DRAFT FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION — NOT LAW. This is a working draft of a proposed roadmap — a blueprint for how, together, we might accomplish what it describes. It is based on the proposed Revised Constitution presented here, a living document that will keep being revised and improved before anything is adopted. Nothing in it is enacted, and no provision binds any person, legislature, or court. When we say blueprint, we mean exactly that: a starting point offered for the work ahead — nothing more. We get there together.
Whereas the people of the United States, exercising the sovereign authority acknowledged in Article Seven of the Revised Constitution — an authority that predates and is not constrained by any prior constitutional framework — have adopted a new fundamental law through direct popular ratification; and whereas the Revised Constitution, upon ratification, becomes the supreme law of the land and automatically supersedes any inconsistent federal statute by operation of Article Six; and whereas Congress has an affirmative constitutional obligation to bring federal law into conformity with the Constitution it has sworn to uphold; now therefore, the Congress of the United States hereby identifies the following federal laws as requiring legislative action, and commits to taking that action within the timeframes specified below.
Current status: Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance under the CSA — the most restrictive category, reserved for substances with no accepted medical use and high abuse potential. Congress placed it there in 1970. A December 2025 executive order directed the Attorney General to expedite rescheduling to Schedule III, but as of ratification no final agency action has been taken. 24 states and DC have legalized recreational marijuana under state law; all remain technically in violation of the CSA. Federal prosecution of state-legal marijuana activity has been partially limited by annual Rohrabacher-Farr appropriations riders, which must be renewed each fiscal year and could lapse at any time.
The conflict: Article Seventeen, Section 2 of the Revised Constitution removes marijuana from federal controlled substances schedules entirely upon ratification. Marijuana scheduling in Schedule I is directly and immediately unconstitutional from the moment of ratification.
Related provisions requiring simultaneous repeal:
Current status: The federal death penalty is authorized by multiple statutes covering crimes including murder of federal officials, terrorism, espionage, and drug trafficking resulting in death. The Biden administration imposed a moratorium in January 2021; the Trump administration resumed executions in January 2025. As of ratification, approximately 40 people are on federal death row.
The conflict: Article Seventeen, Section 3 of the Revised Constitution abolishes the federal death penalty. Life without parole is the federal maximum sentence. Any federal statute authorizing execution is immediately unconstitutional upon ratification.
Current status: The federal debt ceiling is a statutory limit on the total amount the federal government may borrow. It was reinstated at $36.1 trillion in January 2025, then suspended again by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 through January 2029. The debt ceiling has been raised or suspended 102 times since 1940. It has been used as a political weapon repeatedly, bringing the country to the brink of default in 2011, 2013, 2021, and 2023.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 6 of the Revised Constitution abolishes the debt ceiling mechanism entirely. When Congress authorizes spending that requires borrowing, the authority to borrow is automatically granted. Any statute imposing a separate borrowing limit on obligations Congress has already authorized is unconstitutional.
Current status: FECA is the primary federal campaign finance statute — establishing private contribution limits, disclosure requirements, and the Federal Election Commission as the enforcement agency. Citizens United v. FEC (2010) struck down limits on corporate and union independent spending. McCutcheon v. FEC (2014) eliminated aggregate contribution limits. Individual contribution limits are $3,500 per candidate per election for the 2026 cycle. Total spending in the 2024 election cycle exceeded $16 billion.
The conflict: Article Eight of the Revised Constitution replaces private campaign financing entirely with a state-administered public financing system. No candidate for federal office may accept any private donation. The FEC's role is replaced by the Office of Public Campaign Finance. Citizens United and McCutcheon are superseded by constitutional amendment, not case law.
Current status: The Insurrection Act lets the President deploy federal troops and federalize the National Guard against civilians inside the United States, largely at sole discretion, with no fixed time limit and minimal judicial review — the primary statutory vehicle for turning regular military force inward.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Five, Section 1 prohibits the use of the armed forces against the American people. The Act’s domestic-deployment provisions are directly and immediately unconstitutional upon ratification and are void without further action.
