A New American Charter
This Charter is for the people of the United States, Americans, to move forward and reclaim not just the great work of the past, but the promises as well, for the purpose of carrying them forward and into the future.
A New Promise for the People
We, the people, make this promise again. We want a country that protects every child, tells the truth, shares power, and keeps leaders below the people. Rights come first. Law must guard them. Every public job must help make freedom real.
The Nation means the federal government and the people it serves.
The Promise
1. The foundation
The nation exists to protect people. It does not exist to rule over them. Every person has dignity, safety, freedom, and equal worth. No law, court ruling, leader, prison, war, emergency, or safety plan may take those rights away.
2. Rights are the foundation of law
The rights in this charter are the base of law. They protect equality, life, safety, privacy, truth, fair courts, work, rest, care, education, culture, movement, refuge, nationality, family, property, belief, speech, peaceful gathering, voting, public support, nature, and the duty to protect the rights of others.
Government must follow these rights in every choice. A rule that breaks them is void.
3. Law serves the rights
Laws must help people live free and safe lives. Courts, leaders, and agencies must read every law in a way that protects dignity and equal rights.
4. Duties of the people
The people have a duty to protect each other’s rights, tell the truth, vote when they can, serve the community, and stand against cruelty, corruption, and fear.
5. Promise to the future
This charter belongs to the children who will live after us. We must leave them a nation with clean land, fair law, honest power, and brave hope.
The People and Their Rights
Government must serve the common good, protect liberty, defend the nation lawfully, and guard every person under its care.
Part 1: Rights of the People
1. Rights come first
The rights are the base of all law. Congress, courts, leaders, states, towns, tribes, and public workers must follow them in every act.
A law that breaks these rights is void. Courts must guard the rights. Congress must fund them. The executive must carry them out.
The people must help protect each other’s rights, tell the truth, vote when they can, serve the community, and stand against cruelty and fear.
2. Rights for every person
Every person is born free and equal. No one may be treated as less because of sex, gender, race, color, religion, belief, disability, age, language, national origin, immigration status, veteran status, family status, money status, health, background, body traits, political party, creed, faith, legal identity, or any other unfair reason.
3. Rights cannot be denied
No leader may propose, support, or enforce a rule meant to deny rights to any group. That act is illegal and is grounds for removal from office.
4. The Rights
These rights belong to the people. They guide every law, every office, every court, and every public act.
1. Right to equality
Every person is born free and equal in dignity and rights. No one may be treated as less or pushed out of public life for an unfair reason.
2. Right to freedom from discrimination
Rights apply to all people. No person may be denied rights because of identity, body, belief, family, origin, language, health, work, money, status, or background.
3. Right to recognition before the law
Every person must be treated as a person before the law. No one may be made invisible, nameless, or outside protection.
4. Right to legal identity
Every person has the right to a name, records, and legal recognition that respect who they are, without unfair rules based on sex, gender, body traits, identity, expression, or whom they love.
5. Right to life, liberty, and safety
Every person has the right to live, to be free, and to be safe from violence, threat, trafficking, and cruel power.
6. Right to bodily and mental integrity
Each person is in charge of their own body and mind. No one may be forced into medical care, testing, tracking, or control without due process, real need, and the least harm possible.
7. Right to privacy
Every person has the right to privacy in home, family, messages, records, health, body, data, location, face, voice, fingerprint, genetic facts, and digital identity.
8. Right to truth
Every person has the right to know the truth about serious public harm, rights abuse, and government action. The government must investigate, repair harm, and give people access to records about them.
9. Right to freedom from torture and cruel treatment
No person may be tortured, abused, humiliated, or treated with cruelty by any person, office, prison, school, force, or system.
10. Right to freedom from slavery and forced labor
No person may be owned, bought, sold, trafficked, or forced to work. This ban includes prisons, punishment systems, war, emergency, and public safety.
11. Right to freedom from unfair detention
No person may be held, jailed, moved, or watched by force without lawful reason, notice, review, and a fair chance to be heard.
12. Right to a fair trial
Every person has the right to a fair, public, timely hearing before an honest court, with help, evidence, witnesses, language access, and appeal.
