U S Constitution

Amendment 28 –

Senatorial and
Representative Term Limits

1. No person shall be elected Senator in Congress more
than twice, and no person who has held the office of Senator, or
acted as Senator, for more than two years of a term to which some
other person was elected Senator shall be elected to the office of
the Senator more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any
person holding the office of Senator, when this Article was proposed
by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding
the office of Senator, or acting as Senator, during the term within
which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of
Senator or acting as Senator during the remainder of such term.

2. No person shall be elected Representative in
Congress more than six times. But this Article shall not apply to any
person holding the office of Representative, when this Article was
proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be
holding the office of Representative during the term within which
this Article becomes operative from holding the office of
Representative or acting as Representative during the remainder of
such term.

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven
years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Amendment 29 –

Prohibition of
Unfunded Mandates and Contingent Funding

1. Congress shall make no laws compelling states to
raise revenues in compliance therewith, nor appropriate funds
contingent on the passage of any legislation by the legislature of
the receiving State, except where such legislation respects the
national defense.

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven
years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Amendment 30 –

Restriction on
Federal Spending, Deficits, National Debt

1. Congress shall appropriate, during any fiscal year,
no more than an amount equal to one-fourth of the gross domestic
product of the United States as measured for the previous fiscal
year, except in times of war or disaster, during which Congress shall
appropriate no more than an amount equal to one-third of the gross
domestic product.

2. The budgetary deficit of the United States, during
any fiscal year, shall not exceed ten percent of the gross domestic
product as measured for the previous fiscal year, except in times of
war or disaster, during which the budgetary deficit of the United
States shall not exceed twenty percent of the gross domestic product.

3. All funding in excess of the the budgetary
obligations of the United States shall be directed toward the
outstanding national debt of the United States, except where no
outstanding debt exists, in which case, such funds shall be returned
to the people of the United States in proportion to their net taxable
earnings of the previous tax year.

4. The national debt of the United States, as
calculated by the Treasury, shall not exceed seventy percent of the
gross domestic product of the United States as measured for the
previous fiscal year, except in times of war or disaster, during
which the national debt shall not exceed the gross domestic product
of the United States.

5. No foreign Nation shall acquire in excess of ten
percent of the national debt of the United States and no foreign
person or corporation in excess of five percent. The Treasury shall
keep particular account of the current holdings of foreign Nations,
persons, and corporations with holdings in excess of one-half of one
percent of the national debt and report these figures to Congress at
the start of each fiscal year.

6. Upon ratification of this Article as an amendment to
the Constitution by three-fourths of the legislatures of the several
States, Congress shall amend, within one year of its ratification,
any legislation not compliant therewith. If, within one year of the
ratification of this Article, any Law fails to comply therewith, such
Law shall be repealed and no funds thereby appropriated shall be
disbursed from the Treasury of the United States.

7. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven
years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

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