When we published our term limits amendment, we made a promise: we'd keep drafting common-sense constitutional amendments and publish each one on its own, so you could take up whichever fight matters most to you. Today we're making good on that—three more amendments at once, and a new home for all of them. Everything now lives on our rebuilt amendments hub: the balanced-budget pair, congressional term limits, and the three new drafts below. Every one of them is written the same way—around its safeguards, honest about the trade-offs, and built to actually pass and hold up in court.
1. The Single-Subject Rule: One Bill, One Subject
Here's how Washington actually makes law: a thousand-page bill drops the night before a vote, stuffed with provisions that have nothing to do with each other, and unpopular measures ride to passage buried inside must-pass funding bills nobody has time to read. A single-subject rule ends that game—every bill has to stick to one subject, clearly stated in its title.
This isn't a novel experiment: 43 states already require single-subject bills in their own constitutions. We borrowed the deferential "germane / reasonably connected" standard that has worked at the state level for over a century, so the rule kills smuggled riders without letting judges second-guess every ordinary bill—and it keeps a workable carve-out for appropriations. Read it and take action on the single-subject rule page.
2. Supreme Court Term Limits: 18 Years, Not a Lifetime
A seat on the Supreme Court is the most powerful un-elected job in America, and it's a lifetime appointment with no limit—so the timing of a single death or a strategic retirement can reshape the country for a generation. Our fix is eighteen-year staggered terms with a permanent nine-seat cap.
The math is the whole pitch: with nine seats, an eighteen-year term produces exactly one vacancy every two years, so every President gets the same two appointments per term. Justices move to senior status rather than being removed—which squares the reform with the Constitution's "good Behaviour" tenure—and a hard nine-seat cap blocks court-packing by either party. Today's Justices are fully grandfathered, with the Court capped at twelve during a transition so it never balloons. The 2021 Presidential Commission found term limits had the most bipartisan support of any reform it studied. Read it on the Supreme Court term limits page.
3. No More Government Shutdowns
A government shutdown is self-inflicted dysfunction that never lands on the people who cause it: non-essential workers get furloughed and then paid anyway, essential workers are forced to work without pay, the public loses services it already paid for—and Congress keeps drawing its salary the whole time. Our amendment flips that.
If Congress misses the budget deadline, funding automatically continues at last year's levels—no lapse, no furloughs, no shuttered services. The pressure moves onto Congress: while the government runs on autopilot, neither chamber can adjourn more than three days, can't take up other business, and doesn't get paid until it passes a real budget. We're honest on one point: we softened the pay provision from forfeited to delayed to make it passable, and we explain exactly why on the page. Read it on the no-shutdown page.
A New Home—and What Comes Next
Five amendments is enough that they needed a real home, so we rebuilt the amendments page into a proper hub—every draft in one place, each with its own page, explainer, and downloadable text. And this is where we're headed next: the hub is built to grow beyond amendments, into proposed legislation Congress could pass tomorrow and a running list of executive orders that need to be changed or repealed. Same standard for all of it—real solutions, honestly built, not just critique.
What You Can Do
Every amendment page gives you the same toolkit: the full proposed text, a plain-language explainer, and a one-page summary as downloadable Word documents; links to look up your U.S. Representative and Senators; and a ready-to-send letter you can make your own. Amendments start in Congress, and that first step is the one your own representatives control—which is exactly where public pressure works best.
Pick the fight that matters most to you, read the draft, and send it to your member of Congress. That's how ideas that have been stuck for decades finally start to move.