Article I Section 6 - The US Constitution.
Here it is in full:
They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
There is a nature evolution of men in that they desire the continuation of power, they even, covet this from others to ensure that their power remains constant and obtainable. The process by which power is made is unchangeable: by having the effective power of others removed from them. This could be done voluntarily (the vote) or by use of coercion (threat of violence or out and out theft of individual power). Historically speaking, Austria during WWII voluntarily retired their individual distinction and voted to have Hilter's regime become the guiding ideal while nations like Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, much of Africa and Asia, have been forced by will of arms and threat of personal safety to give up their unique freedoms.
The above worded section of the constitution was laid in place to ensure that members of Congress would not find themselves arrested on 'trumped' up charges and keep from their duties. For example, imagine a Virginia Senator going to Delaware for a meeting only to find that his brand of Cigars are illegal on Sundays, which turned out to be law passed simply to catch the Congressman and keep him delivering a crucial vote on the floor of his respective house. Or worse, having the federal institutions (like the FBI) constantly badgering members of the House in order to intimidate them into agreement (See J. Edgar Hoover or Joseph McCarthy for ideas about how far either would go to get their way).
This section of the constitution should, therefore remain, but I believe that it should be altered. You see, as I stated in the first paragraph, there are two ways to take power from people, by the vote and by coercion. In this case: the system steals rights by making people criminals.
For example, under DC law a person must only purchase ammunition in the caliber for the register firearms they possess and large capacity magazines are illegal. But, if a Senator was so inclined, he could legally walk down the streets of DC with a fully automatic AK47* with five 30 round magazines. When he is stopped by the police and 'arrested' the officer in charge will most likely end up on report and the Senator, free under Article I section 6 will simply collect his stuff and go home. If you went to DC with your firearm legally owned, locked in a box, but has a single bullet in the wrong caliber in your pocket you could get a year in jail...and no one would care. This is the trick to take your rights: Make everyone a criminal (even themselves - because it doesn't matter if they are criminals, they are protected from the consequences of most law), because when we are all criminals, the only ones to have the authority and availability of legal rights, will be those that write the laws.
Because of this inequality that the system has taken advantage of to rob individuals of their protected rights, I believe that an amendment should be made to the Constitution that helps fight this disparity.
I believe that all Legislative branches of government (from local municipalities to the Federal Government) should be held legally responsible for the Constitutionality of the laws they write. If a law is later to be found unconstitutional, then those members of the legislative branch that signed the bill into power (only those that said "yah" the "nah" voters are safe from prosecution) would be legally responsible for any damages created by their law. From financial responsibility (Lost sales) to physical damages (death by act of the law). That the recourse of action against them, for their crime of, shall we say, "low-treason" be directed at them as individuals and they shall pay from their own personal possessions what ever a jury of their peers would award the victims of this crime.
*Note this assumes that the Congressperson in question obtained the AK47 under the proper BTAF requirements, because if he obtained it illegally it would be a Felony and such are not protected.
They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
There is a nature evolution of men in that they desire the continuation of power, they even, covet this from others to ensure that their power remains constant and obtainable. The process by which power is made is unchangeable: by having the effective power of others removed from them. This could be done voluntarily (the vote) or by use of coercion (threat of violence or out and out theft of individual power). Historically speaking, Austria during WWII voluntarily retired their individual distinction and voted to have Hilter's regime become the guiding ideal while nations like Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, much of Africa and Asia, have been forced by will of arms and threat of personal safety to give up their unique freedoms.
The above worded section of the constitution was laid in place to ensure that members of Congress would not find themselves arrested on 'trumped' up charges and keep from their duties. For example, imagine a Virginia Senator going to Delaware for a meeting only to find that his brand of Cigars are illegal on Sundays, which turned out to be law passed simply to catch the Congressman and keep him delivering a crucial vote on the floor of his respective house. Or worse, having the federal institutions (like the FBI) constantly badgering members of the House in order to intimidate them into agreement (See J. Edgar Hoover or Joseph McCarthy for ideas about how far either would go to get their way).
This section of the constitution should, therefore remain, but I believe that it should be altered. You see, as I stated in the first paragraph, there are two ways to take power from people, by the vote and by coercion. In this case: the system steals rights by making people criminals.
For example, under DC law a person must only purchase ammunition in the caliber for the register firearms they possess and large capacity magazines are illegal. But, if a Senator was so inclined, he could legally walk down the streets of DC with a fully automatic AK47* with five 30 round magazines. When he is stopped by the police and 'arrested' the officer in charge will most likely end up on report and the Senator, free under Article I section 6 will simply collect his stuff and go home. If you went to DC with your firearm legally owned, locked in a box, but has a single bullet in the wrong caliber in your pocket you could get a year in jail...and no one would care. This is the trick to take your rights: Make everyone a criminal (even themselves - because it doesn't matter if they are criminals, they are protected from the consequences of most law), because when we are all criminals, the only ones to have the authority and availability of legal rights, will be those that write the laws.
Because of this inequality that the system has taken advantage of to rob individuals of their protected rights, I believe that an amendment should be made to the Constitution that helps fight this disparity.
I believe that all Legislative branches of government (from local municipalities to the Federal Government) should be held legally responsible for the Constitutionality of the laws they write. If a law is later to be found unconstitutional, then those members of the legislative branch that signed the bill into power (only those that said "yah" the "nah" voters are safe from prosecution) would be legally responsible for any damages created by their law. From financial responsibility (Lost sales) to physical damages (death by act of the law). That the recourse of action against them, for their crime of, shall we say, "low-treason" be directed at them as individuals and they shall pay from their own personal possessions what ever a jury of their peers would award the victims of this crime.
*Note this assumes that the Congressperson in question obtained the AK47 under the proper BTAF requirements, because if he obtained it illegally it would be a Felony and such are not protected.
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