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Issue Position: Constitutional

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Constitution Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Taxes Abortion Guns Marriage Campaign Finance Criminal Justice Elections

*Shut down the gun madness, make guns a privilege, not a right: Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, impose a graduated tax on ownership and possession with penalties for misuse , see draft Amendment Resolution and Legislation

*Recognize the right of women to terminate pregnancies at will and to receive funding for it as for any other medical procedure: "A woman's right to terminate her pregnancy shall not be infringed."

*Recognize in all jurisdictions the validity of same sex marriage: "Any marriage between two people in any jurisdiction is valid for all purposes in every jurisdiction."

*Advocate approval of the Equal Rights Amendment, only this time with a 100-year time limit for adoption / Support 112th Congress H.J. Res 47

*Adopt: Campaign funding:
"1. Congress may regulate political campaign funding as it chooses.
"2. Corporations are not persons; Money is not speech."
( Support 2013-14 HJR 20 21 & 29 , Congress to regulate campaign money, and corporations are not people. )

*Adopt "full incorporation" of rights: "Within the Fourteenth Amendment Section 1., after the words 'privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States' add the phrase 'including any and all of their rights enumerated or implied in this Constitution'"

*Provide "Except as provided elsewhere in this Constitution, all issues in either body of Congress shall be resolved by simple majority vote of eligible voters in that body"

*Adopt: Voting:
"1. Every citizen shall have the right to vote in all jurisdictions that include the citizen's declared principal residence.
"2. Exercise of that right to vote shall be under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."
( Support the 2013 Pocan/Ellison Right to Vote Amendment, H.J. Res. 25 )
or,
"The right to vote of citizens over the age of 18 shall not be infringed."

*Add the right of initiative, referendum, recall at all levels of government / consider the NI4D - NCID Democracy Amendment

*Provide lifetime voting membership in the House of Representatives for all past Presidents

*Provide that a Bill to modify any Treaty may be initiated in the same manner as a Revenue Bill.

*Grant full electoral franchise to DC through statehood or restoration to Maryland


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