LEGISLATURES

Failure to Perform#TheValentineConstitution provides Citizens with the power to demand the enforcement of our laws.

#TheValentineConstitution eliminates city and county governments.

#TheValentineConstitution divides all powers between the Federal and State governments with no overlap of responsibilities.

#TheValentineConstitution prevents government departments from doing overlapping or duplicate work, so we can trace problems and spending to the responsible department and employee.

#TheValentineConstitution makes all laws uniform from state to state and across the nation.

#TheValentineConstitution protects our Citizens from the burden of keeping up with laws that vary from city to city, county to county, state to state then differ also from federal laws!

#TheValentineConstitution prevents our government from burdening Citizens with confusing, time consuming compliance requirements.

#TheValentineConstitution establishes an organized set of uniform laws.

#TheValentineConstitution streamlines compliance and assists Citizens to make them more productive.

#TheValentineConstitution protects whistle blower protection.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that government workers not have to struggle under irrationality, inefficiency and fraud.

#TheValentineConstitution eliminates fraud and abuse with ratings apps, whistle blower protection, and smart guidelines.

#TheValentineConstitution will have apps for rating and reviewing the performance of government departments and employees.

#TheValentineConstitution forbids government departments to ignore Citizens.

#TheValentineConstitution allows Citizens to locate and communicate with the responsible department and employee.

#TheValentineConstitution eliminates city and county governments and divides all powers between the Federal and State governments with no overlap.

#TheValentineConstitution creates an efficient, accountable, problem solving government that helps its Citizens and small businesses.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of all information, vital statistics and records, financial, medical, legal, tax, educational, titling, identification, licensing, testing, passport, forms, applications, voting.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of science, standards, visual, audio, dance and other arts.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of cable, phone and internet communications and security, air traffic control.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of banking, taxation, commerce, finance, trading, insurance and consumer services.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of Social Security, veterans benefits, unemployment, financial planning, labor, training and child and adult human services.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of free basic health care including veterans and schools; food and drug safety, an organic sustainable environment, parks, agriculture, fisheries, our food and water supply.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of the administration of prisons and one national armed hard crimes department law enforcement Agency with one chain of command.

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of information, communications, air traffic control, internet, taxation, commerce, records, identification, titling, licensing, standards and testing.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that forms and applications be uniform, simple and streamlined and available in each Citizen’s single account.

The Federal government governs foreign affairs, intelligence and the Armed Forces. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution puts the Federal government in charge of pre-school through high school education, adult training, exercise instruction for students and government employees.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the construction and maintenance statewide of a nationally coordinated clean-energy production and transmission grid.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of Emergency Releif.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of all fire prevention and firefighting: forest, rural, suburban and and urban.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the administration of a State Guard with one chain of command no overlap of responsibilities, responsible for emergency relief, fire, paramedics, traffic, crowd guidance.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the administration of a community based unarmed soft crimes department limited to misdemeanors with one chain of command.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits tolls which inhibit job search and travel, and create a rich-poor division.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the the establishment and enforcement of building safety codes, architectural and style codes, building rights and prohibitions.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the construction and maintenance of a clean-energy powered, driverless electric vehicle based transportation system including all roads, bridges, tunnels, docks, ports, rail etc.

#TheValentineConstitution puts State governments in charge of the construction and maintenance of all government buildings.

#TheValentineConstitution creates electric solar roadways with high speed inter-city lanes and driverless electric cars.

There’s a reason 80% of Americans favor 12 year term limits. Ratify The Valentine Constitution.

Unbeatable politicians are free to do as they please, unaccountable, corrupt and complacent. #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits dethrones them.

Allowing politicians to stay in office for decades facilitates corruption. #TheValentineConstitution

Unbeatable career politicians are rewarded for doing nothing, #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits remove do-nothing cronies.

Living isolated celebrity lifestyles, career politicians are incapable of real world solutions. #TheValentineConstitution12 year term limits replaces out of touch politicians.

#TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits dethrone unbeatable career politicians insulated in a world of political gamesmanship and isolated from the realities of their constituents.

Complacent career politicians are distanced from real world problems and incapable of solving them. We need #TheValentineConstitution

Career politicians are more concerned with their re-election problems than our everyday problems. We need #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits.

Gerrymandering means drawing election borders to ensure a win for one side or the other, so smug politicians can do as they please or not much at all. #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits removes them after 12 years.

It’s harder and harder for new candidates to unseat our out of touch insulated career politicians. We need #TheValentineConstitution

Gerrymandering results in a 90% re-election rate assuring politicians of decades in office. #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits removes them after 12 years.

The 90% re-election rate allows career politicians to do as they please, so they become complacent. #TheValentineConstitution 12-year term limit eliminate complacency and cronyism.

