This is the rule book. It tells the rules to how this land’s guys in charge will work.
(This is the U.S. Constitution, written using exclusively one-syllable words.)
First, let’s be clear.
We, the folks, of this big joined group of states, have to say we are not thrilled with what the King has done. We need clear laws and rules, peace more than war, more cash, and votes. We want our kids and their kids to have this too, so let’s get to it and write this thing down.
Part One
One. If you want to make laws, then go to the branch that makes laws. No one else makes laws. There’s two groups of men in there: the House and the, uh, not-house.
Two. The House part is made up of men that we choose each time two years pass. All the states can pick men to go to the House. The states get to pick how they choose who goes. But there are some rules.
No one can be a House man who is less than five-squared years old. They have to have lived more than six years in the Group of States and must live in the state that picks them to go to the House.
Men who go to the House and the tax that you have to pay are split to the the states based on the count of free folks that live there. The folks who have been here for way more time than us don’t count for both. Slaves count as three-fifths of a free man. We will count up the folks in the land each ten years. We get to pick the way we count you, though. The guys in the house should be near one for each three-times-ten-to the-fifth folks. Each state gets at least one guy in the House. Till we count, we have a guess or two on how much each state gets.
If a House man dies or leaves his job, the guy in charge has a vote to pick a new man for the job in his state. This can be at all times.
The House gets to choose who leads them in their branch. They are the ones who can say the Guy in Charge is bad, but not force him to leave his job. (That’s for the Not-House to say.)
Three. The Not-House has two folks from each state in it. The state’s branch that makes laws gets to pick those folks. They stay for six years each and all have one vote.
There are three groups of Not-House folks. Each two years, one group will be picked for the states to choose a new guy (or the same guy) to go to the Not-House. Once each group has been picked once more, go back to the first group. That thing on if you leave your job is here as well, but here you just put some one in the place of the one who left and wait for their seat to be up for grabs.
You can’t go to the Not-House if you are not yet three-tens years old. You must have lived in the Group of States for nine years and must live in the state that picks you.
The Guy-in-Charge-Two is the guy in charge of the Not-House, but does not vote most of the time. If there’s a tie, then he votes.
If the Guy-In-Charge-Two acts as the Guy-In-Charge, then the Not-House gets to pick a new Guy-In-Charge-Two. They get to pick a Not-House Guy-in-Charge as well. The Not-House can force the Guy-In-Charge to quit. The Guy-In-Charge will be on oath, and the King-of-the-Court gets to watch and ask things. The Not-House can’t make him quit if they don’t get two-thirds of the vote.
This next part is sort of vague, but you can’t do more than make the Guy-In-Charge leave. You can’t put him in jail, but you can block him out and make him not come back. Still, he can be forced to leave. You just have to keep the rules in mind.
Four. The time, place, and way each state picks the guys to send to the Branch that Makes Laws are up to the state BUT if the House and Not-House say so, the state might have to change it to some way that’s more fair. The House and Not-House can change close to all of these, but they can’t choose the place where the state picks Not-House guys.
The House and Not-House have to meet at least once a year. If it is once a year, that day will be close to the start of the twelfth month of the year. They can change that though.
Five. Each house (the House and the Not-House) gets to make sure that the guys that are in it are the right ones. You need most of the guys to be there to make a big choice. They can speak of stuff with less than most of the guys, and can ask the ones who are not there to come and join in. They can hurt you if you just don’t come at all.
Each house gets to choose how it makes laws. It can hurt the folks in it if they are not nice, and, if two thirds of them say so, it can force one of them to leave. Each house keeps a book that speaks of what they have done so far. If there is a thing that they say should not go in the book, it does not have to go in the book. If at least one fifth of the guys there say so, the vote on each thing will go in the book as Yeas and Nays.
If you start to speak of some thing and this branch is in work, a house can’t just stop for more than three days or speak of this stuff in a new place. They have to tell the whole branch first.