Current status: The OBBBA cut over $1 trillion from federal healthcare programs through 2034. Key provisions: Medicaid work requirements (80 hours/month) for expansion adults, effective January 2027; ACA enhanced premium tax credits allowed to expire end of 2025; DACA recipients made ineligible for ACA marketplace coverage; certain lawfully present immigrants restricted from Medicare and Medicaid; more frequent Medicaid eligibility redeterminations every 6 months for expansion adults; expansion of orphan drug carve-outs limiting Medicare drug price negotiation. The Congressional Budget Office estimates 11.8 million people will lose health coverage by 2034 from the healthcare provisions alone; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates up to 15 million.
The conflict: Article Eight, Right 37 of the Revised Constitution establishes healthcare as a constitutional right. Article Eleven establishes the Essential Care system and prohibits Congress from using the appropriations process to eliminate it or reduce it below the level necessary to provide genuine essential medical care to all citizens and qualifying residents. The OBBBA's healthcare cuts are unconstitutional under this framework — they use the appropriations and eligibility process to effectively eliminate meaningful healthcare access for millions of people protected by the Revised Constitution.
Current status: The CRA allows Congress to overturn any final federal agency rule by passing a joint resolution of disapproval by simple majority in both chambers. A joint resolution requires presidential signature or veto override. The CRA includes a provision that once a rule is disapproved, no substantially similar rule may ever be issued without new legislation — a permanent ban on re-regulation. The CRA has been used 117 times; it was used extensively by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2025 to eliminate regulations issued in the final months of the Obama and Biden administrations.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 7 of the Revised Constitution preserves the congressional override mechanism but eliminates the permanent re-regulation ban, requires written specific objections identifying the exact provisions and reasons for disapproval, and prohibits use of the CRA to systematically dismantle constitutionally required regulatory programs under Article Eighteen or any other provision of the Revised Constitution.
Current status: Section 5 of the VRA historically required jurisdictions covered by Section 4's formula to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any voting law change. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b)'s coverage formula as based on outdated data, leaving Section 5 unenforceable. No replacement formula has been enacted. Since Shelby County, at least 31 states have passed 103 or more restrictive voting laws. The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would have replaced the coverage formula, passed the House in 2021 but died in the Senate. The remainder of the VRA — particularly Section 2's nationwide effects-based prohibition on discriminatory voting practices — remains in full force.
The conflict: Right 34 of the Revised Constitution establishes a conduct-based preclearance system that applies equally to every jurisdiction — any jurisdiction found by a federal court to have violated federal voting rights law enters 10 years of mandatory preclearance, regardless of its geographic location or historical record. This replaces the geographic coverage formula that the Supreme Court struck down.
Current status: The STOCK Act requires Members of Congress, their spouses, and senior staff to disclose stock trades over $1,000 within 45 days of the transaction. It explicitly clarifies that Members are subject to insider trading laws. It does not ban stock trading — it only requires disclosure. Penalties for non-disclosure are minimal: $200 per violation, rarely enforced. Multiple bills to ban congressional stock trading outright — the ETHICS Act, the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act — have been introduced repeatedly but never passed.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 5 of the Revised Constitution bans all trading in stocks, commodities, and securities by Members of Congress, their spouses, dependents, and entities in which they hold a 5% or greater interest, during their time in office. Trading must be divested or placed in a blind trust within 90 days of taking office. Violation = removal and a permanent bar from federal office. The STOCK Act's disclosure-only framework is superseded by the constitutional prohibition.
Current status: Current law permits broad electronic surveillance — including bulk collection and warrantless programs such as Section 702 — under standards well below a probable-cause warrant, with oversight concentrated in a secret court.
The conflict: Article Twelve and Rights 9 and 10 require individualized, warrant-based standards and protect digital communications and data. The existing authorities are superseded — but lawful surveillance must continue, so this is a replacement, not a bare repeal.
