This law allows a government to provide for the needs of the people circumspect and in consideration of the natural laws of the earth.  This provides constitutional authority to protect the earth, and at the same time gives humans the advantage of being the greatest life form that exists on Earth.  Congress will be required to cautiously weigh the establishment of laws that promote human life against the protection of Earth’s environment and balance the two for the sake of both.  This provision gives Congress greater authority and control over agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greater power to the EPA if needed.  This provision also enables Congress to establish laws that allow business and industry to seek their corporate interests, but restricted to certain boundaries that do not destroy the earth and its natural environment.  The provision forces the Free Market and Capitalism to compromise and balance their pursuit of profit with environmental concerns.

Two chambers where legislative bills (potential laws) can be properly argued with respect to and consideration for all representatives is crucial to a fair government for all.  A bill is a citizen’s right to establish a law for a specific personal interest through fairly elected Representatives.  The vast difference of opinion and selfish concerns of the citizens from different areas need to be considered.  The House’s main role is to make sure that the proposed bill meets the needs of all people fairly and equally.  The Senate’s main role is to look at the proposed bill in greater detail.  The Senate members are fewer in number than the House and are able to discuss and argue the bill with deeper consideration.  Because Congress will be forced (according to the provisions of this new Constitution) to pass a bill from each House with unanimity (see subsection f. below), no law will pass that is not fair to all people.

Term limits will allow new and updated representation.  There are many people who are very educated and have wonderful ideas about the needs and wants of society.  Current representatives make Washington D.C. their home and primary concentration.  Years of service in Congress acclimates the representative to political instead of constituent interests.

Two houses are needed so that suggestions for laws and a productive debate thereof can take place.  A larger House of Representatives can introduce laws and argue them on a broader scale; whereas a much smaller Senate can then debate the issue approved by the Representatives in more detail and with less peer pressure.  Both Houses of Congress are vital to a productive and fair representation and argument of the people’s particular interests.

Eliminating special appointments, commissions, offices, and other designations of lopsided power within Congress will ensure a more balanced discussion and debate of the issues across a broader spectrum of representation.  There is no reason, except for personal desires for power and prestige, why Congress should not openly debate each issue and allow each Representative an opportunity to voice an opinion regarding its subject matter and effects.

This forces Congress to do its job: make fair and competent decisions on a timely basis.  Juries in court are forced by law to make a unanimous decision in important (usually criminal) matters that affect the life of an individual.  The laws that Congress enacts affect each person’s life; therefore, the same expectations should be mandated for Congress.  Congress will be forced to stay in chambers as long as is needed to come to a unanimous decision.  If Congress cannot come to a unanimous decision, then the suggestion cannot become a law.

Some might argue that this inclusion and mandate on Congress will hinder decisions and create more gridlock.  Congress, like all of us, will not want to stay in session for many arduous hours.  They will be forced to debate the issue, amend it so that all can agree, and pass the law before they are allowed to go home.  If they cannot agree on an issue, then the issue obviously does not represent the consensus of all of the people.  Because this new Constitution establishes law that can enforce the laws that are the most important and beneficial to a person’s daily life, forcing Congress to agree on the other details won’t affect a person’s life dramatically.

The Congressional Report and mandated transparency (outlined below) will help the people decide which Congressional Representative, in either House, is causing problems and not cooperating with others to pass beneficial laws.  With the power of the vote and term limits, Congress will be motivated to work together.

Congressional salaries (outlined in Section 7 below) will be more in line with the average salaries of the people, which will motivate Congress to act to help increase the income of the people and in so doing increase their own wage.

This law keeps politicians from benefiting from government contracts and incentives and eliminates the possibility that a Congressperson can create a government job that financially benefits that person while in office.  If a person has worked for or financially benefited from a company that was awarded a government contract, within five years from the time that the person runs for Congress, that person cannot be in Congress.  Furthermore, no member of Congress, nor any person on any type of Congressional payroll, can work for a company, foreign or domestic, that benefits, in any way, from government financing and/or contracts for ten years after being in Congress.  This also reduces the corruption and influence of big business on Congress’ ability to act for and on behalf of the people.

No person of eighteen or twenty-one years, for example, has the experience of life necessary to run for an office that will direct the affairs of those who have had more life experience in the real world.  Society sets determinate factors in relation to when a child becomes an adult.  Modern family situations have developed an acceptable age of full accountability, which is generally eighteen to twenty-one years of age.  However, just because one is now fully accountable, does not mean that that one automatically becomes experienced in accountability.  This law forces a person to have at least a decade of experience living life with full accountability.  In addition, teenagers are greatly susceptible to their parents’ prejudices.  Well said by Albert Einstein, “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”  This being the case, the common sense that a person utilizes in making laws that affect other people’s lives, must be developed. The way to do this is for the individual to gain some experience in the use of their personal “collection of prejudices” and how well they work with other’s prejudices in the real world, outside of the security and support of the family unit.

The District where the person lives sometimes produces sub-cultures, ideas, and a way of living different from other Districts.  To truly be in touch with the people, one must live among the people and observe their wants and needs firsthand.  This law will prohibit a person living in one District and owning a house in another from running in the District where that person does not spend the majority of that person’s time.  Furthermore, candidates for Congress should be vetted according to how involved they have been with the people of their particular District.  If a candidate has four different residences all over the country, that candidate by default is detached from the general population.  Because who, of the majority of the people of America, owns more than one residence?

This law ensures that the people are always responsible for electing their representatives.  This will further prohibit Congress from establishing special rules that can replace one of its Members without the people’s authority through their majority vote.

America has become the number one litigious (wanting to sue in court) nation in the world.  So that Congress can concentrate on the needs of the people, a Representative should be protected from frivolous lawsuits while that person is serving the people in Congress.  Radical constituents (voters) and others who have become disillusioned with the Representative often seek retribution against that person through the Courts by filing litigation in an effort to embarrass or harass the Representative.  This law eliminates that possibility.  However, its limitation in domestic issues will allow a family partner the right to dissolve their marriage or seek legal relief at any time.  This provision will not allow a Representative to shirk or avoid his or her personal responsibilities while serving in Congress.

This provision eliminates the possibility of titles that viscerally puts one human above another.  It also helps Congress focus on the needs of the people instead of pursuing the possibility of receiving accolades, gifts, and honors from foreign entities of any kind.  Other nations have their own lobbyists that work hard to influence Congress.  Promises of money and prestige from another nation, whose laws are protected outside of this Constitution, would allow a Representative to receive such emoluments during or after serving in Congress.  This provision expressly eliminates that possibility, thus reducing the influence that foreign powers can have on Congress.

Transparency is the concept of the people knowing exactly what Congress is doing at all times.  Just as an employer would want to know what their employees are doing and how they are doing it, the people deserve the right to know, and more importantly, understand what and how Congress is doing to represent them in government.  Current congressional rules and laws make it virtually impossible for the average person to follow what goes on in Congress.  For one of many examples, a “filibuster” is a tactic used by Representatives to stall votes and basically waste time.  If an employer found out that an employee was filibustering, thereby wasting time for no good reason, that employee would be fired.  If the people knew what a filibuster was and how it is used, they would be outraged; yet a filibuster is just one of many tactics currently used by a two-party Congress that is basically self-serving and useless to the majority of the people.  Total transparency of all congressional action, presented in a way so that most people can understand, is the only way for the people to be able to make informative decisions in upcoming elections as candidates run with different agendas.

Nothing is more important than defending and upholding this Constitution, as it gives power to some people to govern others.  But if the Constitution is flawed, ambiguous, or in other ways too broad in its definitions (as is the current Constitution), it can become useless for the purpose of serving all people equally.  Once a Constitution as been agreed upon by the people, their Representatives should be held to its strict observance.

People who do not register to vote make a personal choice not to take an active role in their own government; not voting signifies that a person doesn’t really care who has power in government.  This Constitution gives the right to everyone to vote and makes it a lot easier to do so, even rewarding the people with federally funded registration and election days.  See Article V, Section 4(d.) below.  With current technology, it is easy to track voter registration and create an algorithm that automatically divides the registered voters into 50 separate logistic voting Districts.  The District boundary lines will change every four years, reflective of the number of people who register to vote in each District.  The number 50 was chosen to reflect and support current congressional actual physical seats as space provides at the Capitol building in Washington D.C., as well as eliminating the necessity of inventing a new flag that represents the new Republic of America.  The current flag has 50 stars representing 50 separate States.  These States are currently divided, but not equal, which causes most of the government’s ineffectiveness.  The flag will now represent the equality of the people, as it was originally intended, with each star now representing the 50 voting Districts.

The goal is to take the power out of the hands of corporations, the wealthy, and their lobbyists and put it back into the hands of the people.  However, if a person chooses not to become involved in that person’s self-governance through fair representation and does not register to vote, that person should not be included in the process of governing, having free will and no desire to do so.

For example, because of its overwhelming number of residents, California could retain the name, “California District” (and gain an additional 5 new Districts); whereas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Arizona, whose combined populations equal that of California, might adopt the name, “Pacific-Western District.”  During any election, the current District Representatives can offer certain names for the District on the general ballot of that District, along with the option to retain the present title.  This allows the people of a District, whose boundaries might change drastically during an election registration, depending on the number of people who register to vote, to rename their District at the next election.

