Amendment 28
At the time of adoption of these articles, it shall be illegal for any person or organization to donate money to any electoral campaigns for offices within the United States of America.
All money in all election campaign accounts in the United States of America shall be seized by the United States Treasury. The United States Treasury must, within 10 years of adoption of these articles, attempt to return election campaign donations to the donor or the donor’s heirs. If the donor or the donor’s heirs cannot be found within 10 years of adoption of these articles, the donation money shall go to the United States.
All campaign expenses for electoral office in the United States shall be paid for by the United States Treasury, including advertising of all kinds, and election workers for each candidate. No election worker shall be paid less than $20 per hour of work.
All judges in the United States, and their staffs, as well as all workers in all courts in the United States, shall be paid by the United States. No judge or worker in a court in the United States shall have their pay reduced. The United States shall also pay all expenses for all buildings for all courts within the United States.
The United States shall pay for offices and staff for all elected officials in the United States. There shall be no reduction of numbers of workers and no reduction in pay for those who work in the offices of an elected official from the time of adoption of these articles. However, elected officials may hire and fire workers in their offices, under law. The United States shall also pay rent, utilities, construction of new buildings, and any and all expenses for offices of elected officials in the United States.
Within 200 days of the time of adoption of these articles, each member of the United States House of Representatives shall have 10 offices within the district they represent, and all United States Senators shall have 16 offices within the State they represent. All offices shall have a minimum of 4 employees.
The National Motto of the United States is, “IN GOD WE TRUST.”
The Pledge of Allegiance is:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands:
one Nation under God, indivisible,
With Liberty and Justice for all.
Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed as making the National Motto or the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
No student in any public school shall be rewarded or punished in any way, shape, or form, for reciting or not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the rest of the class, in a manner in accord with local and State law.
No student in any public school shall be questioned by school personnel in any way, shape, or form, concerning his or her reciting or not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the rest of the class, in a manner in accord with local and State law.
jconway says
How is the pledge related to campaign finance reform?
ms says
Look, it isn’t.
I put it in there for the sole purpose of helping politicians pass it.
Opponents of an amendment like this one will try to red-bait it.
With the Pledge and National Motto stuff at the end, the politicians who favor it will be able to say they are defending tradition against lawsuits from ” stuck-up fancy-pants.”
The language about rewards, punishments, and questioning students concerning the Pledge would even knock out a few school-house authoritarians.
The important thing is to get money out of politics. I want something that is effective, and also something that can appeal to politicians’ desire to quit fund raising, while being as easy to deliver as possible.
And that is what I have come up with.