Current status: The FLSA establishes a federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour — unchanged since July 2009, the longest stretch without an increase in the law's history. Overtime is required at time-and-a-half for hours over 40 in a workweek. There is no double time requirement at any threshold. The FLSA permits a subminimum wage of $2.13 per hour for tipped workers (the federal tipped minimum wage has not changed since 1991). Workers with disabilities may be paid below the federal minimum under a separate subminimum wage certificate program (14(c) certificates). A 2024 DOL rule updating overtime salary thresholds was vacated by a Texas federal court in November 2024, reverting thresholds to the 2019 levels of $684 per week for the exemption threshold.
The conflict: Article Thirteen, Section 1 requires regional minimum wage floors at 50% of the BLS regional median hourly wage — replacing the single national number. Section 2 requires double time for hours over 50 in a week. Section 1 eliminates all subminimum wage categories with no exceptions for tipped workers, agricultural workers, or workers with disabilities.
Current status: The NLRA protects workers' rights to organize, join unions, and engage in collective bargaining. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 amended the NLRA to permit states to pass right-to-work laws (prohibiting union security agreements) and allows employers to permanently replace striking workers under the Mackay Radio doctrine established by the Supreme Court in 1938. The PRO Act, which would have prohibited permanent striker replacement, expanded organizing rights, and limited employer anti-union activities, passed the House in 2021 but died in the Senate. Independent contractor exclusions from the NLRA leave millions of workers without organizing rights under current law.
The conflict: Article Thirteen, Section 4 of the Revised Constitution constitutionalizes organizing rights for all workers regardless of employment classification, prohibits permanent replacement of striking workers, and requires reinstatement of strikers upon conclusion of a strike. Union membership remains voluntary — no worker can be compelled to join or pay dues.
Current status: HAVA established minimum federal election standards, created the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and provided federal funding for election administration. It requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls and provide provisional ballots. It does not require or provide for free government-issued voter ID. Voter ID requirements are set by each state individually — 35 states require some form of ID; requirements range from strict photo ID to simply signing an affidavit. Over 51% of Americans do not have a valid passport; replacement of certain identity documents can cost over $1,000.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 2 of the Revised Constitution requires a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot — and equally requires that the government make that ID available to every eligible voter at no cost and without undue burden. The constitutional requirement cannot be imposed without the constitutional guarantee of free access.
Current status: Dodd-Frank created the CFPB in 2010. The Supreme Court ruled in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB (2020) that the single-director structure with a "for cause only" removal standard was unconstitutional — the President may remove the CFPB Director at will. The Trump administration in 2025 attempted to gut the CFPB through DOGE directives; federal courts blocked full elimination. The CFPB has returned billions of dollars to consumers harmed by deceptive financial practices. Its current structure leaves it vulnerable to presidential removal at will.
The conflict: Right 39 of the Revised Constitution constitutionalizes the consumer financial protection right and requires Congress to maintain a dedicated enforcement agency whose leadership is removable only for cause — defined as misconduct, incapacity, or willful violation of law, not policy disagreement. Seila Law's holding that at-will removal is required is superseded by the constitutional amendment.
Current status: The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. Sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, and source of income are not protected characteristics under the federal FHA. HUD has closed at least 115 federal fair housing cases without resolution as of May 2025 under the Trump administration's enforcement retreat. Bank regulatory agencies proposed rescinding 2023 Community Reinvestment Act rule revisions in July 2025.
The conflict: Right 32 of the Revised Constitution prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing and all other public accommodations. Article Eight, Right 32's equal protection provision provides broader protection than the current FHA.
Current status: Social Security (OASDI) is funded by dedicated payroll taxes and operates through the Social Security Trust Fund. The Trust Fund is technically off-budget but its surpluses have historically been used to offset the unified budget deficit. Actuarial projections show Trust Fund depletion around 2033-2035 without legislative changes, at which point benefits could be cut by approximately 20-25% unless Congress acts. The Social Security Act is entirely statutory — its benefit levels, retirement age, and payroll tax structure can all be changed by simple majority legislation.