If, using the above example, the total number of registered voters in the current location of the States of Washington and Oregon outnumber those in the California District, thus becoming a District made up of just these two States, the people might vote to have their District of registered voters called the “Northwest District.”  Logically, once this Constitution is adopted and the people initially vote on the names for their respective Districts, it will probably follow that these names will not be changed much.  Districts will increase in size, therefore, their representation might increase, but their names need not be changed.  These are decisions to be made by the people.

There are currently 448 permanent seats on the House of Representatives Floor in the Capitol building located in Washington D.C.  However, there are also four tables that accommodate Members of the Committee who have brought a bill to the floor for consideration and by the respective party leadership.  Because this Constitution eliminates party leadership and the manner in which bills are voted upon by Committees (ceding to the consensus of unanimity for a bill to become law), it would be easy to remodel the House Floor to include 52 more permanent seats by getting rid of the four tables.  This would allow 500 permanent seats to accommodate 10 Representatives from each District.  Although one might presume that allowing more than 10 Representatives to represent such a large number of people would be more fair, the ability to argue the issues would be greatly impeded by a larger number of Representatives.

Impeachment does not mean removal from office.  Impeachment is an official process used to reprimand or accuse a government official of wrongdoing.  Congress must have the right and power to monitor and check itself.  But it should not be given the power to remove a legally elected Representative from office.  This right and power should always remain with the people.  To keep one Representative from disagreeing and wanting to accuse another because of a personal vendetta, or one party attacking another, a unanimous vote of impeachment is required.

Within the Senate Chambers, a more microscopic examination of each bill can take place.  A limited number of Senators allows a more intimate and complete debate—among 100 people vs. among 500.  If a bill passes the House of Representatives, it is because it was unanimously accepted by the people’s Representatives.  Having two more Senators from each District examine the bill will ensure the people that any law that controls their lives will have been discussed, debated, and thoroughly challenged.  Because this Constitution eliminates Presidential veto power, due to the required consensus of unanimity by Congress, the Senate is the people’s last check and balance over the power to create laws.  Having two Senators from each voting District will also fit well with the current Senate Chamber accommodations.

There is a general misunderstanding by the public in regards to exactly what “impeachment” means.  Impeachment does NOT mean removal from office.  Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of an impropriety, the outcome of which may include the removal of that official from office as well as criminal or civil punishment if a law has been broken.  Accusations of impropriety will always exist among the people’s Representatives because of human nature.  Jealousies, envying, ridicule, and dislike between Representatives is inevitable.  There is a greater possibility that these emotions and accusations will exist proportionately to the number of people because intimate relationship and friendships are less likely to form in the larger group of the Representatives of the House.  Thus, although one Representative might formally accuse a rival of an impropriety, the Senate, with less people, therefore forming closer relationships between Senators, will be more apt to weigh the accusation and determine its validity.  Furthermore, the people should have the right to impeach their own representatives, the President, or any Judge, lawyer, or other member of the Judicial Branch that has power or authority over them.  For example, if a local Judge is continually out of line, the people can contact their respective Congressional Representative of that area and petition to have the Judge impeached.

The Senate’s role is to consider the accusation and, upon determining its validity, issue reprimands and censures of the politician, President, Judge, or attorney.  If the Senate determines that the impeachment is appropriate and valid, the impeached will then be tried for the crime by the proper judicial authority and subject to the penalties associated with the crime.  The Senate does not hold judicial power or authority beyond its power to try impeachments and issue such reprimands and censures.

This provision will not permit politicians to get rid of one of their own and replace that one with another of their own.  The people will retain the right to elect the replacement.  This will eliminate any politically motivated acts of impeachment and removal and protect the people’s rights to elect their Congressional Representatives and Judicial Officers.

The most important part of any government set up for the people and by the people is for the people to be able to fairly elect their governmental representatives.  This is so important that this new Constitution assigns an entire Article to these elections.  The provisions for elections are outlined in Article V below.  This provision, Article 1, Section 5(a.), gives Congress the authority and power to ensure that Article V is always one of their main priorities.

The people must be able to trust their Representatives to conduct themselves properly and to organize and control their own activities for the benefit of the people.  The people cannot worry about how Congress proceeds and acts in determining what is best for the people.  This new Constitution will mandate guidelines that will help Congress do their job, but Congress needs the power and authority to organize, proceed, and check itself without the people’s continual oversight and involvement.  People want to live their lives without worrying about their government not functioning for their benefit.  Otherwise, government should not exist and the people should have the ability to directly establish laws for themselves, which, in light of the number of people, would not seem prudent or conducive to proper law and order in a well-structured society.

This provision forces Congress to work hard at what they do, just like any normal full-time employee is required to work when compensated for any particular job.  This provision will also motivate Congress to establish employment laws to which they personally will be subjected.  There are too many perks provided to Congress when it comes to their absence during the time that they are supposed to be working for the benefit of the people.  Although Section 6 of this Article allows Congress to monitor itself, the people need to include Constitutional guidelines that act like an Employee Policy Manual to keep their “employees” in line and focused on the job at hand.

This provision creates a more service-minded attitude for those who are supposed to be serving the people.  Although it would seem fair that the people’s Representatives only be paid the average wage that the people make, being compensated at two times the average income will give some incentive to people who would otherwise not serve in politics because of their desire to make a lot of money.  Unfortunately, money will always play a motivating factor in how people serve.  Whereas service implies a sacrifice that someone makes, wherein one gives something of themselves to aid another, America does not do well with unpaid service.

There would not be a military if the rank and file were not compensated properly.  One does not serve one’s country.  One is paid by one’s country to do a job.  This deeply American and natural human attribute requires a motivating factor commensurate with the demands of the intended job.  One would think that wealthy Americans, who could afford it, would serve their country for a few years.  Regardless of being motivated by money, the people need representatives in government.  Today, there are many very educated people who do not even earn the average American wage (they are below it).  These people need to step up and run for office, motivated by the fact that for at least four years, or eight if reelected, they will be compensated consistent with their past desire to make more money when they made the decision to go to college and receive a degree in the first place.

In times of emergency when Congress will be required to spend more than 40 hours per week in session, they should be compensated appropriately, but not out of line with what the people, by law, make in the same situation.  Congress will ONLY be paid outside of their regular salary, equal to the people, according to the laws that Congress establishes for overtime pay.  Because Congress is guaranteed a salary, a provision must be included that compensates Congress when required to work longer hours than the people.  “Only in times of national emergencies” keeps Congress from being compensated for staying late in session debating a bill that probably will not pass with a consensus of unanimity.  If employees are allowed, they will justify the misuse of overtime hours that will increase their paycheck.  This provision is fair to the person who works overtime but checks the reason for which the person is spending overtime hours.  Any CEO of a for-profit company would ensure that the company is not losing profits to unscrupulous employees.  The people of the Republic ARE the CEO of the Republic and their Representatives are their employees.

The responsibility of creating laws that affect the lives of so many people can become burdensome on the human mind.  Having a fair break to relax and get away from the coarseness of politics is important.  Whereas no average American receives 30 days of paid vacation each year, this provision will sensibly grant Congress this perk for their “service.”  However, the people of the Republic also get sick and need personal leave, according to the unexpected occurrences experienced in life.  This provision will force Congress to establish laws for the people that cover sick and personal leave that will also directly affect their own personal lives.

There are few, if any, jobs for the people that provide a pension of any kind that is not funded by the employee (such as a 401k) if the employee only works for four years.  Conversely, Social Security is a pension provided to the people of America in their old age that they were compelled to pay into throughout their working years.  This provision will make sure that Congress supports the Social Security program and ensures that its monthly compensation to the people is fair, and also what Congress will be forced to depend upon in their old age based on their contributions to Social Security during their working years, including the years they served in Congress.  Because of the way that 401k programs (and other similar programs) are financed through investments in companies, this provision prohibits Congress from contributing to any pension program while serving the people so that Congress will not be influenced by any particular market investment that might increase their personal investment portfolio in an employee-funded pension.

The people are going to determine how they are taxed.  Unfortunately, the people, and most politicians, do not understand economic factors that create and manage the money that controls a society and supports a government.  Politicians use fear over the people in their attempts to be elected and reelected to office.  Fear is the result of ignorance.  Politicians use the National Debt, for example, to breed fear, when they cannot explain how the National Debt works, how it is paid, and why it exists.  It was ascribed to Franklin D. Roosevelt that “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts ….”  Common sense explains that misunderstanding from ignorance breeds fear and corrupts peace and security.  Fear always comes from ignorance.  When a politician can stimulate fear in people, it creates a herd instinct, usually of anger, against something that the people do not understand.

Money and taxation are the greatest fear of the people.  Therefore, the people must establish laws based on true realities of how money is used in our economy.  Furthermore, taxes should not be used to breed fear or in any other way disrupt the lives of the people.  Taxes must exist to serve the people’s needs, and not so that the people are taxed to serve the needs of government.  For this reason, the people must first, understand money and how it is used, and then (through their elected Representatives) establish laws that protect them from money and the control that others have over it.  The people must take full control of money.  The first step in doing this is to mandate, through the Constitution, how the people are taxed.  This is explained in detail in Section 9 below.  This provision prohibits Congress from introducing any other form of taxation.

This provision keeps the power of creating laws in the hands of the people and protects the people from a despotic or autocratic government.  No President will have absolute power over the wishes and the opinions of the people through their elected Representatives.  This provision also controls the Judicial Branch in its power and authority to determine the constitutionality of a law that Congress has unanimously agreed upon, which, in effect, is the voice of the people.

