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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Freedom Policy Recommendations

Restore habeas corpus for those detained by the government and its subcontractors. Repeal the Military Commissions Act and 2006 Defense Authorization Act. Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security, devolving any beneficial functions to other entities.

Pass the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007, Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, Congressional Lawmaking Authority Protection Act of 2007, Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007, American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba Detention Center Closure Act of 2007, Military Commissions Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, National Security Letters Reform Act of 2007, State Secrets Protection Act, National Security with Justice Act of 2007, Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007, Open Government Act of 2007, Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act (OPEN) Government Act of 2007, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, Whistleblower Protection Bill, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization Act of 2007, RESTORE Act of 2007 (Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed and Effective Act), Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2009, OPEN FOIA Act of 2009, FISA Amendments Act of 2009, National Security Letters Reform ACT of 2009, State Secrets Protection Act, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Protection Act of 2009, and NSA Oversight Act. 

Amend laws to eliminate contradictions in the directions of increased real beneficence and self-determination, not assertions of evidence-free rules and evidence-free beneficence.

Repeal the USA Patriot Act.

Repeal the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2011 and 2013.

Repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

Permit property owners and renters to audio and video record without consent almost everywhere on their own and rented properties, except bathrooms, bedrooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms.

Allow private companies and individuals to deliver all forms of mail.

Require at least 20 percent of calories handed out by government funded food banks to be from legumes, not including sweet peas, green beans, and yellow split peas.

Prohibit sales, excise, and value-added taxes on condoms, diapers, pacifiers, toothbrushes, dental floss, hand grips, ankle weights, medical services, residential rents, exercise bands, hard orthotics, lead-free ammunition, prescription eyeglasses, prescription pharmaceuticals, non-motorized mowers, menstrual hygiene products, prescription medical devices, used goods sold by non-corporations, Herman Miller Aeron style or better chairs under $800, extra firm mattresses under $980, athletic shoes under $80, formerly prescription only pharmaceuticals now sold over the counter, commercial rents under $5,000 per month, greater than $10,000 industrial machinery, new tires when an identical number of old tires have been returned for proper disposal, unprepared foods containing fewer than 12 percent of their calories from meat or sugars, and prepared foods containing fewer than 12 percent of their calories from meat or sugars, along with cob, mudbrick, earthbag, earthship, straw bale, Earth block, rammed Earth, and fiberglass building materials.

Ban government entities from requiring funeral directors after deaths. Ban government entities from requiring cremations or burials of miscarriages and aborted fetuses. Ban government entities from requiring burial caskets. Ban government entities from requiring that ocean scattered cremated remains be scattered any specific distance from shore. Ban government entities from banning home property burials, provided next-of-kin sign legal statements agreeing that they have no legal rights to visit the burial sites should the property be obtained by entities not willing to grant access. Ban cemeteries from requiring customers to buy markers or headstones from only them.

Repeal the Passenger Vessels Services Act.

Ban government entities from purchasing advertising on media entities containing political content.

Prohibit child support requirements from non-biological and non-legally adopted alleged parents of children. Permit anyone accused of being the biological parent of a child to obtain DNA evidence proving parenthood or non-parenthood.

Require that at least 97 percent of state and federal goods purchases by price be at least 95 percent manufactured in the US, except during pandemic national emergencies or wars consuming at least 40 percent of GDP, beginning 44 months after passage of this law.

Ban chiropracty and acupuncture.

Ban phase I, II, and III trials from charging study participants.

Require Internet transactions to pay the same sales, excise, and value-added taxes as other transactions. Pass a net neutrality law.

Prevent operating system providers from restricting customer chosen use of non-malware third party applications.

Repeal Section 1021 and Section 1022 from the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

Ban entities convicted of wage theft from government contracts.

Prohibit government entities from requiring running water in homes worth under $80,000, provided such homes have rain barrels or tanks with combined storage greater than 200 gallons per person living in the households.

Require all law enforcement officials to take an annual oath stating it is not illegal to audio or video record the public behaviors of law enforcement officials and that they will not arrest or prosecute anyone for audio or video recording public activities, and that they will not confiscate those audio or video recordings. Withhold federal funds to any state or local government that concocts laws banning the recording of any public activities.

Do not enforce federal laws on the distribution and possession of laughing gas and alkyl nitrites in states that have decriminalized these substances.

Prohibit face and body exposing interviews for Federal government jobs, except in the Department of Defense and Department of Justice.

Prohibit laws restricting the use of cognitive testing by schools and employers.

Expand 18 USC 610 to include the coercion or commanding or intimidation of private sector, state government, and local government employees to have or not have specific political views, not including any claim to employment based on having political views differing from employers.

Grant any citizen significantly harmed by a monopoly or oligopoly the right the launch antitrust lawsuits.

Pass the Community Access Preservation Act of 2009 and The Local Community Radio Act. Ban media mergers and acquisitions involving media corporations having book values greater than $60 million. Prohibit all foreign entities from owning any US media entity that uses the US electromagnetic spectrum or has wires crossing US public lands.

Ban scroll increasing software updates without user opt-in.

Ban managers and employers from receiving any portion of tips given to other workers.

Pass the Open App Markets Act.

Require non-gated publicly owned parking lots and entities sending or receiving semi shipments to permit licensed semis and semi drivers to park and sleep overnight during non-working hours when available spaces exist, eliminating those entities' lawsuit liabilities for damages suffered by such drivers and semis. Create a $600 mandatory minimum littering fine at such locations.