The conflict: Article Seventeen, Section 4 of the Revised Constitution establishes constitutional floors — no benefit cuts below ratification-era levels, no retirement age increases, no reduction in the payroll tax cap. The Trust Fund is constitutionally ring-fenced from the general federal budget. The SSA must be amended to codify these constitutional floors as statutory protections and to formally implement the Trust Fund ring-fencing.
Current status: The LDA requires lobbyists to register and disclose lobbying activity and client relationships. The Ethics in Government Act establishes one-year and two-year cooling-off periods before Members and senior staff may lobby Congress after leaving office. No permanent ban exists. No foreign lobbying lifetime ban exists for senior officials. These cooling-off periods have been routinely circumvented through informal consulting arrangements that technically avoid formal "lobbying" registration.
The conflict: Article Three, Sections 8-9 and Article Ten, Section 3 of the Revised Constitution establish a permanent lifetime lobbying ban for Presidents, Vice Presidents, Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and all their personal staff; a family lobbying ban for the life of the officeholder; and a six-year cooling-off period (up from one or two years) for other senior federal officials, plus a lifetime foreign lobbying ban for all covered officials.
Current status: The INA governs admission, removal, detention, and status; much of removal and detention practice runs on limited individualized process and broad executive discretion.
The conflict: Article Seven, Section 3 guarantees immigration due process and Article Twenty-Three imposes enforcement accountability, equal application, limits on mass actions, officer accountability, and work-authorization rules. The INA stays in force but must be amended to conform.
Current status: The ADA bars disability discrimination and requires reasonable accommodation, but its coverage, remedies, and accessibility standards fall short of a full constitutional guarantee.
The conflict: Right 43 makes accessibility and accommodation a constitutional right. The ADA remains in force and is strengthened, not replaced.
Current status: Section 230 broadly immunizes online platforms for third-party content and moderation choices, with no transparency or accountability duties for algorithmic amplification.
The conflict: Article Eighteen, Section 2 imposes platform accountability, and Article Ten, Sections 7–8 require algorithmic transparency and a chronological-feed option. Section 230 must be amended to add these duties.
Current status: The FAA is read to compel enforcement of forced-arbitration and class-waiver clauses in consumer and employment contracts, closing the courthouse door on many everyday disputes.
The conflict: Article Eighteen, Section 7 protects the person in commercial dealings and preserves access to the courts. The FAA must be amended to bar forced pre-dispute arbitration where it strips protected rights.
Current status: Existing antitrust law turns largely on a consumer-welfare price standard and rarely reaches structural concentration, roll-ups, or private-equity extraction.
The conflict: Article Eighteen establishes a general anti-monopoly principle, a private-equity prohibition, and structural limits. The existing antitrust statutes remain but must be amended to add these standards.
Current status: Federal patent and copyright law set the scope and duration of exclusive rights and the boundary of the public domain.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 7 directs intellectual-property and public-domain standards that differ from current terms and scope. These titles remain but must be amended to conform.
Current status: The Code governs debt relief but limits discharge in areas such as student debt and imposes means-testing barriers to a genuine fresh start.
The conflict: Article Three, Section 7 and Article Seven, Section 4 (Criminal Records and Second Chances) support a real fresh start. The Code is amended, not repealed.
Current status: Existing whistleblower protections are fragmented across statutes, exclude many workers, and offer weak remedies and slow enforcement.
The conflict: Right 44 and Article Ten, Section 11 mandate comprehensive whistleblower protection. Existing law is consolidated and strengthened.
Current status: FARA requires disclosure by agents of foreign principals but is unevenly enforced and does not reach many foreign-influence channels.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Five, Section 7 protects against foreign-government influence and Article Ten, Section 4 closes foreign-lobbying channels. FARA is strengthened to conform.
Current status: GINA bars genetic discrimination in employment and health insurance but leaves gaps in other contexts and in genetic-data privacy.
