Software is a set of structures, instructions and data that can be followed to perform a task. An operating system (OS) is the software-based infrastructure that provides an environment within which user programs can perform their tasks. Because the capabilities of an OS are layered one atop another, the central core of essential software is called the kernel. This is the same model that the founders used to organize their concept of self-governance.

The design of anything entails making certain assumptions about the environment in which it is used, about the people who will use it, and about how they will use it. As long as all of those assumptions continue to reflect what actually happens, the designed thing will continue to perform its intended function. But if the environment changes, or the nature of the users changes, or how they use the designed thing changes, failures of various kind will occur.

Over time, the design of software has been changed to take such failures into consideration. Some failures are due to negligence, but others are the result of intentional attacks. Some fixes can be accomplished through patches, but others require redesign.

In the case of the OS of our self-governance, such corrective measures have not kept pace with the effects of malign users, and we are dealing with the effects. Our OS of self-governance is no longer serving the purpose for which it was designed. Thinking about some of the tactics and correctives as if legal code were computer code can help us to address these problems.

Because the Constitution is an OS for human activity, being elected, appointed or hired into a role in its operation is like being granted login credentials, and that means entering a contractual agreement. In the case of a software program, it's called an EULA. For a person entering government service, irrespective it is currently the Oath of Office or an employment contract.

When the Constitution was written, the founders assumed that the moral fiber of those seeking government office, and swearing before god to uphold that document would suffice. But things have changed. It might be better to have people also sign a legal document (which must be crafted) that lays out the terms, conditions and consequences of violations.

When you log into a program, you provide a userID and a piece of secret/private information. If that information is a password, unscrupulous people have included strings that subverted the login code and allowed them to do damage. The equivalent for people seeking congressional approval is to lie during their hearings. Serious consequences for such lies can be the first level of protection against those seeking office under false pretenses.

The section on the Oath of Office is where we can lay out the details of what that contract should contain, and the special items needed for various roles within government.

Once a bad actor has entered the system, or government service, under false pretenses, they have free rein to commit mayhem. One way to do that is to install a 'back door', a covert mechanism that enables other bad actors to gain entry, alter functionality, or exfiltrate information and money.

If you feel strongly enough about patching the exploits that have broken our self-governance to participate here, add your profile.

(Fill this section with the ethical guidelines that every person taking the oath must follow.)

(If there are additional ethical restrictions specific to a given role within government, such as judge or representative, enumerate them here.)

Judicial Ethics Requirements:

Congressional Ethics requirements:

(Lay out the conditions that trigger a violation of the Oath of office, and the consequences of such conduct. For example, loss of office, prohibition of future office, criminal prosecution and so forth.)

If you apply for a job that entails access to classified information, you must undergo a background check. Your employment is conditioned on getting the relevant level of security clearance. (If the check happens after you start work, you are terminated if you fail to be granted clearance.)

The same must be true of any role in the government. For elected office, that clearance must be approved in order to be added to the ballot. For appointed office, it must be approved before taking office.

Just as with any other person holding clearance, violation of the rules causes you to lose that clearance, and if the job required that clearance, loss of the job as well.

Any EO not meeting those criteria should be ignored but added to the articles of impeachment.

To better meet the needs of the American people, all Bills shall be written in plain American English to the lowest common phrases and words of the easiest comprehension. For instance: instead of using the word “comprehension” a Bill must either define the term or use it’s equivalent meaning. Therefore, the first sentence of this Bill would read as, “To better meet the needs of the American people, all Bills will be written in plain American English, using words and phrases that are easily understood by the most people.”  

 The majority of the American people have an average reading level of 7th to 8th grade, and have a hard time reading the Bills that make our laws. We owe it to the American people to make sure that they know what the laws say. No laws should be written with words that are above a 6th grade reading level of understanding.  

In Bills where there are words that are about a specific subject for which there is no easily understood word or phrase that can be used instead of it, the Bill must define the word using words easily understood. The defined word must be emboldened (made to appear in a bold typeface) in it’s first use, for the reader to easily refer to the definition.   

No Bill may use serif fonts, (a font where letters have extra lines like this: Times New Roman Font) only sanserif (a font without extra lines like this: Arial).   

Reason: sanserif fonts are easier to read for readers with dyslexia (a medical condition that makes words and sentences appear mixed up to the reader), attention deficit disorder, and other neurological (a medical term about how the brain works) disorders.  

No Bill may use a “justified” (a layout pattern used by newspapers and magazines to space words apart to meet the edges of the paper rather than a single space between every word) layout, only left alignment for the body and the headline centered.  

