Appendix: Unannotated Proposed Constitution of the Republic

Preamble

In order to best protect the freedom, liberty and welfare of all the people of our nation, we hereby ordain and establish this Constitution for the Republic of (Wherever).

Article I

Section 1: The structure of the Republic's government shall be that of a Federal union, comprised of separate States united under a supreme national government. 

Section 2: Each State shall establish a Constitution of its own, with such powers and responsibilities as its citizens shall see fit to bestow upon it, with the following restrictions;

No state shall exercise any power specifically granted to the Federal government;

No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation

No state shall raise armed military forces, nor shall they grant letters of marque and reprisal, except under such authority and regulation as the Federal government may establish;

No state shall establish any coin, currency or legal tender independent of federal authority; 

No state shall impose duties or tariffs upon imports or exports save to cover the expenses of inspecting imports or maintaining ports, highways, and other ports of entry; and any duties, tariffs or imposts raised by the states shall be audited and inspected by the federal government to prevent fraud and graft; and

No state may establish any form of government other than either a representative republic or a direct democracy; and no state shall enact any law or regulation except by a vote of popularly elected representatives or by direct referendum of the people.

	Section 3: The states shall have original authority:

To enforce all laws, including those established by the federal government, except for those crimes specifically defined within this Constitution; 

To establish civil courts for the adjucation of disputes at law between private citizens; and 

To regulate the transfer of deeded property, the probation of wills and testaments, and such other civil matters as may arise under common law.

Section 4: The Federal government shall establish a Federal District, not exceeding ten miles square, provided by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, to become the seat of the government of the Republic; but prior to such cession, or in the event that the Federal District shall be occupied by an invading force or under direct and immediate threat of attack, the Federal government may establish a temporary seat of government in whichever location shall meet the needs of the government.

Article II

Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the Republic, or resident in the Republic upon ratification of this Constitution, and liable to the laws thereof, are citizens of the Republic and of the state wherein they reside. No government, federal, state or lesser, shall make or enforce any law, decree, order or regulation which:

abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Republic; 

deprives any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; 

denies to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws;

deprives any citizen of the Republic the equal enjoyment of that public property held in trust for all the people by federal, state or local government, including the air and water;

grants any title of nobility or other privledged rank, either for lifetime or inheritance;

suspends the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it;

enacts an ex post facto law;

allows for forfeiture of property except a punishment for crime, or as adjucation of a civil dispute, as directed by a court of law.' 

enacts any tax or duty on articles exported from any state, or transported between the various states;

enacts any direct tax except in proportion to the populations of the several states;

establishing or favoring any religion, belief or creed, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

abridging the freedom of speech, communication or of the press, except for specific circumstances in which the security of the nation, or the lives of individual citizens, shall be placed in direct and immediate jeopardy by the content of such communication;

abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances;

abridging, in any way, the right of the people to keep and bear arms of self-defense, and to use those arms in defense of life, property and liberty, except for persons having been convicted of a felony of violence in a court of law;

quartering any soldier in any private home or establishment without the consent of the owner, with proper recompense to be provided for any such quartering; 

inhibiting the right of the people to the privacy of their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against searches and seizures, except when caught during the commission of a crime or where a warrant shall be issued by a court of law; and no warrant for search, siezure or arrest shall be issued but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized;

subjecting any person, citizen, resident or alien, to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any such person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall be held civilly liable for damages resulting from a criminal act for which that person has not been convicted in a court of law;

impeding the rights of those accused in criminal cases to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of their peers; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be informed of their right to remain silent, and their right to legal counsel; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; and to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses and evidence in their favor;

revoking the right of the accused to a trial by a jury of their peers, in both civil and criminal cases, except where the accused shall waive that right in favor of summary judgement;

imposing fines, bail, and other punishments disproportionate to the crime committed and the damage inflicted upon others, or instituting punishments which are inherently cruel, unusual and inhumane;