Prohibit states from restricting judges' jury award changes.

Repeal all exemptions from libel and slander laws for all charities and corporations worth more than $24 million.

Randomly survey Lifeline phone participants. Prohibit companies having year-long user reported ratings below 2.8 on a zero to five scale from participating in the program.

Repeal the Hart–Cellar Act.

Pass the IG Independence and Empowerment Act.

Defund highway removal programs.

Strike investor state dispute settlements from trade agreements.

Prohibit purchasers of properties from being bound by restrictive covenants created by property sellers.

Prohibit government employees, former regulators, former political appointees, and former elected officials from non-disclosure agreements, including verbal non-disclosure agreements, except for classified information and attorney-client privileges. 

Prohibit states and local governments from regulating the amounts landlords charge for security deposits. Require new tenants to post photographic evidence of rental unit conditions to unalterable, date stamped internet sites.

Pass the Corporate Executive Accountability Act.

Require every publicly traded corporation to have at least one worker, elected by non-supervisory co-workers, on its board of directors.

Implement most of these reforms by Scott Amey, Sean Moulton, Geoff Wilson, Joanna Derman, and Joe Spielberger.

Ban US citizens and former citizens from donating to non-domestic politicians, political campaigns, and political NGOs.

Pass the Import Security and Fairness Act, closing the loophole permitting counterfeit imports and imports failing to pay fees, duties, and taxes.

Eliminate the so-called Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Use payment oversight reforms.

Ban current and former Federal elected officials and political appointees, along with their first degree relatives, including by marriage, from sitting on corporate and charitable boards.

Strengthen the Freedom of Information Act.

Pass the Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation Act, helping prevent advantage taking of adults having guardians.

Require providers of gift cards and under $100 balance remaining prepaid debit cards to return remaining balances to card bearers in cash upon bearer request. Prohibit gift cards and prepaid debit cards from having expiration dates. Prohibit fees on gift cards and prepaid debit cards.

Prohibit property theft by squatting.

Prohibit foreign and or multinational entities from donating to entities operating in the United States, except for food, housing, and healthcare donated to individuals below the top 10 percent in wealth or incomes.

Prohibit state and local taxes on non-alcohol foods served for takeout or outdoor dining.

Ban law enforcement entities from supervising and or serving as coroners and or medical examiners.

Require employee classification for citizens working for the same entity at least 80 days per year and not having a business license while working for the entity.

Pass the 2022 CFO Vision Act and 2021 Administrative False Claims Act.

Ban anyone having a financial crime conviction, causing greater than $5,000 in harms, from political appointments and government elected positions. Ban CEOs, former CEOs, and corporate majority owners, who previously filed for personal or business bankruptcy, from political appointments and government elected positions. 

Prohibit foreign governments from suing US citizens having wealth under 9.4 million dollars in US courts. Prohibit foreign governments from suing non- multinational US organizations having book values under 19.1 million dollars in US courts.

Pass the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act. Permit airline pilots above 65 to continue piloting if they have overall health and cognitive functioning, including fluid reasoning, better than the median 60-year-old. Require such pilots to undergo annual tests for overall health and cognitive functioning.

Ban non-disclosure agreements involving government entities and government employees, except for sufficient physical safety and national security reasons.

Pass the Allied Partnership and Port Modernization Act and the Incentivizing Expansion of US ports Act.

Prohibit white collar criminals, who caused at least $200,000 in harms, from prison early release programs.

Pass the Competitive Dollar for Jobs and Prosperity Act. Suspend "tax waivers on foreign government holdings of US financial assets in the" United States... "offset purchases of the foreign assets those countries found to be engaging in currency manipulation purchases known as countervailing currency intervention." Pass the Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act.

Prohibit employers from requiring workers to kneel while working.

Prohibit business and foreign entity software from collecting and distributing users' geolocation data, except for 911 services and or when users click to opt in to only geolocation data specific questions.

Prohibit corporate user agreements from containing provisions violating state, local, and or federal laws.

Prohibit any entity from remotely turning on any US citizen electronic device without a court ordered warrant from a democratically elected US citizen judge.

Prohibit private employers from demanding access to electronic devices owned by employees and contractors.

Require drivers to be paid hourly wages, reserving per mile remuneration for work caused costs on drivers' own vehicles.

Eliminate federal and state term limits, except those related to retirement ages.

Ban Chinese, Russian, and OIC companies from being on US stock exchanges.

Require at least one "Pedestrians have the right of way everywhere in parking lots and on sidewalks," sign in all parking lots larger than 6,000 square feet.

Require book value greater than 3,010,000 times median annual household income businesses to break up, banning any entity from owning a plurality or more of more than one offshoot.

Ban for profit electronic device operating systems designers from including political propaganda in their operating systems.

Pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. Pass the Ending Platform Monopolies Act.

Ban any individual from simultaneously sitting on the board of more than one corporation or charity.

Pass the Delete Act regulating data brokers.

Matt Stoller: break up the FDA, "so that its drugs and food divisions are separate, and it needs to take its mandate seriously to make for a resilient supply chain."

Pass the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022.

Ban race, ethnicity, and religion norming government and corporate employee performance evaluations.

Ban government entity exemptions from sales, excise, and value added taxes.

Pass a federal law similar to the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act (PDF).

