It needs a few amendments:
* Congress shall pass only such budgets as clearly demarcate the expenditures, and provide revenue for them all. No budget shall be considered thus balanced which draws upon any fund established by law, or any revenues designated to any such fund or to a particular purpose, in order to provide revenues for the whole budget.
No emergency funding bills shall be passed, except there be attached new sources of revenue sufficient to the funding.
In case of declared war, Congress may incur debt for the expenses thereof, but not without establishing in law a plan for repayment.
* In all cases of trial for a crime, except in matters of plain and accepted moral values, ignorance of the law shall constitute a positive defense.
* Save in matters of national security, in any conflict of law that argument which most strongly defends or establishes individual liberty shall prevail.
* The right of self-defense shall not be infringed or fettered. The level of force for resisting attack or the invasion of home or business, or in coming to the aid of a victim of crime against person, shall be at the discretion of the defender.
* The total number of non-military employees of the United States, including those working on contract to the government for specific services, shall not exceed 1% of the population of the United States.
* No member of the House of Representatives shall be permitted more than two consecutive terms. A Representative who serves one term may return after one term of absence; a Representative who serves two may not return until two terms have passed.
No one shall serve as a Senator except having first worked in the private sector at least as many years as the term being sought. Years in the private sector count only once.
* No bill presented to the President for consideration shall address more than one topic. If the President determines that a second topic has been address by some particular portion of a bill, he shall excise that portion and return it to the house in which it originated.
* No document generated by the executive branch or any agency of the United States may be classified secret except with the approval of three members of each house of Congress, two of which members shall be of the opposite party of the President.
* Each state shall be entitled to at least two representatives in the House. A second Representative to which a state may be entitled by this amendment shall not count under the limitation on representatives in Public Law 62-5.
* Every resident of the United States and its territories is guaranteed the right of freedom of association.
* No life shall be taken for the commission of a crime, save by the victim of a person defending the victim, or in case of mass murder, where the identity is confirmed by two or more witnesses and corroborated by the best available forensic technology.
* In suits at common law, of one citizen or group of citizens against another such, the free choice of the complainant to engage in the action from which harm is alleged, shall be a strong defense.
* When at the end of a fiscal year, the United States has a budget surplus, those funds shall be used to pay down any debt, and if there is no debt, be put into a trust held for funding emergency responses to national disasters.
* If any property be seized in connection with a crime, the state must prove that the property was the result of gain from that crime, or the property must be returned, with interest, and in good condition.
* No communication between two citizens of the United States or any territory thereof may be monitored in any fashion, save by lawful order of a court, and by cause of suspicion of threat to the security of the United States.
I think that covers my current list. For fun, try to decide how many of those grow out of the abuses of the last dozen years of government.
