If you can have any amendment...

[Richard]

to the Constitution, what would you make it?

Mine:

"The 16th and 17th Amendments are hereby repealed."

[Redefeatbush04]

Redefeatbush is hereby appointed dictator and all other amendments are ignored......

[Alcon]

1. Senators will not get entered into electoral vote totals (South Dakota would get one vote.)

2. Senators would not be 2 per state, somehow.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

One establishing a far more progressive tax and government control over several industries.

[Richard]

One establishing a far more progressive tax and government control over several industries.

Like Stalin did?

[nclib]

The Equal Rights Amendment.

[A18]

http://libertyamendment.org/

Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.

Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.

[Richard]

http://libertyamendment.org/

Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.

Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.

This is another good one.  A very good one.  I change my mind.  I still want the 17th amendment gone though.

[David S]

http://libertyamendment.org/

Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.

Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.

Yeah I like this too.

Repealing the 17th amendment might or night not be a good idea. In Michigan it would probably mean that we would have two Republican senators instead of two Democrats, but we still wouldn't have any Libertarians. I don't know how it would affect other states.

[Gabu]

You could always do...

Amendment Amendment

Any amendment I propose is automatically accepted.

[7,052,770]

1. The 23rd Amendment is hereby repealed.
2. United States terrotory shall consist of states and districts.
3. Districts shall receive 1 voting representive in the House, but no senators.
4. No district may be larger in area that the smallest state and larger in population than the least populous state.
5. Upon the ratification of this amendment, Puerto Rico will
hold a referendum on whether to become a state, or become independent.
6. Upon the ratification of this amendment, the US Virgin Islands will hold a referendum on whether to become a district, become independent, or, if Puerto Rico chooses statehood by referendum, to become part of the state of Puerto Rico.
7. Upon the ratification of this amendment, America Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands will hold  referendums on whether to become districts, or become independent.

[Sam Spade]

Repeal the 14th amendment, easily the worst amendment ever written.

[A18]

Repeal the 14th amendment, easily the worst amendment ever written.

How come?

[??????????]

The 19th Amendment is now repealed.

[John Dibble]

http://libertyamendment.org/

Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.

Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.

Yeah I like this too.

Ditto.

[Colin]

The 19th Amendment is now repealed.

I thought it would be:
The Confederate States of America are forever to be known as the winner of the Civil War. The states of the Confederacy are free to succeed from the United States and to reform the CSA.

[David S]

The 19th Amendment is now repealed.

Senator States -you wouldn't let the ladies vote?

Well during the 2000 election a few women called the Limbaugh show and said they were going to vote for Gore because of the way he kissed his wife during the campaign. That one made me wonder about the wisdom of the 19th amendment too. But then most women aren't that goofy. Besides they fought hard to win the right so we gotta let them have it.

[The Dowager Mod]

the Equal rights amendment

[Bono]

"Any state of the Union is allowed to nullify a federal law if it conflitcs with the United States Constitution. A state also has the right to secede from the Union."

[??????????]

The 19th Amendment is now repealed.

Senator States -you wouldn't let the ladies vote?

Well during the 2000 election a few women called the Limbaugh show and said they were going to vote for Gore because of the way he kissed his wife during the campaign. That one made me wonder about the wisdom of the 19th amendment too. But then most women aren't that goofy. Besides they fought hard to win the right so we gotta let them have it.

Opps I meant the 16th!! lol sorry ladies. And the 17th I would want repealed as well.

[afleitch]

''The federal government or the state governments shall make no law prohibiting any individual from fulfilling his or her rights as established in the First Amendment in relation to sexual orientation.''

Thats to stop the fundies in their tracks. The First Amendment doesn't seem to apply to gay people in their view.

[A18]

''The federal government or the state governments shall make no law prohibiting any individual from fulfilling his or her rights as established in the First Amendment in relation to sexual orientation.''

Thats to stop the fundies in their tracks. The First Amendment doesn't seem to apply to gay people in their view.

Um, what? How are gay people's first amendment rights being infringed upon?

[??????????]

''The federal government or the state governments shall make no law prohibiting any individual from fulfilling his or her rights as established in the First Amendment in relation to sexual orientation.''

Thats to stop the fundies in their tracks. The First Amendment doesn't seem to apply to gay people in their view.

People with different sexual preferences shouldn't have "Rights" like people of different races. I wouldn't want some drag queen dressing up in that garbage in my place of employment and be legally protected.

[A18]

He's talking about that?! Since when is this a first amendment right?

[David S]

''The federal government or the state governments shall make no law prohibiting any individual from fulfilling his or her rights as established in the First Amendment in relation to sexual orientation.''

Thats to stop the fundies in their tracks. The First Amendment doesn't seem to apply to gay people in their view.

Pardon my ignorance but what's a fundie?