SAMPLE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDEMENTS

That need to be passed in order to save our nation

On Abortion and Human Life
1. No human embryo which resides in the womb of a woman
shall be aborted or tampered with by any other person, including
the foresaid woman.
2. Any interference of the development of the foresaid human embryo by any person
shall be charged with murder.
3. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article with appropriate legislation.
On Marriage
1. The bonds of matrimony consist of one man and one
woman, for whom have the sole authority between eachother
to contract relations within such bonds.
2. Congress and state legislatures shall have the power to
enforce this article with appropriate legislation.
On Patriotism
1. The United States shall have a code on the proper dignity of the Flag for military
and civilian usage.
2. Civilians who are citizens of the United States shall stand upright and place their
right hands across their hearts for:
(a) The National Anthem and any other auxiliary songs of patriotic nature as
declared by an Act of Congress or the President;
(b) The Pledge of Allegiance, which shall include the words: I pledge allegiance
| to the Flag | of the United States | of America | and to the republic | for
which it stands | one nation | under God | indivisible | with liberty | and
justice | for all.

(c) A moment of silence in conjunction with the Flag;

(d) The playing of Taps;
(e) The hoisting and lowering of the Flag on a flagpole;
(f) The passer-by display of the Flag during a parade.
3. No person shall be denied to express devotion to the Flag
while in the United States, which includes saluting in section
two, the public display, and the affixment of a pin or patch on
regular clothing on the left side of the person above the heart.
4. Congress and state legislatures shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation, which shall be irrevocable.
On Bathrooms
All natural males are forever males, and all natural born females are forever females.
All persons must use the public bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex.
On School Prayer
1. No educational institution, public or private, shall be denied the right to begin the
daily morning session with a prayer to God, and no student in a non-religious
institution shall be coerced into verbally reciting a prayer against his beliefs.
2. Congress and state legislatures shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation, which shall be irrevocable.
On Roman Catholic Worship
1.

All Roman Catholic clergymen of all ranks and

orders shall faithfully and truthfully provide their

religious services according to the liturgical books of the
Council of Trent, last revised in the year of Our Lord
Nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
2.

Failure to provide such services shall result in

criminal charges of church and state.

On Taxation
1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed. Congress may levy a tax on incomes
provided every person is taxed nominally at the same percentage.
2. Person shall include natural and legal persons. Married couples must file a joint
tax return.
3. Congress shall not collect tax on a decedents estates.
4. Congress shall not institute a value-added tax or national sales tax or any other tax
in kind or form.
On the Death Penalty
1. Any person convicted of murder of the first degree or treason shall automatically be
assessed the penalty of death.
2. Congress and state legislatures may assess the penalty of death for other felony
convictions, and may provide specific procedures for executions.
Against American Political Royalty
1. No person shall hold the office of the President or Vice President whose spouse,
brother, sister, parent, godparent, child, niece, nephew, godchild, in-law, or first or
second cousin who has held the office of the President or Vice President.
2. A grandchild or grand niece or nephew of a former President or Vice President may
hold the office of the President or Vice President provided their grandparent or great
aunt or uncle who has held the office of the President or Vice President is deceased.
On Balanced Budgets
The President shall have the authority to line-item veto any party of the budget passed
by Congress, subject to a Congressional override.
On Immigration
1. This Constitution shall fully apply only to citizens of the United States of America.
2. No foreigner shall be allowed to visit the United States who is deemed to be a threat
to the country, the states, and localities.

