My first cut at the design was basically a 180 degree rotation of startflagg.GIF, but my friend Start Loving said it looked awful, and then suggested that the stripes should be on the viewers' right. That does seem to make it a bit more recognizable as a descendant of the current US flag, which I very much want, because I believe my proposed Amendment leaves the US as clearly still the USA, despite a considerable amount of addition and rearranging.
The squares in the new design propagate from black, to white, to the pigment primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow, and then to the light primary colors of red, green, and blue. The squares also propagate in size in strict order of the Fibonacci Series. The Fibonacci Series is not universally known to school children, and I think that's unfortunate. The Fibonacci Series goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55... At each step, it is the sum of the two prior steps. It is very simple, but occurs in some intriguing places in nature, and is apparently closely related to the essential processes of growth. The Golden Mean is 1.618... Any two points on the Fibonacci series form an approximation of the Golden Mean that is a better approximation of the Golden Mean than the prior two steps in the Fibonacci Series.
The fact that the USA started off as 13 United States is a happy accident, which allows use of the Fibonacci Series to imply that the USA is a result of a natural growth process. Thus the squares propagating across the flag are all perfectly square. The stripes of the original 13 States, progress in natural sequence to the Union, which is the step after the original 13 in the proposed design, and is therefor larger, as it is in reality these days.
The overall dimensions of the flag therefor are exactly 34 by 21 times the length of one side of the black square. If we call that length the d.u. for "design unit", the white square is also 1x1 d.u., the cyan square is 2x2 d.u., the magenta square is 3x3 d.u., the yellow square is 5x5 d.u., the green square is 8x8 d.u., the striped square is 13x13 d.u., each red or white stripe is 1x13 d.u., and the Union is 21x21 d.u.. startflagg.GIF, by the way, was drawn on a simple paint program without a rectangle drawing tool, but with a 15x15 pixel square brush used to carefully draw the design at a d.u. of 15 pixels.
The size of the State stars in the Union isn't so crucial to the design, and in fact could need to change if someday the USA gets 30 new States or something. They are green for a couple reasons. Environmental concerns span State, and in fact national, borders. Thus green stars express the hope that States will be environmentally responsible. Green is also a complementary color to blue, expressing the hope that the relation between the States and the federal goverment will be complementary, i.e. harmonious.
The green and blue Union is the only part of the flag where colors in adjacent design elements are chosen for agreement. All the colors other than black and white are spectral hues, but are from disparate points on the color wheel. This is to express the hope that the dissonance that is essential to a vital democracy can at least remain filtered somewhat to the elimination, not of diversity, but of unnecessary earthiness.
The squares other than the union and the stripes, then, are the private sector. They should perhaps be larger than the other squares, but analogy has its limits. They are included in the flag as a reminder, that the government is an evolution from, and product of, the people.