Notice: The following Model "Constitution of the United States of America" is just that, a MODEL. No one has any intention of challenging the power of the current government or constitution. Rather, it is hoped that some of the most worthy ideas and structures contained in this site are eventually incorporated into whatever socialist government is eventually legally and peacefully created by the American people as capitalism becomes completely unworkable.

(See "THE END OF WORK", a book by futurist Jeremy Rifkin; please note that Rifkin and this site are in no way associated and that Rifkin does NOT advocate the end of capitalism or altering the U.S. Constitution, although this site does advocate the peaceful replacement of capitalism by socialism.)

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Model, Part 1: "CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - POPULIST REPUBLIC OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY SOCIALISM (USA-PRDDS)"

ARTICLE 1. COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE

{Legislative power: in whom vested}

Except as provided in ?? of this Constitution, all legislative powers of the National Governent shall be vested in a National Legislature of the USA-PRDDS, which shall consist of a Senate of Populations and a House of Labor Representatives.

ARTICLE 2. COMPOSITION OF HOUSE OF LABOR REPRESENTATIVES

Section 1. The House of Labor Representatives shall be composed of the members with the qualifications listed and elected in the manner prescribed in sections ?.

Section 2. {Qualifications by current or past membership in a particular occupation or constituency}

Each type of Representative listed in section ? shall have performed for ten consectutive years the type of work and gained a majority of his or her income, or else spent a majority of his or her work time, during that time by performing that type of work (or, the case of non-work constiutuencies, shares the life circustances of a particular constituency), but a person shall be permitted to represent an occupation or constituency whose work or life circumstances he has not shared for fifteen years at the time of his first election by that occupation or constiutency.

Section 4. {Rules governing vote of persons with simultaneous participation in more than occupation, etc.}

In the case of a person with substantial simultaneous participation in the work or life circumstances of a particular constituency immediately preeeding a particular constituency's election, the person shall vote only as a member of one constituency, and only as a member of the constituency whose work (or, in the case of non-work constituencies, shares the life circumstances of that constituency) is his or her primary work (the person's largest source of income, or else the work in which the person largest amount of work time).

Section 5. {Clarification by Supreme Court of eligibility to vote with or to represent constituencies}

The Supreme Court shall, within two years after each general election of the House of Labor Representatives, issue specific laws governing who shall be eligible to be vote with each constituency and who shall be eligible to represent each constituency; but the Supreme Court shall ensure that each voter is eligible to vote with one (and only one) constituency, and shall prevent any person from acting during a particular term as a Representative for more than constituency.

Section 6. {Each of the National Election Regions (NER's) shall choose the following:}

6-1. two environmental scientists or experts on ecology; three experts on agriculture and/or horticure; two ordinary small-scale farmers, and two ordinary small-scale livestock (cattle, sheep, or poultry) producers;

6-2. one scientist (not environmental or ecological specialists) ; one physician or physician's assistant; one nurse or other non-physician health care worker; two architects and/or civil engineers;

6-3. one college (non-university) instructor or professor; one university instructor or professor; one pre-school or elementary instructor and one classroom aid or similar paraeducator; one middle school or high school instructor or administrator and one classroom aid or similar paraeducator;

6-4. five delegates of the Tenants' Associations; and five labor union organizers or labor union managers or adminstrators;

6-5. two ordinary workers and one manager or administrator in the service-retail sector; two ordinary workers and one manager or administrator in the industry-manufacturing sector;

6-6. one person with four years of military service; one attorney; one person over the age of seventy; two legally blind persons; two legally deaf persons; and two persons with a non-sensory disability that significantly affects one or more major life-activities;

6-7. one Representative per each additional labor or other constituency that Supreme Court may create, with the consent of the People of the Entire Nation (PEN); but not more than twenty created constitutencies shall be operative simultaneously.


Section 7. {Procedures and rules governing the creation of and constitutional treatment of additional constituencies}

7-a. The Convention of People's Organizations (CO-PO) shall have the sole power, by a vote of two thirds, than a, to propose the creation (but not of suspension, which power to propose shall be shared by the CO-PO and the PEN and the other branches of government) of additional occupations and constituencies; and they shall then be considered by the branches of government, and the vote of the PEN (if it occurs) shall be last.

7-b. After the creation of an occupation or constituency, it shall be treated as having been prescribed this Constitution, and upon the creation, the language of the Constitution shall amended to include the precise language ratified by the People of the Entire Nation (PEN) and the other branches of government.

7-c. Any motion or vote to create or abolish a particular occupation or constituency shall not be linked to or included within any other motion to create or abolish any other particular occupation or constituency, nor be linked to or included within any orther bill, vote, motion, or referendum.

Section 8. {Rules governing the suspension, due to a lack of constituents, or technological, societal, or economic obsolescence, of occupations and constituencies eventual abolition specifically provided by this Constitution or treated as such; rules for eventual abolition]

8-1. Upon a vote by sixty percent of all of the members (except those whose occupation or constituency is to be suspended) of the House of Labor Representatives), upon a vote of fifty- five percent of the Senate of Populations, and upon a vote by one more than a simple majority of the Presidential Council, in favor of suspending a Constituency throughout the Nation on the grounds of a lack of constituents, or technological, societal, or economic obsolescence, the Supreme Court shall review the motion.

8-2. A motion to suspend an occupation or constituency may be introduced by the Convention of People's Organizations (CO-PO) and the following branches of government, and must be considered within two years by the other branches (except for the People of the Entire Nation [PEN], and by vote of the respective majorities (except those whose constituency is to be eliminated) enumerated in (a1): the Presidential Council, the House of Labor Representatives, the Senate of Populations, and the PEN.