3. No foreigner shall be allowed to visit or apply for a visa to establish residency in the
United States who has no documentation, a criminal record, or has entered the United
States illegally.
4. Any foreigner who clearly cannot assimilate into the laws, customs, and traditions
of the United States shall be deported.
5. Any foreigner who commits a crime and is found guilty of the foresaid crime shall
be deported at the end of the sentence.
6. All law enforcement authorities at every level of government shall have the
authority to enforce immigration laws.
7. No subsidies or welfare benefits offered by the Federal government, states, or
localities shall be granted to persons who are not citizens of the United States.
8. No employer or landlord shall not offer employment or a dwelling for rent to any
person unlawfully in the United States.
On English as the Official Language
1. The official language for government business and commerce in the United States is
English.
2. No person shall be construed to speak any language at his place of employment or
on official government business other than English.
On Interstate Highways
1. Unless designated by Federal statute or treaty, all highways, including those part of
the Interstate Highway System, are owned by the states where they are located. The
primary responsibility of the enumeration of interchange numbers and the general
maintenance of this infrastructure belongs to the states.
2. Congress shall not levy tolls on interstate highways for motor vehicles when
crossing state boundaries.
On Education
With the exception of patriotism, Congress shall not pass legislation regarding
education, the curriculum in schools at any level, or offer financing thereof.

On Elections and Ballot Access

1. All candidates for elective office who qualify for appearance on the ballot shall be
invited to a public debate for the particular office sought.
2. All candidates for President or Vice President who qualify for appearance on the
ballot in every state shall be invited to a public debate for their respective offices.
3. For the purposes of elections and appropriations of seats to the House of
Representatives, corporations shall not count as persons. Corporations may not donate
to the campaigns of candidates for elective office.
4. Congress, state legislatures, and local election officials may place a limit on
monetary contributions to political campaigns. Limits placed by states apply to
candidates for Congress from those states.

Mark Levins Liberty Amendments

(With My Commentary)
An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Congress
1. No person may serve more than twelve years as a member of Congress, whether
such service is exclusively in the House or the Senate or combined in both Houses.
2. Upon ratification of this article, any incumbent member of Congress whose term
exceeds the twelve-year limit shall complete the current term, but thereafter shall be
ineligible for further service as a member of Congress. (Pg. 19)
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
An Amendment to Restore the Senate
1. The Seventeenth Amendment is hereby repealed. All Senators shall be chosen by
their state legislatures as prescribed by Article I.

2. This Amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the term of any Senator
chosen before it comes valid as part of the Constitution.
3. When vacancies occur in the representation of any state in the Senate for more than
ninety days the governor of the state shall appoint an individual to fill the vacancy for
the remainder of the term.
4. A Senator may be removed from office by two-thirds vote of the state legislature.
(Pg. 33)
I understand the Founding Fathers decision to provide for a truly bicameral national
legislature that gave each statehouse a voice in the engrossment of Federal legislation.
But since the adoption of the 17th Amendment in 1913, it has been nearly settled matter
that the Senators are to be elected by the people of the state, and the adoption of this
amendment would be extremely difficult. As a Massachusetts resident, I am sort of
biased because since the Massachusetts Legislature has been under control of the
Democratic Party since the late 1950s, Ed Brooke and Scott Brown would have never
been elected to the Senate if the Legislature had the vote.

An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices and SuperMajority Legislative Override
1. No person may service as Chief Justice or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
for more than a combined total of twelve years.
2. Immediately upon ratification of this amendment, Congress will organize the
Justices of the Supreme Court as equally a possible into three classes, with the Justices
assigned to each class in reverse seniority order, with the most seniors Justices in the
earliest classes. The terms of office for the Justices in the first class will expire at the end
of the fourth year following the ratification of this amendment, the terms for the Justices
of the second class will expire at the end of the eighth year, and of the third class at the
end of the twelfth year, so that one-third of the Justices may be chosen every fourth
year. (Pg. 49)
3. When a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court, the President shall nominate a new
Justice who, with approval of the majority of the Senate, shall serve the remainder of the

