In the Malheur siege thread the discussion got a little OT onto a truly awful novel by Tom 'Ammonia King' Kratman called A State Of Disobedience.
The thread on the novel over at Space Battles.
Anyway, at the end of the book a new US Constitution was enacted with the amendments listed below. The Greater Fool suggested this deserved a thread of it's own...
What do people think would be the effect in the real world of this?
Various amendments to the United States Constitution proposed at the Virginia Beach, Virginia, Constitutional Convention:
Amendment-- The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed.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 estate exceeding that amount. The figure of ten million dollars shall be adjusted annually in accordance with the rise in 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Amendment-- The Social Security and Medicare tax is repealed.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 right to delegate its authority under the Constitution. The Congress shall reduce the manpower of currently existing agencies to which it has delegated authority by ten percent per year.
Amendment-- No one shall be elected to any office of the United States government more than twice in succession, three times in life, or twelve years total.
Amendment-- Every four years, in conjunction with the election of the Presidency of the United States, each ballot shall list all members of the United States Supreme Court. That Justice of the Court that gathers the greatest number of 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 on the rights of the sovereign States under the Constitution, that decision shall be overturned. Thirty such governors will 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Amendment-- The Second Amendment is hereby repealed.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 occurred 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 a war requiring greater levels of manpower, the states are required to provide additional 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 lesser polities of the United States or the citizens of those polities.
Amendment-- A human being shall be defined as an implanted, fertilized ovum of the human species, or any later stage of development of that ovum. All human beings within 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 adult population of the United States.
Amendment-- Whereas responsibility and authority must be equal, and whereas it has been demonstrated that abuse of authority is inevitable at some point for some responsibilities, so the United States government is relieved of the following responsibilities: to ensure the economic well being of individuals 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.
The thread on the novel over at Space Battles.
Anyway, at the end of the book a new US Constitution was enacted with the amendments listed below. The Greater Fool suggested this deserved a thread of it's own...
What do people think would be the effect in the real world of this?
Various amendments to the United States Constitution proposed at the Virginia Beach, Virginia, Constitutional Convention:
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 estate exceeding that amount. The figure of ten million dollars shall be adjusted annually in accordance with the rise in 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 right to delegate its authority under the Constitution. The Congress shall reduce the manpower of currently existing agencies to which it has delegated authority by ten percent per year.
Amendment-- No one shall be elected to any office of the United States government more than twice in succession, three times in life, or twelve years total.
Amendment-- Every four years, in conjunction with the election of the Presidency of the United States, each ballot shall list all members of the United States Supreme Court. That Justice of the Court that gathers the greatest number of 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 on the rights of the sovereign States under the Constitution, that decision shall be overturned. Thirty such governors will 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 occurred 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 a war requiring greater levels of manpower, the states are required to provide additional 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 lesser polities of the United States or the citizens of those polities.
Amendment-- A human being shall be defined as an implanted, fertilized ovum of the human species, or any later stage of development of that ovum. All human beings within 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 adult population of the United States.
Amendment-- Whereas responsibility and authority must be equal, and whereas it has been demonstrated that abuse of authority is inevitable at some point for some responsibilities, so the United States government is relieved of the following responsibilities: to ensure the economic well being of individuals 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.
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