Discussions on the Model Constitution(13th in a Series): First Executive Vice-President, Duties and Powers

Why and How I am a Committed Radical(13th in a Series): First Executive Vice President — Specified Powers, Duties & Limits
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 2:35pm ·
This Note will be about the Second, Third and Fourth Subsections of Section Three of Article Three in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following link:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america

This proposed Constitutional change that is modeled in the Model Constitution will work itself out in three distinct thrusts:

First, there will be direct changes, recognitions and empowerments which allow for new instutions to deal directly with varied problems which exist and must be addressed in the society and its governance.

Second, there are limitations on the power of the federal government, the creation of new jurisdictions, family associations, special compacts and the strengthening of means of subsidiarity to get the federal government out of parts of people’s lives and institutional affairs where it ought not to be operating. This will also strengthen the federal government by diminishing the expenses and actions required in q world of limited resources.

Third, there are large and small reforms, renaming and reshaping of existing institutions in ways that one hope’s will improve them. This note is about such a reform as exists in this third category. It is about how most of the powers and perogatives of the current republican Presidency will be transferred to the new office of First Executive Vice- President.

The ordinary exercise of Executive power and administration will still be a very powerful office. America is in a state of real struggle and perhaps beyond any simple power of solution, the Constitution her proposed is a change of structure. Once the broder Constitutional structure is changed there is still a great deal of room for different political leaders to lead in different directions. Once more powers are reserved to the Jurisdictions there is still a powerful Union government. Once some powers are retained and some fealty is owed to the Imperial figures and royals themselves there is still a great deal of leadership and status in the hands of the ordinary political executive. In addition the early FEVPs will surely help to shape how various powers and perogatives are distributed among the Empire, Union, Jurisdictions and other constitutional players. There surely will be new complexities and some bumpy stretches on the road to a new state of being for our government but there must be an attempt to solve the crises we face nonetheless. The FEVP will be the best positioned single person to act in leading the way through all of these struggles and adjustments as well as the crises themselves. As the crisis moves toward a climax we face the need to resolve some issues quickly while at the same time we face the destruction of what social fabric we have unless we can make a strong advance in areas where we are currently completely surrendered or nearly so anyway.

The founding of the new regime will address some of these issues listed below directly but always there will be questions to resolve. Even knowing when not to have a policy is a policy. These then are some areas where a new First Executive Vice-President wil need to be able to act. I have st them out as imperatives but only a few are fully assured by the new Model Constitution. It may be the role of an FEVP to oppose some of these imperatives and delay others. It will also be his job to try to understand what role belongs within the the limits of his role and powers :

1. We must secure our borders and ports and formal functions of leadership from being overrun by essentially foreign interests.
2. We must change the debate from the irreconcilable and stupid big government-less government to debates on more complicated issues of policy.
3. The atomic bomb and the exploration of the moon are the two greatest American technical achievements and we must redeem and establish them as part of ongoing policy.
4. We must seek the right kinds of major constitutional reform and redaction so that we are not governed in madness.
5.We must tax, regulate and control the trade in currently illegal drugs with Federal parameters licensed in States and other jurisdictions.
6. We must save the Gulf Coast and the south Louisiana wetlands.
7. We must establish a better and richer foreign service community.
8. We must create sound family policies.
9. We must cut our debt.
10. We must create a large infrastructure and manufacturing sector.

I have said elsewhere that I think that without constituional change things will get much worse. I reall believe that we are nearly on the brink of societal collapse. The chance to act in our own self-interest is slipping away. There will be very few more chances to save our country after this chance has passed. But if we do act than while the Emperor secures the overall structure and some specific thrusts the FEVP will deal the daily challenges of governance.

