LEGISLATIVE  BLUEPRINT 

Under legislation  for  the  National  Alliance  Reform Act  (NARA)  that the Trans-American Alliance for a National Consensus (TANC) is proposing as a new 28th Amendment to the Constitution, TANC is being positioned as a complementary, binding “fourth branch” of the U.S. government.

 

Essentially, as illustrated under  "Organizational Structure," TANC would set a legislative bill-making agenda that can work in tandem with the established Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of the federal government.  However, the students ("Delegates") and scholars ("Counsels") of TANC can choose to unilaterally set their own separate committees and bill-making agendas.

 

On the whole, TANC's "primary interaction" will be with the Legislative and Executive branches of government.  TANC is expected to have only "secondary interaction" with the Judicial Branch, with the Supreme Court and other federal courts largely left on their own to rule on legislation pertaining to the interpretation of constitutional law.   However, TANC could interact with the Judicial Branch based on the creation or reform of laws as they relate to constitutional questions.

 

Ultimately, if a TANC-authored bill gains passage internally (with at least two-thirds or more than 66 percent assembly passage), it is then submitted to both houses of Congress and the President of the United States for passage.  If either houses of Congress vote down the bill, or if the President vetoes it outright, TANC will then be able to call for a "National Electorate Referendum" to be attached to regularly-scheduled primary or general elections nationally.  If more than 51 percent of the electorate votes in the affirmative for the TANC bill, it then automatically becomes enacted into federal law.
  

                       PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART