Concurrent Resolution
Proposing remedial amendments to the Constitution for the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That each of the following articles, without the numbers and titles, are proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when each is separately ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
1. Contumacy. Congress shall have power to prescribe the penalty for contumacy, but no judge shall have power to punish by fine, imprisonment, or other penalty, other than by incarceration for a period not to exceed ten days per court session, without conviction by a jury in a trial in which another judge shall preside.
2. Income tax amendment. The amendment proposed by congress in 1909 to "have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration", was never ratified, or if it was, is hereby repealed and rescinded retroactively. Taxes on equal exchanges, such as on the recipient of salary or wages for labor, shall not be taxable to a party who may not pass on the cost to a buyer.
3. Official misconduct. Congress shall have power to punish for official misconduct, including the violation of the rights, privileges, or immunities of any person, violation of any oath or affirmation, dereliction of duty, failure to supervise, or conduct unbecoming.
4. Judicial officers.
Section 1. Judicial officers shall consist of all persons sworn to duty in a court of the United States or subdivisions thereof, including but not limited to court presidents, judges, magistrates, clerks, bailiffs, attorneys, witnesses, trial jurors, or recorders.
Section 2. Subsequently appointed presidents, judges, magistrates, and clerks shall not be appointed permanently to a particular court, but periodically reassigned to courts and cases by sortition, with presidents or judges reassigned at random to courts each year, and at random to cases, other officials other than jurors assigned to courts for up to four years, and trial jurors selected at random to each case.
5. Interventions in court. Intervenors in cases who argue in defense of the Constitution shall not be excluded or impeded, in trial or appeal, in the courtroom or outside it, or in presenting legal arguments to juries.
6. Ceded parcels. Parcels ceded to the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress by consent of a state legislature must be specifically described by metes and bounds at the time of cession, and all state citizens of such parcel shall remain citizens of the ceding state for all elections to offices of the state or the Union. The boundaries of such parcels shall be clearly marked to give notice to any person entering or leaving which jurisdiction he or she is in.
7. Impeachment of Vice-President. In a trial on impeachment of the Vice-President he shall not preside over the Senate.
8. Original jurisdiction. Article III Section 2 Clause 2 is amended to allow lower courts to have original jurisdiction for cases in which a state is a party.
9. Removal Power. Congress shall have power to prescribe the terms of removal of individuals holding offices created by specific statute, and requiring the consent of the Senate for appointments, including standards of good behavior for judges, but the President or other executive officers shall have power to remove officers they have the exclusive authority to appoint for positions for which there is no specific term of service.