“Congress shall be limited to a consumption-based tax rate in its power to establish laws that lay and collect taxes,” strictly limits ALL taxation, thus eliminating payroll, social security, Medicare, state, local, sales, estate, capital gains, corporate, and ALL TAXES.  Adding this provision to the new Constitution will prevent Congress, by law, from changing the tax laws or imposing any kind of new tax other than a consumption-based, flat-rate tax as determined by the stated mathematical equation above (explained in detail below).

The Humanity Party®’s Fair Tax Plan—How to Pay for Government and Social Programs

The Importance of Government to the World’s Economy

Reducing government spending negatively affects the global economy.

World governments are the largest employers and provide more income to people than any other entities upon Earth.  A government’s vast employment network includes, but is not limited to: a workforce of civil servants (elected officials, judges, lawyers, law enforcement personnel, etc.), postal workers, military personnel, contractors, entities that receive government subsidies (including many farmers and landowners), and businesses that are bailed out and now indebted as a result of government funding.  These employees are paid from tax dollars.  Included with the federal or national workforce are local government employees, teachers, firefighters, and other law enforcement employees.  If government spending is reduced by eliminating government workers, who directly benefit from taxation (the source of their paychecks), the world’s consumption-based economy will collapse.

The world’s governments cannot (and should not be expected to) work with a balanced budget that only spends the money that they receive through the taxation of the people, which includes the businesses that the people create in a free market system.  Every competent leader knows this.  Government does not have an umbrella insurance policy—or any other insurance policy for that matter—that reimburses it for unforeseen costs associated with unexpected events such as war, domestic and foreign social expenditures that pay the consequences of free-willed human action (criminal activity, protests that end in violence, and the likes) or natural disasters.  No government can create a budget that allows for a savings plan to pay for unexpected future events.  This is simply not possible.

National debts allow for funding of government operations and programs.  They grow larger every day.  All countries’ national debts will continue to increase exponentially according to the needs of the people. 

There is not enough mined gold upon Earth to payoff even the United States’ national debt.  It is estimated that about 6 billion ounces of gold have been unearthed during the entire history of human existence.  If all of the unearthed gold had a value of $2,000 U.S.D. per ounce, it would only be valued at 12 trillion dollars, which would not come close to paying off the U.S. National Debt.  Once governments figured out that the gold standard was not sustainable, they started printing money on paper, which led to greater instances of inflation. 

Paper money has no real value in and of itself, except for that which the people give it.  Inflation is the direct result of an increased money supply.  Inflation is determined by supply and demand.  In other words, the price of a good or service that a person offers to others is based, not on its real material value, but upon what the consumer will pay for it.  A person (or business entity) becomes wealthy when the good or service that that the person offers is in demand by others.  The person might charge $1.00 for a good or service at first and be satisfied with the profit, given that the price charged is based on the person’s desire for profit.  Although the person is satisfied with the profit made from $1.00, once the person realizes that the consumers have more money available to them and can then pay more for the good or service, that person will inflate the price (inflation) accordingly in order to make a larger profit.  This is how Capitalism and the Free Market work.

The argument is made that Capitalism and the Free Market economies are primarily responsible for technological advancements and the rise of human initiative and innovation.  This is simply not true.  Although the market does increase a person’s desire to invent something that can be sold, government spending is primarily responsible for the rise of our physical standard of living.  Because only a government can legally print money, government funding of research and development (predominantly for military purposes) has been responsible for many of the things that humans depend upon in support of a higher standard of living.  Government grants to individuals and organizations are responsible for many of the things upon which the human race has become dependent. 

Humans cannot use their reason and intelligence to imagine and invent things if they are constantly forced to concentrate only on their day-to-day survival.  Most human-inspired inventions, from the first forms of ancient writing to modern computer sciences, were made possible because of financial grants from governments that freed people up from normal physical labor and allowed them to think.

The development of nuclear fission that led to the Atomic Age is credited properly to German government financing of military research and development.  Another important example of the necessity of a strong government and the money that it can create, is the case of American, Eli Whitney.  Whitney is famous for his invention of the Cotton Gin—a machine that eliminated human labor in the cotton fields in the early United States.  Whitney is known as one of the first pioneers of American manufacturing, especially in the field of mass production.  However, this would have not been possible without the intervention of the military branch of the U.S. Government.  Due to the weak patent laws that existed at the time, Whitney made very little profit from his machine.  The U.S. Government, acknowledging Whitney’s innovation and skill, stepped in and offered him a lucrative contract to build muskets for the military.  Without the government’s help, Whitney would have died a pauper.

If a government creates money to improve life for people by providing paychecks for them, taxing their paychecks seems counterproductive.  If all the people upon Earth are dependent upon a government paycheck, directly or indirectly, and then that paycheck is taxed, or money is given back to the government, why not simply reduce the original amount of the paycheck?

Government: Here is $100 for your services, but give me back $20 so that I can pay you next time.

What?

This is why governments are insolvent and in debt.  However, a government’s sustainability is not currently based on how solvent it is (how balanced its budget is), but rather in its ability to repay debt.  Each country is given a credit rating by U.S. dominated financial groups.  Since it is impossible for any country to become completely debt free, why are people’s incomes taxed? 

People work to receive a paycheck so that they can buy the goods and services that they want and can afford, from other people.  The more disposable money a person has (the larger the paycheck), the more goods and services that can be purchased.  The wealthier a person is, the more goods and services that person can purchase to enhance life.  Poor people do not have the money to purchase the goods and services that the rich enjoy.  The money the poor receive from their paychecks goes towards life’s basic necessities.  The world’s economy is based on consumption—buying goods and services.  The more money people have to spend, the better the economy.

Consumption-based Taxation

If there were no income tax, the people would have more money to spend.  If taxes were based on consumption, then the wealthiest people that can afford to buy goods and services would pay the most taxes.  But they would not be forced to … they would make the choice to.  If a rich person wants a boat, for example, and the taxes are included in the price of the boat, the buyer knows the exact cost of the boat, and will not purchase it if the price is not right.  The boat company will not sell any boats unless the consumer can afford to purchase them. 

A consumption tax controls inflation because companies are not going to raise the price of their goods and services if people cannot afford them—and the higher the price, the greater the tax.  And given that the wealthy have all the money, they will be forced to pay their fair share of taxes, if they want to maintain their wealthy lifestyle.  If the wealthy want a boat, a 20% consumption tax rate is not going to stop them.  In fact, they will feel much better about paying a tax that is not forced upon them.  Likewise, a poor person who wants a hamburger from McDonalds® is not going to mind paying 20% more for the right to eat a hamburger.

The problem with consumption based tax rates and why they haven’t worked or been accepted by governments is because of the effect the consumption rate would have on the poor and needy, who would be subject to the same tax rate as the wealthy.  For this reason, a proper consumption tax should only be applied to the goods and services that are not necessary for human existence, i.e., providing the basic necessities of life.  These goods and services should not be taxed.

Most importantly, governments can and should be mandated by law to provide the basic necessities of life to all people equally as part of their budgets.  These vital social programs will then be financed through a consumption-based tax.  When the government is forced to print money to fund these necessary social programs, the people who provide the goods and services for these programs will make a lot of money from the government contracts and grants mandated by law.  The more money the people make, the more they will consume.  The more they consume, the more taxes they will pay.  This will eventually result in the government printing less and less money and the end of all taxation.

A government’s spending is funded through taxes.  And thus supported through taxation, the government then supports the economy through government spending.  Under a consumption-based tax rate, as the government spends more, and the people receive larger paychecks, the people will spend (consume) more, which will result in more taxes going to the government.  A worldwide consumption tax rate on all goods and services that do not support the basic necessities of human life will eliminate all other forms of taxation.  Eventually, even the consumption-based tax will be eliminated. 

Simple mathematical algorithms can determine the tax rate: 

(Allowing that, by law, the consumption-based tax rate cannot exceed 20%):

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the goods and services provided in a market.  Whenever and for whatever one spends money, one adds to the GDP.  Government Spending (GS) is what the government spends for social programs and its own operations.

The Tax Rate to be charged on the consumption of all goods and services outside of those required to support the basic necessities of life is determined by this simple equation:

(GS) ÷ (GDP) = TR (consumption tax rate). 

Since there will be a cap of 20%, by law, there needs to be an equation to determine how much new money is required.  The amount of new money (NM) needed to pay for government programs is determined by this simple equation:

NM = (GS) - (GDP x .20)*

*The new currency needed would be the difference between the actual tax rate required to pay for government spending (GS) and the set 20% tax allowable by law.  The new currency would increase the Gross Domestic Product for the following year, thus lowering the amount of new money needed to support the people’s needs.

Here is a graph (as an example) of what will happen when the algorithms are applied to a consumption-based tax along with printing enough money* to cover government spending (all amounts are approximated to their nearest decimal):

With the new mandates on the government to provide education, healthcare, and social welfare, government spending (GS) will increase each year; but the economy will improve as people spend their money on other things.  Taken into consideration is the influx of new money into the economy and the non-existent tax obligation of corporate earnings from the companies that provide the means of education, healthcare, and welfare, etc. under government contracts.  The GDP will rise substantially and exponentially.  And as the GDP increases, the tax rate will go down accordingly.  After ten years, it is assumed that the people will become less and less dependent upon government support and increasingly engage in the free market where they can buy things that are over and above their basic necessities.

In the above graph, the new money is added to the next year’s GDP because people will spend the new money.  The then increased GDP, taxed at the same rate, will reduce the amount of new money needed for the coming year.  As indicated by the graph above, eventually there will be no need to print more new money, as there will be a surplus if the tax rate remains the same.  Once there is a surplus, and no new money is needed, the tax rate will begin to fall as the GDP increases.  As the tax rate decreases, people will have more money to add to next year’s GDP.