Six. The guys in the House and the Not-House get paid. It’s paid from the Big Group of States Cash Box. They can’t be put in jail most of the time – but could be for Big Crimes, Stabbed in the Back, or Breach of the Peace – while they are at work. For a thing they said in a house, you can’t ask them what they meant in a place that is not that same house.
No man who is in the House or Not-House can have more than one job for the Group of States. If you have a new job, you have to quit your first one. It works back to front as well.
Six-plus-one. If you want the Group of States to make more cash, talk to the House. All the rest of the stuff, like a change to the Rule Book or a new bill, starts in the Not-House.
If the bill is passed in the House and the Not-House, it goes to the Guy-in-Charge. If he signs it, that means he’s fine with it and it’s a law now. If he does not like it, he can send it back and tell the house that first thought of it why. They will write down why he did not like it and think some more. If two thirds of them say so, the bill (and why the Guy-in-Charge said no) gets sent to the next house. If two thirds of THEM say so, the bill is now a law. You can vote Yea or Nay, and you have to write down the votes with the names and the bill. If the Guy-in-Charge does not send the bill back in ten days (here we won’t count the Lord’s day) once he sees it, it’s a law just as if he had signed it most of the time, but if the House and the Not-House make it too hard for him to send it back, it is not a law.
Each choice that the House and the Not-House make (here we don’t count when they vote to take a break) goes to the Guy-in-Charge. If he says yes, it takes place. If he says no but two thirds of the guys in the House or Not-House say yes, it takes place, just as it was with a bill.
Eight. The House and the Not-House get to: tax you and pay debts to go to war; but have to tax you in a way that is fair;
To take but then give back cash from more lands as the Group of States;
To pick who and what we trade with, be that lands, states, or tribes that live out west;
To pick how we choose what counts as a ‘Man from the Group of States’, and what we do if we run out of cash;
To make coins and bills and tell us how much it’s worth as well as how much coins from far-off lands are worth, and to tell us just how far a foot is or how much weight a pound is;
To put you in jail if you forge fake coins or bills;
To be in charge of the mail and make roads for mail-men to go on;
To give folks the right to make art or a new thing and make sure that they are the ones who gets to use it, and no one else, for some time;
To make courts that are not as big as the High Court;
To make sure no one does crimes in the sea near the Group of States;
To say that we are at war, to tell folks to steal stuff from a far-off land’s ships, and to tell them how much they get to keep;
To build and fund our land-based troops, but not with funds that last for more than two years;
To build sea-based troops;
To make more laws on what the Group of States can and can’t do and on what our troops can do;
To keep the peace through these troops;
To get the troops to work right, and to keep a roof on top of their heads, but to let the states train them and work out who gets to join in the first place;
To choose where the head place of the Group of States is and buy it from the state(s) that owns it right now, and to make forts, dock-yards, a gun-house or two, and more stuff we might need;
To make all laws that make sense to make sure this part of the Rule Book goes as planned, and last but not least to do what the Rule Book has said it can do.
Nine. The House and the Not-House can’t make us not take slaves from far-off lands for one score and one years. That’s year one-eight-oh-eight. They can, though, put a tax on that as long as it is less than ten bucks per slave.
If you go to jail but you think it was not fair, you have the right to ask to go to court. It has a name in Rome-speak that means “through the corpse.” The House and the Not-House can’t stop you from that right, but they can if there’s a war or a thing like that and they need to keep the land safe.
They can’t throw you in jail THEN make a law that says you did a thing wrong. They have to make that law first.
They can’t make a tax that does not make each state pay the same, but they can if it is based on the man-count we spoke of in Sect. Two.
They can’t tax trade from state to state.
They can’t make one state more rich than the one next to it by way of ports, tax, or trade rules. A ship that comes from one state does not have to pay tax in a new state.
They can’t take cash from the Big Group of States Cash Box with no laws that say they can. They have to tell us how much they spend and what they spend it on, too.