unexpired term. Justices who fill a vacancy for longer than half an unexpired term
many not be renominated to a full term.
4. Upon three-fifths vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Congress
may override a majority opinion rendered by the Supreme Court.
5. The Congressional override under Section 4 is not subject to a Presidential veto and
shall not be the subject of litigation or review in any Federal or state court.
6. Upon three-fifths vote of the several state legislatures, the states may override a
majority opinion rendered by the Supreme Court.
7. The states override under Section 6 shall not be the subject of litigation or review
in any Federal or state court, or oversight or interference by Congress or the President.
8. Congressional or state override authority under Sections 4 and 6 must be exercised
no later than twenty-four months from the date of the Supreme Court rendering its
majority opinion, after which date Congress and the states are prohibited from
exercising the override. (Pg. 50)
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
Limiting Spending
1. Congress shall adopt a preliminary fiscal year budget no later than the first Monday
in May for the following fiscal year, and submit said budget to the President for
consideration.
2. Shall Congress fail to adopt a final fiscal year budget prior to the start of each fiscal
year, which shall commence on October 1 of each year, and shall the President fail to
sign said budget into law, an automatic, across the board, 5 percent reduction in
expenditures from the prior years fiscal budget shall be imposed for the fiscal year in
which a budget has not been adopted. (Pg. 73)
3. Total outlays of the United States Government for any fiscal year shall not exceed
its receipts for that fiscal year.

4. Total outlays of the United States Government for each fiscal year shall not exceed
17.5 percent of the nations gross domestic product for the previous year.
5. Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government but shall
not include those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the
United States Government except those for the repayments of debt principal.
6. Congress many provide a one-year suspension of one or more of the preceding
sections in this article by three-fifths vote of both Houses of Congress, provided the vote
is conducted by a roll call and sets forth the specific excess of outlays over receipts or
outlays over 17.5 person of the nations gross domestic product.
7. The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased
unless three-fifths of both Houses of Congress shall provide for such an increase by a
roll call vote.
8. The amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification. (Pg.
74)
Section 8 should not be included since spending needs to be controlled ASAP. The
President should have the authority to line-item veto from the passed budget like
several state governors do.
Limiting Taxing
1. Congress shall not collect more than 15 percent of a persons annual income, from
whatever sourced derived. Person shall include natural and legal persons.
2. The deadline for filing Federal income tax returns shall be the day before the date
set for elections to Federal office.
3. Congress shall not collect tax on a decedents estates.
4. Congress shall not institute a value-added tax or national sales tax or any other tax
in kind or form.
5. This amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification. (Pg.
75)

Sections 3 and 4 are fine as written. Section 1 capping at 15% is unrealistic, as 20% is
needed to fund the government at present state. The April 15th deadline shall remain
since last years taxes should be finished by this date. This amendment would need to
take effect immediately. My amendment would read as follows:
1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed. Congress may levy a tax on incomes
provided every person is taxed nominally at the same percentage.
2. Person shall include natural and legal persons. Married couples must file a joint
tax return.
3. Congress shall not collect tax on a decedents estates.
4. Congress shall not institute a value-added tax or national sales tax or any other tax
in kind or form.
An Amendment to Limit the Federal Bureaucracy
1. All Federal departments and agencies shall expire if said departments and agencies
are not individually reauthorized in stand-alone reauthorization bills every three years
by a majority vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2. All Executive Branch regulations exceeding an economic burden of $100 million, as
determined jointly by the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional
Budget Office, shall be submitted to a permanent joint committee of Congress, hereafter
the Congressional Delegation Oversight Committee, for review and approval prior to
their implementation.
3. The Committee shall consist of seven members of the House of Representatives,
four chosen by the Speaker and three chosen by the Minority Leader; and seven
members of the Senate, four chosen by the Majority Leader and three chosen by the
Minority Leader. No member shall serve on the Committee beyond a single three-year
term. (Pp. 99-100)
4. The Committee shall vote no later than six months from the date of submission of
the regulation, either approving or disapproving the regulation by majority vote as
submitted.

