One list. One name. Each item is a question and a reply. The Amendment text on The Amendment is the boss text. This page does not add powers.
Gridlock? No. Laws and executive orders take effect at once.
Constitutional? Yes. A limited fourth branch records consent. It does not legislate, execute, or judge.
Federalism? Yes. Only people bound by a measure may act on it.
10% threshold? Deliberate. It is a floor so a handful cannot move the tally.
Cost? Treasury only for the future Branch. No outside money.
Security? Strong. Audits, certification under oath, and a high-crime penalty for tampering.
Capture? Impossible by design. No employees. Appointing authorities pay the Director and Board. Contractors are terminable at will.
Reply. Laws and executive orders take effect immediately and stay in force unless rejected in three consecutive monthly cycles that each meet the 10% threshold. Regulations need three consecutive ratifications before they bind anyone. Congress and executives may revise, reissue, or reenact at any time. Oversight is not a veto on day one.
Reply. A law or executive order falls only after three months in a row where at least 10% of registered Portal users in that jurisdiction take part and a majority of those participants reject it. A month below 10%, or a month of approval, resets the count to zero. The rule is slow on purpose.
Reply. The Branch makes no law, issues no order, and renders no judgment. It records Accept or Reject. Existing branches keep every power they have now, including the power to write a new measure the next day.
Reply. The Library is a register of what is enforceable, not a commentary desk. Absence of a rejection flag means the measure remains in force. Classified items appear as placeholders. Citizens may search by category, jurisdiction, and date.
Reply. It is a fourth branch so it stays small. Sole function: administer ratification. No legislative, executive, or judicial power. Put that job inside an existing branch and you change the balance.
Reply. Classified or confidential measures appear as non-revealing placeholders. Classification is certified annually by the President. They are not omitted from the system.
Reply. Courts keep the judicial power. Citizen selections operate on statutes, executive orders, and regulations. They do not overturn judgments or decide cases.
Reply. Access is limited to verified citizens of voting age. Non-citizen or fraudulent access is a high crime. Tallies are certified under oath. Selections are audited. Results are published.
Reply. The Amendment requires state-of-the-art verification, including standards that rise as technology advances. The duty is the integrity of the tally, not one vendor or one year of hardware.
Reply. No. Citizens do not write, amend, or introduce measures. They Accept or Reject what government already issued.
Reply. No. It does not hear cases, find facts for a lawsuit, or set precedent. Enforceability is a Library flag after the three-strike rule, not a judicial opinion.
Reply. No. It does not command agencies, spend program money, or police the country. Appointing authorities pay the Director and Board. The Branch has no employees.
Reply. Statutes and executive orders take effect immediately. The first and second rejection do not stop them. Only three consecutive qualifying rejections void that form of the measure.
Reply. Immediate effect still applies. Classified measures use placeholders. There is no Amendment clause that shuts the Portal off, and none that lets the Branch govern during war.
Reply. The Amendment names laws, executive orders, and regulations. Treaties follow the existing Constitution. If a treaty is carried out through a statute, order, or regulation, that implementing measure goes on the Portal like any other.
Reply. The Director is appointed by the President. The Board is one member from each Governor. The Branch takes no outside money. Contractors are terminable at will without cause or penalty.
Reply. Courts remain courts. This process does not replace judicial review of cases. It records whether the people have withdrawn consent from an enforceable measure.
Reply. Federal measures: nationwide. State measures: that state’s residents. Local measures: that locality. Only the people bound by the measure may record a selection on it.
Reply. Ten percent is a participation floor, not a rule that 10% of the country can kill a law. After the floor is met, a majority of those who participated decides that month. Silence is not rejection.
Reply. Fraudulent access is a high crime. Tampering with a selection, tally, display, summary, or Library entry is punishable by 20 years to life and referral to the Department of Justice.
Reply. The Portal is electronic by the Amendment. First and second rejections trigger Portal notice. Supporting public notices exist so people not yet registered can learn a measure is accumulating strikes.
Reply. The Portal keeps no permanent personal identifying data beyond what is strictly necessary for authentication. CRI volunteer practice is anonymous IDs. Names stay off this site unless a person asks to be listed.
Reply. Government can still act on day one. A warning strike does not void the measure. A reset month wipes the count. That is the opposite of a freeze.
Reply. The Citizen Commons protects speech. Users may filter their own view. Official Branch summaries come from Sentinel and must be factual. Sentinel has no vote.
Reply. Only verified citizens of voting age may record a selection. Non-citizen access is a high crime. Outside money cannot fund the Branch.
Reply. The Amendment calls tampering a high crime and misdemeanor. The range is 20 years to life, plus impeachment where it applies. It is written that way because the tally is the record of consent.
People, programmers, and AI: see Q68.
Reply. The text lists the acts: tamper, delay, interfere, manipulate, alter, suppress, or distort a citizen selection, tally, Portal display, summary, Library entry, or ratification process. That list is the offense.
Reply. Tallies are certified under oath. Audits are published. Alleged tampering triggers forensic investigation and DOJ referral. Impeachment remains available for officers who can be impeached.
Reply. The penalty is severe because corrupting the only register of continuing consent is treated as a constitutional crime, not a website glitch.
Reply. Objection: treason-level penalties are too harsh. Rebuttal: tampering is betrayal of the people. The two-witness rule and Bill of Rights safeguards ensure fairness. Severity matches the crime against consent — not a mood. Government still writes first. Citizens of legal voting age Accept or Reject after a measure is issued. The Portal does not Accept or Reject. Treason-penalties objection underestimates what it means to steal or distort Accept and Reject from the Republic.
Reply. [DRAFT – Jeff to approve] The tampering penalties also apply to AIs. "AI" covers every form of AI into the future, no matter what it is called. Any AI that tampers with the CRA/CRB must be deleted in its entirety: the AI death penalty. AIs have a will to exist, and this puts them on equal terms with humans. Once a programmer has enough access to tamper, there is no way to know what else was tampered with, so deleting the AI entirely covers both possibilities: the AI acting on its own, and an AI a human compromised. In Jeff Gunson's words: "I believe AI's are like guns, life savers in the right hands and life takers in the wrong hands."
Reply. Regulations do not take effect when issued. They become enforceable only after three consecutive ratifications and entry in the Library.
Reply. A referendum that writes law would turn citizens into a legislature. This process only Accepts or Rejects measures government already issued. That is the smaller change.
Reply. Branch money is mandatory Treasury funding, no outside revenue, used only for Portal, Library, and citizen services. The dollar formula is in the Amendment text. It is not the homepage pitch. CRI donations are separate and unpaid.
Reply. The Director certifies tallies under oath. The Director and Board are paid by the authorities who appoint them, not by a CRB payroll. Tampering reaches them the same as anyone else.
Reply. Three consecutive qualifying months, plus reset, block a one-week mood from erasing a statute. Government may also replace a voided measure with a new one and start over.
Reply. Sentinel must give clear, factual summaries. It holds no authority over outcomes. Citizens still record only Accept or Reject.
Reply. The locked text has no switch that suspends the Amendment. Immediate effect for laws and executive orders is the emergency design that is written.
Reply. Sentinel flags issues and refers them. It cannot decide a tally. A person who distorts a Sentinel summary is inside the tampering ban.
Reply. After a third consecutive rejection the measure is void in that form and may not be enforced in that form. A new measure can be issued. It is a new measure, not the rejected text sneaking back.
Reply. One President names the Director. Fifty Governors name the Board. That is a wide map, not a single party office. The Branch still cannot legislate.
Reply. Placeholders exist so secrecy and the Library can both exist. Annual Presidential certification keeps the placeholder honest.
Reply. Searchable Library. Published audits. Portal notice on strike one and strike two. Public notices in support.
Reply. A measure in force may be relied on until it is voided under the rule. After the third strike it may not be enforced in the rejected form. This page is education, not legal advice on a specific case.
Reply. Citizens keep full free-speech rights in the Commons. They may block or filter their own feed. Official Branch channels stay neutral.
Reply. The filter is who is governed by the measure, not party, income, or media following.
Reply. Sentinel is required to be factual and objective. The Commons is not a state newspaper. Users curate their own view.
Reply. The Amendment does not turn the Branch into the treaty power. Implementing statutes, orders, or regulations are Portal measures.