Require publicly traded corporations to change their charters when shareholders holding at least 55 percent of their stocks approve, provided the changes do not violate laws and legal contracts.

Require public publication of budget appropriation requests made by government entities, except Federal top secret requests.

Permit websites to put warnings about cookies in small fonts at the bottoms of pages rather than using pop-ups.

Ban government contracting with media companies having book values greater than 2.4 billion dollars. Ban government contracting with media companies having billionaires as largest shareholders.

Prohibit states and local governments from regulating embryo screening.

Pass the Preventing a Patronage System Act.

Ban the sale, purchase, and importation of guard dog, brachycephalic dog, and chronic pain prone dog breeds— including Rottweilers, pitbulls, and their mixes—except by military and law enforcement entities. Ban the sale, purchase, importation, and deliberate  breeding of dog breeds and mixed breeds causing more than ten human mauling deaths per decade, per 3.8 million breed population.

Ban the sale, purchase, and importation of dog breeds having mean adult weights greater than 60 pounds.

Ban the sale and purchase of the 14 dog breeds most likely to suffer heat stroke at counties and parishes having mean summer daytime highs greater than Milwaukee.

Ban for profit computer operating system corporations from selling software other than operating systems.

Require businesses to return positive balances to customers canceling services, regardless of scam language buried in user agreements.

Ban corporations from owning or leasing slaughterhouses; ban corporations from owning or leasing seafood or freshwater food processing facilities; require such ownership by sole proprietors or first degree relative partnerships, limiting owners to one such facility, banning subleasing.

Pass the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act.

Ban publicly funded faculty and administrators from accepting non-school remuneration for speeches.

Ban political appointees and elected officials from making purchases worth over $2,000 for under 80 percent of market value.

Ban political appointees and elected officials from selling objects and services for more than 120 percent of market value.

Require the central bank to make all its loan information public.

Prohibit states and local governments from requiring GMO labeling on GMO foods.

Impeach every living ex-president. Revoke most presidential pardons given by them.

Restore legal duties and funding to the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration, along with Farmer Fair Practices Interim Final Rules. Repeal the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.

Prohibit worker, management, and contractor contracts restricting the use of ethically efficient automation.

Require entities hiring non-business license having repair, domestic, construction, and landscaping help to provide 1099s when their helpers' annual remuneration exceeds $500.

Require each subscription having business to have an unsubscribe link in at least 12 point font on its home page, taking subscribers to only one other page, where subscribers may unsubscribe while being asked no more than three questions.

Prohibit states and local governments from restricting which groups elected officials and political appointees belong to, except rape, murder, terrorism, monarchism, religious rule, and financial crime advocating groups.

Create a resolution, in the event of coercive take over of Taiwan by China, recognizing the Taiwanese government as the government of all China, except Tibet.

Require anonymous coroners or medical examiners in politically relevant cases, assigned by an inspector general.

Prohibit non-disclosure agreements between government entities and businesses, except for sufficient trade secret and national security reasons.

Require leasors to release housing leasees from leases upon written request of leasees or their legal representatives when leasees have been hospitalized for more than one week or are the victim of law enforcement documented stalking or acquire a new government determined disability.

Require open to the public government offices to start later and stay open until at least 6:00 p.m. at least one day per week.

Prohibit non-compete agreements for non-governmental employees earning under $26 per hour and 1099 recipients earning under a mean of $590 per work day. Ban non-compete agreements for gig workers earning under the 1099 yearly minimum.

Prohibit cell phone companies, internet service providers, and publicly funded Wi-Fi providers from blocking domestic political websites.

Pass the Journalism Competition Preservation Act of 2021.

Prohibit rental application fees from exceeding 290 percent of the local minimum hourly wage.

At the start of each presidential term, randomly select congresspersons to appoint one person to the White House Office of Legal Counsel, until filling the entire OLC staff. Fire unselected staff from the previous administration. Prohibit executive branch members from firing OLC staff. Require at least 60 percent Congressional vote to fire OLC staff. Require public publication of all non-classified OLC opinions.

Prohibit states and local governments from restricting the sheathed carry of machetes and hunting knives for hunting, gathering, gardening, landscaping, and self-defense purposes on open to the public sidewalks, in lawfully possessed vehicles, on possessor owned properties, on possessor rented properties, and on non-restricted public lands by adults having neither felony nor violent misdemeanor convictions.

Require government investigators to recuse themselves when investigations should investigate first, second or third degree relatives of investigators. Or current or former lovers or classmates of investigators. Or their employers or employees.

Ban any entity being non-labor boycotted, threatened with a non-labor boycott or threatened by extortion related criminal activities, from giving money, goods, services or employment to the entities threatening them or to other entities allied with the threatening entities.

Prohibit current and former elected officials and political appointees from signing non-disclosure agreements with businesses, except for sufficient national security or intellectual property protection reasons.

Prohibit zoning ordinances, except those prohibiting highly probable, sufficiently harmful noise violations, street parking violations, safety violations, pollution violations or mood altering drug violations.

Require government permit issuing entities to reach permit decisions within 60 days for housing construction and 150 days for other activities, reducing relevant government employee salaries 0.1 percent for each day of delay past 150.

Repeal all or parts of Comstock laws, not involving child exploitation.

Prohibit lawsuits based on anti-meritarian disparate impact assertions.

Prohibit states and local governments from requiring safety inspections more than once every two years and emissions inspections more than once every four years of under 16-year-old gasoline powered motor vehicles.

