Recall the President: 28th Amendment

There are at least 3,011 reasons to immediately recall the President; and they are rising. The article below explains why we cannot count on Congress to do anything.

It is up to us. There are no others we can look to. We, the People, must ensure that no president ever again has the capacity to do whatever he or she pleases in a hubris of arrogance and royal perogatives. For this reason, we must amend the United States Constitution, allowing for the recall of an arrogant, ignorant, and wilfull president.

NEVER AGAIN!!!

Gonzalo

THE COMING DEMOCRATIC PARTY CIVIL WAR

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

January 11, 2006 -- Iraq is not the only place that is threatening to dissolveinto the anarchy and bloodletting of a civil war. It’s about to happen to theDemocratic Party. Reacting to Bush’s planned “surge” in troop strength, theDemocratic leaders in Congress, savoring their victory, are contemplating takingonly symbolic steps to protest Bush’s war policies, a timidity that will highlydisplease their leftist boosters. The liberal activists who funded and impelledthe Democratic victory in 2006 did not focus on winning a Congressional majorityso that it would take merely symbolic action. Symbolic action would have beenappropriate for a minority party, but the backers of a party in the majorityexpect something more. So the Democrats are about to form their customary firing squad – a circular one– and begin again the battles that ripped their party apart in the late 1960s. The battle lines are the same: The New Left vs. The Party Establishment. Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are about to squander their credibilitywith their supporters on the left by failing to cut back – or cut off entirely –funding for the war.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the US Constitution: Recall of the President

Enough is enough. The political process in this country is broken and it is time for us, the People, to take back our country. The first thing we must do is to pass an amendment to the Constitution allowing us to recall a President. We cannot wait for another 4 years when a President is pursuing a policy that (1) the majority of the People believe is wrong; (2) most experts think is wrong; (3) the majority in Congress think is wrong, yet the President mulishly insists on pursuing it, i.e., George W. Bush in Iraq.

Here is a first draft. Please comment, revise, criticize, add, delete, etc.

Proposed XXVIIIth Amendment to Recall the
President of the United States

SEC 1. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require.

SEC. 2. Recall is the power of the electors to remove the President of the United States from office.

SEC. 3. (a) Recall of a President is initiated by the xxxx delivering to the Federal Elections Commission (?) a petition alleging reason for recall. Sufficiency of reason is not reviewable. Proponents have xxx days to file signed petitions.

(b) A petition to recall the President of the United States must be signed by electors equal in number to 12 percent of the last vote for the office, with signatures from each of 50 states equal in number to 1 percent of the last vote for the office in that state. Signatures to recall the President must equal in number 20 percent of the last vote for the office.

(c) The Secretary of State for each state shall maintain a continuous count of the signatures certified to that office.

SEC. 4. (a) An election to determine whether to recall the Presidentand, if appropriate, to elect a successor shall be called by thexxxx and held not less than xx days nor more than xx days from the date of certification of sufficient signatures.

(b) A recall election may be conducted within 180 days from the date of certification of sufficient signatures in order that the election may be consolidated with the next regularly scheduled election, or upon a special election for the sole purpose of selecting the successor.

(c) If the majority vote on the question is to recall, the officer is removed and, if there is a candidate, the candidate who receives a plurality is the successor.

SEC. 5. The Congress shall provide for circulation, filing, and certification of petitions, nomination of candidates, and the recallelection.