The Right to Good Government
Section 1: The right of the people to fair and honest government, which neither favors nor discriminates, is hereby established, and any citizen shall have standing at law to enforce and preserve such right, and when they prevail to be fully compensated, including the full costs of litigation plus treble damages, which shall be calculated on the cost of litigation, or the total amount of fines and settlement awards, whichever are greater. All prior laws and decisions to the contrary are hereby null and void.
Section 2: In interpreting the applicability of laws the Supreme Court shall consider the manner and degree to which said laws conform to and support the principles enunciated in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Section 3: Inescapable accountability being a cornerstone of honest government, all powers of the President, governors, judges, and official bodies to pardon, commute, suspend, parole, or otherwise reduce mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving corruption, misuse of office, or violation of election statutes is hereby abolished.
Section 4: No legislative or regulatory body, including Congress, shall exempt itself from compliance with any statute, rule, or regulation of its own enactment. Nor shall Congress or any legislative body confer on itself by virtue of office any benefit, other than those related to compensation, which are not available to all citizens.
Section 5: Corruption is hereby defined as the self-serving use of public office for private gain, including, without limitation: bribery; public decisions to serve private financial gain made because of economic, professional, or familial relationships; public decisions to serve executive power made because of economic, professional, or familial relationships; use of public positions to become wealthy, whether by the officeholder, public official, or others seeking privately to influence same; and any failure to recuse by an officeholder, official, or public employee which thus creates the appearance of possible corruption or conflict of interest.
Section 6: All offenses involving corruption or fraud upon the public, or against the cause of good government, shall be felonies punishable as prescribed in Section 10.
Section 7: No legislation at any level of government shall contain any provision not explicitly germane to the central purpose and title of said legislation. Every element or provision of every bill shall include the name and title of the person who introduced or drafted said provision. Any element or provision that is not germane, or not identified as to author, shall be null and void, and shall impose on the bill’s primary authors a prison term as prescribed in Section 10.
Section 8: Except for true matters of national security, subject to judicial review if necessary, all actions and discussions by public officials or employees of government bearing on the creation, drafting, enactment, revision, repeal, or implementation of legislation, or regulations deriving from legislation or from an order of the Executive or Judicial branch, shall be conducted only in open public proceedings, contemporaneously disseminated by mass media and subsequently archived for convenient public examination.
Section 9: No member of any legislative body shall have the power, granted by rule or courtesy, to prevent in any way the advancement of any matter before said body or committee thereof. Any matter may be advanced by a vote of twenty-five percent of the members of the relevant committee or twenty percent of the legislative body as a whole. Refusal to grant such a vote, or refusal to abide by the results of such a vote, shall result in the immediate disqualification and removal from office of the committee or chamber chair by the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, or in the case of Congress, by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Section 10: Violation of Section 6 shall be a felony punishable by mandatory incarceration for a period of not less than ten years. Violations of Sections 7 and 8 shall be felonies punishable by mandatory incarceration for a period of not less than five years. All sentences prescribed herein shall be served in maximum-security and not subject to pardon, suspension, commutation, parole, or other reduction of sentence. Conviction or plea of guilty shall result in the forfeiture of all pension benefits accrued while in public office or employment.
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