They can’t make you a knight, lord, laird, king, prince, queen, and so on and so forth. If the House and the Not-House don’t say so, a man who works for the Group of States can’t take cash, jobs, bribes, gifts, or be called “sir” by a king, prince, or far-off land.
Ten. No state can join a deal with more states; tell you to steal stuff from far-off lands’ ships; make cash; make bank-notes; make you pay your debt but not with the cash that the Group of States does use; throw you in court THEN make a law that says you did a thing wrong; give you a “Get Out of Debt Free” card, or call you “sir.”
If the House and the Not-House did not say so, the state can’t make a tax on what they trade in and out (but they can if they need the cash to keep at work); and all the cash that they make from that goes straight to the Big Group of States Cash Box.
If the House and the Not-House did not say so, the state can’t tax a ship based on its weight, keep troops, or ships for war, if there is not a war; the state can’t make a deal with more states, or with a far-off land; it can’t join a war (but it could if troops just marched in or will march in quite soon).
Part Two
One. We have a Guy-in-Charge. He is the head of the Guy-In-Charge Branch, and he has that job for four years. The Guy-in-Charge-Two gets the same term. They are picked in this way:
Each state picks some folks to send to the House and the Not-House. They send the same count of folks as Vote-Men, but a man in the House or the Not-House can not be a Vote-Man.
The Vote-Men of each state meet in their home state. They vote for two folks, and at least one of them can’t live in the Vote-Man’s home state. They make a list of the guys who they chose, and the count of votes for each, and they send that list to the main town where the Group of States does stuff and the Guy-In-Charge lives. The head of the Not-House looks at all the notes, from each state, and counts the votes. The guy with the most votes wins IF the count of his votes is more than half the count of Vote-Men. If there are two guys, tied for first, and the count of their votes is each more than half the count of Vote-Men, the House gets to vote on which one gets to be Guy-In-Charge. If there is no one with a lot of votes, the House picks from the top five guys with the most votes. BUT when they choose the Guy-In-Charge, each state gets just one vote. To make a choice, you need most states to vote for a man. For this vote to take place, you have to have at least one man there from at least two-thirds of the states to vote. The guy with the next most votes in the Guy-In-Charge-Two. If there is a tie, the Not-House picks from those who are tied.
The House and the Not-House get to pick the time they pick the Vote-Men, the day that the Vote-Men vote, and that day must be the same through the whole Group of States.
You can’t be Guy-In-Charge if you were not born a Man-from-the-Group-of-States or were one at the time that we wrote this Rule Book. You have to be at least three-tens-plus-five years old and must have lived in the Group of States for four-plus-ten years.
If the Guy-In-Charge quits, dies, can’t be Guy-In-Charge, or is forced to quit, the Guy-In-Charge-Two acts as the Guy-In-Charge. He can quit or be forced to quit too, and if that takes place, the House and the Not-House have to find a new guy to act as Guy-In-Charge for now. He stays that way till the old Guy-In-Charge comes back, or till the next Guy-In-Charge is picked.
The Guy-In-Charge gets paid to do his job. He can’t change how much he gets paid, and he gets no gifts but what he is paid from the Group of States or from a state.
When he is soon to be Guy-In-Charge, he must swear this oath: “I do solemnly swear [or state] that I will be a good Guy-In-Charge, that I will, to the best of what I can do, keep, save, and hold true the Rule Book of the Group of States.”
Two. The Guy-in-Charge is the head of the land-based and sea-based troops in the Group of States, and of each state’s troops, if he needs to use them; he may need to talk to the head of a part of the Group of States, like the Head of State, Head of War, or Head of Jobs, on a thing that they work with; and he can get you out of jail, but not get the last Guy-In-Charge out of when the House makes him leave.
He can make deals with far-off lands, if two-thirds of the Not-House men say he can; and he picks, as long as the Not-House is fine with it, guys to go to far-off lands and show the world what the Group of States is like, and the guys in the High Court, and more folks whose jobs will be made by law. The House and the Not-House, though, can say that those folks have to be picked by the courts, or the heads of the parts of the land.
