FOUNDATIONAL RIGHTS

#TheValentineConstitution sets sets the age of adulthood at the age of military expendability.

If you’re old enough to kill for us; you’re old enough to drink or smoke with us. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution permits any Citizen 18 or over to join the armed forces, vote, drive, or consume alcohol or marijuana.

If you are old enough to die for your country, then you are old enough to drive a car and live on your own and take care of yourself. #TheValentineConstitution

It’s called weaning. That’s when the child gets to stop being part of the parent’s supporting cast and gets to be the lead in their own life story. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution various provisions gives children the mental and emotional tools to navigate adult life quite easily by age 18. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution school curriculum will produce mature, capable, responsible, disciplined 18 year olds.

#TheValentineConstitution sets the voting age at 18.

Any Citizen 18 or over will be permitted the same freedoms and responsibilities as any other Citizen over the age of 18. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution takes its “Petition Clause” to the next level by creating a government which assists and supports citizens and their businesses, but prohibits favoring big business, big money, special interests or their lobbies.

#TheValentineConstitution‘s “Petition Clause” protects the right to petition all branches and agencies of the government, but prohibits lobbying.

#TheValentineConstitution‘s right to petition includes letter-writing, e-mail campaigns, lawsuits, referendums, collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, peaceful protests, picketing and the public articulation of issues, complaints and interests.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits big business from seeking assistance from our government if it enriches our politicians before during or after their terms in office.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits big business from seeking assistance from our government if it includes hiring them as employees or consultants, professional lobbying and the “revolving door“.

#TheValentineConstitution reaffirms the right of any Citizen to lodge a formal complaint against our government without fear of punishment or reprisals.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits lobbying but reaffirms the right to petition.

Laws that are contrary to the conscience, common sense, reason, logic or fairness offend the very foundations of  #TheValentineConstitution, and may be challenged.

#TheValentineConstitution invites Citizens to challenge their government to keep laws sensible and coherent.

#TheValentineConstitution allows Citizens to ignore laws and rules which irritate the conscience, and protects Citizens from retaliation against their doing their civic duty.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits oppressive laws like those we declared independence from.

#TheValentineConstitution empowers Citizens to reject unfair or convoluted laws without penalty.

#TheValentineConstitution establishes “citizen oversight” allowing ALL Citizens to oversee the goings on of any part of government or the contractors we hire.

“Citizen oversight” will NOT be a SMALL number of Citizens representing all others, but rather ALL Citizens with easy access to all departments of government and their budgets and expenditures. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution‘s “citizen oversight” will NOT be a SMALL number of Citizens representing all others. That’s the corrupt system we have now in city and county government.

 #TheValentineConstitution‘s “citizen oversight” will give ALL Citizens easy access to all departments of government and their budgets and expenditures.

Citizens will be drawn to areas which amuse, interest or beguile them. #TheValentineConstitution

Citizen oversight will become more and more popular as Citizens find friends who share their concerns or interests. #TheValentineConstitution

Citizen oversight will be an excuse to get social and become meaningfully involved in one’s community and country.  #TheValentineConstitution

The popularity of Citizen oversight will increase as Citizens affect positive change and see the results of their oversight work. #TheValentineConstitution

Word will get out and skeptics will pitch in as the popularity and effectiveness of Citizens oversight grows. #TheValentineConstitution

Asking friends and loved ones to risk prosecution to help you says how little you care about them. #TheValentineConstitution

Asking friends and loved ones to risk prosecution to help you says you care more about yourself than them. #TheValentineConstitution

Wrongdoers will not be able to count on people who face prosecution for not reporting the crime. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution exposes wrongdoers hopefully before they become criminals, and criminals hopefully before they make matters worse.

Requiring Citizens to report crimes prevents wrongdoers from using his friends and loved ones, and probably adding to his sentence by staying on the lam or engineering a cover up. #TheValentineConstitution

Nobody wants to be coerced by a loved one or a friend into keeping some dark secret. And what for? Prolonging the inevitable exposure of the crime? #TheValentineConstitution

Knowing that accomplices will be prosecuted, wrongdoers will be less likely to ask friends and loved one for their help. #TheValentineConstitution

Law breakers will no longer expect their friends to cover up for them, and so will leave them out of it. #TheValentineConstitution

Power and corruption is what our democracy was created to keep in check. #TheValentineConstitution

Along with ratings and review apps for our government, #TheValentineConstitution‘s whistle blower protection will expose the many bad apples who’ve gotten away with far too much for far too long.

Just as corruption emboldens more corruption, so under #TheValentineConstitution vigilance will breed more vigilance.

#TheValentineConstitution supports whistle blowers and rectifies the situations exposed.

When Citizens see whistle blowers being protected and affecting clean ups, more Citizens be emboldened to blow the whistle. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution protects whistle blowers.

Way too often we see whistle blowers in America meet with foul ends. #TheValentineConstitution will protect them.

