Constitutional Amendment:
During the first 30 days of a new Congress house members may petition for any act signed into law during the previous Congress be given a re-vote. Any such act receiving a number of requests equal to half the number of house members plus one must be submitted for a re-vote in the House during the second 30 days of the new Congress. No House rules may prevent the re-vote once the requisite number of requests have been submitted. For the law to be overturned the House votes to undo the law must exceed the House votes that previously passed the law, and must be a majority vote.
Any legislation signed into law after October 16th of an election year may be extended one additional Congress under the same rules.
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I have submitted that to the White House petition board to try and get the word out and discussion happening. I am very interested to hear your opinion on the idea. The basic idea is that the House is the only chamber that can reflect the current political will of the people after every election. They are the body where the electorate can decide to change direction with every election. I am not proposing any changes to how laws are passed. I am only looking for a plausible way to let the people stop the government when they stop listening to the people who cast the votes.
For clarification, the ACA passed with 219 votes in the house. Under this Amendment the next congress could have repealed it with 220 votes. If it had passed with 300 votes it would have taken 301 votes to undo it. If a law was passed with less than 50% of the votes then it takes at least 50% + 1 representatives to undo it. If a bill is signed into law on or before October 16th of an election year then the only opportunity to use this power lies with the next congress. A bill signed into law after the 17th and before the next Congress can be stopped with the next Congress or the following one. That prevents a lame duck congress from bypassing the safety net that this provides.
What are your thoughts on this? I think this would be a valuable addition to our Constitution.
I have posted this on the White House petition site in hopes of garnering some attention to the ides. The signatures it has recieved are a testament to the power of that mechanism. If you want to endorse it there you can find it at this link.... http://wh.gov/SHwt Unfortunately you have to create a profile to vote, which in light of this administration's actions toward political opponents is a risky affair.
William Benton
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Per the Declaration of Independence WE THE PEOPLE must stand up and DISOLVE the Federal Government. WE THE PEOPLE must then elect a new Federal Government which is in step with the Founders vision of a limited Federal Government. That is the way it works.
We do not need another amendment. We need our citizens to get their heads out of their rears and throw these bums to the curb without benefits. Unfortunately, our citizenry has been so dumbed down and distracted by toys to pay attention to what's going on in this country. We're getting exactly what we voted for and deserve!
I'm sorry, but, as far as I'm concerned, most of the amendments have weakened the Constitution.
Prohibition, The IRS, Making the Senators run in general elections, so that they no longer have loyalty the the individual states ect..
They are not following the Constitution now and we are not holding them accountable for their actions now. Adding more things that they can ignore while we are unable to hold them accountable will not help.
We have lost our political will and our civic duties have collected dust over the years. The only solution is to get back to what our fore fathers envisioned and that means that we have a lot of work to do.
We have allowed the inmates to run the asylum, we got lazy and now we are paying the price. There is no easy way out. We have to keep organizing on the local level on up.
Obamacare needs to be repealed in it's entirety.
Thank you. Affordable Care needs to be repealed in it's entirety.
When you have Demokrauts, LYING, NOT COMPLYING, and Republicans, stumbling, and mumbling, there is no LEGAL GOVERNMENT. IT IS TIME WE THE PEOPLE TAKE IT BACK. When they no longer follow the Constitution, and instead, tell us what we will have to do, rather than us telling them, how we choose to be governed, we no longer have a say in the running of this country. THEY WILL NOT LISTEN, DON'T CARE, CAN'T HEAR, AND HAVE NO FEAR. iT IS TIME TO TAKE TO THE STREETS AGAINST THIS THUG GOVERNMENT. This country requires that people of good will be at the head of it. There is always a way to stick a crowbar into the rule of law, and twist it all out of shape, to their own benefit. The problem is basically, that the ruling class, no longer has the GOOD of the WHOLE country at the core of their concern. But instead are intent on destruction for all of us. What we need is a committed OPPOSITION GENERAL TO LEAD US. WHEN THE RULE OF LAW IS IGNORED, OR OTHERWISE OVERLOOKED, THEN WE THE PEOPLE MUST ACT, IN CONCERT. If we don't, then our daughters will become the cattle of Sharia law, just as our president wants. There are already over thirty Muslim training camps in our country. What is there to stop them from open assault on our helpless Sunday morning church meetings,....NOTHING!!! There is one of these camps just over 100 miles from my home, what about your home?
new govt -time to rid of these bastards!
All I can say is, if they pass this BS piece of garbage is I Will Not Comply!
I have always felt that Obamacare should be repealed because of Nancy Poloose's remarks " We need to pas this so we can find out what's in it." If that does show total in confidences on the democrats part -- well i don't know how you could make it any clear.
Its really much simpler. We now have a government that only follow laws that they agree with, one
might say a lawless government, a scandal ridden government. Since 70% of the american people
were against the affordable care act those 70% should stand up and say we will not participate in
any law we had no say in.
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