The 90% re-election rate makes career politicians unbeatable and therefore unaccountable for decades. #TheValentineConstitution 12 year term limits ends that.

#TheValentineConstitution limits to 12 years the total length of time any elected official can serve in any one office.

2 year term politicians use most of their 2 years in office to get re-elected rather than to govern. We need The Valentine Constitution.

2-year lower house terms put our elected officials in constant campaign and pay back mode. #TheValentineConstitution stops it.

#TheValentineConstitution doubles the 2-year lower house term to avoid constant campaigning.

2 year term politicians are constantly in campaign and pay back mode. #TheValentineConstitution keeps them working.

#TheValentineConstitution 4 year terms stops the constant electioneering and allows our elected officials to focus on governing.

2-year term politicians are more concerned with their re-election problems than our everyday problems. #TheValentineConstitution 4 year terms prevent that.

2 year term politicians no sooner take office than are on the campaign trail again. #TheValentineConstitution 4-year term limit for representatives and assemblymen stops the constant campaigning.

2 year term politicians must constantly raise money from special interests and influence legislation for them. #TheValentineConstitution 4 year terms prevent that.

#TheValentineConstitution 4 year term limit takes elected officials out of constant campaign and pay back mode.

We don’t want politicians whose primary job is re-election and their part time job is governing. We need #TheValentineConstitution

The governing of 2 year term politicians is constantly distracted by re-election considerations. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ends re-election governance.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits caucuses.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits filibusters.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits committees, seniority, caucuses, filibusters and the like.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits seniority, committees, caucuses, filibusters and other politicized rules that cause stalemates and corruption.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits any member, officer, speaker, whip or other member-leaders from having more power than any other member.

#TheValentineConstitution abolishes seniority and removes complacency along with do-nothing stalemated Congresses.

#TheValentineConstitution requires each house to assemble at least once every week and compel the attendance of absent members.

#TheValentineConstitution considers promoting the death of a portion of our law abiding Citizens or giving aid to our enemies to be treason.

#TheValentineConstitution requires each house to vote to approve or disapprove of Presidential or Gubernatorial appointees.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits seniority.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits committees.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits any house from adjourning during the session for more than 3 days, nor to any place other than Washington DC, yet may allow 10% of members to adjourn from day to day.

#TheValentineConstitution requires each house to vote to punish its members for absence or disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of 2/3 of the members, to expel a member therefor.

#TheValentineConstitution requires each house to submit all of their rules for approval by a majority consent of voters every 12 years in the year of a Presidential election.

#TheValentineConstitution excludes from from elected, appointed, civil or military office, any person who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion or treason against our United States.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits unrelated amendments to be added to bills thereby eliminating pay-back corruption and excesses.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits “riders” unrelated to a bill and requires a separate vote on amendments related to a bill.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all votes be recorded.

#TheValentineConstitution requires politicians to inform constituencies how they voted.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all politicians vote on every measure and record how they voted.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all proceedings, debates, bills, motions and votes be recorded and published online for the perusal of our Citizens, except such parts as may reasonably require secrecy.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that the rules for each and every bill be the same.

#TheValentineConstitution requires the Houses to pass identical versions of a bill for it to become law.

#TheValentineConstitution allows either House to introduce or originate any legislation.

#TheValentineConstitution requires 1/3 of debate time shall be allocated by the authors of the bill, 1/3 to opponents, and 1/3 to members with alternative solutions to the problem(s) addressed by the bill.

#TheValentineConstitution requires a separate majority vote to pass rewrites or amendments.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that amendments directly related to a bill be entertained, but amendments or riders not directly related to a bill be prohibited.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all politicians vote on every measure.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits amendments intended to delay or thwart the progress of a bill or of the legislature.

#TheValentineConstitution allows any member to cede any portion of their allotted time to any other member, or to a guest.

#TheValentineConstitution requires the consideration of a vote on a bill to not exceed one hour, unless a majority of the members agrees to a longer time not to exceed 3 days.

#TheValentineConstitution requires a 2/3 majority in favor of early consideration to allow a bill to be considered before all others.

#TheValentineConstitution requires the consideration, debate or voting on any bill shall be on a first come first served basis.

#TheValentineConstitution allots 5 minutes to any member, or their guest, to speak during the consideration or debate or mark-up of any bill in open session.

#TheValentineConstitution allows a majority vote in favor of any bill in one House to cause the bill to pass, and then be considered, debated and voted on prior to any other bill in the other House except those earlier passed.

#TheValentineConstitution forbids politicians to miss votes.

#TheValentineConstitution allows any member or group of members to hold hearings, review, rewrite and amend bills.