Ultimate Equal Rights Amendment

What would be the effects of this amendment to the United States Consitution being passed?

Article --; Rights Inviolable Regardless of Crisis, Emergency, or/and Status

1.) A sentient being is defined as a being who is self-aware or/and will or has been self-aware in the past or future.

2a.) All sentient beings born, created, or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No government under the United States shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens or/and legal residents of the United States or/and deprive any citizen of their citizenship; nor shall any government under the United States deprive any sentient being of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any sentient being within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

b.) This amendment shall not affect the interpretation of this Constitution in regards to abortion.

3.) Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex; sexual identity or/and orientation; race and/or national origin; age; religious beliefs; health and/or mental status, incuding genetics; disability; and/or association with organizations.

4.) Unless otherwise provided in this Article, the rights of the people and legal residents of the United States, as well as sentient beings, as enumerated by this Constitution, and by the Constitution of the United States, shall not be rescinded, waived, reduced, or violated, regardless of any national or regional condition of crisis or emergency, be it declared by the federal government or any agent or organ thereof.

5.) No person shall, within the United States, acting under the color of law or otherwise, deprive or reduce from any citizen or/and legal resident of the United States, as well as sentient beings, the rights enumerated by this Constitution, and the Constitution of the United States, in violation of any Section of this Article or this Constitution, regardless of any national or regional condition of crisis or emergency, be it declared by the federal government or any agent or organ thereof.

6.) The Congress shall have the power to enforce this Section with appropriate legislation.
 
Vampires, werewolves and other creatures can no longer be killed in self-defence. Artificial Intelligence computers can't be turned off.
 
Vampires, werewolves and other creatures can no longer be killed in self-defence. Artificial Intelligence computers can't be turned off.

Pss, only if they're sentient. I doubt a court would let you turn off a sentient computer today.

I do find it amsuing this statute till doesn't necessarily require gay marriage.
 
Pss, only if they're sentient. I doubt a court would let you turn off a sentient computer today.

I do find it amsuing this statute till doesn't necessarily require gay marriage.

3.) Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex; sexual identity or/and orientation; race and/or national origin; age; religious beliefs; health and/or mental status, incuding genetics; disability; and/or association with organizations.

I would think the bolded part would force gay marriage upon the states.
 
Does that mean that the US goverment can not lock up a plauge carrier? How would it affect a insanity defence? Does it affect dead people?
 

Sachyriel

Banned
Alright, you are all entertaining thoughts about a government 'granting' you rights. This amendment seems to say that the government, in times of emergency, cannot take them away.

Who is going to take that seriously?
 
Should children have the right to vote and hold public office? What about child prodigies?

The amendment doesn't rule out discrimination on the basis of astrology, numerology, phrenology, etc....:D
 
Remembre that TV show with the Alien Slave ship Landing in Nevada, and letting all the Newcomers out.
This sounds like it was passed after the Newcomers all moved to LA.

3.) Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied -Enlarged or abridged or Expanded by the United States or by any State on account of sex; sexual identity or/and orientation; race and/or national origin; age; religious beliefs; health and/or mental status, including genetics; disability; and/or association with organizations.
 
Does that mean that the US goverment can not lock up a plauge carrier? How would it affect a insanity defence? Does it affect dead people?

This doesn't affect locking up a carrier of some deadly disease, since part of this amendment is based on another passed amendment and that doesn't prevent this from happening. I don't think it affects an insanity defense, and dead people are not sentient.
 

TelClaven

Banned
Well, abortion just became unconstitutional.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Nice to see a final settlement to the argument.

EDIT: Whups, missed Section B.

Well, now it's internally inconsistant.
Fail.
 

1.) A sentient being is defined as a being who is self-aware or/and will or has been self-aware in the past or future.


That includes the Dead? No more inheritance for starters...


"will...in...future" is also a big problem of interpretation - an embryo is only going to be self-aware in the future, only if the future turns out a certain way. If is aborted artificially, or dies of natural miscarriage/death, etc., it wouldn't fall under this law....

etc
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
This amendment clearly would NOT extend rights to such entities as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, as they would probably not classify as "sentient beings."
 
3.) Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex; sexual identity or/and orientation; race and/or national origin; age; religious beliefs; health and/or mental status, incuding genetics; disability; and/or association with organizations.

I would think the bolded part would force gay marriage upon the states.

Gays are free to marry any woman they please, just like the rest of us.
 
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