Congress, the President and federal judges will be paid extremely well (millions), but will forgo most other sources of income. Their staff budgets will be set to fairly low levels.

The Constitution shall be interpreted in the manner that will give the most freedom to individuals. (This should end commerce clause abuse)

Felonies must have a victim with significant harm, threat or risk of harm, although the victim does not have to be a specific individual. Only Congress and the equivalent elected state government may create a felony, and this power may not be delegated. Only felonies can be used as legal justification to remove or restrict an individual’s constitutional rights, with the exception that welfare recipients cannot vote until they have been off welfare for 1 year. (Ending Lautenberg, the War on Some Drugs and much ATF abuse)

Bills shall be made of related items only. The final version of a bill must be available to the public for 3 days before a binding vote takes place. (Reduce pork barrel, earmarks and “hidden” clauses in laws, last minute additions)

Not more than 25% of federal taxes may be collected from any source other than a retail sales tax. Any fee in excess of the aggregate cost to perform that function will be considered a tax, and the agencies budget will be reduced by the same amount.

Prosecutors may not offer plea bargains of less than half the charges they will bring to a jury, If a jury finds the defendant guilty of less than half the charges (based on jail time and fines) the defendant is not guilty for all charges. Police and prosecutors will be liable if they do not mitigate the damages caused by search warrants and seizures. They must show cause why they cannot provide copies of seized business records and computer files in a timely manner, especially those unrelated to the case.

…and I’d pick a few of the other suggestions to round it out to 10.

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Repeal Wickard v. Fillburn — that goes to the commerce clause, and Jon, I think that allowing regulation of the “manner” of trade doesn’t go far enough. Whatever commerce clause reform is done, it has to go to very strictly defining what consitutes interstate commerce, e.g. (regarding Fillburn) only when items actually move in interestate commerce can the feddies get involved.

Methinks we’d have the best-protected borders on the planet (hehehehe).

Eagle 1

On #7 I think I would add violation of civil rights under color of authority to the definition of treason in the constitution, and thus a capitol offense. I would also add that all cases of treason must be punished with hanging or firing squad within 24 hours of conviction.

And because business-people-types would be making the laws – laws they would have to live and operate their businesses under when their term is done – one would expect the laws to be more citizen-friendly and freedom supporting.

Some counties will be over represented ( Deaf Smith in Texas has maybe 40 residents ) … too bad.

Dave Hardy has written extensively about all the little tricks agencies do to keep the appointees carefully insulated from making any decisions. The appointee is basically dependent on the career agency people for all their information. Control the information and you control the decisions. Dave Hardy’s research on Waco revealed a lot of these games. The guys in charge of the siege fed Reno a bunch of lies about child abuse and the willingness of the davidians to surrender to get her to sign off and then ensured that she was away at a speaking conference the day the tanks rolled in.

Who appoints ATF director, again?

Also, ATF is not actually “under” DOJ or the president in any meaningful sense of the word. Who has the ability to fire who? Who controls whose budget? What powers do the political appointees at the top of the agency have over the inner workings of the agency?

If there really was a death penalty for gerrymandering, legislators wouldn’t participate in the process without getting prior approval from whoever was in charge of deciding who gets the axe.

ATF is under justice and reports to the prez.

For the doubters, what branch of government does the FDA belong to? The EPA? The ATF? The SEC? The NLRB? The FEC? The FCC? And so on…

If they belong to the executive, why isn’t their power vested in the president as required by Article II? Why can’t the president fire employees and officers of these agencies? Why do they have the power to legislative through rulemaking? Why do they have judicial powers through administrative adjudication?

The truth is that most of the government occupies this fourth branch, and has thus been rendered largely immune to political repercussions. When was the last time that voters fired everyone at ATF? It simply can’t be done because ATF controls its own staffing independent of the influence of the other three branches.

Withdraw from the UN and remove that organization from the U.S.

Withdraw from NATO.

Close the State Department for two years; then revaluate and consider a new limited role.

Also, outlawing jerrymandering- good luck doing it in a way that state legislators can’t get around. We have been trying this for 200 years to no avail.

- Amend the “Commerce Clause” to specify that the FedGov can regulate the *manner* of trade among the states, but not the *content*.

Think about it.

Flame hell, Unc for PUSA!!!

tweaker