Pass the Sensitive Technologies Supply Chain Risk Management Act of 2022.

Require losing lawsuit defendants to pay only their proportion of fault, not the proportion of dead, insolvent or otherwise unobtainable defendants.

Require all internet browsers to have easy-to-use, user controllable site blocking features.

Double the value added tax on new appliances and other household goods that connect to the internet.

Pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act.

Pass these air travel reforms.

Ban public-private partnerships using government funds, except with manufacturers having all their blue collar employees in the United States and paying all their employees at least $15 per hour.

Amend the National Labor Relations Act  to include the well-reasoned claims of domestic laborers, agricultural laborers, and independent contractors.

Repeal the misnamed Civil Rights Act of 1991.

In the event that reforms similar to this website are not enacted, peacefully divide the United States into thousands of smaller countries, including countries where ethical reasoning prevails, rather than selfish, wishful, repetitive, group-think, self-satisfied, confirmation biased litmus test demagoguery.

J.T. Fournier, last updated January 10, 2024

Constitutional Amendments

Pass legislation if constitutional, then constitutional amendments accomplishing the following:
  • eliminating the United States Senate, devolving any beneficial functions to the House, excluding filibusters
  • banning all forms of honoraria and remuneration for speaking engagements by current and former elected officials and Federal appointees
  • banning non-majority congresspersons and unelected individuals from holding up legislation by non-democratic means
  • eliminating the current Federal Reserve, placing a new Central Bank under control a majority or plurality citizen vote elected five-year term head
  • giving majority House vote the right to mail equal, well-reasoned sums of money to all U.S. citizens when there exists a shortfall in U.S. demand and U.S. inflation is excessively low, banning corporate bailouts, except for well-reasoned manufacturing or national security concerns, prohibiting bailouts of foreign entities, including multinational entities having at least one quarter of their employees outside the United States
  • giving the Central Bank head the right to buy and retire federal government bonds
  • requiring Central Bank lending to be both profitable and a beneficial creator of non-financial goods and services
  • banning the Central Bank from making or having loans at rates below the inflation rate
  • prohibiting the Central Bank from employing former private sector financial industry employees in jobs paying more than the local median household income per year
  • banning anyone from simultaneously working for the Central Bank and private for profit entities
  • banning private entities from owning any portion of the Central Bank
  • requiring implementation of Central Bank policies by the elected Central Bank head and government employees appointed by the head
  • banning former Central Bank employees from working in the financial industry
  • eliminating the nine person Supreme Court, creating and electing a new two-year office for the United States Attorney General and a one person two-year term Supreme Court chosen by nationwide instant runoff vote
  • requiring all judges and federal elected officials to take at least a 500 hour course in accurately weighing evidence prior to becoming a judges or elected officials
  • requiring all judges to be elected to two-year terms.
  • permitting any contiguous, non-polygamist, non-aggressive group of 60 plus citizens having mean per capita wealth and income below 290 percent of the US mean per capita wealth and income to peacefully secede along with their assets, permitting them to secede with a percentage of national land no greater than their percentage of the general population.
  • overturning Citizens United
  • eliminating judicial review
  • adding any law previously overturned by courts to general election ballots for voter review, automatically reinstating any law approved by a majority of legally voting voters
  • banning courts from overturning the same law again
  • putting federal laws overturned by courts on ballots nationwide and state laws overturned on in-state ballots
  • requiring all military employees to take a yearly oath to defend American individuals from unwarranted violence
  • requiring a special election within 80 days to fill any vacated federal elected, non-presidential office, banning governor appointed individuals from filling the office for more than 90 days
  • limiting maximum elected official annual all source earnings to nine times the median annual earnings of full-time, full-year workers
  • reducing presidential and legislator salaries ten percent each non-quarantine 200 consecutive day period the unemployment rate is above 5.4 percent
  • banning military interventions lasting more than 20 days without weekly majority House approval
  • requiring federal elected officials to participate in a military draft lottery each term, with a 15 percent chance of being drafted into the infantry as an enlisted soldier, with no age, medical or other excuses for escaping service, to be served for two years at the end of each elected term
  • Requiring US Army drafting as E-1s of individuals having net worths greater than 200 million dollars and or previous year incomes greater than 14 million dollars after any three month period when US military combat casualties exceed 130 for each month, except individuals having terminal, federally accredited degrees in medicine or engineering or physical sciences, except software engineering
  • requiring E-1 US Army drafting of pundits earning more than $99,000 in the previous year after any three month period when US military combat casualties exceed 130 for each month
  • requiring billionaires and pundits earning more than $99,000 per year to be drafted into the infantry following any month with more than 400 US combat casualties
  • eliminating the electoral college and instead electing presidents by nationwide instant runoff vote
  • creating party-list and independent candidate proportional representation in the House with seats awarded to non-party candidates or party candidates who receive the most votes
  • permitting the United States president to introduce legislation requiring a House vote
  • distributing House seats by the best research methods, using independent, blinded redistricting czars to eliminate gerrymandering
  • eliminating all lifetime judicial appointments, creating judicial terms of maximum two years
  • banning all United States entities from providing financial or material support to insurgents or counterinsurgents working to spread Islam, globalism, Hitlerism, communism, monarchism, multiculturalism, neoconservatism, rapturism, armageddonism, third wayism or laissez-faire economics
  • banning all United States entities from providing financial or material support to insurgents or counterinsurgents working to deny ethical self-determination
  • registering all adult citizens to vote at their address on a national ID card, permitting homeless citizens to be registered at a charity or rental mail box or the address of a friend