New money needs to be created (printed) so that it can become available for the use of all people involved in buying and selling goods and services to each other, thus increasing the GDP.  Currently there is not enough money for everyone to be involved in the market place equally.

We will use the game of Monopoly® to explain the implications of this form of taxation, providing new currency, and how this Constitutional provision supports The Game of Life as played out in America, while creating an equal playing field for all.

Using the scenario of playing Monopoly®, it becomes very clear how the poor remain poor, and their numbers increase daily, while the rich remain rich and control the economy, as well as control business law and the government. A few players eventually own all the land, the utilities, and transportation (railroads). Those who don’t own land are still required to pay rents, utilities, and to “take a ride on a railroad” if they want to remain in the game. Eventually, because the Banker only has a limited amount of currency, those who don’t own the limited resources and receive an income from rents won’t have enough money to continue playing the game and will eventually lose the game to bankruptcy.

What is not part of Monopoly® are spaces where a player can land on a job. “CHANCE” and the “COMMUNITY CHEST” are the only sources of other income to the players who do not own land or the spaces that demand payment. However, a player can be affected economically both positively and negatively per chance and being helped by the community. If more jobs were created, the players would have a greater opportunity to stay in the game.

But what about the limited amount of money provided by the Banker that eventually lands in the hands of the few wealthy players? When there’s no more money, how is anyone supposed to continue to play the game? And when you open the game to new players (birth, immigration, trade agreements with other countries, etc.), what are these new players going to use to play the game? The answer: print more money so that the new players can play. But even so, no matter how much money you print, and no matter how many new players sit down and begin playing, the money will always end up in the hands of the rich who own all the spaces where some kind of payment is required.

In essence, this new Constitution provides additional spaces and changes the rules for some spaces so that the other players have the opportunity to play the game longer, in fact, indefinitely, if they so choose. There’s only so much land to be owned, utilities to be owned and profited from, and railroads to ride. The playing board’s space is limited. But the ability of more and more players to play the game and be provided with the money to do so is limited only to the rules applied to the game. Therefore, the rules themselves must be changed.

All of the spaces were bought up before the new players had a chance to enter the game. To play, they have no choice but to roll the dice and see where they will land and to which rich person they will pay money. The number that comes up from chance in rolling the dice is the problem. The players are forced to roll and pay whatever the owner of the space requires. The rents depend on how much money the space owner put into the space’s development (how many houses or hotels).

The only way to keep people playing the game, and maybe have the opportunity to enjoy the game, is to change the rules. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!

But the first thing to consider is: why is a person forced to play? Why can’t a person simply sit around and watch? One of the reasons is because Monopoly® (i.e., Capitalism) is the only game in town, and if you want money and the opportunity to own land and play, even the money necessary to live, there’s only one way to do it: play the game according to the rules. But what if you don’t want to play the game?

If you exist, you shouldn’t be forced to play the game. And if the game provides the only means for existence, then the rules of the game MUST be changed to, first, benefit the players who want to play and who have benefited from playing the game, by having them support the non-players; and second, make the game worthwhile for everyone in the room.

A huge motivating factor in playing the game is to be able to say that you were successful at it—that you won! Other non-players might be impressed more, if, by your playing the game, they also benefited from your play. Just think how popular and well liked those would be who helped the non-players by providing them with snacks and a comfortable chair from which to sit back and observe the game. The thing is, the onlookers are going to become bored if they are only watching, when, upon observing the game, they are continually strategizing in their own minds how to play the game and to win themselves. Furthermore, if everyone could win, the game would lose its challenge and incentive and no one would want to play. HOWEVER, there is some intrigue in watching the game being played by others and watching their strategies of play and what they do to win and gain the advantage over other players. For this reason, there are countless new entertainment reality shows that people sit around and watch, but in which they would never dream of participating.

In this scenario, as mentioned, Monopoly® is the ONLY GAME IN TOWN! The players who have benefited from it are not likely to change the game and the rules that have so richly benefited them and their families. However, the countless people standing around watching the game are getting angrier and angrier, because they are not being allowed to play or are not benefiting from the game. These masses could easily disrupt the game, tip over the board, and kill the players. So, if the established players begin to realize this, these rich and powerful ones might think twice about changing the rules, affecting the way that the game is played, so that it would include benefits to the non-players.

So it is, in reality, that the few players take some of the money they’ve accumulated in playing the game and surround the playing area with armies and navies and appoint popes and priests that control the people and allow them, alone, to continue playing. Because of advancements in modern technology, a few players have the power to control the masses and protect the game. The people cannot overrun the military that is paid to only be loyal to those few players. Moreover, violence isn’t the answer either, because violent revolutions only lead to still other violent revolutions. Civilized people do not solve problems through violence. They solve conflicts through diplomacy and peer pressure.

As was stated above in hypothetically using Monopoly® as an example, “Just think how popular and well liked those would be who helped the non-players by providing them with snacks and a comfortable chair from which to sit back and observe the game.” The players play to be recognized as rich and popular. We don’t want to eliminate their ability to obtain self-worth by being rich and popular. But we do want to help them see how changing the rules of the game will quiet the masses and make them even more popular and liked as they successfully play the game in a way that benefits those who aren’t involved in playing the game, or who don’t want to be.

This new Constitution establishes the new rules for the game that will accomplish what both the players and non-players expect out of being forced to be around each other in the same room where there’s only one game to be played.

The new Constitution gives Congress the actual equation from which it will determine taxation and the issuance of new currency. ALL TAXES WILL BE REPLACED with the set flat-rate consumption tax. Except for the fixed consumption tax, there will no longer be any duties, fees, or taxes on imports and exports. Imports are what foreign entities sell to America to consume. Exports are what America sells to foreign entities to consume. Both have the tax applied equally without loopholes and without exception.

Nothing is sold unless there’s a consumer who demands it. A free market, Supply and Demand Economy, has always been the best way to produce the most innovative and high-quality goods and services. But what about the not-so-good goods and services?

Wal-Mart imports a not-so-good quality product for $1, which, after the proposed tax, becomes $1.20. If the American consumer wants Wal-Mart’s product, the consumer will be forced to pay $1.40, plus whatever profit margin Wal-Mart wants to gain. The imported item is taxed twice, bringing in more revenue to take care of the basic needs of the American people (many who work for Wal-Mart and whose needs are not currently being met). This will affect the Wal-Mart profit margin according to supply and demand. Because if Wal-Mart wants to make a profit, it must stock products that the people want to consume. The higher the price of the product, the less likely the people will consume it en masse.

HOWEVER, having their life needs provided for them by law, the people won’t be forced to buy from Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart wants to sell good, nutritious food that is better than other stores, then this is where it makes its money, because selling these law-mandated products, there IS NO CONSUMPTION-BASED TAX APPLIED! (As a reminder, this is because the law-mandated basic necessities are given FREE to the people of the Republic.) This motivates Wal-Mart to increase the quality of its products; especially those that people need to consume to live. If Wal-Mart doesn’t provide an apple that is as good as the apple that a competitor provides, Wal-Mart will lose the business.

THIS WILL AFFECT THE FARMERS AND ORGANIC, HEALTH-BASED GROWERS! Ma and Pa Stores can now compete with Wal-Mart by providing a better apple than Wal-Mart, the people having the means provided to them by law to choose where they purchase the nutritious apple. Ma and Pa ARE GUARANTEED SALES IF THEIR PRODUCTS TASTE BETTER TO THE CONSUMER! And Ma and Pa, in providing the nutritious apple DO NOT HAVE TO PAY ONE CENT IN TAXES, and can pocket the money they make and go to Wal-Mart and buy the things that they don’t need. It’s only when they buy from Wal-Mart … the things that they don’t need … that Ma and Pa are forced by law to pay taxes.

Supply and demand runs the economy and benefits government tax revenue, improving the economy and thereby exponentially reducing the consumption tax rate. The people should not be taxed more than their individual economic situation allows. Whereas the GDP is the determining factor of an economy, it being the sum of all private consumption (consumer spending), government spending, corporate spending, and the averaged export/import amounts, it determines the overall strength of the people’s ability to pay taxes and still support their economy. All personal and business taxes are replaced by a flat tax on private consumption, corporate spending, and the average of export/import duties (exports-imports).

America’s influence and world power are based on its consumerism.  The power of the American consumer to regulate international supply and demand quotas and trade, obligates and controls all other nations under its umbrella of consumerism in pursuit of the American dream.  With liberal immigration policies, more people will come to America.  The more people who participate in the economy, the more money that will be needed to support that economy.  The more money people have, the more they spend.  The more they spend, the more the GDP increases.  The more opportunity to make money, the less and less the people will depend on the basic government-provided goods and services, wanting more than just the basics, thereby decreasing GS exponentially.  As people work harder to acquire everything outside of their basic needs that are provided by law, the GNP (Gross National Product) increases as they buy the entertainment and luxuries that they want, the nicer homes that they want, and the food that they want, all taxed at the flat-rate consumption tax.  This will bring more money into the government’s coffers that will need less and less money as the economy improves.

 A side note: world progression towards a more tranquil civilization will increase when other nations realize that their citizens want what America offers, motivating foreign governments to improve the lot of their people so that they will stay in their countries.  In addition, as other countries produce the products that Americans want (because it is more beneficial to an American corporation to make a profit from law-mandated goods and services that Americans need), these foreign economies will improve.

