Systematic governance failure! Can we finally be honest about the fact that we need more than an 18th-century governance model for this country?
Some chaotic movement will probably happen as the new administration tries to gut regulations only to find that some progressive States do the opposite. You may ask, "what about the Supremacy Cla…
Systematic governance failure! Can we finally be honest about the fact that we need more than an 18th-century governance model for this country?
Some chaotic movement will probably happen as the new administration tries to gut regulations only to find that some progressive States do the opposite. You may ask, "what about the Supremacy Clause?". With the current SCOTUS outcomes may not be so predictable. Much national regulation relies on the "negative implications" of the commerce clause. Given the hostility towards implied rights, those doctrines may fall.
We need to move towards a different governance model and probably a different constitutional framework. No model is perfect, but the EU has shown some ways to do this with a mix of EU and national institutions.
A first item to go needs to be the elected monarch of a president. Wherever an imperial presidential model exists, there is a risk of or the actual existence of autocracy. Parliamentary democracies with a ceremonial president do not have the same issues.
And I would be remiss if I did not mention the better model of an executive consisting of a federal council as used uniquely in Switzerland. The Swiss presidency is shared among the seven federal council members for one-year terms. Changing the U.S. executive branch to be led by a council of regionally elected members with a rotating presidency would be a vast improvement.
The only hope I have is that the West Coast secedes.
What is not fully understood is the real meaning of the United States.
The 50 states are each and every one of them sovereign countries (states), and the constitution binds them only to the extent that they agree to be bound, and they agreed at the outset of being bound by a majority vote in Congress and approval by the Executive.
The Supreme Court has no authority, compliance by the court is voluntary. Andrew Jackson was correct when he said "Justice Marshall has ruled, not let him enforce his ruling, and then set about evicting Indians.
California has the 7th largest economy in the nation, and virtually keeps the rest of America afloat, Combine the economy of California, with Oregon and Washington, if those three secede it will bring the rest of the country to it's knees, and if all blue states seceded it would disrupt any attempt by the dictatorship to thwart the process.
When Trump fulfills his promise, and he will, I believe him, there will no longer be a federal government, but a 4th Reich of the Rich.
I wanted to ask about that. What has to happen for a state to declare independence? They will need the trappings of an independent country. but what else? Diplomats, currency, military, laws to replace previously national laws?
Agree. I’ve long advocated a parliamentary democratic model for US. Problem is how to get there from here. And I think that road is permanently blocked. It would still be good to talk about it openly and push. Unfortunately, rational comparative analyses are dismissed from the git-go here. Exceptionalism pervades our major parties, and hypernationalism pervades the working classes.: “USA, USA, USA…” ad nauseum.
Systematic governance failure! Can we finally be honest about the fact that we need more than an 18th-century governance model for this country?
Some chaotic movement will probably happen as the new administration tries to gut regulations only to find that some progressive States do the opposite. You may ask, "what about the Supremacy Clause?". With the current SCOTUS outcomes may not be so predictable. Much national regulation relies on the "negative implications" of the commerce clause. Given the hostility towards implied rights, those doctrines may fall.
We need to move towards a different governance model and probably a different constitutional framework. No model is perfect, but the EU has shown some ways to do this with a mix of EU and national institutions.
A first item to go needs to be the elected monarch of a president. Wherever an imperial presidential model exists, there is a risk of or the actual existence of autocracy. Parliamentary democracies with a ceremonial president do not have the same issues.
And I would be remiss if I did not mention the better model of an executive consisting of a federal council as used uniquely in Switzerland. The Swiss presidency is shared among the seven federal council members for one-year terms. Changing the U.S. executive branch to be led by a council of regionally elected members with a rotating presidency would be a vast improvement.
The only hope I have is that the West Coast secedes.
What is not fully understood is the real meaning of the United States.
The 50 states are each and every one of them sovereign countries (states), and the constitution binds them only to the extent that they agree to be bound, and they agreed at the outset of being bound by a majority vote in Congress and approval by the Executive.
The Supreme Court has no authority, compliance by the court is voluntary. Andrew Jackson was correct when he said "Justice Marshall has ruled, not let him enforce his ruling, and then set about evicting Indians.
California has the 7th largest economy in the nation, and virtually keeps the rest of America afloat, Combine the economy of California, with Oregon and Washington, if those three secede it will bring the rest of the country to it's knees, and if all blue states seceded it would disrupt any attempt by the dictatorship to thwart the process.
When Trump fulfills his promise, and he will, I believe him, there will no longer be a federal government, but a 4th Reich of the Rich.
I wanted to ask about that. What has to happen for a state to declare independence? They will need the trappings of an independent country. but what else? Diplomats, currency, military, laws to replace previously national laws?
Agree. I’ve long advocated a parliamentary democratic model for US. Problem is how to get there from here. And I think that road is permanently blocked. It would still be good to talk about it openly and push. Unfortunately, rational comparative analyses are dismissed from the git-go here. Exceptionalism pervades our major parties, and hypernationalism pervades the working classes.: “USA, USA, USA…” ad nauseum.