The Bill that is our Founding Solution and our Call to Action
H.R. ____
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To establish the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States as binding law governing all federal action.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Preamble Enforcement Act."
SECTION 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States declares the exclusive purposes for which the Constitution was ordained and established by the sovereign people.
(2) The language "in order to" establishes the six goals of the Preamble as the stated and exclusive purposes of the federal government.
(3) The language "do ordain and establish" constitutes a binding sovereign act of the people, not merely an aspirational statement.
(4) The Supreme Court held in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) that the Preamble has not previously been treated as a source of enforceable legal obligation. Congress, exercising its authority under Article I and the Necessary and Proper Clause, hereby supplies the enforcement mechanism the plain meaning of the Preamble has always implied.
(5) Successive administrations and Congresses have enacted laws and pursued policies inconsistent with the Preamble's declared purposes, to the detriment of the American people.
(6) Making the Preamble's purposes enforceable will restore the government to its only authorized mission and provide citizens with a legal standard against which government action may be measured.
SECTION 3. DECLARATION OF LEGAL FORCE.
(a) IN GENERAL — The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States shall have the full force and effect of law, binding upon all three branches of the federal government and upon any entity acting under federal authority or receiving federal funds.
(b) STANDARD OF REVIEW — Every act of Congress, executive order, agency rule, regulation, or federal expenditure shall be measured against the six purposes declared in the Preamble:
(1) To form a more perfect union;
(2) To establish justice;
(3) To ensure domestic tranquility;
(4) To provide for the common defense;
(5) To promote the general welfare; and
(6) To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
(c) PRESUMPTION — Any federal action that demonstrably fails to serve one or more of the purposes enumerated in subsection (b) shall be presumed inconsistent with the authorized mission of the federal government and subject to challenge under this Act.
SECTION 4. CITIZEN STANDING.
Any citizen of the United States shall have standing to bring a civil action in federal court challenging any federal law, executive order, agency rule, or expenditure on the ground that it fails to serve the purposes declared in the Preamble, provided that:
(a) The citizen demonstrates that the challenged action has a concrete and particularized effect on their rights or welfare; and
(b) The action is not justified by any of the six enumerated purposes of the Preamble.
SECTION 5. ENFORCEMENT.
(a) JUDICIAL REVIEW — Federal courts shall have jurisdiction to review challenges brought under this Act and to strike down or enjoin federal actions found inconsistent with the Preamble's declared purposes.
(b) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT — Congress shall establish a Preamble Compliance Office within the Government Accountability Office to review proposed legislation for consistency with the Preamble's purposes before enactment.
(c) EXECUTIVE DUTY — The President shall include in each annual budget submission a certification that the proposed budget serves the six purposes of the Preamble, with explanation of how each purpose is served.
(d) SAVINGS CLAUSE — Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish any right secured by the Constitution or its Amendments.
SECTION 6. SEVERABILITY.
If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.
SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect upon enactment.
Pass This Bill and Restore Public Trust
Congressional approval has fallen to single digits in recent polling. Not because Americans have given up on their country — but because they have given up on institutions that have repeatedly failed to serve the mission they were given.
There is one act Congress can take that costs nothing in resources, requires no new bureaucracy, and delivers something no campaign promise or policy victory has managed to produce in decades.
Pass the Preamble Enforcement Act.
The founders authorized six goals as the only legitimate mission of this government. Making those goals the binding legal standard against which every law and policy is measured tells the American people something no speech can — that their government finally answers to the mission they gave it.
To any member of Congress who reads this: the bill is drafted. The constitutional case is made. The public mandate is being built one conversation at a time.
The member who sponsors this bill will be remembered as the one who gave the founders' mission statement the legal force it was always meant to carry.
That is not a small thing. That is a place in history.
Read the draft bill. Support the legal review. Make your voice heard.
About This Draft Bill — What It Is and What It Is Not
The bill posted on this page is a working draft. It represents the broadest possible version of what the First Principle Party aims to accomplish — making the Preamble to the Constitution the binding legal standard for all government action.
It was written in its broadest form deliberately. In legislative practice, a bill typically begins with the widest scope of its intended purpose, then gets narrowed through the review and negotiation process to what can actually pass while still accomplishing its core goal.
What this draft aims to accomplish — and what will not change:
The core purpose is fixed regardless of what the review process changes in the language — making the Preamble's six goals the enforceable legal standard against which every law, every policy, and every act of government is measured. That aim does not change.
What may change after constitutional attorney review:
The citizen standing provisions in Section 4 are the most legally vulnerable part of the bill. Current court doctrine on standing makes it difficult for citizens to challenge government action on broad constitutional grounds. Attorneys may recommend narrowing this section significantly or replacing it with a different enforcement mechanism.
The scope of entities covered in Section 3 — currently extending to any entity receiving federal funds — may need to be narrowed to federal government branches and agencies only to survive constitutional challenge.
The Preamble Compliance Office established in Section 5 may need more specific enabling language defining its authority, methodology, and relationship to existing GAO functions.
The presumption of non-compliance in Section 3(c) may face challenge as an unconstitutional shift of the burden of proof and may need to be reframed.
The breadth of judicial review in Section 5(a) may need to be limited to specific categories of government action rather than all federal laws and orders.
What you can do right now:
Read the draft bill and understand what it proposes. Share it with anyone who might help — constitutional attorneys, law professors, congressional staffers, or elected officials who care about accountability.
Support the legal review process through a donation. Attorney review is the necessary next step before this bill is ready for citizens to print and mail to their representatives.
When the reviewed and refined version is ready, it will replace this draft on the page and a printable PDF will be made available for anyone who wants to send it directly to their congressperson or senator.
The goal does not change. The language will be refined until it is ready to pass.
How the Government Preamble Compliance Number is computed.
The chart to the left is an example of how the First Principle Party proposes to measure any law, policy, or government program against the six goals of the Preamble to the Constitution.
Each of the first five goals is scored on a scale from −100 to +100. A negative score indicates the policy causes harm to that goal. Zero indicates a neutral effect. A positive score indicates genuine benefit. A policy must score strongly positive across all five goals to be considered compliant with the Preamble's mission.
Notice the sixth goal, Liberty achieved. This is not scored independently. It is the result of the first five goals working together. When union, justice, tranquility, defense, and welfare are genuinely served, liberty follows as the natural outcome. When they are not, liberty is diminished proportionally. The sixth goal is the measure of what the first five have actually produced.
The single GPCN score reflects both compliance with the Preamble's mission and the degree of liberty the American people are actually experiencing as a result.
This is a theoretical example. The First Principle Party intends that every significant government action be evaluated using this standard, publicly, transparently, and with documented justification for every score
Support the Work
If what you've read on this page resonates with you, here is how you can help move it forward.
The strongest thing you can do right now is buy the book — Breach of Contract: We the People v. The U.S. Government — available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. It makes the full constitutional case for everything you've seen on this page and puts the argument in a form you can share.
You can also support the work by buying a T-shirt or coffee mug, or by donating. Funds go directly toward the legal review needed to refine the draft bill into something ready for congressional submission, travel expenses for media interviews and public outreach, and the ongoing costs of building this movement.
Every contribution — large or small — advances the one goal this party exists to achieve: making the Preamble's mission the enforceable law it was always meant to be.