This provision solidly places control over money in the hands of the people.  The establishment of a cashless society will greatly affect crime and terrorism and the way that these organizations are funded.  Furthermore, economic sanctions against countries and nations that violate human rights can be more effectively and easily administered.  America’s impact on the world’s economy, because it is by far the highest consumer of the world’s goods and services, justifies the American people’s right to have a powerful voice in how money is regulated throughout the world.

The advent of technology associated with debit and credit cards has influenced and perpetuated electronic transactions that are monitored and accounted for by law.  No one who is obeying the law would have a problem giving up cash.  The fear is that Americans will lose privacy if they do not have the ability to purchase goods and service without anyone else knowing what goods and service they desire.  The key to this is the establishment of laws that are good and fair and that allow people the ability to purchase any goods and service that are desired without punishment.

Other provisions of this Constitution protect individual privacy.  The government today already has the ability to monitor all bank and credit accounts.  It is true that the government cannot properly monitor cash transactions made outside of bank oversight.  But again, the use of cash is usually desired when one is breaking the law.  Fair and equitable laws that protect the privacy of the individual need to exist so that the government can monitor all money movement and become more effective at monitoring criminal activity.  There is no law, for one of many examples, that prohibits an adult from paying for the goods and services of pornography.  Yet, that one might not want everyone else to know that he or she is paying for pornography.  The information obtained electronically by the government about the purchase is a protected, Constitutional right, because no violation of law has occurred.  However, prostitution is illegal.  (Whether this is fair or not is not being debated here. Furthermore, how many women would want to be a prostitute if all of their basic needs were met for free?)  No act of prostitution is ever paid for with an electronic transaction.  The people can control money more efficiently for their own protection and sake if there were no cash-based transactions.

Article IV of this Constitution provides the basic necessities of life to all humans within the boundaries of the Republic of America.  To pay for these guaranteed goods and services, more money must be created and introduced into the economy.  Whenever more money is created, inflation increases exponentially because the Free Market and Capitalism are based on supply and demand.  The more people demand, the higher prices that businesses charge for their goods and services.  Because the government will be demanding goods and services to provide for the basic necessities of life for the people, demand will increase; and greedy Capitalists will take advantage of the demand unless they are prohibited from doing so by law.

This provision gives Congress the power to control the prices charged for the goods and services that support life; but, at the same time, it prohibits them from meddling in the affairs of the greed-driven positive effects of a Free Market economic system.  Having their basic needs provided for will give the people more money to spend in the Free Market, which in turn will create more jobs and greater income to the people.  Thus, there will be a greater demand based on the Capitalistic structure established for business and profit.  For this reason, Congress will have no power to establish price controls that will impede the desire of Capitalism to do what it does best: create competition and advance technological evolution.  (See details of Article IV below.)

This gives Congress the power to build roads, bridges, dams, canals, aqueducts, windmill farms, nuclear reactors, and whatever else is necessary to provide for the needs and wants of the people.  No longer will the people be dependent on local governments to repair roads and ensure a quality supply of the utilities that make it easier to live.  The bureaucracy of local governments is eliminated by the loss of power of each State and local government.  Federal programs and authorities are much better financed and overseen than local administration.  Federally funded programs have proven over time to be much more efficient and controlled than locally funded projects.  A big part of this is the ability of the Federal government to create money to finance these projects.  Furthermore, most State and local governments already depend on Federal funding for many of their projects.  Without the infusion of capital into State and local programs, not much would get accomplished.  Taking out the middleman (State and local governments) will reduce much of the red tape and bureaucracy and get things done more efficiently and timely.  The people should not have to wade through a mess of politics to get action taken on their needs and wants.

Human creativity is essential to the growth of human intellect and emotional stability.  Technological progress also increases the opportunity for more humans to have the ability to be creative.  Because money plays such an important part in the values that we place on things, individual creativity must be protected from greed so that creative motivation remains secure.  No one wants to spend time making a new discovery or producing something personally creative only to have another steal the idea and profit from it.  With this provision of the Constitution, protection is afforded to ensure that the originator of something beneficial to society is used for the purpose for which the originator intended.  One might invent a new drug that can make human life happier and that one might not want to profit from it, but donate it to human good.  This law will protect that right and prohibit another from making a profit off of the drug.  But this is the ideal use of this Constitutional right.  This law will be most effective in continuing to motivate human progress through greed.  Either way, this law makes sense and is necessary.

This allows Congress to call on the military to protect the interests and welfare of the people.  It ensures that the decision to enter warfare of any kind against an enemy is not the decision of a dictator (the President will not have the authority to declare war).  Because congressional action to declare war requires a consensus of unanimity, the possibility of entering an unnecessary and useless war is diminished.  This also forces Congress to ensure that all wartime affairs maintain humane treatment of the perceived and/or real enemy.

The people MUST have more behind-the-scenes control over the Military that represents and protects them.  Although Congress will not be involved in the day-to-day activities of any branch of the Military, with this proposed constitutional law, it will have the responsibility and power to prescribe the rules of war and the manner in which the military should act and maintain itself.  In other words, Congress will make the rules for the military but will not enforce the rules on the rank and file and call the shots in warfare.  This exclusive power is given to the President.  This allows the people to make sure that the military is controlled by a set of laws that are humane.  It also allows Congress to attend to other important matters and concerns during times of war, trusting that the power and responsibility given to the President will maintain control and implement the people’s desires for their military and keep the people safe.

This provision allows the people to have more control over how law enforcement deals with them.  Article IV (Inalienable Human Rights), Section 4 of this new Constitution, details the desires of the people in relation to domestic law enforcement agencies.  Whereas Article IV, Section 4, gives a blueprint of what the people expect, this provision gives Congress its authority and responsibility to act.  The people do not need different law enforcement agencies with different agendas, protocols, egos, and jurisdiction.  One Federal Law Enforcement Agency will work more efficiently.

Because States lose their sovereign status and their ability to make and enforce a particular State’s own laws, Federal Law under this Constitution will become the law of the land for all Americans.  Currently, various local, state, and federal agencies compete with each other and often do not cooperate, each trying to “one up” the other and show their worth.  Burdened with bureaucracy, current law enforcement agencies struggle and often forget that they exist only to protect and serve the people.  Eliminating the animosity and pride of the various law enforcement agencies will enhance law enforcement and will serve the people and not the pride and loyalty that agents and officers often feel for their local chapters.

America is not just a location of a government, but also an ensign of liberty and justice for all people of the earth.  Of all the nations on Earth, America has presented the greatest image of freedom and opportunity.  Except for a few Native Americans, American ancestry entails all other races and cultures of the world.  Americans should not occupy another country for the sake of American interests.  The people of other countries need to be respected for their rights and desires to live as they desire.  However, if the majority of any people living anywhere upon Earth desire to become American, there will no longer exist a need for them to immigrate to America to enjoy its laws and freedoms.  They can stay where they live and enjoy the benefits of American law and protection.  If the people rise up against their current governments because of corruption and desperation, and the people desire an American form of government, this provision gives Congress the power to legally annex that nation according to the will of its people.  This new concept will shake up current foreign governments to change the way that they treat their people.  Knowing that at anytime their people could hold an election and vote to become part of America, and that American Congress has the power to hear and support the voice of foreigners, is a huge threat to corrupt governments.  This provision requires Congress to make sure that a legal and fair election is held in that part of the world.  Of course, no foreign government is going to support an election that threatens it.  This new Congressional authority exists to help the people incorporate a new government once they have overthrown their current government.

This gives Congress the power to make any law that supports the provisions and purposes of this Constitution.  The Constitution itself is merely a blueprint and generalization of what the people expect from their government.  Congress is expected to establish laws that support the desires of the people.  Because this new Constitution contains its own laws that effectively serve the needs of the people, and the fact that all laws that Congress passes must be by a consensus of unanimity, the powers of politicians are limited to and restricted by this powerful new Constitution.  The Constitution must be the most important reference guide for Congress in performing its role as lawmakers for the people, by the people, and of the people.

This allows Congress to amend the Constitution appropriately for the sake of the people according to the provisions of Article VI(b.) below, following the requirement for all Representatives and Senators to completely agree on the laws that they enact

This provision establishes the power and significance of this Constitution and makes it very, very hard to amend the Constitution and establish laws that in any way bypass or circumvent the desires of the people who created this Constitution for themselves, by themselves, and of themselves.

If a good person is elected as President and does the job for which he or she is elected, which is to serve the people in the support and protection of their rights according this Constitution, that person, if that person desires, should be able to continue to serve the people indefinitely.  The President doesn’t have the power to make laws that affect the lives of the people.  The President’s role is like that of a CEO of the most powerful corporation on Earth.  The people are its shareholders; and their representatives—Congress—are its Board of Directors.  However, only the shareholders/people can remove the CEO/President, eliminating any petty grievances that might arise with any of the individual Directors (congressional Representatives).  The CEO gets things done and makes sure that what the Board of Directors/Congress mandates gets passed on to the managerial staff of the company.  Experience is a vital part of being a CEO.  The shareholders/people, who do not want to worry about the company, except that the person who has all the power in running the company has the proper experience to do so.  In addition, the CEO needs to know that those who are the closest associated with him or her are always available as a support and not a distraction to the CEO’s role.  For this reason, the President should be able to appoint and fire the Vice-President at will.  The Vice-President is not the person in whom the people have entrusted their lives and should not have the ability or power to usurp the President.  When a Vice-President knows that he or she can be fired at any time for any reason, that person’s support and loyalty to the President will increase. Only for a short time, if something unexpectedly happened to the President, will a Vice-President be given Presidential power and rights. The people must always retain the right to place the greatest power of any human on Earth in the hands of the person whom they choose.