  • prohibiting entities receiving government financial assistance, including tax entitlements, from paying any individual, except physicians, more than five times the median annual household income per year in all forms of remuneration
  • designating well-reasoned, well-regulated capitalism as the macroeconomic system of the United States
  • permitting Congress to declare a national emergency by 55 percent vote if the president has not done so
  • granting DC statehood
  • giving every political party having at least 0.2 percent of registered voters as members a spot on ballots
  • banning signing statements
  • granting line item veto power to the president and the ability to override the line item veto and other vetoes to Congress with a 55 percent majority
  • prohibiting labor unions for government employees
  • prohibiting teacher tenure at publicly funded entities
  • increasing the size of the House to 501 representatives, with one staff member per 17,000 citizens represented, requiring a staffer minimum wage equal to twice the national median hourly wage
  • requiring Congressional committee and subcommittee funding sufficient to maximize public benefits
  • prohibiting current and former federal auditors, prosecutors, inspectors, investigators, political appointees, law enforcers, and elected officials who received a gross, annual federal salary more than the median annual household income from receiving direct or indirect gifts exceeding $16 and value from anyone other than spouses, grandparents and first degree relatives for the rest of their lives, prohibiting the previously mentioned individuals from ever being employed directly or indirectly by any corporation for the remainder of their lives, including freelance, subcontract work and quid pro quo gifts to themselves, spouses or first degree relatives from corporations
  • granting citizens in criminal cases the right to presumed innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, except for arson, treason, espionage, lethal terrorism, pathogen crimes, financial crimes, nuclear weapons crimes or destruction of properties, along with crimes committed by generals, admirals, non-citizens, elected officials, former elected officials, political appointees, dual citizens, and individuals with annual incomes at least 40 times greater than median per capita income, net assets at least 30 times greater than median adult wealth or as prescribed elsewhere on this site, where preponderance of evidence shall be the standard
  • banning any entity operating within the United States from loaning money to any foreign government
  • banning the deliberate human importation of living birds, reptiles, and mammals, except for zoos and medically approved purposes
  • permitting a right to resist unlawful entry against an unlawful entrant into a home
  • banning disability awards for drug addictions
  • banning businesses and individuals convicted of financial crimes from more than one appeal
  • banning current and former felons, millionaires, billionaires, registered lobbyists, financial industry employees, insurance industry employees, and political party members from being judges, defining a political party member as anyone who previously ran for political office as a member of a political party
  • prohibiting foreign and multinational entities from owning or managing US media, from hiring or donating to US political entities, including dual citizens and individuals not born within the United States
  • requiring temporary universal basic income to replace unemployment insurance during major pandemics and other economic catastrophes
  • banning state legislatures from limiting liability on corporations
  • banning judges from altering civil damages against corporations by more than 92 percent
  • allowing the president, attorney general, and head of the central bank to make their appointments without congressional approval, giving the attorney general authority to supervise and enforce all financial and anti-trust laws with funding decided by voters
  • eliminating pardon power for presidents and governors
  • banning affirmative action policies
  • banning race, ethnicity, and religion based government mandated financial benefits
  • banning government grants and tax entitlements to religious groups
  • banning government loans and grants to nonprofits
  • prohibiting commercial banks from investing in private equity funds 
  • prohibiting commercial banks from managing funds
  • banning government entities from taking anything other than United States Federal currency in tax payments
  • making the presidential succession line: vice president, secretary of state, federal employees from a rank order list previously provided by the president, randomly selected cabinet member, randomly selected member of the House from the president's party if any, randomly selected state legislator, with random selections run and overseen by surviving members of the American Statistical Association
  • banning the use of any taxpayer funds to resettle any immigrant
  • banning all government desegregation policies
  • lowering the age children may voluntarily drop out of school to 12, requiring drop outs under 18 to work at least 28 hours per week or perform 80 hours per month of community service or attend college, with passing grades, for at least 11 semester hours or attend, with passing grades, a vocational program that meets at least 24 hours per week
  • ending, involuntarily, the public school education of any public school student above age 11 suspended or incarcerated more than a lifetime total of 31 days
  • requiring court ordered child support payments to be automatically, electronically deducted from paychecks or added to tax bills for individuals not receiving regular paychecks
  • requiring surgical sterilization for males and pre-menopausal females failing to pay more than 270, consecutive or nonconsecutive, days of court ordered child support
  • requiring surgical sterilization for male or pre-menopausal female prisoners sentenced to more than 30 days in prison, except for prisoners serving life without parole or female prisoners expecting release after they become postmenopausal
  • banning new laws from quoting texts  claiming to be the words of gods
  • overturning all general public policy rulings by all judges, banning government entities from giving any weight to general public policy rulings by judges, also known as undemocratic dictators
  • requiring legal punishments at least severe enough to severely deter copycat crimes
  • requiring punishment fines for monetary crimes and other profitable crimes to be at least three times the costs of crimes
  • requiring only Congressional majority vote to withdraw from an international agreement
  • providing for direct citizen election of a single Federal Trade Commission commissioner to two-year terms, eliminating the four other commissioners.
  • requiring government activities to be randomly audited at least once every three years by the Attorney General's office
  • eliminating legal restrictions on union organizing during non-work periods by private sector workers earning less than half the local mean in total hourly compensation, except racketeering activities 
