2. An elected, appointed, or hired representative of the federal government who delays or blocks an investigation into a representative’s activities or records shall be removed from office upon completion of the investigation.

3. An elected, appointed, or hired representative of the federal government who knowingly breaks the law may be subject to lawsuits by U.S. citizens.

SECTION ll: ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT

A. Representatives

1. It shall be a felony for an elected, appointed, or hired representative of the federal government to protect or promote corporate or political interests over those of the health and well-being of U.S. citizens and the environment.

9. Any confidentiality agreement between a U.S. citizen and the government or a corporation shall be made void if the contract conflicts with the health, welfare, and well-being of the public or the environment.

10. Whistleblowers shall be protected from: losing their jobs, lawsuits, criminal charges, and other negative consequences of their actions in disclosing governmental or corporate wrong-doing.

L. Corporations shall not possess constitutional rights.

1. Corporate entities shall no longer be granted constitutional rights possessed by U.S. citizens.

2. In any election, voters shall have the opportunity to recall their elected representative by a sixty percent majority of votes. If the elected representative is removed from office with a sixty percent majority vote, then the appropriate state legislature may appoint a replacement until an election can be held.

3. U.S. citizens shall have the right to remove any federally appointed official by a sixty percent majority of votes, including members of the Cabinet, heads of federal agencies, and U.S. Supreme Court Justices.

K. Citizens' Right to Recall President and Vice President

1. U.S. citizens shall have the right to recall and remove the President or Vice President from office by a sixty percent majority of votes. If the President or Vice President is removed, a replacement shall be appointed according to the Articles of Succession contained in the U.S. Constitution.
 

J. Citizens' Right to Enact and Veto Legislation

1. U.S. citizens shall have the right to enact and veto legislation that has been signed into law. Citizens shall enact this right by petitioning and voting on said legislation.

I. Habeas Corpus

1. The right to Habeas Corpus13 under Section 9, Article I of the Constitution shall be guaranteed for every U.S. citizen, enemy combatant, and foreign citizen.

H. Eighth Amendment

1. Cruel and unusual punishment shall be prohibited by law.

2. No person, whether a U.S. citizen, foreign national, or enemy combatant, shall be subjected to excessive punishment or torture.

3. The use of capital punishment and all forms of torture shall be prohibited.
 

G. Eminent Domain

1. Property taken by eminent domain shall be used only for public infrastructure, and not in support of commercial or private development.

2. Federal, state, and local governments are prohibited from using eminent domain, expropriation, or condemnation to transfer private property from a landowner to another person, entity, or corporation without the landowner’s consent.

F. Fifth Amendment

1. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

2. There shall be no confiscation of assets without trial and conviction.

2. Any constitutional right or freedom taken away by the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, or other legislation or Presidential order or directive shall be immediately restored.

E. Unconstitutional Legislation and Presidential Orders and Directives.

1. The Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, the 2007 National Security Presidential Directive 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20, and other unconstitutional Presidential orders and directives shall be revoked.

D. Fourth Amendment

1. U.S. citizens shall be guaranteed the right to privacy, as implied by the Fourth and Ninth Amendments.

2. There shall be no warrantless searches or electronic surveillance of people’s homes, property, communications, computers, or medical and financial records. All citizens shall be secure in their personal, financial, legal, physical, and medical activity. Internet activity shall not be monitored.

3. Absent a current warrant, the U.S. government, corporations, or agents thereof shall not spy upon or accumulate data on U.S. citizens. All prior data accumulated in violation of Fourth Amendment and privacy rights shall be destroyed.

4. There shall be no sharing of the personal data of citizens by government, corporations, or other entities unless a citizen formally agrees to allow such data to be shared.

6. Internet privacy shall be inviolate. Neither government nor industry shall be allowed to use the internet for collecting data on U.S. citizens.

7. “No-knock” practices by police departments and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall be banned, absent a current warrant.

8. U.S. citizens shall not be mandated to carry national identity cards, with or without electronic chips. Microchips shall not be implanted in the body of any U.S. citizen for any reason.