With the Constitutional requirements of transparency outlined in this Constitution, the people will become more informed about what their government is doing. Also, because elections will become Federal Holidays and mean much more to the people than any other aspect of their concern for their government, the people will have the opportunity within a relatively short amount of time to replace the most powerful human upon Earth or reconfirm his or her power over their lives.

This provision ensures that the President is mature and experienced enough, by living among the people, to understand their needs and desires. This also allows an immigrant to become President once that person has lived in the Republic long enough to understand the people and how the American government affects them.  No longer will it be required that a person be naturally born within the boundaries of America to become its President.  As America grows, the majority of its citizenry is a result of immigration; therefore, it is only fair and just that the majority’s interests are always protected as equal human beings.

There can never be a time when Presidential powers and responsibilities are not covered. Congress needs the power to temporarily appoint a person to cover for the President if that person and his or her Vice-President both become incapable, for any reason, of performing Presidential responsibilities. Because Congress cannot act without a consensus of unanimity, the people’s Representatives will more likely ensure that a proper person is temporarily appointed as President. The six-month mandate ensures that the people continue to have their power over the person who becomes President.  It can never become a choice that only 600 (500 House Representatives and 100 Senators) people make.

This provision fairly awards a good President with a proper compensation for his or her services. If reelected, it’s only fair that the President’s compensation increases accordingly. The elimination of any government pensions will motivate a President to act in every way to please the majority of the people whom he or she serves.  Furthermore, as a person reflects on serving the people in politics, ‘serving’ becomes much more of a motivation than ‘compensation’ for that service.  One must serve appropriately before the salary that is paid increases, not due to the office, but due to the service provided. If a person wants to make it his or her career to serve the people, then knowing that the only monetary benefit from serving the people will come from actual time serving, instead of a guaranteed pension, will motivate service over gaining tenure in office.  Having the responsibility of one of the most powerful humans on Earth needs to be compensated properly without the person in whose hands the power exists losing sight of the purpose for which such power is granted and entrusted by the people.

Upholding the Constitution should always be the main focus and intent of the President of the Republic. This new Constitution protects the people and ensures that the most powerful person in the world is committed to its laws and purposes.

The only way that the Military and law enforcement agencies are going to be accountable to those whom they serve—the people—is to place their ultimate authority in the hands of a person fully accountable to the people.  The people can replace the President every four years and demand full accountability of those who have the guns and the power of force over them.  This article gives the President the immediate power, without approval of Congress, to react to any threat, foreign or domestic, that has violated the laws that protect the people.

Anyone who works for the Federal government must be accountable to the people whom it serves.  The President must have the power to bypass any obstacle in implementing the departments of government that are needed to fulfill the demands of the people. The Federal government should exist for no other purpose.  Congress has the role of establishing laws that affect the daily lives of the people and shouldn’t have concern or a role in running the day-to-day activities (the bureaucracies) of the government. This article empowers the President to make immediate decisions about who works for the people.  The U.S. government is the number one employer in the United States.  Because so many people are employed by the government, the President, who in essence is the CEO of the United States (hypothetically, under these new provisions, the Republic of America), would be accountable to the employees.  The sweeping power to hire and fire employees to do their job—implement the provisions of the Constitution—would entail treating your employees fairly because they elect their own boss every four years.

The ability of the people to promote peace throughout the world and get along with others is vested in how their government interacts with these people. If the people choose diplomacy (talking things out) over war (forcing an issue by violence), proper diplomats that represent their interests must be available to represent the voice of the people. Congress currently has the power to give its opinion of whom the President appoints as representatives.  However, the focus of Congress must be on the issues that concern the people’s daily lives within the Republic borders.  The President must have power to represent, not that person’s own interest, but those of the people who elected that person to promote their desires outside the borders of the Republic.  The President must have the power to hire, fire, and promote dignitaries and foreign representatives that are accountable to the people, not to political interests often associated with Congress.

This article eliminates the veto.  With this Constitution, Congress cannot pass a law without a consensus of unanimity; therefore, the veto is not needed. In contrast, under the current laws, 2/3rds of Congress can override a Presidential veto anyway.  The checks and balances of the three branches of government should remain in effect and ensure the purpose for which each branch exists: Legislative Branch to enact laws that affect the rights of the people; Executive Branch to protect the rights of the people; Judicial Branch to enforce the rights of the people. There should be no power given to any branch that overreaches and is counterproductive to affecting, protecting, and enforcing the rights and desires of the people.

Congressional representatives, as well as all judges on all levels, should be elected by the people and not appointed by anyone else. This article changes the way that the Supreme Court is chosen. Supreme Court Justices are currently appointed by the President, then reviewed and approved by Congress. Under the new Constitution, these judicial appointments would remain secure only to the people of the Republic through democratic elections.

The President needs the power to react immediately to occurrences throughout the world.  This provision gives the power to the President to act immediately without any approval given by Congress.  However, while an immediate act might be reasonable for the moment, it is not necessarily the action that would be in the long-term best interests of the people. Therefore, power is given to Congress to review any Presidential act involving a foreign entity and rescind or accept it after proper debate and review.

One of the greatest parts of any humane government is the power to grant mercy and forgiveness to all equally.  Someone has to be responsible for the application of mercy.  Judges are required to serve the needs of justice equally to all people according to the law, which cannot be merciful and just at the same time.  The President, who is the figurehead that should represent a personification of the people, must have the power to grant mercy, or at least maintain an inference as a powerful human symbol of a humane society.

The President is given sweeping powers to protect the rights of the people, and the people have a right to hear occasionally from their President who addresses the people directly, and not just the Congress. The current State of the Union is mocked with bipartisan reaction of applause or the restraint of applause by those who disagree with the President. The people aren’t interested in petty political disagreements. The people want to know that their government is working properly.  To watch the reaction of Congress during the current annual State of the Union address is disconcerting to the people and visibly demonstrates the dysfunction of their government.  The President will be mandated by law to talk to the people directly. Media coverage should be done away from the applause or lack thereof by Congress, allowing the President to have an intimate and detailed report of that person’s actions over the past 6 months.  This should be done in a private setting without peer pressure. The President will address the people, not politicians, and giving the people a comprehensive overview of all Presidential activities and the state of the Republic.

One of the most important parts of this provision is that a President, Vice-President, or anyone appointed by the Executive Branch can be removed for any gross violation of law or for not acting (inaction) to support the provisions of the Constitution. This inclusion will make it a personal priority to support and implement the cause and desires of the people.  The threat of being kicked out of office for any crime, or any inaction in the case of this provision, is a great human motivator.

Law and order is the most important part of any society.  And the most important part of law and order are the Judges who supply the orders, but who also protect the rights of the people to be fairly accountable to and judged by the law. Congress must have the ability to oversee the Judicial Branch of government that is responsible for law and order.  Congress is given the power to establish a proper court system that is more reflective of the needs of the people rather than the needs of the legal “system.” (Refer also to Article IV, Sections 9 and 10: Due Process of Law and Criminal Punishment.)

In regards to the day-to-day actions in the lives of the people, Judges have more power than any other government office.  All Judges MUST be answerable to the people whom they serve.  The ONLY way this can be accomplished is for all Judges to be elected by the people. Judicial appointments by certain political leaders are ripe with personal judgment, bias, and often personal or political agendas.

THumP®’s Constitutional proposals address everything that is necessary to bring humane, sound, common sense structure to law enforcement; and to help ensure the protection of the people from their own law enforcement officials without having to own their own guns.

This video gives a clearer perspective on the real purpose for which the Second Amendment was added to the original U.S. Constitution: 2ND AMENDMENT EXPLAINED.

Gun supporters claim that they have the right to own a gun to protect their individual rights. (Owing a gun to fight off the U.S. military, if the U.S. government ever became tyrannical, is not a rational argument. The U.S. Air Force would be impervious to the bullets of 300 million people shooting from the ground outside their homes at its bomb-dropping aircraft.)

Those who advocate and support the right of all citizens to own a gun (bear arms) for protection assume that it is their right to own a gun for protection of their rights. And whereas each person sees their individual rights differently, the right to use guns is perceived differently. Criminals do not think that they are criminals when they act according to their free will.

If a child is picked on (bullied) at school, does that child have a right to defend him or herself? Many gun advocates teach their children to defend themselves and stand up to bullies, even if a physical fight results. Children are often taught self-defense measures to protect their right not to be bullied. With this perception, and in defense of their rights, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had every constitutional right to defend themselves against the kids at school who were bullying them when Harris and Klebold made a stand and killed other students and teachers during the April 1999, Columbine High School shootings.

Wouldn’t it be more conducive to peace and consistent with humane actions if the children were taught NEVER to fight back (”turn the other cheek”), and to find a teacher and report the bullying so that the situation can be handled without physical harm and continued abuse? Most bullies are much stronger than those whom they abuse.

If, for example, a person is racked with emotional abuse, for whatever reason, then that person feels that he or she has a right to protect him or herself from the perceived abuse. Today, many darker-skinned people believe that they are being abused by lighter-skinned people, especially from law enforcement. Do they not have the right to stand up and protect themselves? Do they have the right to make a statement by killing innocent police officers and possibly get people thinking about the issue and doing something about it?