  • requiring all government entities to have anonymous tip lines, run by the Attorney General's office, reporting criminality and inefficiency, making publicly available all submitted tips, except those tips that may endanger the safety of tipsters potentially unable to keep their anonymity
  • banning trade laws from overriding other laws
  • granting birthright citizenship to only individuals having at least one United States citizen biological parent
  • requiring privately held corporations to be reorganized as partnerships or sole proprietorships
  • banning the elimination of Federal savings deposit insurance
  • requiring states to have unicameral legislatures
  • banning government loans having negative inflation adjusted economic expected values
  • banning government entities from creating laws or incentives for private entities to make loans having negative inflation adjusted economic expected values
  • requiring laws demanding disclosure of unethical activities to also ban and provide sufficient punishment for those activities
  • eliminating diplomatic immunity, holding all individuals within the US to the laws of the land 
  • requiring all diplomats entering the US to sign an oath agreeing to obey US laws and to comply with any punishments for violating US laws
  • banning the use of judicial precedent in legal decisions
  • requiring all legal decisions be made by an accurate weighing of laws and well-reasoned evidence relevant to each individual case
  • prohibiting government entities from contracting or otherwise devolving licensing, inspecting, and regulating activities to non-government entities
  • banning all judges, federal elected officials, political appointees, their spouses, and their first degree relatives from having financial instruments, except savings accounts, checking accounts, and personal home mortgages
  • prohibiting all elected officials, political appointees, their spouses, and their first-degree relatives from receiving any personal or campaign gifts or funds exceeding $16 in value from any foreign or multinational entity
  • requiring all law enforcement entities to make all evidence publicly available from all law enforcement actions that result in death, hospitalization, destruction of property or confiscation of property
  • banning all individuals with dual citizenships from voting in United States elections, donating to United States political campaigns, being employed by United States government entities, contracting with United States government entities, and advocating for United States political candidates
  • banning school related government aid to private post-secondary schools and their students
  • requiring public publication of votes made by government elected officials, except primary and general election votes 
  • banning government educational loans and aid to students not studying engineering, medical fields, computer sciences, post-baccalaureate nuclear physics or high demand, two-year or less vocational fields at public post-secondary schools
  • banning foreign and multinational entities from funding US political activities
  • banning federal funds to state, local, and private post-secondary schools for purposes unrelated to academics
  • legalizing buyers' cartels when serving sufficient overall benefit or the best available Hobson's alternative
  • banning foreign and multinational entities from owning US real estate
  • requiring elimination of trade relations with the People's Republic of China for at least 95 years if it invades Taiwan
  • banning gain of function pathogen research, creating a mandatory minimum sentence of 90 years extreme torture, having preponderance of evidence convictions
  • banning any entity from donating more than $2,000 per year to political entities
  • banning political parties from purchases costing less than 80 percent of market value 
  • banning political parties from selling goods and services for more than 120 percent of market value 
  • prohibiting public universities from entering into partnerships with corporations, private partnerships, sole proprietorships, OIC entities, and foreign government entities
  • banning federal entities from watering down state and local financial, insurance, and real estate regulations and enforcement
  • requiring that only the following attributes be considered when hiring for government positions: citizenship status, civil service test scores, criminal backgrounds, relevant skills, previous work performance
  • requiring only a preponderance of tacit cooperation evidence for price fixing and other antitrust convictions
  • prohibiting the giving of vouchers, tax entitlements, means tested funds, and stimulus money to multinational entities and entities outside the geographical lands and waters of the United States
  • limiting intellectual property rights to 20 years after total sales and rentals of items relevant to an intellectual property exceed twice the annual median household income, eight years for non-defense software and pharmaceuticals, 65 years for items never exceeding twice the annual median household income in sales and rentals
  • requiring government officials to obey all laws of the nation
  • banning all religion based libel and slander lawsuits
  • requiring harms to offenders by civil and criminal punishments to at least equal the harms the offenders caused victims divided by the probabilities of being caught for the offenses from zero to one
  • banning portions of laws specifying maximum fines for financial crimes
  • banning the religious sacrifice of vertebrates
  • requiring government entities to choose the law that best serves citizens' ethical benefits when federal laws contradict
  • requiring sentencing guidelines for state and federal crimes
  • requiring state or federal appointment of special prosecutors to handle criminal cases involving local government officials, including law enforcement employees
  • banning all government officials from hiring or appointing spouses, along with first, second, and third degree relatives, to any government position
  • requiring all ballots for state or federal office to list at least ten candidate parties or individuals for each state or federal office, arranged in randomly selected order
  • banning the provision of government services by lotteries
  • banning intentional US military use of firearms, explosives, chemical weapons, and or biological weapons against US citizens, legal residents, and or former US citizens within US borders, except against active muggers, assaulters, murderers, hostage takers, building invaders, attempted murderers, and or non-compliant trespassers at government owned restricted areas
  • requiring election laws, procedures, and enforcement to be consistent throughout the nation
  • invalidating laws banning the possession of FDA approved devices used primarily for birth control
  • requiring four or better scores on at least three AP tests or at least 30 transferable public community college semester hours to gain degree seeking admission at US baccalaureate granting institutions
  • removing "of rebellion or" from article one, section nine
  • banning from political appointments: individuals donating more than a lifetime total of the median annual household income to political entities
  • requiring severe enough punishments  for lapses found by audits to prevent similar lapses by other entities
