Texas Republican Rick Perry Radical Right Wing American Constitution Proposals and Other Crazies

1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution.
2. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a two-thirds vote.
3. Scrap the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.
4. End the direct election of senators by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment.
5. Require the federal government to balance its budget every year.
6. The federal Constitution should define marriage as between one man and one woman in all 50 states.
7. Abortion should be made illegal throughout the country.

Other crazies

• Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional: Perry believes that the Constitution forbids a “federally operated program of pensions” and “a federally operated program of health care,” a position that would not only eliminate Social Security and Medicare, but would also eliminate other health care programs such as Medicaid for the poor and SCHIP for children.
• Federal environmental laws are unconstitutional “nonsense”: In an interview with Glenn Beck, Perry claimed that the idea that the federal government can require action to “clean our air is really nonsense.”
• Bankrupting the federal government: In a recently published book, Perry writes that “[t]he American people mistakenly empowered the federal government during a fit of populist rage in the early twentieth century by giving it an unlimited source of income (the Sixteenth Amendment).” It’s no surprise that a contender for the GOP presidential nomination is anti-tax, but Perry’s blanket opposition to federal income taxes — which are authorized by the Sixteenth Amendment — would make it virtually impossible to fund Social Security, Medicare, or the U.S. military.
• Democracy is a mistake: In the same book, Perry also opposes the Seventeenth Amendment, which requires senators to be chosen by an election and not by political insiders.
• Texas may secede: Perhaps most infamously of all, Perry once suggested that if the federal government doesn’t do what he wants, Texas may have to secede from the union entirely.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/23/nation/la-na-perry-constitution-20110823
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/15/295496/five-crazy-things-rick-perry-thinks-about-the-constitution/
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/for-a-guy-who-says-he-likes-the-constitution-rick-perry-sure-wants-to-change-it-a-lot/