The conflict: Right 46 establishes genetic privacy and freedom from genetic discrimination broadly. GINA remains and is expanded.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution mandates an Essential Care system with no comparable existing statute. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the National Healthcare Cost Board (composition, appointment process, subpoena power, independence protections, funding); the national price ceiling framework for all Essential Care services; the insurance utility conversion with an automatic overhead cap phase-in: 25% (Year 1) → 22% (Year 2) → 20% (Year 3) → 18% (Years 4-5) → 15% (Year 6 and permanently) — immutable schedule, advances automatically without further congressional action, may not be paused or reversed except by constitutional amendment; the prior authorization abolition mechanism with federal enforcement; the single national billing system; the national drug price negotiation framework for all Essential Care formulary drugs with the seven-year new drug premium window (at 20% above the international reference price for privately funded drugs; no premium for drugs where 50% or more of R&D costs were federally funded); hospital antitrust enforcement with 30% market share cap; the annual spending target and accountability review process; the public option — a network of State-Federal Public Benefit Corporations (one per state, not-for-profit, governed one-third by enrolled members, one-third by providers, one-third by public appointees; priced at actuarial cost; 15% overhead cap from Day One; Medicare rates plus 15%; available in every county; not a government agency); the dental, vision, and hearing Essential Care basket; Medicare buy-in at age 60 with sliding-scale premiums; and the Strategic Essential Medicines Reserve with triggering conditions, production authority, and suspension mechanism.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution mandates a National Climate Science Board and a National Climate Strategy with no existing statutory equivalent. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the National Climate Science Board (composition of climate scientists and relevant experts, 8-year staggered terms, no energy industry financial interests, independent funding, insulation from political direction); the requirement for Congress to maintain an active National Climate Strategy updated every five years with measurable interim benchmarks; the federal court review mechanism for inadequate strategies (any person has standing, CBO and Science Board findings as evidence); the net-zero federal operations mandate with 180-day planning deadline and 2040 compliance date; the National Environmental Burden Registry (maintained by EPA, all census tracts, all regulated pollutants, updated annually, publicly searchable); and the Environmental Burden Standard permitting framework — no new major polluter in communities above national median burden without proven net pollution reduction.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution mandates a National Housing Infrastructure Program and a Universal Broadband Service Program with no comparable existing statutes. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the National Housing Infrastructure Program with funding levels, zoning reform eligibility criteria (eliminate single-family-only zoning, 90-day permitting, remove parking minimums near transit), eligible uses, and annual production reporting; the Federal Home Purchase Savings Match program with the tiered matching structure (3:1, 2:1, 1:1 by income), Home Purchase Savings Account framework, annual federal match appropriation, and primary-residence-only use restriction; the Community Reinvestment Infrastructure Fund with the historical redlined census tract targeting methodology, eligible uses, 30-year minimum authorization, and reauthorization mechanism; and the Universal Broadband Service Program with the minimum speed standard, update mechanism, state voluntary participation framework, ISP common carrier designation process for 40%+ dominant market providers, and FCC enforcement authority.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution mandates free community college, a public university tuition cap, a federal teacher pay floor, universal childcare, portable education accounts, and parental rights in education — none of which have existing federal statutory frameworks. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the free community college tuition program with institutional reimbursement formula, funding appropriation, and qualifying student definition (Article Eight, Right 10 qualifying residents); the 10% state median income tuition cap for public four-year institutions with federal gap coverage, income-based sliding scale, and compliance enforcement; the federal Teacher Pay Floor at the BLS regional median wage for bachelor's degree holders with two-year update cycle and state compliance conditions tied to federal education funding; the Universal Childcare Subsidy System with the 7% gross income cap, licensed provider payment mechanism, state administration, federal safety-only standards, no curriculum mandate, working/student parent eligibility, and congressional funding mandate for all eligible families; the Portable Education Account program with account funding formula (80% of per-pupil expenditure), state voluntary administration, anti-discrimination and accreditation eligibility requirements, public school 20% retention, organizing rights requirements for non-ministerial staff, and fraud prevention mechanisms; and the parental rights framework with curriculum transparency portal requirements, opt-out process, limits (no opt-out from core factual science/history/civics), and anti-retaliation protections.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution establishes a national referendum mechanism with no existing institutional infrastructure. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the Office of the National Referendum — organizational structure, funding, and staffing; the petition verification system — how the 10% signature threshold from 30 states is collected, verified, and certified; the ballot process — timelines, ballot language standards, voting procedures (using the existing federal election infrastructure), and certification; the congressional response mechanism — how Congress receives a certified referendum result, timelines for legislation and amendment votes, and public hearing requirements; and anti-fraud and anti-foreign-influence provisions.
