Proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

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1. Excepting primaries, election for all offices, propositions, or the like, submitted to Citizens of the United States shall take place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November.

2. Excepting those exercising the authority of the United States, Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment or application of distinctions amongst or between Citizens of the United States.

3. Congress, other than in time of declared war or when passed with a majority of three-quarters vote in each house, shall make no appropriation for expenditure that is not paid for by tax revenue collected during the term of that appropriation.

4. Congress shall make no law granting authority to create rules, regulations, or the like, and enforcement powers for same, to the Executive branch of this government.

5. Congress shall make no law unless written, by hand, with attestation, by the member or members who submit same for consideration.  Further, all such proposed laws, especially any providing for the “general welfare” or by Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, shall in their preamble cite the specific power or powers expressed in this Constitution and by Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-17, that legitimate their consideration.

6. Upon ratification of this amendment, and within the next two years, a committee comprised of four members of Congress and four members of the Supreme Court shall review the United States Code to identify and report all laws not in compliance with the provisions of the second and fourth clauses, and the second sentence of the fifth clause of this Amendment.  Whereupon Congress shall have the immediately following four Sessions to revise, replace, or rescind those laws.  At the end of the fourth session, those laws so attended but not signed by the President, and those laws not afforded such attention, shall be null and void, and struck from the United States Code.

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