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** **** ***
Subsection Two- Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments and Language
Provision One: Military Powers
The First Executive Vice President shall be Ordinary Commander in Chief of the Army , Navy and Air Force of the United States, and Dux Bellorum of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States. The First Executive Vice President shall be the Ordinary Imperial Command Deputy of the Militia of the Several Territories and Possessions. He shall have no authority over the Traditional Honor Guards of the Jurisdictions, nor the Forces of the Direct Imperial Government nor of the Imperial Tribe.
Provision Two: Special Executive Powers
The First Executive Vice President may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
The First Executive Vice President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Provision Three: Administration Officials
The First Executive Vice President shall have exercise of due Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: where otherwise provided in this Constitituion specific provisions for autonomous adjacencies and limits on the cabinet shall override all mere matters of law and where not so limited the First Executive Vice-President shall have all reasonable powers over his Cabinet ast their Chief Executive with Direct Powers pro forma and pro se and of his residence and office building as lawful Steward in Chief and Temporary Master thereof. However, outside these grants of privilge or specific provisions of the Constitution the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. The Imperial House in the GRIHHA shall stamp and certify these ordinary exercises of power with the style of “under the reign of” and the name of the Emperor or “under the reign of” and the name of the Empress followed by “during the Interregnum which is the” and the right number ordinal since the founding of the Empire.

Provision Four: Language
As stated above, the Imperial House in the GRIHHA shall stamp and certify these ordinary exercises of power with the style of “under the reign of” and the name of the Emperor or “under the reign of” and the name of the Empress followed by “during the Interregnum which is the” and the right number ordinal since the founding of the Empire. The Emperor steers the ship of State and is sometimes a player capable of winning and losing in the political arena and for all these reasons he is not a figurehead or rubber stamp. “The Administration of First Executive Vice President” and the name of that official “under the reign of” and the name of the Monarch is correct formal designation of the administration. It is not to be referred to as the government nor especially “His Majesty’s Government.” The Administration shall within a year furnish all Executive Vice Presidential Speeches of the First Class, Acts of Congress and Executive Orders in the required official Translations. The required official translations are as follows: in French to the Imperial Tribal Council, to the Louisiana Purchase Compact and to the Imperial House; in Greek to the Imperial Tribal Council, in Spanish to the Spanish Borderlands Compact, in Cherokee and Hawaiian to the Compact of the Territories and in these CoT documents all numbers must be produced in arabic and Mayan numerals. No other official translations may be required although for fees the administration may produce them and shall assist in producing Compact chartered translations wherever it is not an undue inconvenience. Diplomats are to be informed of what is available officialy. Because the official language of the Empire is English care, will be taken not to slavishly imitate British Royal useage where terms are required. In addition the First Executive Vice President shall ben officer, along with the Special Vice Presidents of the Compacts, of the American Imperial Dialect and Language Board. He shall appoint a proxy to serve in his place when he is unavailable.

Subsection Three – State of the Union, Convening Congress, and General Powers
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment he may petition the Emperor with the Advice and Consent of the GRIHAA or DIG at Imperial whim to adjourn them to such Time as the First Executive Vice President shall think proper; Congress may determine the process of such adjournments in Laws except that he shall retain the perogative as stated for no less than one month per two year Congress and this First Executive Vice-President’s Petitioned Adjournments may thereafter be ended by edict at whim of the Emperor. They shall under this Constitution be ended by the start or ending of an Interregnum with the Empress acting with the powers of the Emperor in the Interregnum; these adjournments shall also end with the arrival of a date one month before the scheduled biennial Congressional elections or on the changing of the Calendar to the next year after the adjournment began. The First Executive Vice-President shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. It shall be understood that where it is specified in this Constitution that the Emperor or Empress holds or retains a specific power such provision overrides this general power entusted to the First Executive Vice-President. In addition although the the United States and Empire cannot be entirely distinguished and are in an ultimate sense much the same society, they have separate government and agencies and The Emperor, Empress, GRIHHA, DIG and Imperial Tribe operate internally without interference from the US bureaucracy and the First Executive Vice-President.

