Third
Constitution of the United States
Latest Revision,
September 7, 2012
Preamble
We the People of
the United States establish this Third Constitution of the United States of
North America to promote human rights, social justice, ecological wisdom, democracy,
and peace and happiness for the citizens of our country and ultimately to all
citizens of the world. (The first US
government was under the Articles of Confederation. The second was implemented with the presidency
of George Washington in 1789, and this is the third.)
An Overview of the Third Constitution of
the United States
Under this Third Constitution of
the United States, there will be 435 federal legislators (the same number that was
in the House of Representatives under the previous government), based on
districts (including Washington D.C.) of equal population. The election of members of the House of
Representatives will be based on the system of Proportional
Representation.
Here is how Proportional
Representation can work hypothetically: Voters in federal legislative districts
will study and evaluate the platforms and constitutions of the 7 largest
national political parties. Each voter
will choose one of 7 political parties that he or she most identifies
with. Let us say that based on the latest election,
the new federal legislature will be 20% Republican, 20% Democratic, 15%
Libertarian, 15% Constitution Party, 15% Green Party, 8% Socialist, and 7%
Communist.
The United States Senate, which
existed under the former government, has been eliminated, which means the new one-house
legislature will have 100 fewer federal legislators; it will thus be a
legislature that is unicameral, not bicameral. All federal legislation, in the one-chambered
Congress, must be passed with a 51% majority.
This Third Constitution is far more democratic
than the previous constitution, and it is much shorter and easier to
understand. It takes all money out of
politics, it reduces Supreme Court terms of office to 9 years, and allows
Congress, not the president, to pick Supreme Court judges, using the method of
Instant Runoff Voting. This Third
Constitution also eliminates the previous Electoral College System for electing
a president of the United States, choosing instead to elect the presidential
candidate who gets at least a 51% majority using the method of Instant Runoff
Voting. The Third Constitution promotes
honesty and transparency at all levels of government. Average Americans will now feel empowered to
engage in political thinking on a daily basis.
Citizenship will be supremely valued, as never before. This constitution can and should be studied
by elementary students.
Here is how Instant Runoff Voting
can occur: Let us say there are 7
candidates in a race, candidates Anthony, Bertha, Connie, Dawn, Ernie, Frank,
and Gertrude. Each voter will rank their
top 3 choices from most favorite to least favorite. In the final round of counting, one of the 7
candidates must get at least 51% of the vote to win. At the first count of all the voters' first choices, Anthony got 30%, Bertha
30%, Connie 20%, Dawn 10%, Ernie 5%, Frank 3%, and Gertrude 2%.
The last 4 candidates above
cannot possibly win and are eliminated. But
the voters who chose the last 4 persons as their first choices will get to have
either their second or third choices counted as their newly designated first
choices before the second round of counting begins. If their second choice was also eliminated as
a result of the first count, then their third choice can count as a first
choice vote.
At the end of the second round of
voting, 38% of the voters chose Anthony as their first choice, 37% chose Bertha,
and 25% chose Connie. But when the
second choices (or third choices) of the voters who chose Connie as their first
choice were redistributed among the top two contenders, it turns out that after
the third count, Bertha got a majority of 52% of the votes, compared to
Anthony's 48%. So Bertha is the
winner. However, in another scenario, if
51% of the voters (which is a majority) had originally chosen Connie as their
first choice, no further rounds of counting would be necessary.
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