This is the third part to my proposed constitutional amendment concerning group veto by the state legislatures as a further check and balance in our federal system. The second printed in the Friday, May 15 edition of the Times-Union is summarized below.
The states as a whole shall have the authority by a two-thirds majority or more of their total number to vote, repeal, censure or suspend temporarily or indefinitely any part or whole of an executive order signed by the president, a legislative act passed by Congress, a Supreme Court ruling, an international treaty ratified by the Senate or regulations issued by a federal bureaucratic agency and the enforcement by the federal government of any decree, law or regulation approved by an international or transnational authority made after the ratification of this amendment unless such an act infringes upon the natural and constitutional rights of the citizens and inhabitants of the United States and its territories.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment (Group Veto) Continued
Section 6 - Group Veto - Consequences of an approval of such an act
An act of group veto once approved by two-thirds majority or more of the total state legislatures of the Union shall immediately go into effect throughout the whole Union and remain permanently in force unless reversed: by a ratified constitutional amendment or an act of repeal of an approved act of nullification by a simple majority of the total state legislatures by a simple majority vote in each state or a decision of the Constitutional Arbitration Assembly.
Section 7 - Group Veto - Restrictions on such acts
An act of group veto approved by a two-thirds majority or more of the total state legislatures cannot retroactively repeal any part or whole of any executive order, legislative act, judicial ruling, ratified international treaties or bureaucratic regulations approved by the federal government before the ratification of this constitutional amendment.
An act of group veto whether de jure or de facto cannot be approved by a locality, county or an individual state government.
An act of group veto cannot repeal any part or whole of the Constitution.
An act of group veto cannot interfere with the legitimate constitutional functions of the federal government as outlined in the ratified Constitution of 1789.
An act of group veto approved by a two-thirds majority or more of the total state legislatures shall not infringe upon the fundamental natural and constitutional rights of the inhabitants and citizens of those states and the rest of the Union.
An act of group veto cannot dissolve the democratic constitutional republics at the national, state and local levels and move them toward authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorships.
Any act of group veto that violates the above six clauses of this section of this constitutional amendment is unconstitutional and therefore an illegal and unenforceable act throughout the whole Union.
The conclusion to my proposed amendment will follow shortly.