13. Right to be presumed innocent
Every accused person is innocent unless proven guilty by fair proof in a fair court. No one may be punished by rumor, fear, status, or public anger.
14. Right to remedy and repair
When rights are harmed, the person harmed must have a real way to seek help, stop the harm, repair the damage, and hold wrongdoers responsible.
15. Right to movement and asylum
People may move freely, leave, return, and seek safety. People seeking refuge must receive dignity, care, and due process.
16. Right to nationality and belonging
Every person has the right to belong to a country. Citizenship and naturalization must be fair, clear, equal, and possible.
17. Right to family, children, and care
People may build families with free consent and equal rights. Children have rights to safety, learning, play, care, food, housing, health, and protection.
18. Right to property and home
People may own belongings and have a safe home. Property may not be taken without due process and fair payment when public use truly requires it.
19. Right to belief, conscience, and religion
People may believe, not believe, worship, change belief, or live by conscience. No office may require a religious test.
20. Right to opinion, expression, and free press
People may speak, write, publish, question, report, protest, and share ideas. The press is free and may not become a tool of state propaganda.
21. Right to peaceful assembly and association
People may gather peacefully, form groups, join unions, and work together for change. No one may be forced to join a group.
22. Right to take part in government
Citizens have the right to vote, run for office, seek public records, question leaders, and take part in free and fair elections.
23. Right to work, fair pay, and rest
Every worker has the right to safe work, fair wages, paid leave, rest, union choice, and protection from wage theft.
24. Right to social support and freedom from poverty
People have the right to food, clothing, housing, care, aid in hard times, and protection from poverty and social exclusion.
25. Right to health care, sanitation, and basic needs
People have the right to health care, clean water, safe sanitation, hygiene, and the basic needs that keep life safe and healthy.
26. Right to education and truth in learning
Every child has the right to free, public, honest education that teaches reading, math, science, history, civics, arts, health, nature, media literacy, and truth.
27. Right to culture, language, science, and community life
People may practice, protect, preserve, and revive culture, language, art, science, sports, and community traditions.
28. Right to the natural world
People have the right to public lands, clean air, clean water, a safe climate, and nature protected for future generations.
29. Right to equal life online and offline
Rights apply online and offline. People have rights to digital dignity, data safety, protection from secret tracking, and notice when AI affects public decisions.
30. Duty to protect the rights of others
Every person has a duty to respect the rights, names, identities, bodies, beliefs, cultures, and dignity of others. No right may be used to destroy another right.
31. Right to petition government
People may ask government to fix harm, change law, answer complaints, and hear the people without fear of punishment.
32. Right to lawful arms and safe defense
People may keep and bear lawful arms for defense under fair public safety rules for training, storage, responsibility, and peace.
33. Right to be free from forced housing of soldiers
No soldier may be placed in a person’s home without that person’s lawful consent and strong rights protection.
34. Right against unreasonable search and seizure
People, homes, papers, devices, bodies, and belongings may not be searched, taken, watched, or seized without lawful cause and fair limits.
35. Right to clear warrants
A warrant must be based on real cause, approved by a fair judge, and clearly name the place to search and the person or thing to take.
36. Right against forced confession
No person may be forced to speak against themselves. No threat, torture, pressure, or trick may be used to force a confession.
37. Right against double punishment
No person may be tried or punished twice for the same offense after a fair final judgment.
38. Right to serious-crime review
Before the nation brings the most serious criminal charges, an independent public review must find fair reason to proceed, except in clear emergency military cases under law.
39. Right to a full criminal defense
An accused person has the right to know the charge, face witnesses, call witnesses, have counsel, receive evidence, and have a speedy public trial by a fair jury.
40. Right to a civil jury
In serious civil cases about rights, property, or money, people have the right to have facts decided by a fair civil jury.
41. Right against excessive bail and fines
Bail, fees, fines, and money penalties may not be cruel, unfair, or so high that they punish poverty.
42. Right against cruel punishment
Punishment must never be cruel, degrading, or excessive. It must respect dignity, safety, and the hope of repair.
43. Right to Freedom from Violence
Every person has the right to live free from violence. Violence includes the use or threat of force or power that can cause injury, death, fear, deep harm, lost freedom, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation, or loss of rights.
