Text of proposed
SOVEREIGNTY AND
STATES RIGHTS AMENDMENT
ARTICLE 28 (or alternate number to be assigned by Congress)
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Text of proposed
SOVEREIGNTY AND STATES RIGHTS
AMENDMENT
ARTICLE 28 (or alternate number to be
assigned by Congress)
Section
1. America’s
constitutional history and historical experience is unique among nations and
revered by the American people. Because we are a Constitutional Republic as
mandated in Article IV, Section 4, of the United States Constitution, this
Article protects and reaffirms States Rights that have been eroded by
Congressional statutes, Judicial decisions, Executive Orders and regulatory
rulings. It also mandates that the peoples’ government retain its
Constitutional, State and National sovereignty in all domestic and international
affairs.
Section
2. To secure the
inherent sovereign rights of citizens and the sovereign authority of the United
States Constitution it is prohibited for the government to pass any law, enact
any regulation or adjudicate any matter in federal or State Court(s), that would
diminish, in any way, the authority the United States has to govern itself as a
sovereign nation and as a Constitutional Republic. The Article prohibits the
government from abdicating, in any way, the peoples’ sovereign Constitutional
authority to any nation, or to any regulatory agency (domestic or foreign), or
to the United Nations, or to any International tribunal or governing body, or to
any domestic or foreign military force (including NATO) or policing authority,
or by Presidential Executive Order, or by an Act of Congress (including the
House of Representatives and the Senate), or by Presidential approval by
signature of any such Act of Congress, or by any International Treaty or
Treaties, or by any other method or strategy that might be conceived to
surrender or in actuality does surrender the United States’ National, States
and Constitutional sovereignty.
Section
3. The Article
further prohibits the President from declaring Martial Law, or any modified form
of Martial Law, without the approval of three quarters of both Houses of
Congress. If Congress concurs and Martial Law is declared by the President,
then Congress must re-affirm the active status of Martial Law every 30 days with
a two thirds vote in both Houses until such time that Congress decides to
rescind Martial Law with a majority vote in both Houses. If Congress does not
re-affirm the active status of Martial before 30 days expires, then Martial Law
at 12:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time on the 31st day will be
automatically rescinded. Only the President of the United States, or his
Constitutionally authorized successor, accompanied by a concurring vote of three
quarters both Houses of Congress can declare Martial Law. This Section 3. does
not prohibit Congress from enacting additional conditions or restrictions that
shall be required before the President is authorized to declare Martial Law.
Section
4. The Article also
prohibits the President or any agency of the Executive Branch, or any branch of
the military, or any security agency of government, or any other government body
or agency from infringing on the Constitutional rights of citizens. This
prohibition includes the use of electronic surveillance and any other intrusive
method that the government might use to violate the Constitutional privacy
rights of citizens. Notwithstanding, when a duly authorized search warrant
showing probable cause in an appropriate jurisdiction has been issued, then
electronic surveillance or other methods of surveillance can be employed in
order to protect the security of American citizens. This Section 4. does not
change the provisions and protections that citizens retain in Amendment IV of
the United States Constitution.
Section
5. The Article
restores State sovereignty in our Constitutional Republic. State Legislatures
in the several States shall have the authority to disallow any Congressional
statute, law or ruling, Judicial decision, regulatory ruling by any government
agency, or any other government mandate imposed on them when in the opinion of
60 percent of State Legislatures the law or ruling adversely affects their
States’ interest. In such cases, the countermand decision of each State shall
be delivered by each countermanding State to the leadership of both Houses of
Congress, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the President of
the United States and when applicable the Regulatory Agency in question. When
60 percent of State Legislatures countermand a law or regulatory ruling, the law
or ruling in question will be immediately and automatically nullified and
repealed. The State Legislatures shall have six months to complete their
countermands. If 60 percent of the State Legislatures do not countermand by the
end of six months, the Congressional statute, Judicial law, Executive Order, or
regulatory ruling will remain in full effect. Notwithstanding, Section 6 will
remain an option for State Legislatures if they decide any law or ruling is
onerous to their States’ interest after it has been enacted.
Section
6. Existing laws
and regulatory rulings can be nullified and repealed with a countermand from 60
percent of the State Legislatures in the several States. When 60 percent of the
State Legislatures countermand an existing law or regulatory ruling it will be
nullified and repealed after 3 months from the date all countermands are
delivered to the leadership of both Houses of Congress, the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, the President of the United States and when applicable the
Regulatory Agency in question.
Section
7. Any elected or
non-elected government official, or non-government individual or principal of
any private entity, who intentionally obstructs and/or prevents the enforcement
of the provisions of this Article will have committed a criminal offense and
will be subject to impeachment, when appropriate, and criminal prosecution and
upon conviction serve up to five years in prison. Individual States shall have
authority to prosecute violators of this Article under State laws in the absence
of Federal prosecution after 90 days from the date of the alleged violation.
Multiple prosecutions, by multiple States, for the same alleged crime are
prohibited.
Section 8.
The Article shall be immediately part of the United States Constitution upon
ratification by three quarters of the State Legislatures in the several States.
Section
9. The provisions
of this Article are enforceable within the United States which shall include the
Several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the territories and possessions
of the United States.
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