Tod
08-29-2013, 09:30 AM
Proposal for the BILL OF RIGHTS PROTECTION AMENDMENT to the US Constitution:
"It shall be a federal crime for any member of government, from the highest federal level to the local level, to propose, vote in the affirmative, sign into law by executive order, or to render a judicial decision in any court of law, anything that violates any of the ten Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, as it is plainly stated and intended by the founders of this country in 1789. Any violation of this Amendment will carry a penalty of life imprisonment and forfeiture of all assets of the violator. The only judicial venue for this high crime to be heard in, will be by a federal jury of 12 people, and no member of the government, past or present is allowed to be a member of this jury. No pardon by any executive branch will overturn this conviction and no other court will be allowed to overturn a conviction of this Grand Jury. Upon ratification, all laws, statutes, ordinances, executive orders, and judicial decisions that violate this Amendment are stricken down as if they are null, void, unenforceable and retroactive back to the 1789 time of the Bill of Rights becoming a part of the US Constitution."
3/4ths of the states must ratify, after a US Senator and a US House member sponsors the Amendment and both bodies of Congress pass with a 2/3ds vote.
Clearly it is too easy now for politicians to push unconstitutional legislation, but what is the best mechanism for stifling it outside of an educated and active electorate that supports the form of government originally envisioned.
"It shall be a federal crime for any member of government, from the highest federal level to the local level, to propose, vote in the affirmative, sign into law by executive order, or to render a judicial decision in any court of law, anything that violates any of the ten Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, as it is plainly stated and intended by the founders of this country in 1789. Any violation of this Amendment will carry a penalty of life imprisonment and forfeiture of all assets of the violator. The only judicial venue for this high crime to be heard in, will be by a federal jury of 12 people, and no member of the government, past or present is allowed to be a member of this jury. No pardon by any executive branch will overturn this conviction and no other court will be allowed to overturn a conviction of this Grand Jury. Upon ratification, all laws, statutes, ordinances, executive orders, and judicial decisions that violate this Amendment are stricken down as if they are null, void, unenforceable and retroactive back to the 1789 time of the Bill of Rights becoming a part of the US Constitution."
3/4ths of the states must ratify, after a US Senator and a US House member sponsors the Amendment and both bodies of Congress pass with a 2/3ds vote.
Clearly it is too easy now for politicians to push unconstitutional legislation, but what is the best mechanism for stifling it outside of an educated and active electorate that supports the form of government originally envisioned.