Section 5

14th Amendment

America 3.0: Founding Mothers – Nothing about us without us

At 4:30 one April morning in 1861, South Carolina militia members attacked Union soldiers protecting a US island. Southern slavery was to be preserved at any cost to others.

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After Confederates had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of loyal young Union soldiers – leaving them to rot with the crows where they fell – and after grieving Americans buried the President, a young new Congress was elected to remove slavery and racism from the Constitution. Their 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments protect the Constitution’s first national right for all Americans – equal protection of the law. Then they armed the 14th.

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Meet their little friend.

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“Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Section 5. Congress and the President can enforce the 14th Amendment with legislation – even if that amends the old Constitution.

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Section 5 hands to each generation of Americans the constitutional power to enforce equal protection of the law – with legislation. If American voters return control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the President to the Democratic Party, the United States Constitution can be amended by majority vote to strengthen equal protection.

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*Elect future Presidents by popular majority vote?
*Confirm future Supreme Court nominees by popular majority vote?
*Prohibit corporate personhood?
*Remove justices and judges confirmed from 2017 to 20 January 2021?
*Remove Representatives and Senators who gave aid and coup comfort?
*Reform the Department of Justice?
*Secure causes of action for personal violations of constitutional rights?
*Secure the right to equal voting, medical privacy, reproductive freedom, marriage equality, transgenics and freedom from religions as fundamental to the “privilege or immunities of citizens of the United States”?
*Restore the Post Office and mail-in voting?
*Prioritize climate safety?
*Restore corporate compliance with the EPA, CDC and DOL?
*Eliminate all student debt?
*Provide advanced public education?
*Provide public health care?
*Reform patent laws?
*Prohibit Social Security privatization?
*Prohibit prison privatization?
*Prohibit war-weapon privatization?
*Provide refugees a faster path to citizenship?
*Invite Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and Taiwan to become states?
*Invite small nations to become US states?

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Young Americans have begun to vote in numbers that can enable them to enforce their 14th Amendment equal protection rights – simply with legislation. Their journey into the shared technologies of the coming century is unique to human history. They journey with an immortal problem solver at their fingertips. AI.

Nothing about us without us. America 3.0

“A republic if you can keep it.”

Thank you Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney and Colin Kaepernik for standing vigil through the night so that democracy prevailed even for the youngest of Americans.

The Constitution limits power, not rights.

E Pluribus Unum