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    The Second Must Go: A Manifesto for Revamping the Constitution of the United States of America
    The Second Must Go: A Manifesto for Revamping the Constitution of the United States of America
    The Second Must Go: A Manifesto for Revamping the Constitution of the United States of America
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    The Second Must Go: A Manifesto for Revamping the Constitution of the United States of America

    By Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi

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    This booklet proposes and discusses nine amendments to the Constitution of the United States, including Electoral College, qualifications and terms in office for presidency and congress, death penalty, gun control, abortion, religious belief, and national language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 26, 2017
    ISBN9781524694043
    The Second Must Go: A Manifesto for Revamping the Constitution of the United States of America
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    Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi

    Piergiorgio L. E. (George) Uslenghi is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published extensively on electromagnetism, acoustics, optics, and applied mathematics. He enjoys scientific research, classical music, travel, and occasionally, political activity.

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      The Second Must Go - Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi

      © 2017 Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/10/2017

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-9405-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-9404-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908380

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      This booklet is dedic

      ated

      To my wife Shelly

      To our children Amy, Silvia, Paolo and Raven

      And to our grandchildren Spencer, Alistair, Clayton, Clara, Julianna and Olivia

      With the fervent hope that the Amendments proposed herein

      Be adopted during their lifetime

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      The Electoral College

      The President: Qualifications and Terms of Office

      The U.S. Congress: Election and Terms of Office

      Death Penalty

      Gun Control

      Abortion

      Federal Law and Religious Belief

      Education and Health

      National Language

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      INTRODUCTION

      The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional

      Justice Hugo L. Black,

      United States Supreme Court

      As an immigrant who came to the United States from Italy in 1961, this country has offered me many opportunities – for work, for education, and for community life. It was a privilege to become a naturalized citizen in 1982. Most of my professional life has been devoted to teaching and scientific research in engineering, applied mathematics and physics – first at the Polytechnic of Turin in Italy, then at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and for the past forty-seven years at the University of Illinois in Chicago, where I still work part-time after my retirement. So why would I want to write about revamping the Constitution of the United States?

      During the fifty-six years that I have lived in the States, I have observed the Civil Rights movement; the Cuban missile crisis; the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X; the war in Vietnam; the landing

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