Some Suggested Amendments

Fran Porretto posts this list which comes from Tom Kratman's book "A State of Disobedience". Except for some minor quibbles it sounds like a good start to me.

Amendment: The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed. No direct taxes shall be levied upon living persons, real or artificial.

Amendment: Federal expenditures shall not exceed ten percent of Gross Domestic Product. An estate tax, not exceeding fifty percent, may be levied on estates over ten million dollars in current dollars upon portions of those estates exceeding that amount. The figure of ten million dollars shall be adjusted annually in accordance with the rise in the cost of living as determined by the Consumer Price Index.

Amendment: The Social Security and Medicare tax is repealed. Current interest holders in the Social Security system shall have their money repaid within ten years at an interest rate of nine percent.

Amendment: Within ten years from the date of enactment of this amendment, the Congress shall not have the power to delegate its authority under the Constitution. The Congress shall reduce the manpower of currently existing agencies to which it has delegated its authority by ten percent per year.

Amendment: No one shall be elected to any office of the federal government more than twice in succession, three times in life, or twelve years total.

Amendment: Every four years, in conjunction with the election for the presidency of the United States, each ballot shall list all the members of the United States Supreme Court. The Justice of that Court whose name garners the most votes in that election shall be forever disbarred from a seat on the Supreme Court or any federal elective office.

Amendment: At any time, when a majority of the governors of the States shall vote, in joint session, to overturn any decision of the Supreme Court impacting upon the rights of the sovereign states under this Constitution, that decision shall be overturned. Thirty such governors shall constitute a quorum.

Amendment: The Second Amendment is hereby repealed. The federal government shall insure that no private individuals keep or possess nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction. All other forms of weapons may be owned, borne and possessed by the citizens of the United States without restriction or registration. Such weapons may not be taxed.

Amendment: No suit against the United States, or any of its states, for any grievance which accrued more than twenty years prior to the enactment of this amendment shall be maintained or sustained.

Amendment: The Regular Armed Forces of the United States shall be no greater in manpower than one half of one percent of the population of adult citizens of the United States. In the event of war requiring greater levels of manpower, the states are required to provide further troops, up to six percent of the state's population as determined by the most recent census.

Amendment: Neither the federal government, nor any of its branches, shall make any rule limiting or interfering with the free exercise of religion on the part of any of the lesser polities of the United States or the citizens of those polities.

Amendment: A human being shall be defined as a fertilized, implanted ovum of the human species, or any later stage of development of that implanted ovum. All human beings in the United States shall be entitled to the full protection of the law.

Amendment: It shall be the right of citizens and lawful residents of the United States to speak in plain, standard, and traditional English. It shall be illegal and actionable against any citizen, resident, business entity, educational institution, or government to make any attempt to limit that right on the part of a citizen.

Amendment: Federal law enforcement personnel are restricted to not more than one twentieth of one percent of the adult population of the United States.

Amendment: Whereas responsibility and authority must be equal, and whereas it has been demonstrated that the abuse of authority is inevitable at some point for some responsibilities, so the Untied States Government is relieved of the following responsibilities:

• To ensure the economic well-being of any class or by any means or for any period of time;
• To regulate commerce, except that no state shall be permitted to set up tariffs against any other state or states;
• To conduct economic planning;
• To ensure the rights or presumed rights of any group as a group;
• To engage in social engineering;
• To interfere with, or aid, education at any level.