Twenty-Eighth Amendment Right of Civic Delegation

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, having attained the age of majority, to enter into a Civic Delegation Agreement by which that citizen delegates to a Qualified Civic Arbitration Entity the exercise of rights secured by this Constitution, including the right to vote in any federal, State, or local election, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State, provided that such agreement is made freely and knowingly, is documented in the manner Congress shall by law prescribe, and is executed before a tribunal constituted as Congress shall by law provide.

Section 2. A Civic Delegation Agreement executed in conformity with this Article and the laws enacted pursuant thereto shall be valid and enforceable in all courts of the United States and of the several States. No court shall void, suspend, or modify such an agreement on the basis that the rights delegated are of constitutional dimension, that the delegation is permanent or irrevocable except by mutual consent of the parties, or that the citizen’s preferences or circumstances have changed subsequent to execution. Judicial review of a Civic Delegation Agreement shall extend only to the question of whether the procedural requirements of this Article and applicable federal law were satisfied at the time of execution.

Section 3. Congress shall by law establish the criteria by which an entity may be recognized as a Qualified Civic Arbitration Entity for purposes of this Article, addressing at minimum the financial capacity of such entity to fulfill its obligations, the procedural standards governing its decisions affecting delegating citizens, its record-keeping and transparency obligations to the federal government, and the conditions under which its qualified status may be suspended or revoked. No provision of this Article shall be construed to require a Qualified Civic Arbitration Entity to disclose its internal assessment methodologies or decision-making processes, nor to authorize the federal government to direct or override the substantive decisions of such an entity with respect to any individual agreement.

Section 4. A citizen who has executed a valid Civic Delegation Agreement encompassing the delegation of voting rights shall be deemed to have voted in any election in which the Qualified Civic Arbitration Entity exercises that citizen’s franchise on their behalf. The aggregate exercise of delegated franchises by a Qualified Civic Arbitration Entity shall not constitute a violation of any federal law governing the concentration of electoral influence, provided that each individual delegation was executed in conformity with this Article.

Section 5. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to permit the delegation of a citizen’s right to be free from torture, cruel and unusual punishment, or summary execution, nor to permit the delegation of rights held on behalf of minor children who have not themselves executed a Civic Delegation Agreement pursuant to this Article. No Civic Delegation Agreement shall be enforceable with respect to any decision that directs a citizen to commit an act constituting a felony under federal law, except as Congress may by law provide with respect to citizens serving in military, law enforcement, or Civic Role functions established under applicable federal statute.

Section 6. Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation.