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Article 16 – The Bureaucracy

The Departments are prohibited from rent-seeking and regulatory capture by special interest groups. Any Citizen has standing to sue a Department for these reasons. If these acts are proved in a court of law, the top five department officers will all be ejected from their offices and spend five years in jail. They are prohibited from working for any government forever.
The Departments are prohibited from issuing any regulations during the period known as the “lame-duck” session.
Nepotism must be banned and that means only one person from a family may be employed anywhere in the government. Absolutely no members of families can work for the National government if they have family members in Congress, SCOTUS, Military, Secretaries of Departments and more.
No government person may stay in one assignment for more than ten years.
The government is prohibited from establishing or recognizing a union for Federal employees.
The government is prohibited from allowing any union to sign contracts with the federal government.
No government person can have a career in the government greater than twenty-five years except the Military and the Judiciary. The Military shall have a career of 45 years. The Judiciary shall have a career of thirty-five years. In the case of the Military, they are required to retire at age 65, no matter the number of years in their career.
No government person may receive any benefit from the government after their employment is over other than a 401K or some similar individual savings plan. There will be no pensions, health care, secretarial help, secret service and more except as noted for the military and the President.
All testimony in court by any government person, employed or contract or volunteer, shall be made public in a short time except in cases of national security.
No government person shall receive more pay than a similar civilian job.
A governmental career is discouraged.
No government person can vacation on the taxpayers’ dime.
The President is limited to twenty-five days’ vacation per year just like most other experienced American workers. His budget for all expenses for all vacations in a year is to be one half of his annual salary.
Every government person must divest themselves completely of all stocks, investments, bonds and more except those contained in their 401K.
No subsidies may be given to transportation excepting roads. If it proves feasible, all roads will eventually be privatized.
The maximum number of government employees or contractors including military will be one federal employee or contractor per 200 Citizens.
There are nine federal Departments defined in this Constitution. Those federal departments are banned from having more than 10 sub-departments under them. No department or sub-department may do any of the tasks found in any other Department or sub-department. The idea is we are trying to eliminate unnecessary sub-departments as well as stop the duplication of effort in the government. If duplication of Departments is found to be true, those administrators that approved the duplication will be ejected from government immediately and never allowed to work for any government again.
Any Department that finds itself interpreting a law differently than another Department must immediately file a federal court case challenging the other Department’s interpretation. The Courts must take up the case within three days following the filing regardless of their schedule or case load. The case must be decided within two weeks of the acceptance of the case. The Court must also issue a stay on both Departments to implement either interpretation of the law until the case is decided. If the case goes to appeal, at each level no more than one week shall pass before judgement.
Any Citizen has standing to challenge mission creep within any part of the government.
Federal prosecutors are prohibited from carrying out lawfare. See the John Doe case against Governor Scott Walker and his associates. Citizens have standing to sue a prosecutor for this behavior. Should this behavior be proved in a court of law, the prosecutor and any other individuals found guilty will be given a sentence of ten years and never be allowed to work for any government ever again.
No employee or contractor of the National government shall be granted immunity for their acts.