The US Constitution is widely regarded as one of the most effective governing documents ever created. It is praised for establishing a system that limits the executive’s authority to rule over its citizens like a king through its separation of powers and checks and balances.
It is also recognized as a governing document that established fundamental principles, rights, and liberties which are to be afforded to all citizens.
If required, the Constitution could also be amended to adapt to societal changes. The question, though, is how much praise we should give a document that abandons the Declaration of Independence’s obvious proclamation that all men are created equal.
Certainly, the Constitution deserves credit for maintaining our democracy for 250 years. Still, it has been done in a manner that has bastardized, manipulated, and politicized it to become the enemy of Americans rather than its protector.
The culprit behind this has been a Republican and right-wing cabal that has been engaged in a decades-long strategy to control the federal courts, specifically the Supreme Court. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Republicans have engineered a hostile takeover of the Supreme Court.
They have successfully planted Justices on the court who see their jobs as making decisions that please their political and financial benefactors. By design, they have embarked on a mission to make the Constitution irrelevant.
Halting this precipitous fall into an undemocratic abyss requires change.
First, the federal judiciary needs to be expanded, including the Supreme Court. The last time the lower federal courts were expanded was in 1990, and the Supreme Court has had nine Justices since 1869. Absurd, I know.
Most importantly, the Constitution is in dire need of reconstruction, and I’d like to share changes and additions that will make it more worthy of praise.
The 28th Amendment (2026)
The manner in which we select the President of the United States is the creation of very rich and powerful white landowners who created a Rube Goldberg machine that rewarded enslavers and the elite. It is painfully ironic that the primary reason the Electoral College was adopted is that many delegates thought a popular vote could lead to mob rule. They believed an uninformed public or demagogue could easily manipulate the election. In light of our current administration, how has that worked out? The Electoral College has resulted in five individuals becoming president without a majority of voters selecting them. The most recent occurrence was Donald Trump.
This amendment would establish that the candidate who receives the plurality of votes in the general election becomes president. Each state legislature will set the time, place, and manner of holding elections. Each state’s Secretary of State will submit voting results to Congress for final certification. Congressional districts will not be created based on racial or political grounds. District formulation that disparately affects a protected group is prohibited. The Electoral College is abolished, and the popular vote will determine the presidency.
The 29th Amendment (2026)
Presidents do not have immunity from official acts committed in violation of criminal laws and may be prosecuted while in office. Presidents will no longer have the power to pardon, commute sentences, or grant reprieves and remissions.
The 30th Amendment (2026)
This Amendment affects several sections of the Constitution. It requires a 2/3 vote of members present to pass certain congressional actions. This includes conviction after impeachment, overriding a presidential veto, and proposing constitutional amendments.
The requirement for all of these congressional actions should be lowered to 55 percent of members present. The 2/3 threshold is historically unattainable. No president of the majority party has ever garnered 2/3 of senators’ votes to convict the president, even when the president was impeached for leading an insurrection. This would also remove the practical and psychological disincentives to passing or certifying these Congressional actions.
The 31st Amendment (2026)
The number of members in the House of Representatives has been 435 since 1913, when our population was 97,000,000. It is nearly four times that in 2025, with 342.6 million people. Each representative currently represents approximately 787,586 people. My amendment proposes that the population of the least populated state, currently Wyoming at 576,000, be used as the benchmark for establishing one representative. In other words, each state would have a representative for every 576,000 residents. That would increase the House of Representatives from 435 members to 600. Any change or adjustment will continue to be governed by the decennial census.
The number of Senators should also be revised; each state would still start with a minimum of two Senators. States with more than one million residents will receive one Senator for each additional 5 million residents. For example, California, which has 39 million residents, would have a senatorial contingent of 9 Senators.
The 31st Amendment (2026)
As stated, the Second Amendment reads as follows:
“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the securing of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
One of the most disingenuous and dangerous frauds that has been perpetrated on the American people has been the interpretation and expansion of the Second Amendment. The interpretation of the Second Amendment flies in the face of historical context and basic reading comprehension. Abolish the Second Amendment.
The sanctity of the individual’s right to possess firearms is a fiction entirely based on distortions or ignorance of historical context, lies, and judicial bias.
Many Americans like to believe the Bill of Rights was handed down on tablets of stone from Mount Sinai, but in truth it was a compromise born of the power struggle between those who wanted a strong federal government and those who wanted a weak one. George Mason and Patrick Henry, Anti-Federalists, were concerned that the federal government would disarm the state militias, leaving states vulnerable to the federal government and, in the South, slave revolts. References to the individual’s personal safety are rare, almost nonexistent.
It wasn’t until the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago that individuals had a constitutional right to bear arms for personal protection. Previous court decisions emphasized the importance of states in determining the legal status of firearm ownership. Previous decisions stated that the Second Amendment prohibits the federal government from interfering with or limiting the right to bear arms.
The rescission of the Second Amendment would remove the undeserved constitutional protection for instruments designed to maim and kill. See my article License to Kill.
https://un-common-sense.com/a-license-to-kill/
The 32nd Amendment (2026)
Healthcare will be a constitutional right for all American citizens and legal residents. All persons physically present in the United States, at a minimum, are eligible for emergency treatment and urgent care.
A nation that takes the health of its citizens and residents seriously is a nation that cares about its success and survival.
The 38th Amendment (2026)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion and will prohibit funding any religious organization’s activities that restrict access to the general public eligible to participate in said programs for not meeting some religious doctrine or mandate.
The 39th Amendment (2026)
Financial contributions to political candidates and parties will be limited to eligible voters and capped at 7,000 USD for primary and general elections. The annual Consumer Price Index may adjust this amount. Corporations are not voters, so they cannot contribute. This amendment explicitly prohibits independent expenditures by political committees, otherwise known as super PACs.
The 40th Amendment (2026)
Corporations will pay Federal taxes on their gross revenue before expenses, deductions, and allowances. Unrealized gains and losses should also be recognized in the year they occur. Don’t you have to pay taxes based on your home’s assessed value before you sell it?
The 41st Amendment (2026)
The 13th Amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” My amendment would eliminate the slavery and involuntary servitude exception for punishment of a crime.
It didn’t take long for Southern states to pass restrictive laws known as Black Codes. These laws criminalized everyday activities for Black Americans, such as vagrancy, loitering, and lacking proof of employment. Historians estimate that more than 800,000 Black people were placed into forced labor and prison lease arrangements post-Civil War. Ava DuVernay has an outstanding documentary, “13,” about the 13th Amendment.
Please give me some grace, because “my constitutional amendment writing skills are a bit rusty.” I’m not saying these are perfect solutions, but most importantly, I want to highlight the serious issues that need to be addressed.
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