Bill Hammons Platform

The Hammons Presidential Platform

By all means feel free to compare my below 2028 platform with my 2024 Presidential platform (and any other previous/past positions you might find out there on the web) and ask me about any supposed discrepancies.

And as you struggle to find any changes that con’t be chalked up to positions naturally evolving to fit the facts changing on the ground, you’ll be forced to conclude that Bill Hammons has been standing by what he says in a remarkably consistent manner, in some cases stretching all the way back to the 80s (my first novel, Evening Star, a work of science fiction written the summer of 1989 when I was 15, was partly about Climate Change).

Expand the United States by 2028

Per the Unity Party’s Unitist philosophy, the remarkably successful experiment that’s been the United States of America (successful at least until a madman hijacked it) should be shared with the world through a peaceful expansion of the number of states with a corresponding increase in representation in the House and Senate. The Romans managed up to 600 Senators; imagine a new Capital in Colorado (see below) with a Senate of similar size as well as a US House representing 300+ United States around the globe working in peace and harmony …

Balanced Budget Amendment

As I’ve been saying for decades, giving childish and pandering politicians a blank check for buying their votes with public money should be outlawed with a Balanced Budget Amendment. As of this typing, the current US national debt is over $36,000,000,000,000.00; that’s over $100,000.00 that every man, woman and child in the United States will have to pay off at some point, not even accounting for the $2,000,000,000.00 in interest that’s accruing as a result of that debt on a daily basis. Let’s outlaw deficit spending with the obvious provisions for a gradual ratcheting down of debt limits so as to not harm the economy, and allowances for national emergencies.

Federal Term Limits

To battle the insidious advantages of incumbency, Senators should be limited to two six-year terms, US Representatives to four two-year terms and Presidents to two non-consecutive terms (if a President wants to act like a lawless tyrant, let him spend four years with the shoe on the other foot). Supreme Court Justices should also be capped at twenty years on the that bench; Justices are not Popes and should retire in an orderly manner.

Outlawing of Gerrymandering

I’ve been advocating the outlawing of gerrymandering (the drawing of legislative districts along partisan lines) for decades, and made sure, as the author of the party’s original constitution, that an anti-gerrymandering position (Amendment XII) was included as part of the party platform from the very beginning. As of this writing (in late 2025), the national trend between the two-party duopoly is a tit-for-tat escalation of meeting gerrymandering with more gerrymandering. This is just flat wrong; an amendment to the US Constitution mandating the drawing of all legislative district lines in the United States, at all levels, by panels of retired judges, needs to be passed, and the same amendment needs to outlaw any attempts to redraw lines more than once every 10 years, after the latest census (with commonsense provisions for major shifts in population distribution).

Cap the Court

Yes, I’m a huge fan of amending our beloved Constitution, which quite rightly includes reasonable (and rightly challenging) methods for amending that sacrosanct document. The size of the Supreme Court should be expanded to, but capped at, 13 justices, with the Chief Justice only voting to break a tie. The nation’s highest court has zigzagged too far and too often between the political extremes over the years, and, when combined with the proposal to cap service for Supreme Court Justices at 20 years, such a reform would (if implemented as of this writing in late 2025) result in three overly conservative justices being replaced with (hopefully) commonsense Centrists more interested in constructive solutions versus political games and being joined by four additions to the Court to create a stable majority on the Court for the following twenty years and longer.

The National Clemency Commission

The Presidential pardon power has been abused more frequently and more flagrantly with every new administration for decades and decades now. Our federal system of checks and balances needs to be strengthened by amending the US Constitution to take the power of pardons out of the President’s hands and placing that power in the National Clemency Commission composed of 100 elder statespeople from across the political spectrum, with a clear mandate to only right gross injustices and avoid political favoritism.

Other Hammons platform positions (to be expanded upon later):

1. Fight the Fight in Ukraine

2. Airtight & Efficient Medicare for All

3. Swap Sanity for Tariffs and Taxes

4. Outlaw Property Taxes

5. Move the Capital to Colorado

6. Q: Cannabis/Marijuana? A: Critter Milton

7. Put William’s Wager into proctice

8. Grant Citizenship based on SATs

9. Send illegal African immigrants back to Africa (starting with Musk)

10. Seize Elon’s ill-gotten gains for USA

11. Fix the Windows Broken by Trump

12. Hold American Nürnberg after ‘28

13. Establish American AI Safeguards