  • requiring judges, congresspersons, political appointees, and Congressional staffers to have been born in US states or territories
  • adding rights to an ethical education; to an honest day's pay for an honest day's work; to clean air, clean water, and healthy nutrition; to well-reasoned medical treatment; to freedom from hypothermia; to freedom of association; to public support when 100 percent disabled; to school environments without hostile, unethical, and disruptive individuals; to well-reasoned consent to a medically assisted death with dignity; to freedom from tyranny arising from unethical ideologies, including religions; to have all legal decisions made by ethically well-reasoned evidence; to independent legal counsel during criminal cases at no personal cost; to not having life endangered by in-group or out-group members; to permanently leave the nation, provided all court ordered punishments have been paid; to a nation not made worse by the unethical actions of previous generations; to swift legal procedures and highly probable punishments for crimes committed, having harms not grossly exceeding the overall harms done by the crimes and the expected values of interrupted harms and failed attempts at harm; to choose between imprisonment or corporal punishment for minor crimes or crimes with a sufficiently low probability of repeat offense; to peaceful, unarmed individual or group protests on personal or public property, not interfering with the free passage of vehicles or pedestrians, not causing deliberate damage to others' properties; to employ relatives of any age in consensual, nonhazardous, family owned partnerships and sole proprietorships; to video or audio record the public actions of all other individuals; to run for office and hold office when obtaining sufficient votes, except when having a prior felony conviction; to have national laws and legal decisions override foreign nations' laws and decisions affecting US legal residents, including fantasies with labels such as international law; to have no public funds, including tax entitlements, used for religious practices; to all well-reasoned additional rights not described herein
  • requiring creators of sufficiently harmful negative externalities to pay at least the full costs of those externalities
  • banning felony convicts from government employment paying more than half the median household income
  • banning financial crime felony and misdemeanor convicts from government employment paying more than half the median household income
  • banning former or current executives from any corporation subject to regulation from ever being employed as regulators
  • banning federal foreign aid to foreign governments, quasi-governmental entities, and foreign government employees--except aid for food, family planning, disease prevention, medical treatment, and defense from aggression
  • banning abortion after the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest or likely serious health results
  • sharing sacrifices by eliminating intellectual property rights during any calendar war year having at least 600 US casualties of foreign enemy violence or defense spending greater than 5.8 percent of GDP.
  • making all food organism genes and designs public domain
  • banning statutes of limitations on crimes, except for crimes committed by individuals under age 16 and individuals expected to die before completing criminal trials.
  • requiring monetary policies to maximize overall ethical benefit to US citizens
  • requiring the federal government to set national education standards for non-elective public school courses, test the standards, and provide reports of results--requiring report card inclusion of results
  • banning civil judgments and criminal charges against individuals for crimes committed by their relatives, except when such individuals have been participants or negligent of legal duties
  • banning unpaid internships at corporate and government entities, requiring at least minimum wage pay at all such entities
  • banning corporations from paying less than 40 percent of the nationwide median hourly wage for any United States work performed
  • banning any multinational corporation operating in the US from operating in the US if they pay hourly wages below 40 percent of the mean hourly wage in any country they operate
  • banning a federal budget surplus in any year with a trade deficit
  • banning pay-as-you-go and cut-as-you-go federal budget laws
  • banning employers from issuing explicit or implied work related threats to employees to vote or not vote for candidates or legislation
  • disbaring prosecutors when a preponderance of evidence indicates they have engaged in prosecutor misconduct
  • banning government entities from punishing anyone for their non-compliance with the unethical religious beliefs of others
  • banning courts from giving weight to religious beliefs as excuses to break laws
  • requiring the federal government to prevent financial intermediaries from extracting more than 3.1 percent of GDP
  • banning the creation and use of entities to evade anti-corruption laws 
  • banning immunity from lawsuits for judges, legislators, and all other government employees for their illegal actions
  • permitting majority house approval to require individuals working for government, working for corporations, working for nonprofits or attending schools to receive specified, approved vaccinations as a condition of continued employment or attendance
  • banning privatization of public retirement funds
  • requiring private employer provided retirement funds to be employee controlled and invested in index funds
  • banning anyone with net wealth greater than 15 times median household wealth or annual income greater than eight times the median national income of full-time full year workers from renouncing their United States citizenship, applying hard labor and the death penalty to violators
  • banning marriages between first, second, and third degree biological relatives
  • banning vaginal intercourse and assisted reproductive technologies between first, second, and third degree biological relatives
  • banning anyone having polygamous relationships from government employment and government means tested benefits
  • banning non-citizens practicing polygamy from obtaining citizenship
  • excluding foreign and multinational entities from domestic free speech protections
  • banning non-special education pre-first grade schooling
  • prohibiting peacetime requirements for non-elected official females under the age of 46 to register for military drafts
  • requiring civil suit plaintiffs against nuclear energy plant construction and operation to prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt
  • banning new government printed publications, including legislation, from containing irrelevant ad hominem attacks such as hate, pinko, phobia, racist, extremist, far left, and far right, along with other false and irrelevant labels such as centrist, offensive, and moderate
  • banning the sale of foreign entity financial instruments in the United States and to United States citizens, except those from Australia, New Zealand, and NATO nations.
  • banning foreign governments from donating to United States non-profit entities.
  • giving Congressional committee chairs the right to start and conduct hearings 
