Amendments to the Constitution that are needed now for Congressional Reform!

Now, we all know that congress isn't going to do what's needed to fix the issues on Capital Hill as they like the system as it is.  What will have to happen is for the States to amend the Constitution and thereby bypassing Congress all together!  By the way, exactly as the founders designed it to be.  That states convention clause allowing the states to amend the Constitution all on their own is exactly the check and balance to Congress and its corruption!  The states simply have to have the stones to step to the plate and hit the ball.

These are in no particular order and would need tweaking by others to make the letter of the law match its intention.  However, here are my ideas on fixing DC.

1. Any federal law that at least one third of the states oppose on the grounds of constitutionality become immediately "ripe" for submission to the Supreme Court for adjudication.  Many times laws are made that anyone with half a brain can see is not constitutional but until someone has "standing" the law cannot be challenged.  Let's not wait till someone is affected by an unconstitutional law before it can be stopped.
2. All bills in Congress can only have amendments (riders, attachments, extensions, whatever term you want to use for adding something to a bill after it's been created) added to the bill that have DIRECT affect to the bill being submitted.  i.e. you can't attach an appropriation for military body armor onto a bill for a new interstate road project or vice-versa, etc.  If one person is buying a house and at the closing table the two parties forgot to specify in the contract that the seller must add an outside access door to the garage, then they would add a rider to the contract to handle that omission and not draw up a new contract.  It has something to do with the sale of the house and that's what a rider to a contract is for.  But you don't add a rider that has nothing to do with the sale of the house, if you did, it would be laughed off the contract at the closing table.  This amendment would be just that.  This will stop most pork projects as now pork is "hidden" in the bills or tacked onto a bill they know no one will vote against!  Pork is simply wrong and if any pet projects are to be enacted into law or funded, let them be voted on in a bill to themselves.  Let the Congress stand on it's record.  If you want a bridge to no where in your state then it has to be on its own bill and voted up or down on its merits!  No more hiding within the coat tails of any other bill.       p.s. This will also keep bills from being 3000 pages long, etc.!
3. No entity can be exempted or waived from a law.  If it's a law for one then it's a law for all.  Especially the federal government!  How do you pass a law then have exceptions for some people to not have to follow that law?  
4. No bill can be "tabled" in either house of congress without 75% approval.  If a bill is submitted it needs to be voted on!  I thought about the 75% thing for an obvious crack pot bill that doesn't deserve the time of day.  So, if it's a truly nonsense bill then it can be tabled and not waste time but NOT because the leader of that house of Congress doesn't want to put the bill to vote and let his/her people not have to put their vote on record!    Similarly we need the language to do the same things for bills in "committee" but I don't have the language for it.  Someone please comment on how to word it!  It's a shame that opponents of a bill can "kill it in committee" and not have to go on record that they oppose it!
5. Any member of congress that is convicted of a criminal felony is immediately removed from congress and a new representative is to be chosen in accordance with that state's laws regarding either appointment or special election and no person convicted of a felony can ever hold congressional office.  If convicted, in addition to removed from congress, the representative also loses all employment benefits of that office including health care and retirement benefits.  This one is a no-brainer.  How can the people we elect to govern and create laws be allowed to still serve after they break them?  Congressman Rangel from NY comes to mind.  How can he remain in congress when he broke the very laws he chairs the committee on in the house???  I'm so tired of these crooks wiggling out of crimes and not being punished!  
6. Campaign contributions for legal entities such as corporations and unions, etc. are treated as an individual citizen and cannot exceed that of a citizen.  Any campaign advertisement must be factual in nature and false or misleading campaign ads will be a criminal felony for prosecution.  Offending ads would by law be immediately pulled from circulation or airing until determination of the offense has been made in court.   If a living breathing person has a limit on what he/she can contribute to a political campaign, then why does a corporation or a union or any other group get to contribute more???  Similarly, how can you see 2 opposing political ads on TV where one is saying the exact polar opposite of the other and one not be lying?  Difference of Opinion, cool but when the issue is stated as facts, then it must be factual! 

We are the ones that have allowed the people we sent to congress to become or continue being crooks!  We are the one that have to stop it.  I really don't care that they all get rich while in office as they will always find a way to do that.  I just wish they would truly put the country's best interest at heart.  They can do both.  I don't care if it's a D or R or I after their names, or who gets the credit, just do what is best for the country!  There is always different opinions to a possible solution.  Work it out for the good of the country and not to see which sides "wins the game" politically. STOP TREATING NATIONAL ISSUES LIKE IT'S A BASKETBALL GAME.  WE DON'T CARE WHO "WINS" YOUR POLITICAL GAME!  WE WANT PROGRESS FOR THE COUNTRY COMING OUT OF DC.  Simple as that!