If I were God of America, No.1.

      If I were given power to construct a new form of governance for the United States of America as a unified country made up of these several separate but less than sovereign states I would make radical and sweeping changes. Perhaps a more accurate description would be that I would make a complete change of government.
      My government would be constructed of non-professional politicians. I would keep the two house system of legislature and the three branch form of government, but, all legislative positions as well as the office of the president and each cabinet post would be held by unpaid elected citizens. The president would be elected for two year terms to begin at the end of each legislative year as the legislature would meet only every other year. The representatives and senators would serve one year terms as well as the members of the judiciary. A citizen would be able to serve only once in each of the two houses and once in each of the other two branches of government.
      I would construct a more complete constitution which would guarantee civil rights for individual citizens but which would also severely restrict the size and power of the federal government. The judicial branch would consist of a panel of citizens whose sole responsibility would be to examine measures taken by the legislature to ensure that they are constitutional.
       The executive branch would, for one thing, consist of a diplomatic corps/ spy agency. The president would be a figure head and host to visiting dignitaries as well as a public information or public relations person to liaise with the heads of the various states.
      I will write more on this later, for now, thanks for your attention!
                                              C.R.

Proposed Purpose.... Purposeful Prose? The Reason...Anyway.

My fellow Americans! Uh, sorry, couldn't resist.
      My intent in this blog is to examine our American experience and compare and contrast the differences that I find in our contemporary lives with those of our ancestors prior to and immediately following the revolution and beginning of the federal republican government in regard to our level of personal freedom. I will examine and enumerate the reasons given by early revolutionaries for the divorce from the British empire and see whether we have escaped from the grip of tyranny or simply changed it's form. I will speak out against instances of freedom being taken from "we the people." I will write the praises of those I find fighting to preserve or enlarge said freedom. I will look at issues of current political significance without partisanship and without allowing, to the best of my ability, any of my personal experience to affect my opinion.