The Guy-In-Charge gets to fill a seat that no one sat in in the Not-House. He can give you that seat for a short time, and then you have to give it up.
Three. The Guy-In-Charge has to, at some point, tell the House and the Not-House the State of the States. He will tell them what he thinks they need to make laws on, and he can, if it’s big, give them a speech at the same time or just give one of them a speech. If he wants to talk to both of them, but they can’t pick a time, the Guy-In-Charge gets to pick a time. He can let more folks watch too, he has to make sure no one breaks the law while he talks, and the word should get out to the whole Group of States.
Four. The Guy-In-Charge, the Guy-In-Charge-Two, and more guys who work for them, can be forced to quit their jobs for, when the judge says so, Stabbed in the Back, Bribes, or more Crimes that we won’t name and thus make this part real vague.
Part Three
One. We have a High Court and a whole bunch of small courts that the House or the Not-House can make. Each judge, for the High Court and the small courts, must act well and will get paid at the right time. Their pay will not go down while they hold the job.
Two. The High Court gets to judge stuff on this Rule Book, or a Law or deal that was made, or will soon be made, as long as it makes sense for them to judge it; they can judge a case on the men we sent to far-off lands to show the world what the Group of States is like; they can deal with the seas near our coast; they can deal with a case where one side is the Group of States as a whole; they can judge a case with a state and folks from a new state; they can judge folks whom both say they have a bit of land since some state told them so; and with a state and more states, more folks, or more things.
If one of the sides is a state, or one of the sides is one of those guys we sent to far-off lands, the High Court gets to be the first court they go to. If not, the sides have to go to a small court first and then say that what that court said was not fair. This might change if the House and the Not-House say so.
All crimes are tried while some folks watch and pick the side they think is right. They are tried in the state where the crimes were, and if they did not take place in a state, the House and the Not-House get to pick a place for the court case to take place.
Three. To “stab us in the back” means to start a war with us, or to help the guys who we’re at war with, and give them aid. You can’t be charged with Stabbed in the Back if there were not at least two guys who saw it or you say that you did it to the court.
The House and the Not-House choose what they do to those who stab in the back. They can’t pick a thing to do that hurts more than “kill you” – that is, they can’t hurt you and your friends if they did not do the crime.
Part Four
One. Each state must trust all the states, what they do, and how their courts run. The House and the Not-House can make laws that say how those state acts and courts must work, and what that leads to.
Two. Folks who live in each state get all the rights of folks who live in the next state.
If you are tried of Stabbed in the Back, Big Crimes, or just a crime of some sort, and you run to a new state but get caught there, you must be sent back to court if the head of the state you ran from says so.
If you’re a slave in one state, and you run to a new state, you are sent back but can’t be freed by law. You’ll just be sent back to the folks you work for.
Three. We can gain new states by the House and the Not-House, but a state can’t be formed in a state, or from two or more states, or from parts of states, if the states that will lose land (and the House and the Not-House) don’t say it’s fine.
The House and the Not-House can make and take down all the rules of the lands that the Group of States owns. You can’t use this Rule Book in a way that is not fair to the Group of States or to one state.
Four. Each state must have a fair and free form of rule just like that of the Group of States, and the Group of States will save each state from troops that try to march in; and the Group of State can make laws, or the Guy-in-Charge can say if the House and Not-House don’t want to make laws, that save the states from war in the state.
Part Five
If two-thirds of each house thinks they should, they can make a Change to the Rule Book, or, if two-thirds of the states say so, can make a group of folks who come up with a Change or two, and the Change, in each case, is now just as though it was part of this Rule Book, once three-fourths of the states say so, or three-fourths of those groups say so, based on what the House and the Not-House say; no Change that takes place when it’s not yet the year One-Eight-Oh-Eight can change the part of this Rule Book that says we can take in slaves from far-off lands, or the part that says we can’t tax you per head if it is not based on the count that we take each ten years; and no Change can change the fact that each state gets the same count of seats in the Not-House.
