Write the 28th Amendment

[SteveRogers]

28th Amendment- The Electoral System Reform Amendment

Sec. 1. No person shall be elected to the Senate or to the House of Representatives without receiving an absolute majority of the votes cast in the determinative election for the seat in question. The legislature of each state shall proscribe a manner of election, which may consist of a single ballot or multiple successive ballots, that ensures that one candidate will receive such a majority of the vote.

Sec. 2. The 12th Amendment and Section 4 of the 20th Amendment are hereby repealed, and the electoral college is hereby abolished.

Sec. 3. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected by the people of the several states and of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States.

Votes shall be cast for pairs of candidates consisting of one candidate for President and one candidate for Vice President who have both consented to appear on the ballot together as a single ticket.

Each state shall conduct its own vote for the President and Vice President as the legislature of the state may direct, and each state shall be the judge of the elections and returns within its own jurisdiction, but Congress may by law establish uniform rules governing voter eligibility and access by candidates to the ballot.

After all votes have been cast, each state shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and the total number of votes cast for each within the state's jurisdiction. The executive authority of each state or an officer otherwise designated by the legislature of the state shall certify these results and transmit them to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.

Sec. 4.The Congress shall determine the time at which the voting shall take place and the day by which the states must certify and submit to congress their vote totals; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

Sec. 5. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates from the various states and the votes shall then be counted and totaled. The individual having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President of the United States, if and only if such number be an absolute majority of all votes cast throughout the nation.

If no person have such majority, then a runoff election shall be held between the two persons having the greatest number of votes for President.

Sec. 6. Congress may choose the time for the runoff election and for the certification and submission to congress of results from the runoff election, but the runoff election shall take place before the time fixed for the beginning of the term for the President. Congress may by law provide for a case in which one or more candidates for President or Vice President shall have died between the time of the general election and the runoff election.

Sec. 7. Congress may by law provide a method for resolving ties among candidates in either the general election or the runoff election.

[SteveRogers]

Section 1: The fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2: The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 3: The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 4: The second article of the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 5: The third article of the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 6: "...and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States" and "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." are hereby removed from the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States.

Yeah, don't you hate it when congress provides for the common defense and general welfare of the country? What we need is a congress that will only make wholly unnecessary and wildly improper laws.

Ok, so we're going to let the states deny due process and equal protection at their whim, we're going to stop electing Senators, and the government will have no money. So far so good. Who gets the executive power though? Like, for commanding the army and enforcing the laws and so on? Are you intending a parliamentary system? Is the Speaker of the House the head of state now? If so that should probably be mentioned somewhere. Also, are there just going to be no courts at all now?

[SteveRogers]

My issue with the Fourteenth Amendment stems more from the granting of birthright citizenship, which I believe to be a usurpation of the power of the states to determine who should have citizenship.

You know there's a lot of other important stuff in the 14th amendment though, right?