44. Rights kept by the people
The people keep rights even when this charter does not name them. A right is not lost just because it is not written here.
45. Powers kept close to the people
Powers not given to the nation, and not barred by this charter, stay with states, tribes, local communities, and the people.
Part 2: Privacy, Public Secrecy, Data, and AI
1. No secret tracking
Government may not secretly track people within its lawful care without public law, court review, real need, and tight limits. People have the right to turn off tracking when law allows.
2. AI must be known
People have a right to know when AI is used in government decisions. No rights-impacting decision may be made by secret AI alone. AI may not hold public power, own public rights, or hide who is responsible for a decision. Work made mostly by AI belongs to the people unless law clearly says otherwise.
3. Truth and repair
People have the right to know the truth about human rights harms. The government must investigate, help repair the harm, and give people access to their medical records. Serious harms may not be hidden by time limits.
The Duties of the People
Part 3: Citizenship, Personhood, and Refuge
1. Who is a citizen
Every person born in the United States is a citizen. A person who becomes a citizen by naturalization has the same rights and duties as every other citizen.
2. Who is a person
A person means a living human being inside the nation’s borders, including a human being seeking asylum at the border. Companies and corporations are not persons.
3. Rights for all people
Life, safety, dignity, privacy, truth, due process, asylum, and freedom from torture, slavery, trafficking, unfair detention, and discrimination belong to every person within the jurisdiction and borders of the Nation, its territories, and holdings.
4. People seeking safety
People seeking refuge must receive dignity, care, safety, and due process. No person may be sent into torture, slavery, unfair punishment, trafficking, or grave danger.
5. The nation that defends
This is a nation that defends the rights of people and the people within it.
Part 4: Duties of the People and Shared Care
1. Duties of the people
People must defend each other’s dignity, names, identities, cultures, beliefs, and equal rights. No freedom gives one person the power to destroy another person’s freedom.
2. Duties of belonging
Belonging means care. Every person should treat others with dignity, honesty, and respect.
3. Community duty
Every person has a duty to the community and to the rights of others. No person, group, state, or office may destroy the rights in this charter.
4. Shared care
Every citizen receives a minimum income. Health care is free and available to everyone in the same way, including elected officials. No one should go hungry or be without a safe home because they are poor. The people share a duty to care for one another.
Duty and Honor of the Government
Public service is an honor and a duty. Those who serve must carry power with humility, honesty, and care.
Part 5: Duties of the Nation and States
1. Duties of government
Government must protect rights with real laws, fair courts, honest offices, trained workers, and enough money. A promised right must be made real.
2. Duty to make rights real
The nation and the states must build the courts, offices, schools, hospitals, homes, roads, clean water systems, and public tools needed for people to live with dignity.
3. Duty to protect basic needs
The government must work so no person is hungry, unhoused, without basic care, or pushed out of public life by poverty. Food, shelter, health care, clean water, sanitation, education, and safe public space are public promises.
4. Duty to build a fair economy
The economy must serve people before profit. Work must pay enough to live, small businesses must have a fair chance, and no company may grow so powerful that it can rule markets, workers, communities, or law.
5. Duty to share public wealth fairly
Public money, public land, public knowledge, and public labor must be used for the common good. The nation and states must stop waste, graft, unfair tax cuts, hidden deals, and systems that move wealth upward while leaving people behind.
6. Duty to keep markets free and honest
The nation and the states must prevent monopoly power, wage theft, fraud, price abuse, unsafe work, unfair contracts, and false business records. Markets are free only when people are not trapped, tricked, or forced.
7. Duty to plan for the future
Government must invest in children, workers, care, science, clean energy, public health, housing, transportation, and nature. A budget that ignores the future breaks faith with the people still to come.
Part 6: Public Money, Taxes, and Budgets
1. Public money is public trust
All taxes, spending, contracts, debts, gifts, grants, and public accounts must be open in plain language. Money may leave the treasury only by law, and regular reports must show where it goes.
2. Fair taxes
Congress may tax income and wealth fairly. Taxes may not be lowered below what is needed to protect rights, run services, defend the nation lawfully, care for people, and keep this charter’s promises.
3. Budget promises
Budgets must show basic needs before tax cuts are allowed. A tax cut that stops government from keeping its promises does not count. Poor planning, empty funding, or delay may not weaken rights.