Part Six
All debts and deals we made when we did not yet have this Rule Book are still good with this Rule Book.
This Rule Book, and the Laws that the Group of States makes on it, and the deals that the Group of States makes, are the high Law of the Land; each judge in each state is bound to those laws, but if the Rule Book or the laws of a state say not, then they are not.
The folks in the Not-House and the House, and the folks in each state’s own House and Not-House, and all folks for the Guy-in-Charge Branch and the Judge Branch, for the Group of States and each state, will be bound by an Oath to keep the Rule Book in mind; but there can not be a test of faith that you have to take to work for the Group of States.
Part Six-Plus-One
The day that nine or more states say this Rule Book is good, those states are now bound by the rules here.
Done by all of the states at a meet on day six-plus-one-plus-ten of the ninth month of the Year of Our Lord One-Six-plus-one-Eight-Six-plus-one and of the new and free Group of States, and we have signed here:
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Now that we’ve done it…
A bunch of states who said that the Rule Book is fine think we should make a change or two to stop some folks from use of this book in a way that is not fair: and when we make this Book more long, we will make it more good as well:
The House and the Not-House said that, or at least once two thirds of them said so, what we have here is a list of things we will Change in the Rule Book, and once three-fourths of states say so, they are part of the Rule Book;
They are parts that we chose to add, and that the states’ law branch said we could make, just as Part Five of the Rule Book said…
Change One
The House and the Not-House will make no laws of faith or gods, or stop you from your faith; or to stop you from free speech, or free press; or to not let you get in groups, or to not let you write to them and ask for a change.
Change Two
To keep us with good troops, which we need to keep this land free, we can’t stop you from the right to keep and bear arms.
Change Three
Troops can’t, in a time of peace, stay in a house if the guy who owns the house was not fine with it; in a time of war, they still can’t, but the House and the Not-House can change that last part.
Change Four
You get to keep your stuff, house, books, stuff you wrote, and things you did, and it shall not be searched if we don’t think you did some bad thing; we have to give the guys who search you an oath and tell them just what to search for and just where to search.
Change Five
If you are in court for a bad crime, you don’t have to talk, but you do if it’s in front of a Grand Group of Folks, but you don’t if it’s on the land or sea-based troops, or more troops, when they were at war; and we can’t charge you twice for the same crime; and you don’t have to speak if it might put you in jail, and we can’t take from you your life, or free state, or stuff, if a judge did not say so; and we can’t use your stuff for the rest of us if we don’t give you some things back.
Change Six
If you are to be in court for a crime, you get a right to a fast trial that we can all see, by a group of folks from the same state and place where the crime was, and we have to tell you why you’re in court, and you have the right to see the guys who chose to sue you, and the right to your own guys to help you out.
Change Six-plus-one
If there is a suit in which more than two tens bucks are at stake, you get a right to go to court with a group of folks, like in Change Six, and when that group tries a fact, no more courts can try to look at the fact and see if it’s true.
Change Eight
You don’t have to pay too much bail, or too much of a fine, or have to go do a cruel or weird thing to pay for what you’ve done.
Change Nine
We spoke of a lot of rights, but you can’t use those rights to try and stop folks from rights we did not speak of. You have rights that we have not said.
Change Ten
If this Rule Book does not give a job to the Group of States, and the Group of States says it’s fine, the job falls on the states, or the folks in those states.
Change Ten-and-one
The courts shall not be used to have a suit where a man in one of these states, or a far-off land, sues a state that he does not live in.
Change Twelve
So. We have a whole new way to pick the Guy-in-Charge.
