-profit business, if not a terrorist organization.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 2.
Marijuana shall be legal in the District of Columbia, the States, and the Territories.
Congress and the States shall have concurrent power to tax marijuana and to enforce reasonable legislation, especially with respect to user age limitations and use while driving or riding on highways, railways, seaways, and airways. The District of Columbia, the States, and the Territories shall be required to regulate the use of marijuana as stringently as they regulate alcohol.
Banks shall not be allowed to discriminate against legal businesses which distribute and/or sell marijuana.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 3.
No Person shall be allowed to serve for more than three terms as Representative of any State regardless of whether the terms are consecutive or not. If a Person resigns from a term for any reason, that Person shall be barred from running for the Office of Representative in any State and that Person shall not be eligible for appointment to the Office of Representative in any State. If a Person is appointed and serves as a replacement Representative by a Governor or State legislative body, that partial term shall not count against the three term maximum, but each Person can only be appointed once in his lifetime. This limit shall not be reset by a Person running for the Office of Representative in a different State.
No Person shall be allowed to serve for more than three terms as Senator of any State regardless of whether the terms are consecutive or not. If a Person resigns from a term for any reason, that Person shall be barred from running for the Office of Senator in any State and that Person shall not be eligible for appointment to the Office of Senator in any State. If a Person is appointed and serves as a replacement Senator by a Governor or State legislative body, that partial term shall not count against the three term maximum, but each Person can only be appointed once in his lifetime. This limit shall not be reset by a Person running for the Office of Senator in a different State.
If a Person resigns from a term as Vice President or President for any reason, that Person shall be permanently barred from serving as Vice President or President again, whether via election or appointment.
No Person shall declare his candidacy for the Office of Representative, Senator, Vice President, or President before January 1 of the year in which the relevant election is scheduled to be held. If a Person does so, all State authorities which register candidacies shall be required to deny that Person the right to run for Office for the relevant election. No conventions, caucuses, debates, or primary elections shall be held before January 1 of the year in which the relevant election is scheduled to be held, with the penalty for non-compliance to be 1% of the GDP for the State for that year for each occurrence, payable to the U.S. Treasury Department. If the offending entity is a corporation, the corporate veil shall be pierced and the owners of the corporation shall be held personally liable.
No Person shall be allowed to run for President or Vice President unless that Person has served in the U.S. military, whether on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard, and must have been given an honorable discharge.
This section's passage shall be delayed until the day after election day of the current year if this Amendment passes during a relevant election year between January 1 and election day.
Section 4.
The first sentence of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment shall be vacated and replaced by: "All Persons with at least one parent being a U.S. Citizen at the time of their birth shall be Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside; if such a Citizen shall be born outside the territory of the U.S., he shall be initially considered a Citizen of the State wherein his parent(s) reside(s); if his parents reside in different states, he shall be considered a Citizen of his mother's State. All Persons who are naturalized, but without at least one parent being a U.S. Citizen at the time of their birth, shall be Citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 5.
Given that verifiable and secure voting is essential for sustaining a democracy, governments shall be required to verify the identity of all Citizens via identification issued by Congress or the States before being allowed to register to vote or to vote. Only one vote shall be allowed per Person, regardless of the amount of money a single Person possesses.
Recess appointments shall only be made by the President if Congress is in recess for a minimum of ten days. Congress shall have the sole right to determine when it is in session.
The Vice President, President, and their families are free to take vacations anywhere they please at their expense, but all taxpayer-funded vacations shall be held on U.S. territory. The Secret Service shall not accompany the Vice President, President, or their families on foreign vacations. Children of the Vice President or President shall never be considered to be on official business. The spouse of the Vice President or President shall never be considered to be on official business outside the territory of the United States, with the sole exceptions being important funerals and memorials.
Secret Service protection shall not be provided for anyone other than the Vice President and President, the spouse and children of the Vice President and President, leaders of other countries on official visits, and bona fide candidates running for Vice President or President, with "bona fide" being defined as someone running between January 1 and election day of an election year. The President shall be allowed to order Secret Service protection for high-ranking government officials, but this shall only last for a period of seven days at most and cannot be renewed for a period of six months. If the President orders Secret Service protection for someone who is not eligible, he shall be required to reimburse the government for all expenses, as determined by Congress, before he leaves Office. If the President leaves Office before reimbursing the government, Congress shall have the authority to garnish sufficient funds from his savings and/or earnings.
If the President orders the Secret Service or any other government official to violate any paragraph in this section, his order shall rise to the level of High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 6.
Given that it has been more than fifty years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, all affirmative action preferences shall be hereby banned.
All felony defendants, whether in United States, State, or local jurisdictions, shall be given the services of a recognized DNA lab if they cannot afford it, with said service billed to the aforementioned jurisdiction.
All so-called hate crime legislation shall be hereby banned, as it is not reasonable for some groups to possess special rights that other groups do not.
The sex of a Person shall be defined by the genitals he possesses. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall not be required to honor declarations of Persons that they are a different sex than their genitals would indicate. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall be permitted to require non-conforming Persons to use a staff, handicapped, family, or gender-neutral lavatory, but they shall not be allowed to only offer gender-neutral lavatories unless those facilities are single-user. Governments, businesses, and other entities shall not be penalized for the reasonable verification of said genitals, whether in an automated fashion or manually.
There is no right to not be offended.
This section shall take effect on the day this Amendment is passed.
Section 7.
If any provision of this Amendment is declared unconstitutional, the remainder of this Amendment shall remain in effect.