Reason: justified alignments break up the spacing of words from line to line in a document and makes it harder for people with dyslexia and other neurological diseases to read. 

All laws and Bills must be available in PDF format, online, and for free. They must be unlocked to the point where a person can change the font size and type, and use the highlighter, bookmark, and comment functions when saved to a personal or public computer. The authority of a document of law does not gain it’s power by being printed. It is only the document recorded and published online by the Library of Congress that is the document considered official and legal. Allowing people to easily make notes on their personal digital copies makes it easier for people to read, understand, and share ideas about our laws.

Old Bills must be rewritten to match this Bill’s rules. This must be accomplished as soon as possible. The Library of Congress will be responsible for hiring a team made of lawyers to make sure the content being rewritten matches the content originally written; teachers licensed from every state and who have 5 years of experience teaching the 6th grade English classes who will ensure the new documents are written to a level their students in their experience would be able to understand, these teachers must come from the lowest performing 6th grade schools in their state; and a rotating team of typists who will type out the new documents as they are dictated.  

The lawyer of the day will work with a teacher of the day and a typist of the day. They will work together over video chat that will be publicly monitored on C-span. The lawyer will dictate the meaning of the old document and offer an alternative to the written section, the teacher will provide guidance about the level of understanding and offer alternatives as well. When they agree that the new language matches the old document and is understandable to a 6th grader, the typist will record the new language. At the end of each new page of documents, the new and old documents will be sent to the other lawyers and teachers for review and a vote on if the document is legally correct and understandable to a 6th grader. Any document that does not have 75% of the lawyers or teachers agreeing that the document meets those goals will be put on a review. In the review phase, all teachers and lawyers who disagreed may make comments about why they did not agree. All teachers and lawyers will get this information and vote again. If the new vote drops below 50% of teachers and lawyers agreeing the new document met the goals, the document will be rewritten by a different lawyer, teacher, and typist team.  If it remains above 50% despite the arguments against it, it will move forward. 

When delegating the responsibility to perform any governmental function to a secondary body, that body must adhere to the objectives and incentives which guide that task. In the case of subsidiary governmental bodies, this is achieved through internal oversight and the constraints of government service.

However, activities outsourced to corporate entities have a more difficult problem. If the corporate entity is obligated to maximize profits, then its incentives are not aligned with those of the delegator. Furthermore, if the corporation is free to manage its internal finances as it wishes, subterfuge can be used to defraud the government.

The opportunity for such corporations to stray from their intended purpose can be minimized by limiting the type of acceptable corporate organization to Public Benefit Corporations. This is most useful for those entities whose intended purpose is to serve or benefit people.

Query: What can be done in the case of military contractors, for example?

Since the COVID-19 flu outbreak, telework has become practical and easy. All Congress Members, both the House of Representatives and the Senate, will use authorized telework to maintain their presence in their home state, with the exception of a total of 14 days while on vacation time, or while on official government business out of the Country as their specific duties may include. For secure meetings requiring a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF (a meeting room with computers connected to a classified network that cannot contain other electronic devices like cellphones or digital watches), the Congress can use their State’s Capitol Building or other SCIFs within or near to their district or in their homes or offices. The funding can come from the budget that pays their collective transportation to and from the DC area.   

Money has made every politician a suspect because no one knows where the campaign money comes from, who has secret meetings, or who is actually truthful. No candidate may accept any funds from any source other than their usual job during a campaign, including from family and friends. All transactions outside of the usual pay of the candidate for the last 10 years will be audited and require explanation. Additionally, all transactions during and 10 years after the end of an elected position will be similarly audited. Any large irregular payments amounting to over $1,000 at any point in time, in the elected person’s lifetime, which cannot be explained, or appears to be bribery, graft, or other forms of persuasion will be investigated and if found to be improper, will be penalized to the fullest extent of the law. 

All candidates must meet the basic requirements for meeting the standards of the job to which they are seeking election, and certify those requirements are met before gaining a space on the ballot. All candidates will be given a portion of the same website domain and have the same allotted space to present their ideas. Within the website each candidate may use their own written words, their own voice, photographs of their own likeness, or videos of themselves only. No other person may aid any candidate with writing, recording, or appear in their media on the candidacy website unless that person is disabled in such a way that they regularly use the assistance of an interpreter, mechanical or human writing aid, or other form of aid.   

