Given that liars and cheaters always want to rewrite history, and transparency in government is crucial to a well functioning democracy, I propose:

The Library Amendment

All museums, monuments, the National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress, Copyrights, Patents, and governmental record keeping shall be separated from the other governmental branches into its own co-equal LIBRARY branch of government. All records from other branches of government must be filed, in a timely fashion, with the LIBRARY branch for archiving.

The LIBRARY shall be responsible for maintaining and preserving the records reflecting the history of the country, and dispensing that information to the public in the form of copies, reports, pamphlets, books, audio, video and any other compilations and media that is desirable or required by law.

The LIBRARY shall be run by the Librarian and the Assistant Librarian. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be responsible for receiving nominations for Librarian and counting votes for Librarian but shall have no other role. The Librarian shall be appointed by majority vote of all Federal District Judges for a single 11-year term. The Librarian shall select the Assistant Librarian, and the Assistant Librarian shall become the Librarian if the Librarian is unable to complete their 11-year term.
The LIBRARY duties must be performed in an impartial, purely majority-of-the-evidence fashion. To do otherwise is a breach of the Librarian’s Oath of Office and cause for removal/dismissal from any office of the Library.

Classified documents may be withheld for no longer than 95 years or until de-classified by Congress, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice, the President or the Librarian, whichever comes first.

The LIBRARY may be sued in Federal Courts for improperly withheld records or if dispensed information is believed to be incorrect or incomplete, and the outcome is to be based solely upon the preponderance of the evidence and the laws of the United States.

Congress must fund the Library, at a minimum, to sufficiently to carry out its information storage and dispensing services. The LIBRARY may charge fees for making and distributing copies of records, but those fees may not be excessive.

The Librarian must issue an annual State of the Library report to Congress, which must also be stored in the Library and made available to the Public like any other record.

The Librarian may appoint an Inspector General, who may appoint Marshals and investigate whether records are being properly provided to the LIBRARY, and together with the Librarian, may issue subpoenas and search warrants to seize governmental records that are being withheld from the Library.

Too many governmental critters and hirelings try to hide what they do and/or try to distort what’s been done by those before them. The Library would serve as a counter-weight to those democracy-destroying efforts, and provide another co-equal branch of government to help strengthen the government against non-democratic agents.

Having the Librarian appointed by vote of all Federal District Judges would somewhat insulate the Library from partisanship issues.

-Everett