The House and Not-House folks from each state will meet in their state and vote for Guy-In-Charge and Guy-In-Charge-Two – and they can’t both be from the state they live in. They will make a list of all the folks they chose for each role, and the count of votes each got, then mail that list to the head of the Not-House. He will read it out loud, and if one man got more than half the votes, he will be the Guy-in-Charge. If there is no one who got more than half, then they will vote once more with just the three folks who got the most votes, but this time each state gets just one vote. You must have at least two thirds of states to make this vote. And if they can not pick a Guy-in-Charge and it’s March fourth, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two acts as the Guy-In-Charge, as if he was dead. If one guy gets more than half the votes for Guy-in-Charge-Two, then he gets the job, but if there is no such man, then the Not-House votes from the top two folks who got the most votes. You must have at least two thirds of Not-House guys to make this vote, and to win, you must get more than half of all Not-House guys, not just the ones there, to vote for you.
If you can’t be the Guy-In-Charge, then you can’t be the Guy-In-Charge-Two.
Change Ten-and-three
One. You can’t keep slaves, nor may you have a guy who must work for you but does not want to, unless a judge said that it was fine since he did a crime. This is true in the Group of States and in each place that we own.
Two. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Ten-and-four
One. If you are born in the Group of States, or you were made by law to be “of the Group of States,” then you are from here. States may not make laws that take the rights from folks who are from here. They may not take your life, free state, or stuff (but if a court case said so, then it’s fine) and may not have a judge or court case that does not see all folks as the same from the eye of the law.
Two. The count of folks in the House from each state are based off of the count of all the folks in that state, but not the folks who have lived here for a long time and are not taxed. If a state does not let some count of men (who are more than two-tens and one years old) vote, and not just since they did a crime, then the count of folks in the House will go down in the same way.
Three. You may not be a guy in the House or Not-House, or a Guy-in-Charge or Guy-in-Charge-Two, or hold some post in charge of a state or part of the armed force, if you swore an oath to not stand by the Rule Book or the Group of States, or gave aid to those who have. The House and the Not-House can, with a vote of two thirds on both sides, take this rule out for one man.
Four. You can’t say that the debt that we owe, from all things we must pay, is wrong. But, the Group of States will not pay you for all the stuff you lost in that last big war – and that counts all your slaves. States will not pay you. All these debts do not count.
Five. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Ten-and-five
One. The right that folks have to vote must not be stopped by the Group of States, or by a state, just based on what your race is, what your skin is, or if you used to be a slave.
Two. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Ten-and-six
The House and the Not-House can tax the cash that you make, and we may not pay them back to each state in the same way. In fact, this tax does not have a thing to do with the count of folks in your state.
Change Ten-and-six-and-one
Each state gets two guys in the Not-House, and the folks from each state vote for them, and they get to keep their job for six years. If you can vote for the Not-House in your state, then you can vote for the big Not-House.
If a guy from the Not-House leaves his job, then the Guy-in-Charge branch of the state that he was from gets to pick a new guy: as long as the state has said that he can do that.
This change does not take place on the guys who were in the Not-House when we made this change.
Change Ten-and-eight
One. When one year has passed since we made this change, you may not make, sell, or move drinks (the kind that can get you drunk) through, to, or out of the Group of States or land that it owns.
Two. The House, the Not-House, and the states can use laws to keep this change.
Three. This change will not take place if it is not passed as a change, in the way the Rule Book says, in the six-and-one years since the House and Not-House sent this change to the states.
Change Ten-and-nine
The right that folks have to vote in the Group of States will not be stopped by the Group of States based just on their sex.
The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Two-tens
One. The terms of the Guy-in-Charge and the Guy-in-Charge-Two end at noon on the two-tenth day of the first month of the year, and the terms of those in the House or the Not-House end on the third day of the first month, in the same years as it has been; and this is when the terms of the next folks start.
Two. The House and the Not-House must meet once a year, and if it is once a year, then it will be the third day of the first month – but not if they, by law, pick a new day.