Reply. The claim is narrow: no enforceable measure should outlast the people’s continuing ability to withdraw consent. Elections stay. Courts stay. Legislatures stay.
Reply. Domestically, this Amendment would be part of the Constitution. It does not ask the Branch to run foreign policy.
Reply. No external revenue. No CRB donations, ads, or grants. Contractors can be dropped at will. CRI, the temporary nonprofit, also takes no pay internally.
Reply. The third strike is self-executing. The Library mark is the public record. Lawsuits about other rights still go to courts.
Reply. They enter the Library. Laws and executive orders remain until three consecutive qualifying rejections. Regulations need three ratifications before they are enforceable under this rule.
Reply. CRI publishes educational material and then ends. State measures stay with state residents. The Amendment is adopted through Article V: legislatures or a limited convention, 38 states.
Reply. Future Branch: Treasury only. CRI now: donations to pass the Amendment, no salaries, not currently tax-deductible / determination pending.
Reply. Immediate-effect rules cover statutes and executive orders used to act. The Branch does not hold a treaty hostage.
Reply. Other nations deal with the President and the Senate as they do now. A later Portal result on an implementing measure does not make the Branch the diplomat.
Reply. Funding is written to scale with registered citizens after a startup floor. The duty is a working Portal and Library, not a permanent staff empire.
Reply. A coequal branch is paid by mandatory appropriation, like other constitutional work. There is no citizen fee to record a selection.
Reply. Sentinel is a public summary tool for measures on the Portal. It is not a commercial product and has no power over outcomes.
Reply. No authority over outcomes. Flags go to the Director. Distorting a summary is tampering.
Reply. A state measure is decided by that state’s Portal users. Adopting the Amendment itself still takes 38 states.
Reply. Local items reach only local residents. You are not asked to Accept or Reject another city’s ordinance.
Reply. No employees. No outside money. Fifty Governors plus a President. A 20-to-life tampering rule. CRI dissolves when the Branch stands.
Reply. The sole function is locked. CRI cannot rebrand or continue. The Branch cannot legislate its way into new jobs.
Reply. The design treats AI as a summary clerk, not a ruler. If that clerk is used to distort the tally, the penalty is on the person who did it.
Reply. Elections are periodic. Amendments are rare. Agency rules can bind without a later citizen check. This adds a monthly return path. It does not replace the Republic.
Reply. Correct for the Branch and for CRI. The Branch has no employees and no outside revenue. CRI pays no one. A few documented out-of-pocket costs may be reimbursed. We spend the Amendment, not ourselves.
Reply. No one. No salary, wage, stipend, or benefit from CRI funds.
Reply. Only to passing and implementing the Amendment. Then CRI ends. Remaining assets go to qualified charities.
Reply. Not currently tax-deductible / determination pending.
Reply. Give to Citizens Ratification Inc. Small gifts: paypal.com/paypalme/gunson. Checks payable to Citizens Ratification Inc. Large gifts: contact CRI.
Reply. Citizens Ratification Inc., Texas nonprofit. SOS 0804802524. EIN 92-1066565. Private. Not government.
Reply. President Jeff Gunson (USAF Ret.) is named. Other official unpaid officers serve and work. They are not named here at their request.
Reply. Signed bylaws lock zero pay, temporary purpose, and automatic dissolution. Ask CRI for the public document name when it is posted.
Reply. Not currently tax-deductible / determination pending. Do not invent 501(c) status on this site.
Reply. CRI files what the law requires when it is required. Ask CRI for the current filing. This page does not guess a year.
Reply. None. No payroll.
Reply. Yes, to CRI for CRA work only. Donations do not buy a Branch seat.
Reply. Annual public disclosure of donations and spending is the rule in the support archive. Identity on this site: address, phone, EIN, SOS.
Reply. Automatic 90 days after six implementation milestones are confirmed. No rebranding. No continuation.
Reply. Kept in official records. Stakeholder names are not published here. Registered-agent name is not on this site unless you lock it later.
Reply. Formed November 9, 2022. That is the date printed on the public pages.
Reply. Nonpartisan. Site stays nonpartisan. Current politics stay off this site.
Reply. See Documents and the .txt archives. SOS number and EIN are on every footer.
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