If our children are taught to fight back, then we take the chance that the bully, being much stronger than the child, will continue the bullying and probably end up hurting our child in the attempt (by the child) to fight the bully. This is the predominant result of people owning guns and trying to protect themselves from others who have acted, first, against them. The media does not report the presence of guns in the homes of the thousands of murdered victims who are killed believing that owning guns should have protected them. Once a person exercises the right to use a gun to defend that person’s right to not be abused, the person who brandishes the weapon first, is usually the person who survives.

Likewise, when a person uses a gun to exercise their right to secure money to buy drugs that are meant to assuage the feeling of desperation that many feel because society is abusing them, do they not have the right to defend themselves from the perceived abuse?

A humane society would NEVER teach children to fight other children in defense of their rights. Law Enforcement and Military exist to defend the people against abuse. However, what should the people do when Law Enforcement or the Military becomes corrupt and abusive? Guns are not the answer. If you live by the gun, more than likely, you will die by the gun.

A new Constitution is needed that enhances law enforcement and makes sure that there are stiff penalties for law enforcement personnel who violate the rules. The Constitution should allow the people, through their elected representatives, “to assign [law enforcement] particular duties, and establish their protocols and proceedings.”

The people should be able to control their military and demand humane principles in warfare and law enforcement:

“regulate the means of war to the discipline and adherence to humane principles, if such principles are possible.”

Again, THumP®’s constitutional proposals address everything that is necessary to bring humane, sound, common sense structure to law enforcement, and to help ensure the protection of the people from their own law enforcement officials without having to own their own guns.

See Article I, Section 9(f-h); Article IV, Section 4(a-f) and Section 5(a-e).

We’ve all heard the saying: Guns and bombs don’t kill people. People kill people. This is true. People in possession of guns and bombs do more substantial violence than by any other means.

It is IMPOSSIBLE for governments to control the people who use guns and bombs in violent acts. But what regular person knows how to mine the proper raw materials from the earth to make the gunpowder for bullets or the explosive compounds for bombs? Few to none! Corporations set up for profit know how and have a corner on the market, or unknowingly create the components needed for explosive devices.

GOVERNMENTS CAN AND DO CONTROL CORPORATIONS! GOVERNMENTS CAN CONTROL THE FLOW OF MONEY IN AND OUT OF CORPORATIONS WITH THE PROPER ENACTED LAWS.

The people who are enriched by the corporations that produce guns and (knowingly or unknowingly) the components that can create a bomb, if held liable and criminally responsible for what the product of their personal wealth does, can end the production and distribution of the products they make. If they knew they would go to jail if one of their company’s products was involved in the production of the thing that creates the violence, they just might change their company’s focus to things that cannot create violence.

But the American people demand their right to buy, sell, and trade their guns and ammunition whenever they want. The American people consume more natural resources, per capita, than any other people upon Earth. American gun and ammunition manufacturing is VERY profitable. And … there is more death by gun violence in the U.S.A. than all of the IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) cause in the ENTIRE WORLD!

Americans have the ability to make the manufacturing of gunpowder VERY UNPROFITABLE! The American people can elect a Congress that does not necessarily have to take away the right of the people to bear arms (but THumP® supports this solution), but can enact laws in just one day that place the liability and responsibility on corporations for what their products do.

We now have the technology and industry available to us to provide the basic necessities of life to all human beings equally.  Some might suggest that this utopian, idealistic proposal is impossible in our current world.  These “some” are unequivocally WRONG!  Not only can we do it, but we can do it in a matter of a few years!  We can do it without disrupting the free market, or rather, the free will of those who want to make a profit and enrich themselves.  In fact, we can help those who have a right to their free will and want to be wealthy, become even wealthier, simply by supporting the proposal!  We can do it without introducing major changes into the way our world currently operates.

We can do it!  HERE’S HOW:

(NOTE: The following descriptive explanations are only outlines of specific programs, given appropriate names [using acronyms] for each purpose, as might be consistent with the current codes of the United States, a nation where the plan could be immediately established and implemented.  There is much more to each program than what is presented herein.  By using common sense and the powers given to Congress by this Constitution, government will be able to ascertain other important details and needed aspects of each of the following programs.  The examples and suggestions offered below are only for clarity of how this crucial part of the Constitution can be fulfilled.)

I. FOOD

To provide food to everyone, give every human being “FOOD AUTHORIZATION CREDITS for EVERYONE” (FACE).  These credits can be stored on cards and will be accepted at any grocery store or food outlet anywhere in the world.  However, they will not allow an individual to purchase anything but good, nutritious food.

A commission can be established that consists of the nation’s top health and nutrition officials.  The commission can authorize which foods can be acquired with the FACE card.  Nothing that causes the human body any harm will be acceptable; this means no soft drinks, no processed foods, no candy, and no deserts—nothing that negatively affects a healthy body.  If a person wants other foods that are not purchasable with the FACE card, that person must go to work and earn the money to buy what he or she desires.

The FACE commission will be responsible for the quality and safety of the food it authorizes.  It will oversee quality inspectors, whose primary job will be to inspect the production of all of the food that is authorized.

Here’s an example:

A farmer who wants to grow a food product that is acceptable for the FACE progrfam must apply to get that farmer’s product approved.  A commissioned inspector will visit the farm and inspect the means of production and the quality of the product.  (NOTE: According to Article I, Section 1(c.), the farmer’s production methods must protect Earth’s environs.)  If the food does not meet FACE standards, the farmer’s application will be denied.  The inspectors will ensure safety and quality from the farm to the grocery outlet, to the mouth of the consumer.

Any packaged product manufactured (processed food) by any company will be required to go through the same strict approval process.  To avoid commissioner or inspector fraud and corruption (possibly by the acceptance of a “kickback payment” to encourage the approval of a particular product), a violation of FACES rules will be viewed as a crime against humanity and punished appropriately.  Both FACE commissioners and inspectors will be compensated sufficiently to make their job a suitable career choice for which the most educated people will compete.

FACE can also be approved to be accepted at any authorized buffet restaurant, to support those who do not have the desire or ability to prepare food for themselves.  The card will authorize a daily purchase amount.  These authorized restaurants will be inspected and approved based on the quality of the food that they offer, which must also be nutritious and meet established FACE standards.  After meeting this threshold standard, competition among restaurant entrepreneurs will lead to contests, in effect, to see which will have the best tasting food and most inviting atmosphere in which to entice those with FACE cards to eat.

An example of this using current market trends for buffet-type restaurants, one spends about US$10 dollars for an all-you-can-eat meal.  These restaurants are obviously making a profit in offering a meal for that price, and compete among the several restaurant chains to gain customers.  Because their customer base will expand significantly once the FACE program is in place, there will be greater competition to offer the most nutritious foods and to win a government supported FACE contract.

The same scenario of competition will exist among the other food producers who ship their products to grocery outlets.  The rules that govern FACE will not allow monopolization by any one company.  The producer that offers the best food at the best price will get the authorization.  Authorizing any particular food or restaurant will be as simple as a few key strokes on the FACE central computer, similar to how credit card companies typically monitor the use of credit cards and adjust usage depending on the credit worthiness of the cardholder.

With the increased competition to create a business that produces food products and services that meet FACE approval, the quality and presentation of nutritious food will increase significantly through free-market competition.  The food producers will continue to be paid by the food retailers just as they are in our current free markets.  The food retailers who are authorized to accept the FACE card will be reimbursed similar to the way that the current United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reimburses the retailers who accept its Food Stamps.  The USDA food stamp program is a practical example of how the FACE program would work (although not allowing non-nutritious foods to be purchased).

Because we are accustomed to eating what we want, when we want, and because we can only purchase good, nutritious foods on this plan, the incentive to work will increase, NOT decrease.  Those who choose not to work will only be eating the foods that will ultimately increase their overall physical and mental health.  No longer will a person with integrity hold a sign that reads, “Will Work For Food.”  If one does hold such a sign, the remorse felt by the rest of us in passing by without giving up our money for something that is guaranteed by law will diminish.

Additionally, no one can abuse the FACE program by purchasing too much food and trying to sell it for money.  Those to whom one might sell the food could question, “Why should I pay you money for food that I can get free just like you did?”

There will be no extensive application process or monitoring of personal means and finances to obtain a FACE card.  If you meet the criteria set by this Constitution, you get a card!  If you are rich or poor, you get a card!  The money that a person would usually spend on food will be redirected into purchases that support a free-market economy.  A person who utilizes FACE will have more money to buy other things that support their individuality.

Because our current economy is already a worldwide conglomerate, where the economic structure of one nation directly affects that of all other countries, it would not be hard for other countries to implement the FACE program throughout the world.  If food retailers knew that 5 million starving Africans were going to be carrying their own FACE card, they would scramble to set up their businesses for profit in Africa; thereby hastening the process for these people to start using their cards.  In time, the world’s food production would increase, not only to match the quality and nutrition levels set by FACES, but by the demands of the card-carrying people.  Food production and retail grocery stores and restaurants would replace weapons manufacturing as the number one profitable business in the world.  Just imagine that!

II. SHELTER

Each person can be issued a “HOUSING ASSISTANCE VOUCHER for EVERYONE” (HAVE).  This voucher will be used to rent a HAVE-approved residence.  The voucher can also be used for long-term payments of motel or hotel accommodations in the case of an emergency housing need.  A HAVE commission can be established by Congress.