	levying a tax upon the income of any citizen or resident of the Republic, or making ownership of real estate conditional upon the payment of an annual tax upon the value of that real estate; and any sales tax levied by the federal government, or any lesser government within the Republic, shall be applied at an equal rate for all items exchanged, except where certain classes of goods or services shall be exempted altogether; or

abridging the right of citizens of the Republic of 18 or more years of age to vote on any basis of birth, prior citizenship, gender, religion, credo, race or affiliation; nor shall any tax or requirement of property be imposed in order to deny any individual or group the franchise; nor shall nonpayment of any tax or fine make any individual ineligible to vote.

Section 2: No person holding any office of profit or trust under any government under the authority of this Constitution shall accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state; and acceptance of any such award shall constitute resignation from that office and ineligibility for any future office of trust within the Republic.

Section 3: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 

The powers not delegated to the Republic by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the people, who may delegate them to the states as they see fit. 

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Republic, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

Article III

Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the Republic, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. 

Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by popular vote in the several states, in such manner as the government of those states shall direct. 

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the Republic, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. 

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to the number of citizens residing within each state. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the Republic, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.  Each state shall have at least one Representative. 

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the government thereof shall hold special elections to fill such vacancies, if the term remaining be greater than six months; otherwise, a new Representative may be appointed in such manner as the government of that State shall determine.

The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers, in such manner as that House shall enact.

Section 3. The Senate of the Republic shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen in such manner as the constitution of each state shall provide, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. 

Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any state, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 

No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the Republic and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. 

The Vice President of the Republic shall be President of the Senate, and shall be counted equal among the other members of the Senate, and shall have the power to vote upon any matter brought before the Senate, equal to that of any Senator chosen by any State.

The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, to preside over that House in the absence or vacancy of the Vice President, or when the Vice President shall exercise the office of Acting President. 

Section 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators. 

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. 

Section 5. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide. 

Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, recommend the impeachment of a member; but no member, duly chosen according to the provisions of this Constitution, shall be denied their seat except when impeached and convicted.

Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. 

Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. 

Section 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the Republic.  No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. 

No Senator or Representative shall be privileged from arrest for crimes during their term of office; however, they shall be exempt from testimony in civil or criminal cases during periods in which either house of Congress is in session, unless they waive said exemption. 

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the Republic, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the Republic, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office. 

No Representative shall serve more than five elected terms, or ten years, in office; no Senator shall serve more than two elected terms, or twelve years, in office; no member of Congress shall serve a combined total of more than sixteen years in both houses combined; and no person shall be elected, or appointed in the case of a vacancy of office by the government of their State, if their term of service, once added to prior service in office, should exceed these limits.

Section 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills. 

Every bill or individual appropriation of funds which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the Republic; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall veto it, returning it with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. 

All appropriations of funds must be approved individually by the President, who shall have the power of line item veto to return any individual appropriation in any bill to Congress with his objections to reconsider, while approving the other appropriations within that bill; but Congress shall have power to override such a line item veto by two thirds vote of both Houses, with the ayes and nays recorded in the journal of each House respectively.

Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the Republic; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. 

Section 8. The Congress shall have power:

To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the Republic; but all taxes, duties, imposts and excises levied by Congress shall be uniform throughout the Republic; 

To borrow money on the credit of the Republic; 

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states; 

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the Republic; 

To coin money and establish other currency and legal tender, regulate the value thereof, regulate the exchange with other currencies, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities, coin, currency and other legal tender of the Republic; 

To establish and operate post offices and postal delivery routes, or to contract such function to private companies; 

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; provided that no patent on technology extend beyond twenty years, nor any copyright or trademark extend beyond fifty years past the death of the original creator; 

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; 

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; 

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; 

To provide and maintain a navy, an air force, and a space force; 

To make rules for the government and regulation of the armed forces; 

To establish a law enforcement agency to investigate and prosecute crimes of treason, espionage, counterfeiting, and the corruption in office through bribery, graft or other abuses of power of those elected or appointed to offices of trust within the federal government;

To provide for calling forth the citizens of majority age as militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; 

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Republic, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over the Federal District, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;

To enact legislation to protect the equal rights of the citizens to the use of the air and water, and such other public property as shall be held in trust by the Federal government, and to establish legislation prohibiting the pollution of same, and to establish civil and criminal punishments for such pollution; and

To make all laws which shall be strictly necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers herein enumerated. 