4. Steady support in hard times
When jobs are scarce, wages fall, or people cannot buy what they need, the nation and the states must use public money to keep people working, keep homes stable, and keep local businesses alive.
5. Save in strong times
When the economy is strong, government must pay down wasteful debt, repair public systems, build reserves, and prepare for the next hard time.
6. Public investment
Public money should build things that help everyone: schools, health care, homes, clean energy, roads, transit, water, internet, science, child care, elder care, disaster safety, and good jobs.
7. Money must move through the people
Public spending must reach workers, families, small businesses, farms, towns, tribes, schools, and care systems first. Help that never reaches people does not count as help.
8. Fair debt for public purpose
The nation and states may borrow for public need, public work, and shared growth. Debt must not be used for graft, secret gain, cruelty, rights abuse, or gifts to the powerful.
9. Guard against harm
Public money must be watched for waste, price abuse, unfair shortages, and harm to workers or families. If public spending raises prices or enriches only a few, leaders must fix it fast and openly.
Part 7: Work, Wages, and Fair Markets
1. Right to work with dignity
Every worker has the right to safe work, fair wages, paid leave, rest, union choice, and protection from wage theft.
2. Living wage and pay limits
The minimum wage is at least fifty percent of the national median wage. The maximum wage is no more than twenty-five times the minimum wage.
3. Children are protected
Child labor that harms health, learning, safety, or growth is banned.
4. Small business fairness
Congress must support businesses with fewer than 100 people, including board and leadership, and help fair competition.
5. Monopoly watch
Congress must watch companies with more than 23 percent market share, stop unfair practices, prevent monopolies, and increase competition.
The Structure of Government
Government must be clear, open, and built for the people. It must give people real voice, fair representation, and room for many parties when people choose them.
Part 8: Laws, Oaths, and Separation of Powers
1. Highest law
This charter, rights-based laws, and lawful treaties are the highest law. Any state or local rule against them must give way.
2. Oaths
All public officers must vow to protect this charter. Breaking the vow is a high crime. The oath includes honor, integrity, honesty, duty, and responsibility. Breaking an oath bars a person from serving in government for at least ten years.
3. Separation of powers
Congress makes law, courts judge law, and the executive carries out law. No branch may seize the whole power.
4. No titles or tests
No noble title, religious test, secret foreign gift, or bought office is allowed.
5. Public debt
Lawful public debts must be honored. Debts made for rebellion, slavery, rights abuse, or corruption are void.
6. Truthfulness and Honesty
Elected officials must speak truthfully while serving. They must answer reasonable questions from their constituents within thirty days, unless a lawful privacy or safety rule prevents it.
7. Leaders come from the people
Government salaries equal the nation’s median salary. Leaders should live close enough to the people’s lives to remember who they serve. Any pay change for Congress starts only after the next House election.
Part 9: Honest Government and Anti-Corruption
1. Open records
Calendars, votes, spending, contracts, public decisions, audits, and records must be searchable and plain. People have a right to government information and a free press.
2. Financial truth
Leaders must report their money, gifts, debts, property, business ties, family business ties, campaign money, and conflicts of interest. While serving, they must use blind trusts or step away from business interests.
3. No secret gain
Officials may not trade stocks while serving, take secret gifts, luxury trips, special favors, fake jobs, loan deals, debt forgiveness, hidden payments, titles of nobility, or secret foreign gifts. Corruption and graft are grounds for removal from office.
4. Recusal and lobbying
A leader must step aside from a decision that could help the leader, family, donors, or business partners. Former officials must wait at least seven years before lobbying, with waits up to ten years for stronger offices.
5. Ethics and whistleblowers
An independent ethics office investigates corruption, protects whistleblowers, recovers wasted or hidden money, and handles strong corruption cases fast. No person must obey an illegal order.
Part 10: Congress
1. Two houses, one duty
Congress makes national laws. It has a House of Representatives and a Senate. Both must serve the people, protect rights, keep records, record major votes, and meet with enough members present to act. Congress must grow with the population and may not use building size or space as an excuse to limit representation.
