This is historical material “frozen in time”. The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work.

Support an amendment to the United States Constitution requiring Senate confirmation hearings for presidential nominees.

Created by M.K. on March 15, 2016

AMENDMENT XXVIII

Section 1: Article Two, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution is hereby void.

Section 2: The President shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and the Senate shall vote to confirm, and with said confirmation shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

Government & Regulatory Reform
Return to top