The government will reimburse the landlord, corporate property management company, or hotel or motel chain according to the average rent of any particular area, or the established market price of the room.  The owners of the properties must obtain HAVE preapproval before a HAVE will be honored.  Authorized HAVE inspectors will ensure that the property is safe for residency.

This program could be very similar to the current U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 program—the differences being that everyone who wants a voucher will receive one; and the voucher will pay 100% of the market rent instead of a set amount based on the income of the person.  The size of the rental unit will also help determine the rental amount.  Heads of household with children will need only one voucher (HAVE) per household.  The amount approved will depend on the number of dependents under the age of 18 years, or those so dependent by a physical or mental disability, and will also depend upon the number of bedrooms required.

Once a person reaches the age of 18, he or she will be eligible for his or her own HAVE.  A property owner will only receive one HAVE reimbursement per rental unit, regardless of how many adults and children live there.  Because owners must pre-approve their renters, they can make restrictions on the occupancy according to their maintenance needs.  HAVE commissioners can also determine the appropriate needs of the people relevant to the ability of property owners to provide rental units.  HAVE inspectors will be the main employees of this program.  They will be trained to inspect residences and ensure safety.  Only upon a HAVE inspector approval will a property owner be approved to receive reimbursement of a HAVE voucher.  Each residence will be inspected annually.  The people who utilize the HAVE program will also be able to contact an inspector if any violation by property owners arises.  The property owner can also evict any tenant for violation of applicable landlord/tenant laws by filing a grievance with the HAVE commission.

Property owners are guaranteed payment for each HAVE voucher they receive for the rental of their property.  Strict criminal penalties will be enforced to discourage fraud.  If convicted of any HAVE rule violation, the property owner will be banned from the program for a set time period, or continually, according to the severity of the violation.

The HAVE assistance program will help people find homes in the area in which they wish to reside, and will also assist property owners with any of their problems.  The renters will be responsible for the proper upkeep and care of the residence, unless otherwise provided by the landlord or Home Owners Association.  Those who continually violate general rules of reasonable care of the property will be penalized.  These penalties will include being remanded to “Managed Family Facilities (MFF),” where a family will be able to live, but will have their freedom restricted until they learn how to responsibly and properly care for property.  These MFF will be set up for instruction and support rather than punishment.  However, those who cannot be trusted to take care of HAVE-subsidized homes, and have repeatedly proven their unwillingness to do so, will be forced to live in these secure, structured, and government managed facilities.

Each home will be allotted a certain number of HAVES energy credits, which will provide the residence with electricity and gas, depending on the rental unit’s size and proportionate to the number of people residing in the unit.  The property owners will be responsible for garbage disposal, sewer, and water, unless otherwise approved by the HAVE program.  Compensation for these basic utilities will be included in the acceptable market value of the rental property, set by the owner and approved by the HAVE commission.

The HAVE program can be used to acquire ownership of any property.  If a person wishes to own their own home, they must participate in the free market system.  However, by utilizing HAVE, a young couple, for example, will be able to save for a substantial down payment on their own home.  If the couple chooses to utilize the HAVE program until they have saved enough money to buy their own home outright, that will be their choice.

The free market will flourish because people will be spending the money they would normally have to spend for housing on other things.  Construction companies and land developers will rush to build HAVE- approved housing, because they will know that the rent is guaranteed.  Competition between companies will lead to better quality housing for everyone because the people get to choose where they live.  If a person is living in an approved HAVE residence and a better one is built elsewhere, nothing will prohibit the person from moving to the better unit.

Engineers, architects, and developers will bid on the major contracts needed to house the people of the world (just as they did to develop the vast city of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in the middle of the desert)!  Technology will support the development of quality housing anywhere in the world.  Wherever there are people who need a home, they will have one through the HAVE program.  And when the people have the means to pay for their own privately owned home, Capitalists will willingly take their money for a profit by providing them with one.

III. HEALTH CARE

“HEALTH and UNIVERSAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS for EVERYONE” (HUMANE), similar to the current U.S. Medicare/Medicaid systems, will provide physical and mental health care for everyone.  Through the HUMANE program, people will choose their own doctor, hospital, dentist, pharmacist, psychologist, therapist, etc., according to their personal needs and wants.

The best doctors and the best hospitals will see the most patients; therefore, they will make the most money.  A congressionally established HUMANE commission will determine the proper amount to compensate health care providers for their services, compensating healthcare professionals appropriately and fairly.  Nothing is more valuable to a well-fed, well-housed, well-clothed person than their health.  Therefore, health care providers will be compensated sufficiently to affect the most efficient and advanced health care for all people.  Again, people get to choose who their doctor is or which hospital they wish to go to for treatment, without restrictions.  Health care providers will be drawn into the forefront of free market competition.  No other government-backed career will earn more than health care professionals, thus enticing those who want to become wealthy with an incentive and the means to do so in helping provided health services for others.

Each person will have a HUMANE card that will identify the person and have his or her medical records encrypted upon a microchip in their personal card.  No matter where one chooses to go, that person will have their medical records with them.  A Universal Medical Database will be established that has a complete record of everyone’s medical records and history.  If someone loses their card, their medical information will be readily available.  Of course, all of this will be strictly confidential.  A simple swab of the mouth, a fingerprint, or an iris scan will access any human being’s medical records.

HUMANE commissioners can oversee the health care that is provided for any individual.  With a centralized database and the elimination of cash as a means of payment, the ability for health care providers to cheat the system will be eliminated.  HUMANE commissioners will decide what medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and mental health services will be universally provided to ensure the health and welfare of all people equally.

HUMANE will not pay for unnecessary medical attention such as cosmetic surgery or other non-essential services that do not pertain to the general physical and mental health of the individual.  However, cosmetic surgery reconstruction for natural deformities or those caused by accidents, along with gender identity issues that create mental abnormalities, will be covered; those pertaining to the vanity of the individual will not.

Any abuse of the HUMANE program will be considered a crime against humanity and punishable according to the severity of the crime.  Some current health care providers overbill and charge for unseen patients.  If a health care provider is convicted of HUMANE abuse, they will lose their ability to participate in the program and be subject to other criminal penalties.

People will not be able to abuse the program because the covered procedures will be understood and outlined specifically for them.  In fact, if the above FACE program is in effect, most people will be eating a lot healthier, thus limiting their need for general health care at all.  The money alone saved in not allowing the purchase of “junk food” (as is currently the case with the food stamp program), and the resulting beneficial effects on the body, will be enough to pay for the healthcare professionals who want to get rich providing health care to others.

The viability of the HUMANE program comes from the desire of healthcare professionals to be compensated properly for their services.  When these professionals realize that they are going to be valued and compensated according to their needs and wants, they will do whatever it takes to provide quality health care.  Some will continue to desire participation in the program for the sake of caring for the wellbeing of the people of the world.  But, as current human nature is, the better the pay, the better the care.  Again, the way HUMANE will be set up will result in competition, which creates quality in a free market system.

IV. CLOTHING

Most people living in civilized communities and countries of the world have closets full of extra clothing.  Congress can establish a CLOTHING ASSISTANCE RESOURCES for EVERYONE (CARE) commission to provide clothing to anyone in need.  Used clothing receptacles can be placed in the communities of the world where people can deposit their unwanted clothing.  The CARE commission will establish a way to collect this clothing, wash it, and place it in CARE distribution facilities where the clothing will be free of charge to anyone needing it.  If any clothing is not obtained within a period of one year, it will be sent to a CARE-supported recycling center that will recycle the clothing into other fashion products that are in demand in the free market system.  The recycled clothing will eventually make enough money to pay for the rest of CARE needs.

V. EDUCATION

EDUCATION and QUALITY UNIVERSAL ASSISTANCE for LEARNING (EQUAL) will be available to all human beings free of charge.  No government can place a specific legal value on education.  It should be available to all people of the world equally.  However, the requirements for graduation can be enhanced and improved by making it difficult for a person to gain a certificate or degree in any particular field to ensure that these degrees are not misused.

For example, those who wish to become a doctor will be required to comply with a strict regimen of medical school education that will ensure quality doctors.  Because medical school will be free to anyone wishing to attend, the importance of receiving a degree will be restrictive and left for those with sincere intent, thus ensuring quality medical professionals.

Because education will be free, the pool of human intellect will grow.  This will create competition between the schools and a greater quality of educated people.  Most importantly, each human being will be allowed to learn those unique things that support his or her own individuality.  People will finally be left with no excuse as to why they did not receive an appropriate education with an emphasis on their personal elective field.  Nevertheless, those who do not desire to go through the regiment of strict educational requirements needed to obtain a degree will not have to.  Because their basic human needs will be provided for, they can go to school, or not, depending on what makes them happy.

School administrators, professors, and teachers will be paid appropriately according to current free market trends.  Although these EQUAL service providers are not as necessary to basic human physical needs as health care providers are, they are important for the emotional state of human beings living in a free market world.  They should be compensated based on their ability to retain students in their classrooms.  Because education will be free, schools will be in competition to hire the best teachers that will attract the most students.  Schools will have to offer the classes that the students want.  The demand for education will create the supply in education as it does in all other aspects of a free market economy.

Private schools will remain under private, for-profit management.  If an educational entrepreneur wants to establish a school that will attract students and provide educational disciplines that meet EQUAL guidelines, then let them compete with those thus established.  Daily attendance will be tracked and schools will be paid based on student attendance.  Students will have an “Education Card,” much like a credit card, that can be used to pay for their education.  Any abuse of EQUAL by school administrators or teachers will result in the charge of a crime against humanity, and be appropriately punished.