2. Representatives
Each House district must include at least 50,000 people and not more than 250,000 people. Representatives serve two-year terms and may serve no more than five terms. Each representative must live in the district they serve.
3. Senators
Each state has three senators, elected by the people for five-year terms, with no more than three terms. Senators vote as a state block, and at least two of the three must agree for the block to act. The Senate weighs the broad impact of laws. Senators must live in their state.
4. Powers of Congress
Congress may tax, borrow, protect trade, set bankruptcy rules, coin money, set money value, set weights and measures, punish fake money, build post offices and roads, support science and useful arts, create lower courts, punish piracy, care for federal land, and make needed laws that do not break rights.
5. War and limits
Only Congress may declare war. Before military action, Congress must set time limits, goals, rights rules, and public reports. Congress may not pass punishment laws without trial, laws that punish past acts, export taxes from states, or port rules that favor one state over another.
6. Review of court rulings
Congress may ask the Supreme Court to explain a ruling in plain public words. By a three-fourths vote, Congress may override a ruling that harms this charter, but no more than one tenth of Supreme Court rulings in a year may be overridden.
7. Leaders, rules, and records
Each house of Congress chooses its own leaders, makes its own fair rules, keeps public records, and records major votes. Congress may act only when enough members are present to do the people’s business.
8. Committees and oversight
Congress may create committees to study laws, budgets, emergencies, war powers, agencies, courts, public money, and rights. Committees must work in public unless a narrow safety reason requires closed review.
9. Investigation and public truth
Congress may investigate public acts, spending, corruption, rights harms, emergencies, and abuse of power. It may require truthful testimony and records under fair rules that protect rights and due process.
10. Confirmation and removal checks
The Senate reviews appointments that need public trust, including judges, cabinet leaders, ambassadors, and senior officers. Congress may impeach, try, remove, and disqualify officials who break the public vow, abuse power, take bribes, betray the nation, or commit serious crimes.
11. Public money and national property
Congress controls taxes, borrowing, spending, budgets, public accounts, federal land, the seat of government, and national property. It must show the people how money is raised, where it goes, and who benefits.
12. Commerce, standards, and fair systems
Congress sets fair national rules for trade, bankruptcy, money, weights and measures, fake money, piracy, federal courts, public works, science, useful arts, and competition. These powers may not be used to break rights.
13. Laws needed to serve the people
Congress may make laws needed to carry out its duties. This needed-law power is only a tool for service. It may not be used to seize power, hide corruption, punish without trial, or weaken the rights of the people.
Part 11: Courts
1. Courts serve rights first
The courts protect the rights when laws, leaders, or agencies fail. Judges must be fair, brave, honest, and free from pressure. Every ruling must explain how it protects dignity, justice, safety, and freedom.
2. A balanced national court system
The Supreme Court has twenty-seven justices. No more than one third may come from one political party. Human rights, trade, and government cases are heard by random panels of nine. There are also twenty-seven appellate courts built the same way.
3. What courts may hear
Federal courts may hear cases about this charter, national laws, treaties, ambassadors, foreign governments, sea and shipping matters, disputes between states, disputes involving the nation, and cases that cross state lines.
4. Fair trials and juries
Every accused person is innocent until proven guilty. Trials must be public, fair, timely, and held where the crime happened. People have the right to counsel, witnesses, evidence, appeal, and civil juries when rights or serious claims are at stake.
5. Treason and state cases
Treason needs two witnesses to the same act or a confession in open court. Lawsuits against states are limited by fairness, public law, and real remedies when rights are harmed.
6. Judicial review
Courts may review laws, public acts, orders, and agency choices to decide if they follow this charter. A court may block or strike down any act that breaks the rights of the people.
7. Independent courts
Courts must be independent from Congress, the executive, money pressure, party pressure, and private threats. Judges must decide cases by law, facts, rights, and conscience.
8. Clear reasons and public rulings
Courts must explain their rulings in plain public language. People must be able to read what the court decided, why it decided it, and how the ruling protects rights.
9. Appeals and correction
Courts must provide fair appeals so mistakes can be corrected. Higher courts may review lower court rulings, but no appeal may be used to delay justice on purpose.
10. Access to justice
Courts must be open to all people. Fees, distance, disability, language, technology, fear, or poverty may not block a person from seeking justice.