Section 9. 

No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. 

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 

	No money shall be appropriated from the federal treasury to be given to any state or federal government, nor the government of any foreign nation or alliance of nations, except in payment for property, goods, or services rendered.

	No money shall be appropriated from the federal treasury to be spent upon any project not directly related to the powers enumerated within this Constitution.

Article IV

Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the Republic of America. He shall hold his office during the term of six years, and shall be elected, as follows: 

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the Republic, shall be appointed an elector. 

In addition, the District constituting the seat of government of the Republic shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state.

An equal number of electors shall be appointed separately, at the same time and for the same term, a Vice-President.

The electors for President and electors for Vice-President shall meet in their respective states and vote by separate ballot for President and Vice-President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the Republic, directed to the President of the Senate.

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.

The person having a majority of the votes of the whole number of Presidential electors appointed shall win the office of President; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the first day of January next following, then the Vice-President shall sit as Acting President, as in the case of the temporary disability of the President, until such time as a President shall be elected.

The person having a majority of the votes of the whole number of Presidential electors appointed shall win the office of President; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the Republic.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the Republic. 

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the Republic, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the Republic. 

No President, having been elected to the office and having served therein, shall thereafter be eligible for re-election to that office; nor shall they be eligible for election as Vice-President.

A Vice-President or other civil officer of the Republic who, through removal, death or resignation of the President, shall become President through line of succession, or who shall have acted as Acting President during the temporary disability of the President, shall be subsequently eligible for election as President or Vice-President. 

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the Republic, or any of them. 

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the Republic, and will to the best of my ability, obey, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Republic." 

Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the Republic, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the Republic; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Republic, except in cases of impeachment. 

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the Republic, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. 

The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. 

Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the Republic. 

Section 4: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. 

If, upon the beginning of the term for which a President has been elected, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall be inaugurated as President, and shall be ineligible for re-election to the office.

Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. 

Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is temporarily unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. 

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. 

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. 

Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the Republic, shall be subject to removal from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, violation of the Constitution, or felonies under state or federal law. 

The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the Republic, shall not be held in any way immune to either the civil or criminal law of the Republic, or any of the states or lesser governments thereof.

Article V

Section 1. The judicial power of the Federal government shall be vested in a system of Federal courts, beginning with a number of district courts headed by a single judge each, nine Courts of Appeals each consisting of a panel of three judges, and one Supreme Court consisting of a panel of nine judges.

The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint judges to the various federal district courts.  The number of federal district courts shall be such as appointed by Congress; but every state shall have at least one district court.

Nine Appellate Court districts shall be drawn so as to equally divide the number of district courts between them; and openings for each Appellate Court shall be filled, by lottery, from those judges seated in the district courts.  And likewise, openings upon the Supreme Court of the Republic shall be filled, by lottery, from those judges seated in the Appellate Courts.

The judges of all federal courts shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. 

Section 2. The federal judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Republic, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the Republic shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;-- between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects. 

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. 

The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed. 

Section 3. The federal courts shall have authority to review laws passed by the Congress or by state or local governments, and thereby determine if they conflict with this Constitution; and if a law, in whole or in part, shall be found to be in conflict with this Constitution, or to be contradictory or in opposition to it, the whole of that law shall be stricken from the books, and those legislators who wrote or sponsored that law shall be removed from office and made ineligible for any future office of trust under the Republic.