5. If the Committee does not act within six months from the date of submission of the
regulation to the committee, the regulation shall be disapproved and must not by
implemented by the Executive Branch. (Pg. 100)
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
An Amendment to Promote Free Enterprise
1. Congresss power to regulate commerce is not a plenary grant of power to the
Federal government to regulate and control economic activity but a specific grant of
power limited to preventing states from impeding commerce and trade between and
among several states.
2. Congresss power to regulate commerce does not extend to activity within a state,
whether or not it affects interstate commerce; nor it does it extend to compelling and
individual or entity to participate in commerce or trade. (Pg. 117)
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
An Amendment to Protect Private Property
When any governmental entity acts not to secure a private property right against
actions that injure property powers, but to take property for a public use from a
property owner by actual seizure or through regulation, which results in a market value
reduction of the property, interference with the use of a property, or a financial loss to a
property owner exceeding $10,000 the government shall compensate fully said property
owner for such losses. (Pg. 137)
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution
1. The state legislatures, whenever two-thirds shall deem it necessary, may adopt
amendments to the Constitution.
2. Each state legislature adopting said amendments must adopt amendments identical
in subject and wording to the other state legislatures.
3. A six-year time limit is placed on adoption of an amendment, starting from the date
said amendment is adopted by the first state legislature. Each state legislature adopting
said amendment shall provide an exact copy of the adopted amendment along with an

affidavit signed and dated by the speaker of the state legislature, to the Archivist of the
United States within fifteen calendar days of its adoption. (Pg. 147)
4. Upon adoption of an amendment, a state legislature may not rescind the
amendment or modify it during the six-year period in which the amendment is under
consideration by several states legislatures. (Pg. 148)
This defeats the purpose of Article V.
An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Check Congress
1. There shall be a minimum of thirty days between the engrossing of a bill or
resolution, including amendments, and its final passage by both houses of Congress.
During the engrossment period, the bill or resolution shall be placed on the public
record, and there shall be no changes to the final bill or resolution.
2. Section 1 may be overridden by two-thirds vote of the members of each house of
Congress.
3. Upon three-fifths vote of the state legislatures, the states may override a Federal
statute.
4. Upon three-fifths vote of the state legislatures, the states may override Executive
Branch regulations exceeding an economic burden of $100 million after regulations
have been finally approved by the Congressional Delegation Oversight Committee. (Pp.
169-70)
5. The states override shall not be the subject of litigation or review in any Federal or
state court, or oversight or interference by Congress or the President.
6. The states override authority must be exercised no later than twenty-four months
from the date the President has signed the statute into law, or the Congressional
Delegation Oversight Committee has approved the final regulation, after which the
states are prohibited from exercising the override. (Pg. 170)
Sections 1 and 2 are fine, but the rest of the amendment might be over burdensome
because Congress only has the authority to make laws, not the Executive Branch.

An Amendment to Protect the Vote

1. Citizens in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia shall produce valid
photographic identification documents demonstrating evidence of their citizenship,
issued by the state government for the state in which the voter resides, as a requirement
for registering to vote and voting in any primary or general election for President, Vice
President, and Members of Congress.
2. Provisions shall be made by the state legislatures to provide such citizenshipdesignated photographic documents at no cost to individuals unable to afford fees
associated with acquiring such documents.
3. Early voting in any general election for President, Vice President, and Members of
Congress shall not be held more than thirty calendar days prior to the national day of
election except for active military personnel, for whom early vote shall not commence
more than forty-five calendar days prior to the national election. (Pg. 183-4)
4. Where registration and/or voting is not in person but by mail, citizens must submit
an approved citizen-designated photo identification and other reliable information to
state election officials to request ballots for voting, no later than forty-five days before
the primary or general election for President, Vice President, or Members of Congress.
Registrations forms must either be mailed or hand-delivered by the voter to state
election officials. If delivered by a third party, the voter must provide written
authorization for the person making the delivery and the third party must sign a
statement certifying that the did not unduly influence the voter decisions.
5. Electronic or technology-based voting systems, for the purpose of registering and
voting in national elections, are proscribed unless a reliable identification and secure
voting regimen is established by the state legislature. (Pg. 184)
References to specific offices are unnecessary since voter fraud may occur in state and
local elections as well. The procedures should be the same for all elections for all offices.
I would add a requirement for a basic 5th grade civics test.