ENACTED — CS-16 (Federal Data Privacy Act). This item has been fully addressed. CS-16 establishes: definitions of personal information, sensitive data categories, and explicit informed consent (specific, affirmative, for each use — not a buried checkbox); individual rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, and withdrawal; data minimization obligations; data broker registration with annual FTC disclosure; opt-in consent for sensitive data categories (health, biometric, location, children's data); FTC civil penalties up to $100,000/violation for sensitive data violations; private right of action with $1,000–$5,000 statutory damages per violation without proof of actual harm; state AG concurrent enforcement; and floor preemption allowing states to exceed but not fall below federal standards. All elements of this item have been implemented.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution establishes a 15-member independent commission with subpoena power and a five-year mandate to produce a factual economic accounting of the legacy of slavery and government-sanctioned racial injustice. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the commission's membership criteria and joint appointment process (President, Senate President pro tempore, Speaker of the House); the commission's subpoena authority and enforcement mechanism; its budget and protection from defunding before delivery of the final report; the five-year fixed term and reporting requirements; the congressional response obligation — hearings within six months of the report, legislation brought to a recorded vote within two years; and the commission's dissolution process upon delivery of the final report.
What must be created: The Revised Constitution establishes an independent Judicial Ethics Commission with binding authority over all federal judges including Supreme Court Justices — no such body currently exists. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the commission's composition — four members from each major party, ninth member by unanimous agreement or lot from retired federal appellate judges who have been off the bench at least five years; the appointment process for each of the eight partisan members; the ninth member selection mechanism including the 60-day unanimity window and the lot procedure; staggered 6-year terms with cause-only removal by two-thirds of the full commission; the binding ethics code covering gifts, travel, financial conflicts, and recusal standards; the investigation and adjudication process; the penalties available — including referral for impeachment for Supreme Court Justices; the commission's budget and protection from political defunding; and the mandatory recusal mechanism for judges with direct financial stakes.
What must be created: Article Eighteen establishes three constitutional mandates — the general anti-monopoly principle, the communications platform accountability framework, and the regulatory capture prohibition — none of which have complete existing statutory frameworks. Article Ten, Section 6 has been updated with two new media concentration provisions. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the FTC's constitutional authority to declare markets essential and subject to democratic accountability under Article Eighteen, Section 1; structural antitrust remedies including divestiture, functional separation, and access requirements for dominant essential market actors; the threshold determination process for Article Eighteen, Section 2 platform designation (10% of adult population as primary political news source); the methodology for measuring aggregate cross-platform reach under Article Ten, Section 6's cross-platform aggregate concentration cap — specifically how the FTC calculates unduplicated combined audience across television, radio, print, digital news, social media, search engines, podcasting, and film distribution annually; the enforcement mechanism and mandatory divestiture remedies for violations of the 40% aggregate cap; the cross-ownership prohibition enforcement framework — defining the six media categories, the 10% individual platform reach threshold, the 18-month mandatory divestiture timeline, and the personal liability structure for individual owners who fail to divest; the Digital Communications Accountability Board — composition, appointment process, jurisdiction, complaint process, investigation authority, and penalty structure covering nondiscrimination, owner non-interference, and cross-ownership requirements; the specific nondiscrimination and owner non-interference enforcement mechanisms including personal liability for individual platform owners; the pre-service and post-service restriction enforcement mechanisms for Article Eighteen, Section 3 — including the Office of Government Ethics registry, the void appointment mechanism, the federal felony penalties, and forfeiture procedures; and the coordination between Article Eighteen, Article Ten Section 6, and existing antitrust, telecommunications, and ethics statutes. Congress must also identify and review all existing FCC media ownership rules for consistency with the new constitutional framework — existing rules that fall below the constitutional floors must be raised; rules that conflict must be replaced.