8-3 If the Supreme Court agrees, by a vote of one more than a simple majority, that an occupation or constituency has become obsolete, the motion to suspend it shall, if acccepted by both houses of the National Legislature and by the Presidential Council, be referred to a vote of the People of the Entire Nation (PEN) at the time of the next general election of the House of Labor Representatives, unless the motion was introduced by a ninety-five percent vote of the PEN (except those whose occupation or constituency is to be suspended). Upon a vote of ninety-five percent of the PEN (except those whose constituency is to be eliminated), the constituency shall be suspened.

8-4. Upon the suspension of a particular occupation or constituency, the language of the constitution shall be amended to include the precise language ratified by the PEN and accepted by the other branches of government.

8-5. After a particular occupation or constituency remains suspended for ninenty-nine consecutive years, the Supreme Court shall give notice to the Presidential Council, the House of Labor Representation, and to the population at large and to theafter one year to remove by proclamation all mention of the occupation or constituency from the Constitution; however, if the Supreme Court determines by a simple majority that the occupation or constituency should remain suspended, or if, by a simple majority within a year after the notice, either the Presidential Council, the House of Labor Representation, or a Convention of People's Organizations (CO-PO) determines that an occupation or constituency should remain suspended, it shall remain suspended; but if the Supreme Court determines by the vote of a simple majority that an occupation or constituency should be abolished and no other body mentioned in this section determines that it should be remain suspended, it shall be abolished and all mention of it shall be removed by proclamation from this Constitution.

Section 9. {Elections and Terms of Office despite suspsension or pending suspension of particular occupations or constituencies}

Despite the referral to the People of the Entire Nation (PEN) of a motion to suspend a particular constituency specifically provided in this Constitution, the members of that constituency shall elect the number of Representatives of Labor to which this Constitution entitles them; and, despite the suspension of by the PEN of a constituency, any members so elected shall be entitled to serve a full term; and any members, whose constituency is suspended by a motion originating with the PEN and accepted by the other branches of government, shall be entitled to serve the remainder of their terms; and any constituency, the suspension of which is not completed until more than twenty-four months prior to the election of its Representatives of Labor, shall be entitled to elect the number of Representatives prescribed by this Constitution.


Section 10. {Procedures and rules for restoring a constitutionally prescribed constituency after its suspension}

10-1. Any constituency suspended in the manner prescribed in section ? may be restored in a similar manner, except that the Senate of Populations shall not vote; and only a simple majority of the House of Labor Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the People of the Entire Nation (PEN) shall be required.

10-2. In deciding whether to restore a constituency, the members of the Supreme Court shall consider whether or not the proposed restored constituency would have sufficient a sufficient of constituents and whether it would be societally, technologically, or economically important.

10-3. No motion to restore a constituency which is suspended in the manner prescribed in this section shall be voted upon by either the particular House of Labor Representatives, the particular Senate of Populations, the particular Presidential Council, or the particular Supreme Court which approved its abolition.

Section 11. {Length of term, term limits}

Each Representative of Labor shall be elected for a term of seven years, and have one vote; and shall, upon leaving office, be ineligible for seven years to be a Representative of Labor.

Section 12. {Qualifications age, and by time of citizenship, residency, and membership in a constituency}

12-1. No person shall be a Representative of Labor unless he or she will be at least twenty-five years of age at the beginning of the term he or she is chosen to fill; and no person shall be eligible to become a representative from a National Election Region (NER) until he has been a full-time legal resident therof for three years. Still, no person shall, due to residing in the Nation's seat of government in order to hold any political office in the National Government, for any length of time, become ineligible to become a Representative of Labor from the particular NER of which he was a legal full-time resident for thee years prior to holding office.

12-2. No person shall become Representative of Labor until he or she has been a citizen of the USA-PRDDS for at least five years at the beginning of the term to be filled.

12-3. No person shall represent a particular occupation or constituency until he or she has been (or in the past had been) a member thereof for seven years.

ARTICLE 3. NATIONAL ELECTION REGIONS (NER's)

3-1. Within one year after the end of every fourth general election of the House of Labor Representatives, a Convention of People's Organizations, the Presidential Council, the House of Labor Representatives and the Senate of Populations, shall cause the USA-PRDDS Census Bureau and major universities, research organizations, and others each to make exhaustive studies to be made of the natural, metropolitan, rural suburban, cultural, racial or ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and other characteristics of each state and of the provisional NER's listed in 3-4. Each body shall share all the information it collects with all of the other bodies.

3-2a. Each body shall then, by March 31 of the year preceding the fifth general election of the House of Labor Representatives, propopse the creation (or renewal) of at least ten, but no more than fifteen National Election Regions (excluding polities not contiguous to the lower forty-eight states); and shall submit their proposals, which shall be reached by a two-thirds vote (together with all of their supporting information, reasons, and conclusions) to the Supreme Court; and each body, within six months of their respective votes, shall submit two brief synopses, one in video form and one in print form, of its own proposal, and of the information, reasons, and conclusions in support of it.

3-2b. By March 31 of the next year, the Supreme Court formulated, by the vote of a simple majority, its own proposal for the creation of at least ten, but no more than twenty, NER's. By December 19 of the same year, the Supreme Court shall submit, to each voter in the Nation, an impartial synopsis of its own proposal and that of the other bodies, and of the information, reasons, and conclusions in support of and in opposition to each of them.

3-2c. During the last seven days of April of the following year, the PEN shall choose betweeen each the proposed and the extant NER's.

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