The Environment

The necessity to protect the environment was generally unknown at the time of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, so there is no provision for it in the language of the document. Congress and the Supreme Court have used unconstitutional means to legislate in this area, most of which are used to protect crony's monopolies or exert political power rather than actually protect the environment. The Uniting Amendment adds specific language to the Constitution to protect the environment while preventing the abuse of environmental law for iniquitous purposes.

There are several areas within the current version of the Uniting Amendment that address environmental issues. A clause in Section 10 (Powers) grants Congress the power to regulate the use or alteration of common natural resources. It says:

"Congress and the States may limit or organize scarce common resources to better facilitate their use, however, the rights to a limited or organized common resource shall be distributed equally to all. The use or alteration of a common resource may only be limited or organized when its supply or capacity is insufficient to meet the actual, unregulated demand for its use or alteration and when that unregulated condition infringes rights."

A "common resource" is later defined as: "... a thing that is used and is either publicly owned by a government or that by its very nature cannot entirely be owned and controlled by a person. Common resources include, but are not limited to: the air, airspace and orbital space; water flowing or likely to flow across property boundaries; intellectual property in the public domain; the electromagnetic spectrum; and travel ways, buildings, land and bodies of water owned by a government. "

Section 6 (Equity) further states that:

"Whenever the use or alteration of public land or any other common resource must be limited or organized, the right of use or alteration shall be distributed equally among all the people and any person may freely trade such right with any other entity without restriction."

Section 9 (Respect for Life and Nature) provides explicit protections. It says:

"No person may take any action that causes a race or species of life to become endangered or extinct in nature except in the case of deleterious microscopic biological contagions that have no known supportive purpose. No land may be altered in a manner that renders it ordinarily uninhabitable to natural species for more than one hundred years. A person acting on behalf of any government may not harm or kill any person or creature who has the right to exist and no funds may be allocated to facilitate that purpose, except for acts of self defense as provided by this Amendment."

The Government, in passing its $1.1 Trillion bill December, 2014, just trimmed the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by $60 million. This will ultimately hurt the fragile environment, which is needed to support life. The environment should be a major concern, and not subject to the whims of politicians pandering to Big Business.

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