11. Court administration
The courts must manage dockets, records, trials, hearings, juries, evidence, interpreters, public access, and court staff in a fair and open way.
12. Checks on judges
Judges must follow ethics rules established by Congress, avoid conflicts, report gifts and money ties, and step aside from cases where they cannot be fair. A judge who breaks rights, takes bribes, abuses power, or breaks the public vow must be removed under law.
Part 12: Punishment, Remedies, and Due Process
1. Remedy
Every rights violation must have a real remedy, fair court access, and timely repair.
2. No unfair detention
No person may be held without lawful reason, notice, review, and a chance to be heard.
3. No cruel punishment
Torture, cruel treatment, excessive bail, excessive fines, and excessive force are banned.
4. No retroactive punishment
No law may punish an act after it happened, and no law may punish a named person without trial.
5. Property and due process
Property may not be taken without due process and fair payment when public use truly requires it. Fair payment must be judged openly and may be challenged in court. This protection belongs to living people.
Part 13: Executive
1. The President and Vice President
The executive power is carried by a President, with a Vice President ready to serve if needed. They are elected in a separate process for President and Vice President, so the people know who is chosen for each duty. The District of Columbia and territories and holdings have presidential electors so its people have a voice in choosing national leadership.
2. Terms, limits, and dates
The President and Vice President serve four-year terms and may be elected no more than twice. Their terms begin and end at noon on January 20. Members of Congress begin and end their terms at noon on January 3. All officials in every branch must retire at age seventy-two, so public service makes room for new voices and leaders may enjoy life beyond office.
3. Cabinet agencies and appointments
Congress creates cabinet agencies that answer directly to Congress. The President appoints agency leaders, and the Senate must approve each appointment by a sixty percent vote. The Senate must also approve a firing by a sixty percent vote. Agency leaders serve five-year terms and must protect rights, tell the truth, and follow public law. The Cabinet advises and informs the executive. The executive informs Congress and enforces Congress’s lawful directions.
4. Executive duties
The executive must carry out the laws, protect the rights of the people, keep public services working, respond to lawful needs, and make sure agencies act with care, truth, and fairness.
5. Public service and enforcement
The executive must enforce lawful acts of Congress, protect public workers from illegal orders, manage national services, prepare public reports, and make sure no agency hides facts, wastes money, or breaks rights.
6. Foreign relations and treaties
The executive may speak with other nations, receive ambassadors, appoint diplomats with lawful approval, and help make treaties. No foreign action may break this charter, hide secret gifts, or trade away the rights of the people.
7. Commander role under law
The President may direct lawful defense forces only under this charter, civilian control, and the war and emergency rules set by Congress. The military may never be used to rule the people or silence peaceful people.
8. Appointments, pardons, and reports
The executive may appoint lawful officers with required approval, grant mercy or pardons under rules set by law, and report often to Congress and the people on the state of the nation. Mercy may not protect bribery, rights abuse, treason, or crimes by the executive’s own office.
9. Disability, succession, and emergency limits
If the President cannot serve, the Vice President becomes Acting President under a clear written process. The President may say in writing that they cannot serve, and may later say in writing that they can serve again. If the Vice President and lawful cabinet officers say the President cannot serve, Congress must review it fast and decide by a two-thirds vote. Emergency power must be short, public, checked by others, and never used to break rights.
10. Duty, oath, and removal
Every executive officer must vow to protect this charter and the people. Breaking that vow is a high crime. The President, Vice President, cabinet leaders, judges, and civil officers may be removed for treason, bribery, abuse of power, serious crimes, rights violations, or even the clear appearance of being bribed. No officer may accept secret gifts, foreign gifts, titles, favors, or total gifts worth more than one twelfth of that office’s yearly salary.
Part 14: Public Safety and Justice
1. Police protect rights
Police serve the people, protect rights, and guard life even at risk to themselves. Public safety may never be used to crush peaceful people.
2. Civilian oversight
Police are watched by elected civilian review boards. No board member may be a police officer or hold another elected office. Each board must reflect the population it serves.
3. Force and records
Excessive force is banned. Body camera records, serious harm, deaths, and public safety actions must be reviewed by independent civilian boards and must be answerable to them.