What must be created: Article Eleven, Section 4 mandates ranked-choice voting for all federal general elections and requires it to be operational within two federal election cycles of ratification. The ranked-choice requirement is grounded in Congress's Article One, Section 4 plenary authority over the manner of holding federal elections — it is a federal ballot-counting standard for federal offices, not a commandeering of state electoral administration. Congress must pass legislation establishing: the uniform ranked-choice tabulation algorithm and counting procedure to be used for all federal general elections — specifying how ballots are counted, how candidates are eliminated, how redistributed ballots are processed, and how winners are certified; a federally developed, open-source tabulation software system made available at no cost to every state for use in counting federal ballots; a federal implementation fund providing grants to states, counties, and local election jurisdictions to cover the costs of implementing ranked-choice counting for federal offices; voter education resources explaining ranked-choice voting, to be distributed by the federal government in every federal election jurisdiction; uniform ballot design standards for ranked-choice federal ballots that are consistent with accessibility requirements; a certification process for ranked-choice results at the state level before transmission to the relevant federal authority; and a clear statement that states are not required to use ranked-choice voting for their own state and local elections — the federal requirement applies exclusively to the tabulation of votes for federal offices (President, Senate, and House of Representatives). Congress must also amend the Help America Vote Act to incorporate ranked-choice tabulation standards and funding mechanisms within this implementing framework.
Current status: No general federal statute governs algorithmic decision-making, AI transparency, AI in criminal justice, autonomous weapons, or AI concentration of power.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Two requires a comprehensive AI-governance framework. This is entirely new legislation with nothing to repeal or amend.
Current status: Involuntary civil commitment runs on a patchwork of state standards with uneven evidentiary, clinical, and judicial safeguards; there is no uniform federal floor.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Eight and Right 51 require real evidence, a prompt independent clinician, a prompt neutral judge, the least-restrictive means, and a bar on commitment as a tool of control.
Current status: No federal statute guarantees a right to generate your own power, bars life-threatening disconnection, or sets an affordability-and-reliability floor across the grid.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Six and Right 53 establish energy security, the right to self-generate, and protection from dangerous disconnection.
Current status: Existing militia and Guard authority is scattered and, with the Insurrection Act, permits domestic military use; there is no clean statutory line against private paramilitaries.
The conflict: Article Twenty-Five, Section 8 defines the National Guard and militia under civil authority and prohibits private armies.
Current status: Federal law addresses child labor narrowly and permits juvenile life-without-parole in some contexts; there is no unified children’s-rights framework.
The conflict: Article Twenty-One establishes the best interests of the child, family-unity protections, a bar on juvenile life without parole, protection from commercial exploitation, and child-labor limits.
Current status: Federal Indian law is a fragmented body of treaties, statutes, and doctrine, with recurring disputes over the scope of the trust responsibility and funding.
The conflict: Article Twenty affirms inherent sovereignty, treaties as supreme law, the federal trust responsibility, self-governance, and funding parity.
Current status: There is no standing federal framework for remedying documented historical injustice as an obligation rather than a discretionary program.
The conflict: Article Seven, Section 5 establishes the obligation to remedy documented historical injustice, working with the National Historical Injustice Commission (Article Seventeen, Section 1).
Current status: The District of Columbia has no voting representation in Congress and is not a state; admission requires an act of Congress.
