{"id":2723,"date":"2016-12-23T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T23:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=2723"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:00:44","slug":"all-voters-must-have-equal-voting-power-over-the-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a constitutional amendment proposal to make the constitution more fair.<\/p>\n<p>It will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide for future constitutional amendments by referendum,<\/li>\n<li>make the U.S. Senate proportional to population,<\/li>\n<li>end the Electoral College,<\/li>\n<li>turn DC into a state and turn the territories into states or independent nations, and<\/li>\n<li>ensure that lawmaking and treaty-making happen by majority rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But we can\u2019t do those things by using the amendment processes of Article V of the Constitution \u2013 2\/3 of each House, \u00be of state legislatures, etc. Those processes do not treat the views of all citizens equally. Those processes are not fair.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This amendment will be <strong>formally proposed<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<li>This amendment will be <strong>ratified<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is going to work.<\/p>\n<p>It is fair.<\/p>\n<p>We have the right to do this.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2723\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}