Section 6 – Debt
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the previous Constitution.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States; All such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The United States Congress can borrow an amount equal to 5% of total taxes collected for a particular year and that deficit must be completely repaid within five years.
The total peacetime United States debt shall not be greater than 10% of the rolling average of three years of total taxes collected during peacetime.
During war time, total United States deficit and debt may go as high as needed. When the war ends, there will be no deficits allowed until the debt is paid down to 10% of the rolling average of three years of total taxes collected.
Any Citizen has standing to sue in court over the deficit and the debt. Failure to maintain a proper deficit and debt will result in the expulsion of all members of Congress at the end of their current terms and they will never be allowed to work in any capacity for any government again. The Courts are enjoined that one of their primary goals is to not allow the government of the United States to incur a debt beyond what is permitted above.
Any debt owed by the previous government shall be made good by the new government. Any debt owed to the previous government must be honored to the new government.
Section 7 – Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. Any Citizen has the standing to challenge the qualifications of any member of Congress in court.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings except as noted below, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings and publish the same every day verbatim with no additions or corrections, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy. Any Citizen may sue in court if it is believed that Congress is gaming the system on secrecy. A federal Court shall review the relevant records. If the court finds for the plaintiff, then the Representatives and or Senators (depending on the guilty House) will be expelled from Congress at the ends of their current terms and never allowed to work for any government again.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote in the Senate shall be by roll call without exception and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of both Houses on every question shall be entered on the Journal.
Every meeting will be entered in the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.