William S. Becker, the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and a former regional director at the U.S. Department of Energy, recently wrote an enlightening article for The Hill entitled “Presidential immunity is not the only fix the Constitution needs.” Becker makes a cogent and common-sense argument for a list of various constitutional amendments.
Perhaps not suprisingly, all of them are addressed by the Strike-to-Amend program. Here’s a summary of his suggestions with our proposed Amendments linked behind each one:
- Changing the way the Constitution is amended. (28th Amendment)
- Elimination of presidential immunity (31st Amendment)
- Abolition of electoral college (30th Amendment)
- Abolition of bribes and campaign donations for political candidates (30th Amendment)
- Prohibition of gerrymandering (30th Amendment)
- Ensure the right to privacy (32nd Amendment)
- Ensure children’s rights (32nd Amendment)
- Ensure animal welfare/rights (32nd Amendment)
- Ensure protection of the planet (29th Amendment)
- Ensure reproductive care (32nd Amendment)
- Ensure healthcare (35th Amendment)
Our 14 Amendment program includes many more improvements in addition to these (see Amendments).
We are encouraged by the public discourse of Constitutional Amendments—whether in this article by Williams, or by President Biden regarding the Supreme Court (see our 31st Amendment for a solution to that issue), or by Governor Newsom regarding gun safety (see our 37th Amendment text). We also encourage this constructive dialogue about how to build a better future within America—a troubled settler colonial state captured by capital, notoriously corrupt and dysfunctional, and running out of time.