The conflict: Article Seventeen, Section 7 provides for admission of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.
| TA Item | Subject | Enacted As |
| Items 1-4 (Cat. 1) | Marijuana, Death Penalty, Debt Ceiling, FECA | Self-executing (Cat. 1) + CS-1, CS-5 |
| Items 5-8 (Cat. 2) | OBBBA Healthcare, CRA, VRA Preclearance, STOCK Act | CS-3, CS-1, CS-15, CS-1 |
| Items 9-15 (Cat. 3) | FLSA, NLRA, HAVA, Dodd-Frank, Fair Housing, SSA, Lobbying | CS-6, CS-6, CS-1, CS-9, CS-14, CS-15, CS-1/CS-9 |
| Items 16-17 (Cat. 4) | Essential Care System, Climate Strategy | CS-3, CS-7 |
| Items 18-20 (Cat. 4) | Housing/Broadband, Education, National Referendum | CS-14, CS-8, CS-5 |
| Item 21 (Cat. 4) | Federal Data Privacy Act | CS-16 — Federal Data Privacy Act ✓ |
| Item 22 (Cat. 4) | National Historical Injustice Commission | CS-17 — National Historical Injustice Commission Act ✓ |
| Items 23-25 (Cat. 4) | Judicial Ethics, Anti-Oligarchy/Media, Elections | CS-2, CS-9/CS-12, CS-10 |
| Codified Doctrine | Constitutional Location | State Law Conformity Required | Deadline |
| Actual Malice Standard | Right 4, §2 | State defamation laws imposing liability on public figures without actual malice; state anti-SLAPP laws that don't include mandatory fee-shifting | 2 years |
| Exclusionary Rule (three-year pattern) | Right 9, §2 | State evidence codes recognizing broader good-faith exceptions; state doctrines following Leon without the three-year pattern limit now unconstitutional | 2 years |
| Miranda — Any Indication Stops Questioning | Right 13, §2 | State criminal procedure rules applying Berghuis v. Thompkins "unambiguous invocation" requirement now unconstitutional; state interrogation training must be revised | 1 year |
| Brady — All Government Agencies | Right 14, §2 | State discovery rules limiting Brady to prosecutor's personal knowledge rather than all agencies in the investigation; state post-conviction relief procedures must accommodate the "useful to the defense" standard | 1 year |
| Equal Protection Tiers (government bears burden) | Right 32, §2 | State laws classifying on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity now face intermediate scrutiny with government bearing the burden; laws that relied on rational basis for these categories require review | 2 years |
| Total Incorporation | Art. 1, §6 | Confirms all prior piecemeal incorporation. No specific repeal required. State courts applying Barron v. Baltimore analysis must apply Article One §6 instead. Private entities with governmental contracts or practical monopolies over public functions are now constitutionally bound. | Self-executing |
| Right to Travel — No Travel Penalties | Art. 6, §5 | All state laws penalizing residents for traveling to other states are void upon ratification. Post-Dobbs travel restriction statutes, including laws attempting to criminalize travel for healthcare, are immediately unconstitutional and unenforceable. | Immediate |
| One Person One Vote | Art. 6, §6 | State legislative apportionment laws must comply with population equality standards. CS-11 provides the federal enforcement mechanism. State courts may apply Art. 6 §6 directly in state redistricting litigation. | 2 years |
| Youngstown/Executive Privilege | Art. 4, §§9-10 | These provisions govern federal executive authority only. No state law conformity required. | N/A |
Be it resolved that the Congress of the United States, in anticipation of the ratification of the Revised Constitution of the United States, hereby commits to the legislative agenda set forth in this resolution and to the timelines specified herein.
Congress shall begin drafting all implementing legislation identified in this resolution during the ratification period, so that such legislation is ready for introduction and passage immediately upon the Constitution taking effect. No constitutional right or mandate shall be left unimplemented due to congressional inaction, delay, or the use of the appropriations process to gut constitutionally required programs.
Any Member of Congress who fails to bring required implementing legislation to a recorded vote within the timelines specified in this resolution shall be publicly identified in a report published by the Government Accountability Office and transmitted to every constituent in their district or state. The GAO shall publish this report annually from the date of ratification until all required legislation has been enacted.
This resolution is a statement of congressional intent, not itself a law. The specific repeal, amendment, and new legislation described in each entry shall be accomplished through separate bills introduced, debated, and passed in accordance with the legislative process established by the Revised Constitution — beginning in the House of Representatives, confirmed by the Senate, and signed by the President or passed over a veto by two-thirds of both chambers.