The Supreme Court of the Republic may, upon its own authority, review any law passed by the Congress and signed by the President without the filing of suit or injunction against that law by any private citizen or group.  Absent such a proactive review, original jurisdiction for suits challenging the Constitutionality of a law shall reside with the district courts; but neither the Appellate nor the Supreme Courts may refuse to hear any challenge to the Constitutionality of a law by a private citizen.

No ruling made in the review of a law, which may interpret the Constitution or the pre-existing laws of the land, shall hold the force of law except to the dispute in question, and to the effect of removing laws from effect which violate the Constitution; nor shall any prior ruling hold any power of precedent over future rulings, nor shall precedents be cited as authority in future cases at law or for the actions of government officials or agencies.

Section 4. Treason against the Republic, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies during periods of declared war, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. 

Section 5. The Supreme Court shall have the sole power to try all impeachments against any official, elected or appointed, of the federal government; and shall have power concurrent with, and superior to, that of the state governments and such courts as shall be instituted by them to try impeachments against any official, elected or appointed, in state or local government.

Impeachment shall consist of the levying of specific charges against the accused by a majority of either House of Congress, a majority vote of all houses of any State Legislature, or by one-third of the judges sitting on the Supreme Court. 

Charges of impeachment must be drawn from the criminal law as applied to all citizens of the Republic, or else be drawn from the following list of offenses:

Perjury against the people, which shall consist of deliberate false statements of fact to the Congress or to the citizens of the Republic;

Waging aggressive war against other nations; 

Crafting, causing to be crafted, or promoting laws contrary to or in violation of this Constitution; 

Bribery, graft, or other forms of corruption in office; and

Abuse of the powers and privleges of office, to the detriment of the rights of citizens of the Republic.

No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the justices of the Supreme Court sitting  in judgement.

Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the Republic.

Regardless of the outcome of the impeachment proceedings, the accused shall be wholly liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment in criminal for any crimes committed while in office, according to law. 

Article VI

Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. 

Section 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. 

A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime. 

Section 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress. 

The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the Republic; to purchase or to annex, with the consent of the citizens thereof, new territory; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the Republic, or of any particular state. 

Section 4. The Republic shall undertake to preserve, protect and defend every State, and all territory held by the Republic not incorporated into States, against invasion or assault from abroad or, upon the application of the governments or authorities of those states or territories, against domestic insurrection.

Article VII

This Constitution may be amended in the following manner; either the Congress, by two thirds vote of both houses, or the governments of two thirds of the States, may propose Amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by conventions or by direct referenda in three fourths of the States, as those States shall provide; provided that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, and that no protection of the rights of the people, individually or as a whole, shall be removed or reduced from those enumerated within Article II of this Constitution. 

Further, should three quarters of the States, by popular referenda within those States, request it, a Convention may be called to draft a new Constitution to replace this one; such a vote to be held either by act of the government of the States, or upon petition by one percent of the voters of the State in question, said petition not being subject to refusal by the government of that State; and any Constitution drafted in such a Convention shall be held in effect upon its ratification by two thirds of the States, but any State which votes against the new Constitution shall remain under the authority of the old.

A state may, by two-thirds vote in public referendum of its people, petition the Senate of the Republic for its independence, presenting a Constitution of its own for the Senate's approval; and upon two-thirds vote of the Senate, that independence shall be granted, provided that the newly independent State shall not provide any less protection for the liberty of its citizens than is provided by this Constitution, and that no citizen of that State shall be forced to yield up their citizenship within the Republic, or be exiled for retaining said citizenship.

Article VIII

All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the Republic under this Constitution, as under the prior Constitution. 
This Constitution, and the laws of the Republic which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Republic, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. 
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the Republic and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Republic. 

Article IX

Upon ratification of this Constitution by two-thirds of the States, either through conventions of popularly elected representatives or by direct referenda, this Constitution shall be put into effect between those States having ratified, taking full authority upon election of and inauguration of the government described by this Constitution; this election and inauguration shall take place no later than one year after the Costitution shall be put into effect.