If you could make one new amendemt to the contitution what would that be?

Answer 1

Make marriage between 1 man and 1 woman. This is our last stand on this matter. The courts in Massachusetts decided that what they think is more important than what Americans think.

We need this because politicans are too spineless to impeach judges that make laws and violate their oath of office.

We as a society must promote a healthy environment for our children to be raised in. Nature made reproduction between 1 man and 1 woman. A child needs to be taught by a parent from each sex on how to behave. For example, a father must teach his son the responsibility of caring for a family and what being a man really means. Women must teach their sons that men must understand that women are wired more emotionally than men and how to handle these differences.

Look at what marriage has become in European countries, especially where gay marriage is legal. There is little formal marriage and those societies are paying for it.

There will be plenty of critics of this, fine. We do not as a society need to recognize legimitacy of gay relationships. I am sick of gays shoving their agenda of forced acceptance on people. I do not care what 2 men do behind closed doors. I do not want to see it, hear about, or think about it.

We can pass laws (and we should) that allow a person to give visitation rights to whomever they want (friends, relatives, lover, whatever). We should also allow anyone to leave property to whomever they want, without any taxes, at any level of wealth.

Answer 2

I almost got picked for best answer the last time someone asked this question. So I'll repeat my answer, hoping it'll get picked this time, and because I still feel so strongly about this.

But first I want to say this. I am a gay man who is pretty conservative. In fact, I feel that I am probably much more conservative than the "Log Cabin Republicans," particularly since I believe in conservative interpretations of the U.S. Constitution, which is where the LCRs are pretty liberal. And because of my beliefs about conservative interpretation of the U.S. (and state) Constitution(s), I quite strongly agree with Chainsaw's complaint about what the Massachusetts court did.

However, Chainsaw, like Sen. Wayne Allard who sponsored the Marriage Amendment in Congress, does not want a constitutional amendment that would only prevent the judiciary from legalizing same-sex marriage. They both want an amendment which would prohibit legislatures from doing so as well. In this specific way, I am liberal. I do want to give legislatures the option of legalizing. I had a letter printed in USAToday two months ago in which I discussed that point, expressing my opposition to Sen. Allard's proposal for that one reason.

But here is my idea for a constitutional amendment.

Repeal and replace the 14th Amendment. Section 1 of the 14th has three consecutive clauses that are vague and have been misused and abused by the Courts so much that it makes me want to stay away from the ballot box for the rest of my life.

Constitutional law ought to constitute a set of rules so that government (the level of government being commanded) can know what it can or cannot do. Constitutional law ought to "provide guidance and discipline for the legislature, which is entitled to know what kind of laws it may pass," and it ought to "mark the limit of [the Court's] authority." (From Romer v. Evans, 1996; morally correct rhetoric but completely hypocritical in reality.)

Declare that the 14th is repealed (we obviously don't need the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sections of it any more) and is replaced with more clearly stated rules for the states to obey.

In place of the Privileges and Immunities Clause, say that states must obey all provisions of the Bill of Rights except for the 2nd, 7th, and 9th amendments, and the Grand Jury Clause of the 5th.

Clarify that the Due Process Clause means exactly what it literally says and that, as Alexander Hamilton once said, it can never be applied to an act of the legislature (or voters). The Clause guarantees fair, standard PROCEDURES, not laws which judges deem acceptable.

Clarify that the Equal Protection Clause means only one thing: RACIAL equality. Not gender, not sexual orientation, not aliens, not equality for persons born out of wedlock, etc., etc.

The Supreme Court has been at its worst when: 1) it steals Presidential elections, 2) it enforces "unenumerated rights," and 3) picks out "minorities" other than racial minorites for "heightened protection."

"The current state of equal protection and fundamental rights is a travesty. The Court has drifted between different [clauses of the 14th] in deriving these rights as if they were so many coat hooks for the Court to use which-ever one is convenient. The various standards set out by the Court for deriving these rights are so vague as to be virtually useless. ... [T]he Fourteenth Amendment remains a hodgepodge of underdeveloped ideas." -- Evan Gerstmann, "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution," (2003) Cambridge University Press, pp 209-210.

Answer 3

I would love to see an amendment barring tag a long bills. I think that if a bill is voted on in congress it should be illegal for there to be other bills and laws riding along with it in which there is no relation to the original bill. I'm tired of seeing a bill for, let's say, environmental protection and there's a military spending bill snuck on to the end. It's become a way for laws to get snuck into legislation and has also become a tool for killing bills. It's almost as bad as lobbying. I feel that the current system is not conductive to progress.

Answer 4

My Amendment :

Here after let it be heard and known to all citizens that from this day forward that::
People with a brain the size of a pea, an ego the size of Texas, the vocabulary and cognitive reasoning of a three year old child, shall never be able to hold the office of president of the United States of America ever again.

Answer 5

Make the military ALL fall under the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard. Keep the shores and borders free of any invasion, and shoot down all invading air traffic. Keep our young men here, and our jobs here too. Kind of like the Monroe Doctrine of 1823.

Dream on.....

Answer 6

Eliminate the term 'marriage' as having any legal significance.

Any couple who wants to get state/federal benefits gets a civil union. Leave marriage entirely to the churches to define.

Answer 7

An ammendment barring

Presidential possibilities in the same family -

Father/Son (Bush)
Husband/Wife (Clinton)
Brother/Brother (Kennedy-almost)

Within a 100 year, span of time

Answer 8

Candidates for the presidency must first pass an IQ test.

Answer 9

Since Megan seems to be the ranking authority on the subject, maybe she can explain how, exactly, one "passes" an IQ test?

Answer 10

Forbid the capital penalty