  • excluding speech that reports legal and classified military tactics, strategies, positions, and technologies to likely enemies from free speech protections
  • requiring individuals convicted of financial crimes having harms exceeding 15 times median annual per capita income to serve at least 13 years in prison, with violent felons as cellmates
  • permitting ex post facto prosecutions and convictions for financial crimes exceeding median annual household income
  • banning government entities from engaging in or encouraging high-risk loans
  • banning military drafts, except for the defense of Australia, New Zealand, and NATO nations
  • banning individuals with non-overturned felony convictions or any financial crime convictions exceeding $2,000 in harms from voting
  • banning judges, elected officials, political appointees, and any government employee above the GS-9 pay grade from accepting gifts, paid trips, and non-governmental remuneration from anyone
  • returning the stolen TV and radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum back to their rightful owners: the people, using the frequencies for weather, obituaries, local events, emergency information, non-political vocational education, and nonpolitical, non-religious music
  • banning disparate impact policies by government entities and publicly traded corporations
  • removing or replacing all elements of the constitution contradicting the prescriptions herein
  • implementing nationwide occupational licensing portability
  • prohibiting congresspersons and federal appointees from having publicly funded security details larger than five individuals
  • regulating domain registrars, internet service providers, cable companies, and telephone corporations as public utilities, including protecting freedom of political speech
  • permitting majority House vote to require legal quarantines and public N-95 mask wearing
  • requiring a mandatory minimum sentence of lifetime 80 hours per week hard labor for stealing, misappropriating or defrauding government funds exceeding $700,000
  • prohibiting current and former elected officials and political appointees from receiving any remuneration for endorsing any for-profit product, service or enterprise
  • Prohibiting severance remuneration to government employees
  • banning marriage for individuals under the age of 16 and prohibiting any form of marriage that does not include a right to divorce
  • placing federal law enforcement under the elected attorney general
  • requiring majority House approval for presidents to fire inspectors general
  • prohibiting government entities from giving funds or government paid labor to political parties or candidates
  • banning individuals having net assets greater than ten times median household wealth from holding federal office and federal political appointments
  • making due process within the United States apply to only those legally in the United States
  • Requiring the firing or resignation of all federal elected officials and political appointees older than their 69th birthday
  • banning migration into the United States
  • prohibiting government funded medical, technology, and natural science entities from producing and spreading privately paid or government funded political propaganda
  • requiring fines and other punishments large enough to deter unethical illegal behavior 
  • banning arms sales to North African and Southwest Asian entities
  • requiring government mandated insurance to include expected value considerations based on previous incidents and safety violations
  • banning current and former elected officials and political appointees from receiving remuneration from companies receiving government contracts
  • banning spouses, along with the first, second, and third degree relatives of current and former judges, elected officials and political appointees, from receiving remuneration from companies receiving government contracts, except as part of a full-time full-year annual salary at less than the median annual salary of full-time full-year workers
  • requiring a mandatory minimum of 2,800 hours working in a meat processing factory for financial crime convictions exceeding $25,000 in damages
  • banning current and former elected officials and political appointees from creating charitable foundations and from serving on the boards of charitable foundations
  • banning lobbyists from bundling political contributions
  • requiring 80 percent Congressional approval for declarations of war or for authorizations of military force exceeding 13 days
  • requiring annual reauthorizations for declarations of war or authorizations of military force by 68 percent of voters.
  • banning government entities from participating in counter insurgency wars exceeding 160 days
  • requiring that government licensing prevent the formation of monopolies and oligopolies, except highly regulated monopolies and oligopolies sufficiently beneficial to national security, public safety or the public ethical interest
  • creating a federal non-joint marriage alternative, making property non-communal, prohibiting joint savings accounts and other joint financial instruments
  • prohibiting laws that restrict employers from researching the criminal backgrounds of applicants and employees
  • striking Tenth Amendment words after the word constitution, replacing them with "belong to ethical, self-determining citizens"
  • banning corporations and government contractors from donating to political campaigns, from donating to entities employing former elected officials and those officials' spouses and first degree relatives
  • banning government elected officials and appointees from receiving loans, except housing and vehicle loans under seven times their gross annual government salary
  • banning US entities from owning assets exceeding 15 times US median household income in China, India, Russia, South America, Africa, Central America, Caribbean countries, Southwest Asian countries, and Muslim majority countries, punishing violators with a mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years hard labor
  • giving a House majority vote the right to order as many citizens as beneficial to receive vaccines
  • firing all current year judges, banning them from future public office
  • prohibiting bankruptcy liability limitations on businesses that at one time had an enterprise value greater than $400,000 and a preponderance of evidence suggests that owners or executives engaged in wage, health, financial, immigration or environmental felony acts relevant to running the business
  • requiring corporate bankruptcy judges to be randomly selected from all bankruptcy judges within 600 miles
  • prohibiting granting US law exemptions to foreign and multinational entities
  • banning antitrust exemptions to businesses paying more than the median annual household income in annual remuneration to any entities 
  • banning the fixing of United States currency to precious metals
  • banning tax-exempt status to entities paying any individual, except physicians, more than twice the median household income per year in all forms of remuneration
  • banning judges, elected officials, and government employees above the G-8 level from traveling on private jets
  • last updated July 16, 2022