Mission Statement: Equal Justice – Freedom and the 28th Amendment Movement

Equal Justice – Freedom exists to promote, strengthen, and advance public support for a proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our mission is to help build a broad, bipartisan movement focused on expanding real constitutional protections, improving access to justice, protecting individual freedom, strengthening public safety, defending property rights, preserving personal wealth, and improving quality of life for the American people.

A Bipartisan Movement for Constitutional Protection

The 28th Amendment cannot succeed as a narrow partisan cause. To be proposed and ratified, it will require support from both parties of governance and from people across the political spectrum. The constitutional amendment process is intentionally demanding: amendments are generally proposed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. For that reason, this movement must be built on issues capable of gaining broad public agreement and durable national support.

Because our goal is ratification, Equal Justice – Freedom does not make highly debated political subject matter the foundation of this movement or this website. Those topics may be discussed separately in the blog or report sections, but the purpose of this page is to stay focused on shared concerns: the threats that affect daily life, freedom, safety, economic stability, property, access to justice, and the ability of ordinary people to live securely and participate meaningfully in their own government.

A Living Document Shaped by Public Participation

This proposed 28th Amendment is a living document. That means public participation can affect the wording, direction, edits, and final draft that may eventually be presented for national debate. Several sections of this website are designed to request, receive, and use direct public participation in the process of developing the strongest possible amendment language.

We understand that once the 28th Amendment enters congressional debate, the final language may look very different from the version originally presented. That is why public involvement matters. Only through organized influence, reasoned participation, and continued support can the people help shape an amendment that expands freedom, strengthens protection, and truly serves the public interest.

Membership is important because members can help influence the amendment, support proposed language, request edits, maintain support, or withdraw support if future changes no longer reflect the purpose of the movement. The process for proposed edits is described in the proposed edits section of this webpage under the “Sign the Petition” heading.

Our Primary Campaign: Equal and Realistic Access to Justice

Our primary campaign is equal and realistic access to the judicial process and the courts. We believe the current court system has developed into an environment that too often excludes ordinary people, permits substantial bias, and creates conditions where theft, fraud, and unequal treatment can occur without meaningful correction. The goal of the 28th Amendment movement is to transform the outdated court structure of yesterday into a modern, highly efficient, transparent, and non-biased judicial process.

We support a judicial process capable of using modern tools, including artificial intelligence, to help identify guilt or liability with far greater accuracy, transparency, and consistency. The purpose is not to replace justice with technology, but to improve the ability of the system to identify truth, reduce error, expose bias, and protect the innocent while holding the liable or guilty accountable.

In the current judicial process, transparency is often limited. In many situations, the answer delivered to the people may be little more than a single word, with little explanation from a system too old and too closed to meet the needs of modern society. Even worse is the lack of realistic access. When self-represented litigants face a claimed loss rate of approximately 96%, the system appears mathematically failed for ordinary people seeking to defend their rights without expensive counsel.

When people are sold access to a process that is practically unavailable to them, the result can resemble fraud in function: a system appears to offer justice while ordinary citizens cannot realistically obtain it. The 28th Amendment movement seeks to remedy this failure by creating enforceable protections for meaningful access to the civil process, transparency in judicial decisions, and separation between judicial powers and police powers.

Protecting Rights in Civil and Criminal Proceedings

Once we recognize that citizens may lack true, legitimate, and equal access to the civil process, we must also recognize that the danger can be even greater in the criminal process. Reports of arbitrary imprisonment and wrongful punishment raise urgent questions about whether the justice system is reliably punishing the right people. A modern constitutional protection must support careful, clinical, evidence-driven trials rather than the hit-and-miss outcomes of outdated court practices.

We are asking for court audits and judicial reports, including reports from self-represented litigants, so the public can better understand how the system is functioning. If the judicial system has evidence that rebuts these concerns, it should provide that evidence. It is troubling that reliable statistics on self-represented litigant outcomes are not already widely available. A court system that affects constitutional rights should be willing and able to measure its own performance.

If a person cannot afford to defend constitutional rights, then those rights may exist only in theory. When it can cost between $50,000 and $100,000 to defend constitutional rights in a country where many people earn far less than that in a year, access to justice becomes unreachable for too many citizens. Equal Justice – Freedom is determined to change that reality.

Additional Protections Sought Through the 28th Amendment

The 28th Amendment movement does not stop with court access. It also seeks protections against urban isolation, where unnecessary rules and regulations can raise the cost of living, increase housing costs, restrict land use, and make it harder for people to live freely outside dense urban environments. We believe constitutional protection should guard against government practices that trap populations economically or geographically through excessive regulation.

The movement also raises concerns about questionable asset transfers, roadside forfeiture activity, and other practices that may threaten property rights, personal wealth, and public trust. The proposed 28th Amendment is therefore a complex series of protective rights intended to strengthen the protection, security, happiness, and quality of life of the people.

How We Will Build Support

Equal Justice – Freedom will use public support to spread the message of the 28th Amendment and generate as much national attention as possible. Our goal is to attract the attention of senators and representatives from both parties so the proposed amendment can be raised, discussed, debated, and improved whenever possible.

We may organize writing campaigns, email campaigns, petition efforts, public education initiatives, opinion polls, and other lawful forms of passive persuasion to encourage political support. Because ratification requires broad public agreement, every supporter matters. We need citizens to participate, offer opinions, propose edits, report judicial experiences, and debate the sections of the proposed 28th Amendment in good faith.

How You Can Participate

• Become a member so you can help influence the direction and wording of the proposed amendment.
• Sign the petition and review the proposed edits process.
• Offer your opinion through public opinion polls.
• Submit proposed edits to the draft language of the 28th Amendment.
• Share your judicial experience, especially if you have appeared as a self-represented litigant.
• Participate in respectful debate through the blog and amendment discussion sections.
• Support writing and email campaigns designed to encourage bipartisan political attention.

Why This Mission Matters

Some may believe the 28th Amendment is a long shot. But for many ordinary citizens, filing and winning a complex civil complaint in state court as a self-represented litigant may feel like an even longer shot. If the odds of meaningful justice are lower than the odds of constitutional reform, then reform is not only worth pursuing; it is necessary.

Our mission is to give the people a stronger voice, a clearer path, and a more realistic chance to protect their rights. Through Equal Justice – Freedom, we seek to build a bipartisan, citizen-driven movement for a 28th Amendment that expands freedom, strengthens justice, protects property, improves transparency, and helps secure a better life for present and future generations.

Join Us On This Mission!