No candidate is allowed to make commercials, sell items with their name, brand, or logo on them, or engage in any activity solely for the purpose of gaining votes or attention. No candidate my engage in door to door salesmanship to gain votes or hire call centers to call potential voters. No candidate may go on any TV show, radio show, Podcast, rally, or other form of public media to talk about their stances on issues or candidacy. This will reduce waste from campaign placards across the nation literally littering our streets and sidewalks, will reduce wasteful spending on commercials, and will ensure every candidate has an equal opportunity to be heard.   

  An identical website will be made for nominations to political appointments, the initial nomination statement must be written by the person who is nominating the respective nominee accompanied by the basic requirements for the job of which they will fulfill and their fulfillment of those requirements. The nominee can then present their information as described above. 

At any time before, after, or during a person’s candidacy is announced, until they are retired from all forms of government, no one may try to give a candidate or congressional member money, gifts, meals, real estate, tangible items, or any form of currency. To include substantial discounts not otherwise offered to the public. No candidate may propose that a person or entity could donate funds, participate in a particular business, or buy or sell a particular good to or from any entity with the understanding that it would sway a vote or other congressional matter. 

To know the will of the people they represent, all members of the House of Representative and the Senate must perform monthly townhall interviews with the public. These townhalls will be conducted online and within the largest meeting hall in the town with internet access.  The town used to host the townhall will rotate across the district area to allow every constituent an opportunity to physically address and meet their representatives.  

The townhall’s security may only be comprised of local authorities who are not elected officials or their employees. While conducting security, the local LE may only intervene when physical altercation is threatened or conducted. Shouting, stomping, and other bodily based noise disruptions, do not constitute physical altercation. If a loudspeaker, instrument, or other non-bodily based noise is used as part of a disruption, the LE may offer two options to the individual(s) utilizing it/them, they may leave or give up temporary custody of the noise making apparatus to be returned at the end of the townhall.   

Signs, banners, and other displayed materials to show a stance on an issue must be held at the back or sides of the townhall area to not inhibit other’s line of sight, or be held at or below the shoulders of the person holding the sign. If a person behind them states they cannot see beyond the sign, LE can ask them to move to the back or borders of the venue.    Any off duty elected law enforcement officials or their employees must attend as a private citizen in public attire, unarmed, and using a privately owned vehicle or public transportation, and they may not intervene or interfere with the conduct of the townhall at any time. Any LE who believes they are “always on duty” forgoes their right to attend the townhalls in person and must utilize the online option if they wish to attend.  

Every Citizen Must Vote

whether for/against/or no opinion, all citizens must be given the opportunity to voice their concerns and if they choose to not voice them, it must be on paper, so we know everyone had the opportunity.

They waste taxpayer's money.

The American people do not want their money going to companies who make medications for them to turn around and use that money for advertising. Any company that advertises a medication, whether by brand name or generic name, will be fined no less than 1 million dollars per written advertisement source (per magazine publication, per newspaper publication, per mailing scheme etc.) and 10 million dollars per televised, radio, or internet sourced advertisement. (per TV channel, per radio station etc., per website) The money raised from this penalty will go to the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health in equal amounts. 

No medication manufacturer should be a business, it's a basic human need, it should be a strictly non-profit structure with massive oversight.

Every human being has the same problem, we all will eventually die. But medicine has made it possible for many people to live longer, healthier, and less painful lives with the help of medicines. No medication sold in the United States can be sold for more than 1% in additional cost to the cost it took to manufacture it, regardless of where or when the medication was manufactured. For example if a supply of 30 pills of Medication X takes $3.15 to produce, the end cost to the patient buying  the medication cannot be more than $3.15 plus 1% of 3.15, which would be $3.18. If a Medication cost $200 to produce, it could not cost the patient more than $202.00. Sales tax can never apply to a medication in any state.

Again, a non-profit system with strict oversight.

The financial structure of all medication production companies, medical facilities, and paramedical facilities in the US must change to either a non-profit structure with a pay cap on the executives and board or be purchased by the US government to become a publicly funded entity by the next fiscal year.     No company, business, organization, or institution, or any other form of business can refuse service to any patient or charge any patient for services related to healthcare in the United States. All Medical bills can be made to the Social Security Administration, State Medicaid, or Veteran’s Administration for payment. 

Additionally, no health care worker in the United States can refuse to treat a patient for any reason other than fear for their personal safety, in which case, they must switch duties with another health care worker immediately. 

This allows injured workers to see healthcare specialists quickly, heal quickly, and get back to providing for their families faster, or receive their disability benefits sooner.

Every U.S. Citizen is capped at $2 Billion. Including intangible assets, businesses, commodities, etc. Everyone who makes over $2 million a year pays a 50% Income Tax, including businesses and business incomes.