4. Prisons and punishment
Private prisons may not operate for profit. Slavery and forced labor are never allowed, including in prisons or punishment systems. People in prison keep their rights except for limits that are lawful, necessary, and humane.
5. Victims and accused people
Victims and accused people both have rights to safety, truth, fair process, respect, and remedy.
Part 15: Elections and Parties
1. The vote belongs to the people
Every citizen age eighteen or older may vote. Voting must be simple, safe, secret, equal, and open to all citizens. Voting day is a public holiday, and no fee, tax, trick, threat, map, or delay may block the vote.
2. Fair campaigns
Election money may come only from living people who will be represented by that office. Companies, corporations, outside groups, and people outside the area may not pay for the race. Campaigns last six months. Primaries use ranked choice voting in the middle of that time, with a top-two runoff when needed.
3. Fair parties and maps
States may allow political parties when at least 50,000 people join. District maps must be fair, public, and not drawn to silence voters. Ballot access must be clear and equal.
4. Public election body
An independent public election body runs elections, checks ballots, protects voting systems, and gives fast public answers. Courts must review election challenges quickly.
5. Truth in elections
Political ads, online ads, deepfakes, fake election content, and AI-made messages must be clearly labeled. No one may lie about voting rules, voting time, voting place, or who may vote.
6. States run elections
The states run elections. The nation may delay an election only during a duly certified emergency ordered by Congress.
7. Candidate campaigns
Only a candidate’s official campaign may campaign for that candidate. Candidates must post their main policies in plain language, including estimated costs, requirements, and effects on rights.
Part 16: States and Federal Relations
1. Shared power
Federal, state, local, and tribal governments share public duty. None may use power to take away rights. Powers not given to the nation or barred from states belong to states, tribes, local communities, or the people.
2. State respect
States must respect other states’ public records and court decisions. Citizens of each state receive basic protections in other states. People charged with crimes may be returned to the charging state with due process.
3. State limits
States may not make treaties, alliances, their own money, punishment laws without trial, laws that punish past acts, laws that break contracts, noble titles, or peace-time troops or war ships without consent.
4. New states and protection
New states may join by law. The nation protects states from invasion and serious violence, while guarding rights and civilian rule. Any new state must incorporate this document into their own constitution.
5. Tribal and local power
Tribal sovereignty, lands, laws, cultures, treaty rights, and Indigenous land rights must be honored. Local governments may handle roads, schools, safety, housing, water, parks, libraries, health, local rules, and services.
Part 17: Local and Tribal Governments
1. Local duties
Local governments may care for roads, schools, safety, housing, water, parks, libraries, health, local rules, and services.
2. Rights limit local power
Local power may never be used to take away rights, hide truth, or shut people out of public life. Public agreements must be open unless a narrow safety or privacy reason is stated by law. Companies that demand unlawful secrecy may be barred from public funds.
3. Tribal sovereignty
Tribal governments, lands, laws, cultures, sovereignty, treaties, and Indigenous land rights must be honored.
4. People must be heard
Public projects that affect land, water, sacred places, neighborhoods, or culture must hear and answer to the people affected first.
5. Shared service
Federal, state, local, and tribal governments must work together, but none may break the rights of the people.
Part 18: Public Lands and the Natural World
1. Climate duty
The nation has a duty to protect the climate, prepare for disasters, build clean energy, and repair harm in communities hit hardest by pollution.
2. Polluters pay
Those who harm air, water, land, wildlife, or people must pay to fix the harm and stop it from happening again. No person or company may profit from the destruction of public lands held in trust.
3. Public lands
Natural wonders, parks, and public lands belong to the common good. They must be preserved for wilderness, diversity, beauty, and future generations.
4. Homesteading
Public land sold for private use must be sold to living people, not corporations, and only for homesteading under fair rules that protect nature.
5. Nature may be defended
The public may sue when nature is harmed. Courts must protect air, water, wildlife, public lands, and future generations.
6. Monuments
National monuments protect places of beauty, memory, science, culture, and public meaning. They may not be sold or weakened for private gain.
7. Parks
Parks exist for health, joy, learning, wildlife, and future generations. They must remain open, safe, and protected for public use.
8. Historic Places
Historic places must be protected so people can learn the truth about the past, including harm, courage, repair, and shared memory.