Proposed Amendments Ratified at a Mock Convention at Colonial

Williamsburg, Sept. 22-24, 2016
(With My Commentary)
Fiscal Restraints Proposal 1.
SECTION 1. The public debt shall not be increased except upon a recorded vote of twothirds of each house of Congress, and only for a period not to exceed one year.

SECTION 2. No state or any subdivision thereof shall be compelled or coerced by

Congress or the President to appropriate money.
SECTION 3. The provisions of the first section of this amendment shall take effect 3
years after ratification.
Section 2 enforces Federalism as defined in the 10th Amendment. Section 3 should be
omitted, as the amendment should take force immediately.
Federal Legislative & Executive Jurisdiction Proposal 1.
SECTION 1. The power of Congress to regulate commerce among the several states
shall be limited to the regulation of the sale, shipment, transportation, or other
movement of goods, articles or persons. Congress may not regulate activity solely
because it affects commerce among the several states.
SECTION 2. The power of Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper to
regulate commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, shall not be
construed to include the power to regulate or prohibit any activity that is confined
within a single state regardless of its effects outside the state, whether it employs
instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a
comprehensive regulatory scheme; but Congress shall have power to define and
provide for punishment of offenses constituting acts have power to define and provide
for punishment of offenses constituting acts of war or violent insurrection against the
United States.
SECTION 3. The Legislatures of the States shall have standing to file any claim alleging
violation of this article. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit standing that
may otherwise exist for a person.
SECTION 4. This article shall become effective five years from the date of its ratification.

Section 4 should be omitted.

Federal Term Limits & Judicial Jurisdiction Proposal 1.
No person shall be elected to more than six full terms in the House of Representatives.
No person shall be elected to more than two full terms in the Senate. These limits shall
include the time served prior to the enactment of this Article.
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.
Federal Legislative & Executive Jurisdiction Proposal 2.
SECTION 1. The Legislatures of the States shall have authority to abrogate any
provision of federal law issued by the Congress, President, or Administrative agencies
of the United States, whether in the form of a statute, decree, order, regulation, rule,
opinion, decision, or other form.
SECTION 2. Such abrogation shall be effective when the Legislatures of three-fifths of
the States approve a resolution declaring the same provision or provisions of federal
law to be abrogated. This abrogation authority may also be applied to provisions of
federal law existing at the time this amendment is ratified.
SECTION 3. No government entity or official may take any action to enforce a provision
of federal law after it is abrogated according to this Amendment. Any action to enforce
a provision of abrogated federal law may be enjoined by a federal or state court of
general jurisdiction in the state where the enforcement action occurs, and costs and
attorney fees of such injunction shall be awarded against the entity or official
attempting to enforce the abrogated provision.
SECTION 4. No provision of federal law abrogated pursuant to this amendment may be
reenacted or reissued for six years from the date of the abrogation.
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.

Fiscal Restraints Proposal 2.

SECTION 1. Congress shall not impose taxes or other exactions upon incomes, gifts, or
estates.

SECTION 2. Congress shall not impose or increase any tax, duty, impost or excise
without the approval of three-fifths of the House of Representatives and three-fifths of
the Senate, and shall separately present such to the President.
SECTION 3. This Article shall be effective five years from the date of its ratification, at
which time the Sixteenth Article of amendment is repealed.
This amendment should take effect the following fiscal year after ratification.
Federal Legislative & Executive Jurisdiction Proposal 3.
Whenever one quarter of the members of the United States House of Representatives or
the United States Senate transmits to the President their written declaration of
opposition to any proposed or existing federal administrative regulation, in whole or in
part, it shall require a majority vote of the House of Representatives and Senate to adopt
or affirm that regulation. Upon the transmittal of opposition, if Congress shall fail to
vote within 180 days, such regulation shall be vacated. No proposed regulation
challenged under the terms of this Article shall go into effect without the approval of
Congress. Congressional approval or rejection of a rule or regulation is not subject to
Presidential veto under Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution.
I fully approve of this proposed amendment.