This is a constitutional amendment proposal to make the constitution more fair.

It will:

• provide for future constitutional amendments by referendum,
• make the U.S. Senate proportional to population,
• end the Electoral College,
• turn DC into a state and turn the territories into states or independent nations, and
• ensure that lawmaking and treaty-making happen by majority rule.

But we can’t do those things by using the amendment processes of Article V of the Constitution – 2/3 of each House, ¾ of state legislatures, etc. Those processes do not treat the views of all citizens equally. Those processes are not fair.

It is time to do something else. Something fair. I am proposing that this amendment define its own method of amendment proposal and ratification. At the heart of this process is a two-phase national referendum initiated by the states/DC/territories.

• This amendment will be formally proposed by a simultaneous majority vote of the people of a group of states/DC/territories that comprise a majority of the population of the United States.
• This amendment will be ratified six months later, provided that the states/DC/territories that did not vote the first time have an opportunity to do so, and that the overall vote remains a majority vote of the people.

This is going to work.

It is fair.

We have the right to do this.

It is time for a change.