9. Preserves
Preserves protect wild land, water, plants, animals, and quiet places where nature can heal and thrive.
10. Shared Heritage Sites
Shared heritage sites belong to the common story of the people. They must be cared for with respect, truth, and the voices of affected communities.
Part 19: Peace, Defense, and Veterans
1. Civilian control
The military is under civilian law and may never rule the people. Private armies are banned.
2. Congress decides war
Only Congress may declare war or allow military action beyond strict emergency defense. Time limits must be set before action begins.
3. No force against peaceful people
The military may not be used against peaceful people, immigrants, or citizens. It may be used against insurrection only under emergency rules, and only for up to seventy-two hours without direct congressional action.
4. Militias
Militias may be organized and regulated by Congress and the states, but must obey rights, civilian control, and public law.
5. Veterans
Veterans must receive care, housing support, health care, mental health care, job help, and respect after service.
Part 20: Emergencies
1. Short and public
Emergency power must be written, public, short, and reviewed by Congress and courts.
2. Rights remain
Emergencies may never allow slavery, forced labor, torture, trafficking, discrimination, secret detention, or the destruction of elections.
3. Habeas protection
Habeas protection may be paused only in true rebellion or invasion, only when safety requires it, and only by a two-thirds vote of Congress.
4. Oversight
Emergency spending, force, orders, data use, and detentions must be reported and audited.
5. End date
Every emergency order must have an end date and may continue only by fresh public approval under law.
The Future
This is a living document, meant to be adapted and adjusted by the will of the people over time.
Part 21: Changing This Charter
1. Proposal
A change may be proposed by two-thirds of Congress or by a convention called when two-thirds of the states ask for it.
2. Approval
A change becomes part of this charter only when three-fourths of the states approve it through legislatures or conventions as Congress sets.
3. Rights floor
No change may destroy the thirty rights, equal personhood, free elections, or the duty of government to protect human dignity.
4. Plain notice
Every proposed change must be published in plain language so people know what is at stake.
5. Peaceful renewal
Changing this charter is a peaceful tool for growth. The people may improve the law without fear, violence, or silence.
Part 22: Adoption, Enforcement, and Future Promise
1. Adoption
This charter takes effect through the lawful public process that adopts it and replaces older conflicting wording.
2. Enforcement
Congress, courts, executive agencies, states, local governments, and tribal governments must build the offices, courts, workers, tools, and funding needed to make rights real.
3. Penalties
Officials who break rights, hide corruption, abuse power, take bribes, follow illegal orders, or deny human dignity may be removed from office. They may also lose the right to serve, repay money, face civil penalties, or face criminal trial when law allows.
4. Transition
Old rules continue only when they fit this charter. Old words that allowed slavery, unequal personhood, unfair voting, hidden power, or rights abuse are discarded.
5. Our promise forward
We pass this promise to future generations with courage. We refuse cruelty. We honor truth. We defend each other. We build a nation where freedom is not a slogan, but a daily life for all.
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This charter is a bold promise: people come before power. Rights come first. Leaders serve the public, not themselves. No law, court, prison, war, emergency, company, or office may erase human dignity.
It protects every living person. It says equality is not optional. It defends privacy, free speech, fair trials, voting, health care, education, work, safety, culture, clean land, and the right to live free from cruelty, discrimination, slavery, forced labor, and fear.
It builds a government with clear limits: Congress makes law, courts guard justice, and the executive carries out the law. Each branch must be honest, open, checked, and bound by the rights of the people.
It makes democracy harder to buy and easier to use: fair districts, public voting rules, clear campaigns, ranked choice primaries, truthful election messages, and no campaign money from corporations, outside groups, or people outside the community represented.
It treats public money as a public trust. Budgets must protect people first. Taxes must be fair. Health care is shared. A minimum income protects basic dignity. The economy must serve workers, families, small businesses, communities, and future generations.
It refuses cruelty and calls for courage: no secret government, no private prisons, no forced labor, no hidden corruption, no state propaganda, no unchecked surveillance, no rule by fear. Power must stay close to the people, truth must stay public, and rights must stay real. The promise is simple: build a freer, fairer, braver nation for the children who come next.