Subsection Four- Disqualification and Limits, Term of Office
The First and Second Executive Vice Presidents and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. No person may serve as First Executive Vice President for more than two full four year terms nor more than a total of ten and a half years. At the end of his tenure in office if he has served a total of six and a half or more years he may not seek election to that office again. In that case he shall be given two years to put up the plans for his library and then will become a Censor. Should he have been President less than six and a half years in total then he will be given three years to put up his library and then may renounce his right to seek reelection at the Imperial Palace and be made a Censor, If he does not renounce he will become a Censor when he turns seventy-five years of age, when known to be dying soon, ater having been out of office for twelve years or posthumouslt – whicherver outcome transpires first. Anyone who has become a Censor cannot seek election as First Executive Vice President. A woman may not seek election to the office of First Executive Vice President unless she has served for a month at the Court of the Empress awaiting permission to do so. This shall be possible whether the Empress is a regular or an acting Empress. Such permission shall not constitute an endorsement of any woman receiving such permission.
**** **** ***** **** ***** **** *** **** **** ***
If you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in Subsection Two: ” Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments and Language” , Subsection Two”State of the Union, Convening Congress and General Powers” and Subsection Three “Disqualification and Limits, Term of Office” of Section Three ” The First Executive Vice President” of Article Three ” The Executive and the Monarchy” is that for our system to work there must be an effective executive and more as well, and that while the Emperor and Empress will take some things to a new level and perform some vital roles the the First Executive Vice-President will exercise the ordinary political executive power entrusted to him by the Emperor. This portion of the third section of this article continues to describe a figure much like the current President of the republican Union who nonetheless has certain reforms in the nature and practice of the office itself. He has the power to petition the Emperor to adjourn Congress, although without assurance it will be done. He has his powers as Commander in Chief more returned to the customs and traditions of the past as regards the Jurisdiction and away from the current system. In addtion he is required to operate in parallel with the Empire as a system outside the Union which has some protected ties to the jurisdictions as well a Direct Imperial Government Jurisdiction over which he has no authority and with which he must interact. This cooperation and struggle is both in civilian administration and military structure. He has stronger authorities over his residence than the President currently enjoys in the White House. The First Executive Vice-President has new responsibilities as related to culture and language as American become less of a hypocritical and opressive republic and more of an Empire. There is also the transformation of the former First Executive Vice-President into a Censor after he retires. There is also special provision and an additional requirement for any woman seeking to be First Executive Vice-President. There are many changes here and elsewhere such as the Line Item Veto described in the Second Article but the office is largely continuous with that of the current republican presidency.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussions of the Model Constitution(12th in a Series): First Executive Vice-President, Election & Office

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (12th in a Series): First Executive Vice President — The Office and Election.

by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 8:34pm ·

.

This Note will be about the First Subsection the Section Three of Article Three in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following link:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

This is in some ways one of the least radical portions of this model constitution. It shows that there would be a good bit of continuity in the Executive, but also that there will some significant reforms and transformations. This susbsection gives me a chance to discuss how reforms would work. It also gives me a chance to discuss why they would be necessary. This Constitution is proposed in large part because of the need for changing some deep-seated values and beliefs. Not the least of those problems is the kind of American Exceptionalism that is poisonous to our current international relations and to the future of our society. America is not succeeding splendidly in every possible way and by every possible measure and it seldom has and no society should require people to say such things just to run for office effectively.

I think America is actually rich in political, cultural and social resources. I myself vote regulary in all the complex electoral realites of Louisiana politics and their window and bridge to American political life. However, I think our political system like many other aspects of our society is in decline and is really threatened. It is not that our system in its inner purity is perfect or does not need improvement. But it is a real and vibrant system. It is unique to us and so is the new Constitution I propose. I remember a recent election and have notes about how it impressed me for good and ill.

On October 2, 2010 I voted in a typical Louisiana political election in which there was at least one October race that was an open primary and the two top vote-getters committed to runoffs in November if neither gets over fifty percent of the vote across the state there are usually many of these October races and we all vote in a few. Then some get majorites and the rest face another better informed election in November when the rest of the country votes by and large. That October the US Senate race had a separate primary already and will have narrowed the field to three by party — possibly there would be no majority and a rare Louisiana official would serve with a first-past-the-post plurality which most media calls a majority in other states. However, it was a walk for Republcan David Vitter over redistricted Congressman Melancon. Some officials ran unopposed and so and were almost crowned and anointed in the manner of modern Teutonic. Then there were a number of two person races where the competition had already been eliminated and where our voting machines must thus produce a majority as we do not have spoiled ballots or write-ins. In Louisiana we elected at the ballot our Lieutenant Governor, the appellate courts, the varied local races and the public service commissions. We also had many school board races that were big and important that day. Every school board I know of outside New Orleans is electing its leaders that Saturday.