5. No government agency shall monitor financial transactions in any amount absent a current warrant.

B. First Amendment

1. Freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly are constitutional rights and shall be guaranteed by law. No one shall be arrested, lose their job, or be sued for expressing a point of view.

2. “Free-speech zones” intended to stifle dissent from government policies or actions shall be declared unlawful.

3. No one shall be arrested or put on “no-fly” lists for speaking out against the government, or for disagreeing with, or participating in protests against the President, Vice President, or elected representatives or their policies. “No-fly” lists shall be eliminated.

4. The federal and state governments and their agencies shall be forbidden from identifying, profiling, scanning with facial recognition software, listing in a database, detaining, or attacking any protestor for exercising the constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly.

C. Second Amendment

1. The U.S. government shall not limit or track ammunition or small arm sales. Ammunition and small arms shall be freely and affordably available to all U.S. citizens.

SECTION lV. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

A. Denial of Constitutional Freedoms

1. Any constitutional right or freedom lost through legislation, Presidential order or other directive, shall immediately be restored.

2. A denial of constitutional rights or freedom shall be declared a felony. This includes denial of constitutional freedom stemming from an Executive Order of the President and actions of Congress, the Supreme Court, or officer of the law.

B. Campaigns

1. The U.S. Treasury shall finance Presidential and Vice Presidential elections. Financing for U.S. Congressional campaigns shall come from the treasury of the state in which the candidate resides. States, counties, and cities shall mandate public financing for those running for elected office. Public monies shall be divided equally among all qualified candidates. Qualified candidates may come from any party with more than 100,000 voting members across the United States, and not just from the Democratic or Republican parties.

2. Money or support shall not be contributed to any political campaign.
    Until a ban on lobbying is implemented, political action committees, corporations, Section 527 non-profit organizations, and lobbyists shall be banned from giving money, seed money, soft money, and gifts or in-kind contributions of any kind to a candidate or campaign, and shall be banned from working for or against a candidate.
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3. A U.S. citizen may make a maximum contribution of $50 in seed money to a candidate or as regards an election issue.
 

4. A citizen must collect 100,000 signatures to qualify as a Presidential candidate. A qualified candidate for any other office is a citizen who can raise a to-be-determined threshold amount of seed money and/or signatures on a petition.

5. Television and radio stations shall give free and equal campaign airtime to qualified candidates.

6. The non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates, controlled by the Democrats and Republicans, shall be replaced. The federal government shall establish a Commission on Debates comprised of all qualified parties. Qualified parties shall be those that have more than 100,000 voting members in the United States.

13. Neither private companies nor publicly held corporations shall manage or operate elections, vote counts, or election information.
    At minimum a private election management company shall be subject to the same Freedom of Information Act requirements as public agencies and shall be subject to citizen oversight and monitoring of election records, and ballot counting. FOIA transparency shall include proprietary software and all internal communication pertaining to elections.

14. Private election management companies shall be forever prohibited from doing business in the United States if it is found that any officer, director, employee, or representative of the company is convicted of tampering with the vote.

15. The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission shall be eliminated.

17. Voters shall be allowed to express their dissatisfaction with candidates or choices of candidates. The category, “None of the above,” shall appear on ballots and these votes shall be tallied.

16. County, city, state, and federal elections shall use an Instant Run-off Election system if a candidate does not receive more than fifty percent of the vote.

3. To increase voter turnout, Election Day in any county, state, or federal election shall be declared a holiday.

4. The Electoral College shall be eliminated to give the proper one-person, one-vote representation in Presidential elections.

5. Exit polling shall be mandated in every election with an automatic recount if there is a two-percent discrepancy from official results. Exit poll results shall be withheld until all polling stations are closed.

6. Election records shall be freely open to the public. U.S. citizens shall monitor elections and election records, including, but not limited to, ballot counting. Access to records must be timely—before elections are certified. (credit: blackboxvoting.org)