The Failure of Representative Government and the Solution by Senator Mike Gravel

The Failure of Representative Government and the Solution by Senator Mike Gravel

Author:Senator Mike Gravel [Gravel, Senator Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781728339306
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2020-01-03T05:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 4

THE ANNOTATED VERSION OF THE CITIZENS AMENDMENT AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES ACT

Citizens Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Section 1. The sovereign authority of the people of the United States, vested in an independent Legislature of the People wherein individual citizens can exercise their legislative power in a deliberative process to enact, repeal, and amend public policies, laws, charters, and constitutions via local, state, and national legislation, shall not be denied or abridged by any federal, state, or local government of the United States.

This section asserts the exercise of the people’s legislative power. The technology today permits us to simply ask the American people via a national election if they wish to create a Legislature of the People wherein they as individual citizens will be able to introduce and vote on laws, and amend constitutions and charters, in a deliberative process based on the legislative procedures enacted in companion legislation: Citizens Legislative Procedures Act.

Section 2. The citizens of the United States hereby sanction the national election conducted by the Philadelphia II organization and hereby establish the number of votes necessary to ratify this Citizens Amendment, and enact the accompanying Citizens Legislative Procedures Act, as the majority of popular votes cast in the most recent presidential election.

Opposition to creating a Legislature of the People will question the legitimacy and legality of Philadelphia II, a group of volunteer citizens, to conduct a national election that gives citizens an opportunity to vote for a Legislature of the People. Their opposition is based on the fact that there are no overt procedures in the Constitution permitting people to amend it or to enact laws.

Opposition to the Philadelphia II-conducted election is not based on any violation of law since the Constitution makes no reference to the people’s electoral power other than their right “to assemble” in the first amendment—an election is an assembly of people. Additionally, “We the People … do ordain …” in the preamble clearly affirms the power of the people to create, alter, and improve their government, a view repeatedly stated by the Founders.

Article VII, the creation article of the Constitution, was legally in violation of the Confederation Constitution, which mandated that any change must be by unanimous agreement thereby making the Philadelphia Constitution on its surface illegal.

Article VII: “The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.”

Article VII, creating our government, was an electoral process that permitted state conventions to ratify the Constitution and at the same time to sanction the actions of those nine state conventions in creating a new constitutional government for those nine states.

Acceptance by the people made the process legal. Opponents of the Constitution simply caved in. They knew the confederation was unraveling, putting their political power and their property interests at risk.

Section 3. A Citizens Trust is hereby created to administer the legislative procedures created by the accompanying Citizens Legislative Procedures Act and to conduct elections on proposed legislation in all government jurisdictions.



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