When Citizens see whistle blowers being tyrannized or having no effect, they are discouraged from offering supporting testimony, or blowing the whistle themselves. #TheValentineConstitution

Those who petition our government to fix a problem will be protected from retaliation by government or big money or corporate thugs under #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution‘s transparency will make it common knowledge which government employees and which departments caused problems, and which produced solutions.

Long ago crooks got corrupt politicians to clean their slates of all their crimes with a nifty little device called “the statute of limitations”.  #TheValentineConstitution

How long ago a crime or swindle occurred is immaterial. #TheValentineConstitution

Democracy derives its form from fairness. #TheValentineConstitution

Statutes of limitations lack fairness and ethics. #TheValentineConstitution

As with  bankruptcy, it’s unethical to allow wrongdoers off the hook when they do so much damage. #TheValentineConstitution

Damages and pain have long term consequences for victims, should responsibility for them be short term? #TheValentineConstitution

Might-makes-right crooks and criminals will not be let off the hook under #TheValentineConstitution, no matter how long ago they inflicted their pain.

#TheValentineConstitution abolishes all “statutes of limitations”.

We don’t want to reduce the statute of limitations the way we reduced our warranties and guarantees. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution holds crooks and criminals accountable no matter when they crossed the line.

Is it sensible for something to be a crime for 7 years but not for 7 years and a day? #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution employs the State Guard to protect peaceful demonstrators and property owners from agitators and vandals.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that agitators don’t ruin the march or the adjacent property.

Keeping protestors or marchers out of sight violates the right to assembly. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution allows protesters the visibility necessary to give power to the right of assembly.

What good is a right to protest or march if no one sees or hears the march or the protest? #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that protestors observe community standards, like noise levels.

The right to peaceable assembly does not include the right to be excessively loud.

The right to assemble does not excuse what otherwise would be a violation of the law. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution guarantees the right of Citizens to assemble peaceably or peacefully.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that protestors and marchers have favorable and visible locations so long as they are safe and mindful of the general welfare.

#TheValentineConstitution requires protestors and marchers to abide by the law.

#TheValentineConstitution requires protestors and marchers to obtain insurance and permits like any other Citizens.

#TheValentineConstitution requires the government to help protestors and marchers to get their permits and insurance.

The right to freedom of association advances the right to equality, to associate equally with a variety of races, religions and sexual orientations. #TheValentineConstitution

The right to freedom of association allows us to associate inclusively across races, religions and/or sexual orientations. #TheValentineConstitution

The right to freedom of association conflicts with and supersedes the right to equality by allowing us to associate with only our own kind if we wish. #TheValentineConstitution

The right to freedom of association allows us to associate exclusively within our race, religion and sexual orientation. #TheValentineConstitution

Our right to freedom of association guarantees the right to form political parties, nonprofits, causes, movements and churches. #TheValentineConstitution

Our right to freedom of association is subservient to rights like general safety and welfare. #TheValentineConstitution

The right to freedom of association allows us to associate with whomever we wish to. #TheValentineConstitution

The right to freedom of association allows us to associate across or within races, religions and sexual orientations. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution guarantees our right to freedom of association.

You can stand on a corner with friends and sing so long as you don’t exceed noise levels. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution publicly funds campaigns inadvertently eliminating campaign financing as a free speech issue.

Free speech will no longer protect hard core pornography or sex for pay or “breeder” industries. #TheValentineConstitution

Free speech will no longer be a license for the oppression and degradation of women. Ratify #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ends free speech protection for bloody onscreen violence pretending to be art.

Free speech will no longer be a license for the depiction of bloody violence except in legitimate documentaries. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution guarantees our right to freedom of speech.

#TheValentineConstitution reaffirms that speech cannot be a clear and present danger, an incitement to imminent lawless action, or a negligently false statement.

Speech espousing the extermination of all Americans or all Christians in a public or private setting is treason and will be punishable by death. #TheValentineConstitution

Our airwaves were traded to broadcasters in return for “Fairness Doctrine” assurances both sides agreed would probably lose broadcasters money but be offset by profits from other programs using our airwaves. #TheValentineConstitution

Programs that engage in spinning and sensationalizing current events will not count as news under #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits prior restraint, government licensing and taxing the press, penalties for publishing truths, compelling journalists to reveal sources or publish information against their will, and excluding the press from governmental proceedings.

#TheValentineConstitution reaffirms our Constitution’s protections of the press.

#TheValentineConstitution‘s freedom to the press does not protect the paparazzi, libelous tabloids, screen violence or pornography.

#TheValentineConstitution‘s privacy provision prohibits the publishing of falsehoods, tabloid rumors and lies, and the paparazzi’s recklessness invasions of privacy.

#TheValentineConstitution requires fair and balanced news reporting of facts not opinion as agreed to in the “Fairness Doctrine”.

#TheValentineConstitution requires equal time for different points of view as agreed to in the “Fairness Doctrine”.

#TheValentineConstitution reimposes the Fairness Doctrine requiring the media to cover contrasting points of view, controversial subjects and a wide variety of information from diverse sources, and provide equal time for different points of view.