Dear Petitioner, the United States Constitution must require the amending and ratification of the several articles and amendments to effect sustainable changes that lead to progress and prosperity. A Constitution unfit to be amended is unfit to be ratified. Where does this leave you, the signer of this petition, if we are unable to reverse the history our Founding Fathers had written?
In its inception, the United States Constitution did not consider “DEI”—the diversity of women, the equity of Black persons, and Black families—and did not include, and continues to exclude, Indians under Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3, and Amendment XIV, Sec. 2.
Additional examples of exclusions, inequities, omissions, and other forms of error:
- The Amendments V and VI focus on the rights of the person, the witness, and the accused—making no explicit reference to victims, the people, or citizens.
- "Three-fifths a person" made whole, by implication, in Amendment XIV, Sec. 2.
- Exclusion of Indians: Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3; Amendment XIV, Sec. 2.
- “Her/she/they” are referenced only by implication.
- Amendment XVIII, Sec. 1 (repealed by the XXI Amendment); Secs. 1 and 2 contradict.
- “Triple voting” privileges: Congressional leaders vote as legislators, representatives, and American citizens in local, state, and federal elections.
The iCitizen Congressional action for U.S. Constitutional reform is based on the following provisions. The following articles, amendments, and clauses are the most essential principles of civic duties and fundamental reason for American citizens to sign the petition:
- Article I, the Bill of Rights, and Amendment XIV established “People, Person and Citizen, Aliens and Immigrants” without constitutional equality, rights, privileges, and congressional representation, without citizen representation.
- Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3 establishes inequality between “People, Person, and Citizens.”
- Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3, and Amendment XIV establish exclusion of “People, Person, Citizen, Aliens, and Immigrants.”
In order to establish a prior responsibility and to hold the U.S. government accountable for prior actions and inactions of Congress—assuming the responsibility for consequences of the action or inaction of the American people who caused harm, injury, and death as a result of their adherence to unlawful, illegal, ineffective, and unconstitutional acts, practices, and legislation that continue to create conflicts between citizens, and not the government responsible for making laws, signing laws, and enforcing laws.
Due to Article VI and Amendment XIV of the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution, the government is unable to accept responsibility for prior debts and obligations or “…any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.” Assume the accountability—and not limited to slavery, retribution, and reparation for slave descendants or qualified Black Americans—to sex and drug trafficking, congressional apologies, racial segregation, “Separate but Equal,” and Jim Crow Laws:
Relevant Constitutional Provisions:
- Article VI, Cl. 1
Requiring congressional amending and ratification to decide whether: “All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution… are valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.” - Amendment XIV, Sec. 4
Requiring congressional amending and ratification to decide if: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” The United States government is both responsible and accountable for the prior debts and obligations of previous governmental administrations to laws, policies, and regulatory procedures, systems, measures and practices? - Article V
Prohibited all three branches of government—Congress, Executive, and Judiciary—from making laws, signing laws, and enforcing laws to declare slavery unconstitutional. - Article V and Article I, Sec. 9, Cls. 1 and 4
Authorized “domestic institutions,” slavery in America. - Article I, Sec. 9, Cl. 8 and Sec. 10, Cl. 1
Established “No Title of Nobility.” However, slave ownership and the “gifting,” inheritance of slaves as property confirmed a “title of nobility” due to economic and social status, privileges, and benefits of property rights and ownership of people and land.
People and property have not been properly defined.
The Reconstruction Amendments — Amendments XIII, XIV (Sections 1–5), and XV — established race as a constitutional category. While intended to secure equality, these amendments were later interpreted to allow “separate but equal,” paving the way for the Jim Crow laws and the institutionalization of racism in America.
We the People
The first Peoples Amendment of the Republic is designed to amend constitutional duties of responsibility for “people, person, and citizen” to ensure the American people are held accountable to their fellow persons and government. Currently, as enumerated by the Constitution, the American people have rights, freedoms, immunities, and privileges. Moreover, these rights are not absolute.
CMACFAR | iCitizen Congress has drafted an amendment for congressional approval to amend the United States Constitution. The “We the People” amendment is the first legislation to consider the individual rights and privileges for each “people, person, and citizen.”
According to the Constitution, the “People Rights” refer to the Bill of Rights and the federal government. People rights under the sovereignty of the states refer to “person and citizen” and not the federal government. The “person” has congressional representation under Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3 and Amendment XIV, Sec. 2. Therefore, “people and citizen” do not have congressional representation in the context of the Constitution.
The following are examples of provisions that exclude or alienate “people, person, and citizen” from specific articles, amendments, and clauses that imply duties and obligations to either one or the other, but not as a collective whole. In some respects, “person” implies “people.”
Question: What implications are there in holding the U.S. government responsible to ensure all duties and obligations enumerated in the U.S. Constitution are guaranteed to each “person,” but not to “people and citizens”?
- “…No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;…” — This provision does not refer to “people” or “person.”
- “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;…” — This provision does not mention “people” or “citizens.”
- “…nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” — This provisional clause applies to “person” and does not mention “people” or “citizens.”
The purpose of this amendment is to assert direct jurisdiction of federal and state governments for each specific entity, requiring individual and collective action for each “people, person, and citizen.” Ultimately, it is to determine, without ambiguity, “who” requires “what” as an individual and not only as a collective body of people, persons, and citizens.
This amendment applies to federal, state, and local governments.
- To establish “People before Policy”, where congressional leaders and state legislators consult the amendment “We the People” before writing, proposing, and passing legislation.
- To establish the American people as an iCitizen Congress of non-elected voters who are self-representatives, holding official capacity and duty under Amendment XIV, to require their government and state representatives to act in the interest of people before profit, and before the losses of American businesses and federal deficits.
The Proposed iCongressional Goals
- We the People propose the Bill of Rights apply to state and local governments.
- We the People propose Amendment XIV apply to the federal government.
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