Three. If the Guy-In-Charge dies, but he has not yet been sworn in as Guy-in-Charge, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two takes his place. If there has been no choice of a Guy-in-Charge, or the Guy-in-Charge can’t have the job by some cause, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two takes his place for that time; and the House and the Not-House will, by law, tell what to do in the case that both the Guy-in-Charge and the Guy-in-Charge-Two can’t take the job. They will tell who is Guy-in-Charge or the way he should be picked, and he will be the Guy-in-Charge.
Four. If the House needs to pick a Guy-in-Charge, and then the guy they picked died, they may pass their own bills so that they know what to do next. The Not-House can do this too for the Guy-In-Charge-Two.
Five. Parts One and Two of this change start on the ten-and-fifth day of the tenth month of the year in which this change is made.
Six. If this change has not been passed in three fourths of the states by six-and-one years from now, then it will not be made.
Change Two-tens-and-one
One. Change Ten-and-eight to the Rule Book does not count.
Two. Still, you may not move drinks (the kind that get you drunk) through or to a state or other land that the Group of States owns, if it breaks the law.
Three. This change will not take place if it is not passed as a change, in the way the Rule Book says, in the six-and-one years since the House and Not-House sent this change to the states.
Change Two-tens-and-two
One. You can’t be picked for Guy-in-Charge more than twice, and you can’t act as Guy-in-Charge for more than two years when somebody else was picked for the job, then get picked for Guy-in-Charge more than once. This will not take place on the man who is Guy-in-Charge right now, and it won’t take place on the guy who is Guy-in-Charge (or the guy who acts as him) when this change is passed.
Two. If this change has not been passed in three fourths of the states by six-and-one years from now, then it will not be made.
Change Two-tens-and-three
One. The place where the head of the Group of States lives gets to pick their guys in the House and the Not-House in this way:
They get some count of guys in the House and Not-House as if they were a state – but not more than the state with the least folks in it. They will be there as well as the folks from the states; but when they vote for Guy-in-Charge, then they will act as though they were from a state. They will meet in the seat of the Group of States and act in the way Change Twelve told them to.
Two. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Two-tens-and-four
One. The right that folks have to vote in some vote for Guy-in-Charge or Guy-in-Charge-Two, or for folks in the House or Not-House, shall not be stopped or slowed by the Group of States or a state based on if they paid a poll tax or some type of tax.
Two. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Two-tens-and-five
One. If we did not make this clear: when the Guy-in-Charge does not have his job since he died, chose to quit, or was made to leave, the Guy-in-Charge-Two is the Guy-in-Charge.
Two. If there is no Guy-in-Charge-Two, then the Guy-in-Charge gets to pick a guy, and if he can pass both the House and the Not-House by a vote of more than half, then he is the new Guy-in-Charge-Two.
Three. If the Guy-in-Charge send a note to the heads of the House and the Not-House, and tells them that he is not fit to do his job, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two is the Guy-in-Charge – but the day that the Guy-in-Charge says he can do his job once more, he gets the job back.
Four. If the Guy-in-Charge-Two and more than half of a group (the Guy-in-Charge branch or some group that the House and the Not-House say) send a note to the heads of the House and the Not-House and say that the Guy-in-Charge should not have his job, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two is the Guy-in-Charge.
If the last Guy-in-Charge writes to the heads of the House and the Not-House to tell them that he can have his job, he takes back the job. But if the Guy-in-Charge-Two and more than half of that same group send a new note to the House and Not-House, and say that the Guy-in-Charge should not have his job, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two stays in charge and the House and the Not-House have two days to meet. If they, in the time of two-tens and one days once they meet, say by two-thirds vote (in both the House and the Not-House) that the Guy-in-Charge should not have his job, then the Guy-in-Charge-Two takes the job. If not, the Guy-in-Charge goes back to how he was.
Change Two-tens-and-six
One. The right that folks have to vote, who are at least ten-and-eight years old, should not be stopped or slowed by the Group of States or by a state based on age.
Two. The House and the Not-House can use laws to keep this change.
Change Two-tens-and-six-and-one
No law that will change the pay of those in the House or the Not-House will take place till the next vote for new folks in the House and Not-House.