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Propossed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
 
 

In my book I proposed that the individual states should call for a Constitutional Convention in order to write a new amendment to the Constitution; however, it should be absolutely made clear to the reader that the book only makes suggestions for the content of the proposed amendment.  It should also be made absolutely clear that the Constitutional Convention will determine the names of the two new sovereign states.  I use the terms “Blue Country” and “Red Country” as my designations for the purposes of discussion.  It will be the duly convened Constitutional Convention that will create the actual proposed amendment and submit it to the states legislatures for adoption.  The states can amend the constitution.  To use a familiar phrase - “it’s constitutional.”

 

 

Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Twenty-eighth Amendment (201X)

Divide the United States of America into two sovereign states

Section 1

The United States shall be replaced in its entirety as a sovereign state with two new independent sovereign states: one being the “Blue Country” and one being the “Red Country.”   The new Blue Country will consist of the District of Columbia and the twenty-two current states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, west Virginia, and Wisconsin.  The new Red Country shall consist of the twenty-eight current states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.  The citizens of the Territories will vote for independence from, inclusion to, either of the two new sovereign countries.

 

Section 2

The two new sovereign states shall each adopt the current United States Constitution in its entirety including all amendments and precedents.

 

Section 3

No state or federal laws or precedents shall be changed by this amendment and will be in effect after the adoption of this amendment by both the Red Country and the Blue Country.  The new Red Country and the new Blue Country shall, as sovereign countries, modify, interpret, and amend their respective laws and constitutions as authorized under their constitutions.

 

Section 4

The current federal congress, administration, and supreme court shall exist for two years after the adoption of this amendment.  The only powers of the old United States government shall  be to divide all the federal assets and obligations, including the military, equally between the Blue Country and the Red Country based on the population as recorded by the 2010 censes, namely forty seven percent to the Red Country and fifty three percent  to the new Blue Country.  Federally owned real property shall be owned by the new sovereign country in which it is located. 

 

Section 5

Each new sovereign country will establish its own supreme court according to its own constitution.  The United States Circuit Court of Appeals will continue except the states of Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona will be reassigned to the 10th District, and the states of Michigan, Ohio and west Virginia will be reassigned to the 3rd District.  The federal courts will continue in the states previously authorized.  Three of the current supreme court justices are to be selected for each of the new countries.  The three unselected justices will retire after they adjudicate conflicts in the division of assets and obligations from the old United States to the two new countries. 

 

Section 6

All foreign treaties and other agreements in effect at the time of the adoption of this amendment shall remain in place for both the new Blue Country and to the new Red Country.  The new Blue Country and the new Red Country may renegotiate or change any foreign agreement or treaty and establish mutual treaties as independent sovereign countries.

 

Section 7

All citizens of the current United States shall have dual citizenship with the new Blue Country and the new Red Country for five years after the adoption of this amendment, after which they will be granted sole citizenship in the country of residence.  For the same period of five years, a border state may secede from either the new Blue Country or the new Red Country and join the adjacent country by a two-thirds vote of that state’s legislative bodies, and a majority of the accepting country’s house and senate.  Residents of non-state territories shall vote for independence or incorporation to either the new Red Country or the new Blue Country.

 

 

New Red Country & New Blue Country

 

The two new countries established by the above amendment if ratified for