What if the entire government believed in the golden rule? 

What if the government did not do unto the governed what it would not want the governed to do to them?

Please help me amend the US Constitution and embed the golden rule into public policy because "Love, the Golden Rule, is the means to balance the moral order of tradition and the progressive hopes of human dignity. Prof. Jeffrey R. Baker.

 

Our Founding Fathers declared that the government of the United States of America will be of the people, for the people, and by the people. We fought for our independence from, and drafted an indictment of, a King who created laws and decrees against which it itself was exempt. Despotism was wrong and immoral then, and it is wrong and immoral now.

No one in any branch of the federal or state government should be exempt from or above any law or regulation. The Congressional Accountability Act is not enough. The Executive branch should not create or enforce rules its own Cabinet and agency staff is not subject to. Judicial immunity, rooted in the English common law idea that "the King can do no wrong," should not be unlimited.

 

Sovereign immunity at any level of government should not thrive and cannot go unchecked. The People must always have standing when a government servant acts maliciously. America was founded on the ultimate regard for the welfare of humanity and the edification of the United States as a single community. America’s standard of justice demands that there be no existence of a ruling class. Government accountability is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.

The People continue to grieve for the treatment of men and women equally.  America does not simply need more laws or more enforcement. Those who govern need more guidance. The United States Constitution should be amended again.

 

The Founding Fathers anticipated the need for amendment, allowed for it in the Constitution itself, and prescribed the procedure. If they were around today, they would vote for the Golden Rule Amendment because it defines what they meant when they described a government “for the people.”  They established a constitution to “establish Justice,” and “insure domestic Tranquility,” and “promote the general Welfare.”

The Golden Rule Amendment does that. 

 

What is commonly known as “the golden rule” is part of the historical and cultural basis for our concept of human rights, in which everyone has both a right to just treatment, and a reciprocal responsibility to ensure justice for others.  The golden rule is the idea that we should treat others as we would want to be treated. It’s found and valued in religious, atheistic, agnostic, secular, and humanist traditions.  The golden rule can itself guide us in identifying which differences in a situation are morally and ethically relevant. Yet, the Golden Rule Amendment transcends the need for law and order. It can instruct and define justice, and its calculation, and speak to how we should define fair dealing amongst ourselves.

 

The Golden Rule Amendment affirms that the Government shall not do unto the governed what it would not want the governed to do to them.  Here is its text:

 

No State or Branch of the Government shall adjudicate, or make, or administer a law or regulation that applies to the People but does not apply equally to them; and, no State or Branch of the Government shall adjudicate, or make, or administer a law or regulation that applies to them that does not apply equally to the People. The Courts shall have a reasonable, reciprocal responsibility to ensure justice for all.