Anyone who receives more than 1 million dollars in any given year will be taxed at 50% for that year. Any company that receives income of more than 10 million dollars will be taxed at 50%. Any person, corporation, or company that holds other corporations or companies will be taxed twice to discourage the creation of so called “shell corporations” to the maximum tax of 50%. Any person, company, or corporation that holds assets of more than 2 billion dollars will be capped on any further income beyond 2 billion dollars and the rest will be taken as tax.  

Churches will be taxed unless they can show that they follow the standards of 501C3 charities with a board. The income of all members of a charity that receive income from working for a charity shall be taxed as any other citizen. For the purposes of this Bill all charities will also be treated as companies with respect to the 2 billion dollar rule.  

Some things shouldn't be made public. Why do we know about plans to make F-35s and now F-47s? Our adversaries love how transparent we are. An overall lump sum is sufficient for public knowledge.

This keeps the budget where it needs to be regardless of other programs' standings. The budget currently is impossible to read because it is buried in sentences and paragraphs about many different programs and Acts. The Overall Budget is one Fiscal Year, which is from October 1st to September 30th every year. The Overall Budget will be maintained on a spreadsheet with the program name on the left as a Row Heading and the Column Headings at the top will be the following: Overall Program Budget, Salaries, Real Estate, Utilities, Tangible (objects you can touch) Goods Cost, Services Received, Given to State or other Government Entity, Received from State or other Government Entity, Other Earnings, Other Expenses, Notes. 

Our Ed sucks and child labor is no excuse for lack of education. Keeping our kids in school year round with short breaks every quarter helps keep the information retained, keeps them fed throughout the year, and offers them somewhere to be instead of creating the need for childcare or unattended children.

All school meals should be provided to students for free as well as the basic supplies needed for the completion of the curriculum and there shall be no work expected of students in the form of homework. Taxes and other income streams will pay for these materials and they will equally distributed as nationally sourced supplies to to reduce the possibility of any particular school spending money irresponsibly on more expensive or niche products to cater to their population.

Students should be expected to play, cook meals, participate in extracurricular activities, or other family oriented activities after school, not homework. There is no need to over burden our youth with additional work that should be going on in class.

Classes should not start any earlier than 9 AM. If a student must be dropped off early so a parent may work, there must be a space for that student to either engage in age appropriate play, study, or sleep.

The breaks between classes must be at least 15 minutes long to allow students and teachers time to use the restroom, stretch, socialize, use their locker, and get to their next class.

Class sizes must be limited based on the best practices for the activities they relate to. For instance, a class on writing or literature, can typically accommodate more students per teacher ratios than a more focused approach needed for a science practical application may need that involves dangerous chemicals or other hazards. Having Student Teachers aid teachers in these larger classes by answering individual questions quietly with a student can allow for more time to be spent on the curriculum.

Having been molested as a child, investigated multiple instances of child abuse and sexual abuse, and having been trained on the investigation of such incidences, I can authoritatively say that having the vocabulary of sexual organs, knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate touching, and who is a safe person to tell, are major factors in the disclosure of sexual abuse in children. The earlier we educate children on these basic parts of their anatomy and safety the earlier they can have bodily autonomy and disclose abuse.

Additionally, de-stigmatization of same sex partnerships, knowledge of intersex sexual characteristics, knowledge of what constitutes legal consent, and the knowledge of variances in gender identity literally saves lives. As each new generation has been able to use the internet or has received additional education regarding sex and gender, the more understanding they have become. If we were to graph the animosity toward sexually diverse and gender diverse people against the age of the person bearing animosity, the greatest numbers would likely be in those aged 45 and older. Pre-internet era generations who grew up with abstinence only sexual education tend to not grasp the concepts of gender diversity or sexual diversity. Those who had religious based education or home education may not have received any form of sex or gender education. Parents often underestimate their child's ability to understand these concepts because of their own misunderstandings based on their own lack of education or experience.

After the teaching of religion is complete, any materials regarding a religion may not be displayed in the classroom unless every major religion is represented and any student who observes a minority religion is allowed to display equivalent material. No student or staff may be required to state their personal religious beliefs at any time. Students or staff who state that their religion is morally, ethically, or in any other way superior to another religion will not be tolerated and will be corrected by the statement, "Every person in this country is allowed to believe whatever they want to regarding religion, but in this class, we teach as many different religions as possible and do not hold one religion above any other. Any religious belief is personal, and if that is what you choose to believe, that's up to you, but we cannot tolerate as a class, school, or country, to allow people to hold their personal beliefs as better than another person's beliefs or allow personally held beliefs to outweigh the laws."