Proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

"So that each citizen's vote for The President of the United States  will be counted with equal weight, We the People of the United States hereby abolish the Electoral College in its entirety."

You think I'm kidding, right?  Well........I'm not.  Many of the amendments to our Constitution are worded in a similar straight forward manner.  When I first started to read The Constitution I was surprised to find that many of the Amendments were not written with the legal 'mumbo jumbo' that we are all  used to in legal documents.  Here's an example of each:

A typical software Limitation of Liability clause in an End User License Agreement (EULA):

Under no circumstances shall company or its affiliates, partners, suppliers or licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with your access or use of or inability to access or use the application and any third party content and services, whether or not the damages were foreseeable and whether or not company was advised of the possibility of such damages.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, company's aggregate liability to you (whether under contract, tort, statute or otherwise) shall not exceed the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00).  The foregoing limitations will apply even if the above stated remedy fails of its essential purpose.


AMENDMENT XIX - Passed by Congress June 4, 1919. Ratified August 18, 1920.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

As you can see the language of the 19th amendment to The Constitution is simple and straight forward, especially when compared to the wording of a common legal 'document' that the vast majority of Americans 'see' on a frequent basis.  This was, for me, the most striking example, but there are many other Amendments that are equally straight forward.

Therefore, I have written what I believe is acceptable language for an amendment to The Constitution, and will be mailing this suggested wording for a 28th amendment to our Constitution to Charles Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.  I will be sending this suggestion to each of them by certified mail, so I know that at least someone in each office will open the letter.  After all, if someone is going to sign for a certified letter, I'm willing to bet that they will open it.

A thought that crossed my mind was that it would be helpful if We the People had a "Sweepstakes for an Amendment Abolishing the Electoral College"  The submissions for the sweepstakes would be made to whatever Congressional representative that the submitter finds appropriate.  The prize would be a stronger democracy for all Americans (and a place in history).