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HERETIZ

The United States government is likely the best in the world, but is far from perfect. It is going to take time, but we can do better. For one thing, we have to discard or at least ignore our present designation of parties. We are built on the two party system, but there is no more pure Democrat, or pure Republican. We now have ALTRA Conservatives,and ULTRA Liberals on the two ends of the spectrum, with persons leaning towards conservatism, or liberalism, and moderates in between. but you will find Cons and Libs on BOTH sides of the isle.

Everybody complains but no one offers a plan so here is my case for a NEW United States Government. Obviously, There would have to be a constitutional convention, or at the very least, some new amedments to the Constitution.

Mostly the changes are in operation of the various agencies but I'll start at grass roots elections:

Local , district, and state elections would remain primarily as they are except I would favor the assembly change to a four year term of office. To become fair, equitable and and reasonable, there would have to be a change in the methods of drawing up districts (I will cover this later in the State operations section.)
Elections of US Senate and house members would again be similar to present operations, with the same requirement for extention of House terms to four years. I would also be in favor of reducing Senate terms to four years, in that it would allow 50 percent of the seats to be contested, rather than the present 33% but it is of great importance that the terns remain staggered so as only a portion would be changed in each voting session.

The major change in voting would be that The public would NOT elect the President or Vice-president. This would be done by the members of the US Senate, and the House or Representatives, in accordance with the following plan:

1. The house of representatives is composed of two Representatives from each of the congresssional districts, This is a representative (democratic) -one person/one vote system.
2. The Senate is made up of two senators from each state (a Republic form of representation.)

3. under this plan, the Senate and House would nominate and elect the President and Vice-president from a select list of canidates composed of persons who had completed a full term of service as a Senator, Representative, or Governor ( with the possibility of including past mayors of very large cities) This would do away with the present electorial college and substitute the same system in congress as the ONLY avenue to elect a president. This again is a republican form of government in that we elect representatives (Senate and house) to represent our best interests.

In addition, The house and senate would nominate cabinet menbers and high echelon government officials, who, tho they are under the command of the president, "would serve at the pleasure of the congress". and could be replaced as found necessary. This would be a built-in Checks and Balances system. (Which obviously we are in dire need of at the present time.) Certain other changes would be required at federal level.

a. The president would be primarily a spokesperson for the nation, a housekeeper to keep the governemt operating smothly (like a glorified Chairman of the board.) and figuratively, the Commander in Chief, Tho the actual duties of CIC would fall to the Joint Chiefs of staff, the congress, and the secretary of defense . The Pres would also cast the deciding vote in the senate, rather than the VEP.

b. The Vice president would have the sole duties of assisting the president, and/or substituing for, or replacing him as required
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c. The order af assention would be changed to
* the Vice-president,
* the Chief of Staff(elected and chosen by the congress)
* perhaps the Secretary of defense
* then to the Leader of the Senate or Speaker of the house.
( it should be noted that only under the direst of circumstances would the congress be unable to quickly elect a new Vep if it was necessary.

d. I would be in favor of changing the tenure of supreme court justices, to allow them to be replaced like any other elected or appointed official.

e. Law enforcement agencies Like the CIA, FBI. and NSA, would be combined into one agency

f. The military would be combined into one service, with four basic components
(1) AIR FORCE, to include all aircraft and air craft operations.(including Naval Air and military choppers, etc.
(2) NAVY to include all duties pertaining to ships and boats
(3) ARMY for all ground-pounding, and mechanized Operations, and groundskeeping and support operations.
(4) MARINES, as Rapid response Strike force and other Special forces, all in conjuction with the other three forces as required by the situation.

Thus land bases would utilize persons from Army, Air Force, and Marine, and Possibly navy is warrented, while ships would have a complement of Army,and Navy, and would include Marines and Airforce as necessary.

g. Certain extensive RULE changes would be required in the every day operation of the House and Senate, which wiuld include that of the State assemblies as well.

(1) The Senate would have an elected leader and assistant thereto and the House and legislations would each have an elected Speaker and assistant speaker. Each would be elected from the body of that entity. and as is presently the case, would be expected to be from the then majority party,
(2) Each entity would have it's sub-commities, as is presently the case. However,
(3) No leader or full committee may decline to allow a measure to come to the floor on it's own whim, as has been the situation in the past. The originator would have the right to announce the measure on the floor, and receive at least a vote by acclaim. then if there is still a legitimate dispute as to the right to have it discussed , The originator would have to right to call for a rollcall vote. Note, because of reasonable concern for his or her future interests, that person would not be likely to call fo such a vote, unless he or she thought they had been wronged.
Futher, such votes by acclaim must be valid. with no "all ayes/allnays/the ayes have it"? votes which took all of ten seconds,and as was an all too frequent scenarior when Newt Gindrich and especially Tip O'neal were in charge.
Lastly and most importantly. Bills must be introduced separately or at least in appropriate combinations IE A school bill could not be combined with, or ammended by a weapons bill, with each issue standing on it's own. In the past, not having such a requirement was the reason much of the pork spending had been passed, and many ammended bills were allowed to get thru to be certain the major issue was passed.

It is entirely possible that I have left something out, but if I have, I am sure one of you will notice, and bring it up. Also.

THIS IS NOT THE COMPLETE PLAN.

Bringing it this far has been very time consuming, and to add more would be even more confusing, Therefore, States local and district operations will be addressed in my next post to Include Changes in
(1) Police Operations.
(2) National Guard Operations, and very importantly
(3) Cencus and district reapporionment.

All of these points will be addressed. And if additional explaination or clarification is necessary, please inquire

In the mean time, thanks for listening??? (Reading)