Download National Nonbinding Referendum
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Download America's Freedom Amendments Plan
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Model Balanced Budget
Resolution
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Natelson - Goldwater Study shows Amendments Convention will be limited, controlled by the states. Download Study
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The 10 Amendments for Freedom, Inc. is coordinating America's Freedom Amendments movement.

10 Amendments for Freedom, Inc. began recommending ten amendments be added to the Constitution.  However, after discussion with legislators, the list has been pared to four at this time.  Go to Amendments.
 

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"We may safely rely on the disposition of the state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority."

Alexander Hamilton referring to Article V which enables the states to call a convention to propose amendments.

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"Those responsible for creating this massive, unconscionable debt will be dead and gone, not able to hear the howling curses directed toward them by those who will have to pay in the future."

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"The Article V Convention will be the most important political event in more than 200 years.  The entire world will see that the American people control their government."

National Nonbinding Referendum

Balanced Budget Amendment

Let's put it on the ballot ... like Florida did.

We can settle the matter of whether the American people want Congress to stop borrowing money to pay for the expansion of the Federal government by allowing them to vote on the issue of a balanced budget amendment. 

In 2010, the Florida legislature passed "Committee Substitute Senate Bill 2742" which placed on the November - 2010 general election ballot a non-binding referendum asking Florida voters if they would support a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution  

With almost 5 million votes cast, 72% of Floridians voted YES.

The issue passed in every Florida county  and gained overwhelming bipartisan support as more than two-thirds of the voters approved the idea in 64 of Florida's 67 counties.

By having the voters voice their "official" opinion on the issue of a balanced budget amendment, members of Congress will be forced to take a position on the issue. 

During the election campaign of 2012, every member of Congress should be asked this question:

If your district votes in favor of a balanced budget amendment, will you vote to propose such an amendment?

The following is model language for a nonbinding referendum regarding a balanced budget amendment to be placed on the general election ballot in 2012.

Model Bill or Resolution

An act relating to a nonbinding statewide advisory referendum; requiring that a question regarding a balanced federal budget be printed on the ballot and submitted to the voters in the 2012 general election; providing an effective date.

Whereas the federal government has borrowed excessively to fund its annual appropriations, placing a crushing debt upon the shoulders of the People of the United States and our nation in financial jeopardy, and,

Whereas, the issue of a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget has been discussed for more than forty years and shown to be favored by the People in public opinion polls, yet Congress has failed to propose such an amendment to the states for ratification,

Therefore, to provide direct guidance to the members of Congress from the state of ___________ which reflects the will of the people regarding the adoption of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States,

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State (Commonwealth) of _________:

Section 1. Nonbinding statewide advisory referendum. — At the 2012 general election, the following question shall be printed on the ballot and submitted to the voters:

BALANCING THE FEDERAL BUDGET

A NONBINDING REFERENDUM CALLING FOR AN AMENDMENT

TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

Should the United States Constitution be amended to require a balanced federal budget without raising taxes?

Yes ___  No ___

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

The debt being created by our Federal government
is the single biggest threat to our freedom and the survival of our nation.

Over the last forty years, Congress has had an average annual increase in revenue of 7%. 

However, on average each year, it spent 23% more than it took in.

It plans to borrow, on average, more than a trillion dollars a year for the next ten years.

While Congress boasts it had a balanced budget in 1999 and 2000, in reality, after accounting for the interest it owed to the funds from which it had borrowed money, the gross national debt actually increased both years.

In fact, the last time the gross national debt was reduced was in 1969, the first year Richard Nixon was president.

America's Freedom Amendments

America's Freedom Amendments is a movement to add several amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  Each of the amendments is designed to restrain the growth of the Federal government and to preserve our individual liberty and freedom.

While it is preferred Congress proposes the amendments, it is not likely it will do so, as Congress has never proposed an amendment which restrains its power.

As a result, a convention for proposing amendments called by the state legislators as provided for in Article V of the Constitution will likely be the only means we will be able to restore fiscal discipline and preserve our freedoms.

Presently, the organization is focusing on one specific amendment subject for which Congress or the delegates at an amendments convention will craft amendment language:

Improving the fiscal management of the federal government by doing all or any combination of the following:

(A) Imposing requirements, with any stated exceptions, that federal expenditures during a fixed time period not exceed federal revenues or anticipated revenues during that time period;

(B) Imposing either or both of the following:

(i) prohibitions on federal debt.
(ii) limits on federal debt.

(C) Imposing limits on expenditures, revenue, and/or taxes or any combination of these.

Article V - United States Constitution

...on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds
of the several States, (Congress) shall call a Convention
for proposing Amendments, which, ...
shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, when ratified
by ... three fourths of the several States.