We also have two constitutional amendments on the ballot. One was to place GOHSEP staff in the unclassified civil service category. Another is related to official scheduling of the legislative year. None of these issues were huge in my mind. I voted early and with less certainty as to how I should vote than usual. However, I was enthusiastic enough to recommend voting to many people I met at the football game my nephews played in on the morning of the election. In another recent election we elected members to a Board of Elementary and Secondary Education where the Governor appoints another portion of the same board after consulting with experts. The point is not that Louisiana politics is perfect or all one thing or another but it is improvable, rich and deeply tied to all sort of cultural and institutional realites it needsto be dealing with well. The national system is too much big television and small-minded sloganism. I think our current presidential elections are in trouble. I believe that both too much and too little are at stake at the same time. I look at the systems in many other countries and believe they are getting worse for reasons too technical to outline here. But briefly British and Commonwealth FPTP combined with modern multiple parties is a bad system for the democratic element but is bailed out by other segments of the system. In other countries apathy and hatred are increasingly the real contenders for power.

So, how do I see our system? I feel a certain amount of sympathy for Barack Obama in a system where no Socialist Party is really available, where federalism has weakened and dodged the raclal aspects of our federal tradition he was a man with limited options. He lost some dignity in rushing through the Senate to the White House but it is an easy choice to understand. He lost some dignity in learning Constitutional technique without absorbing its values even if only to better reject them But in the mix of misinformation that is the modern elite law school it is understandable. I am not only a conservative or only a liberal, I am coming at every question from a very unusual place. I have learned and must learn from Right and Left and Center.

But despite my catholicity an openness in many aspects of my thinking I consider myself to be one of the people most opposed to Barack Obama within the spectrum of legitimate politics. In addition, I committed to conservative opposition to Obam by and large when he was running for President. However, I don’t think that there is any doubt that we have reached the point where Conservatism can be looked at as something which has merited the term “crisis”. America is in a crisis and I believe that it will prove to be a very grave crisis. However, conservatism is in a far greater crisis. For argument’s sake let us say that the terms right and left, Democrat and Republican describe a real political dynamic which matters in this country. I would argue that on the right in this country we have lots of politicians who use the label “conservative” but actually we have a collection of Libertarians, Tax Avoiders, Moderate Neo-Fascists , Ultra-Reformed Protestant Theocrats, and Anglophile Antiquarians who collectively squeeze a weak and demoralized conservative group of Americans who hardly matter at all. I think that in the new regime there will be moresystems in jurisdictions, the back-up of the royal institutions and all of this will allow for formal organized factions in the Republican and Democrat Party and also allow for more functioning parties to emerge at least in reletively small but significant ways. Thus the GOP or its renamed successor could be a truly Conservative Party with organized factions that do what the relatively unfocused groups do badly now. The Democrat party could be a Liberal-left party with a real socialist, perhaps some leftist but extremely royalist faction, a Dixiecrat faction and others. In addition there would be parties to whom those factions could peddle their votes and win a race outright now and then. It is is not guaranteed that this will happen. But I believe that as the tyranny of democracy is renounced the democratic element will be able to emerge in purer and better fashion that satisfies more democratic legitimate needs.

Suppose there is a basis for people in large numbers to group together against Obama’s policies. Some of those in these almost never discussed GOP groups that should be factions would join the center of the party or its renamed successor and would be trueConservatives if there really was a Conservative Movement for them to be part of effectively. There would be a reshuffling and some would join the emerging minor parties as well because their destructive behavior in 2008 comes from the fact that they fundamentally despise Conservatism.

While I am a committed radical I do practice conventional political participation. I voted for George Bush the first time and almost certainly would have voted for him the second time if I could have made it to Beijing’s American Embassy in time to vote. However, I missed that election. I voted for Mcain-Palin in the most recent election. I think I have voted for Mary Landrieu a Democrat every time. Through my life I have voted for a collection of Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

My odd and limited sympathy for Barack Obama comes into play once more as I reflect on my own political life and asociations in regard to his history. Like Obama (and a lot of other people) I have had to make the best choices I could at any given time and deserve to be judged by those choices but not by how I would behave in some fantastical world of choices and associations that did not exist. Like Obama and others I have some friends that do not clean up so well for the television cameras and critics as they might. By the time I was old enough to vote I had forged a lot of bonds and relationships which included fundamentalists, communists in other countries, resentful Moslems, white supremacists, black radicals and lots of other people who don’t fall into the neat safe categories that President mills like mid century Yale Law normally produce in quantity. If I were to have made a run at the US Presidency there would be people some folks would like as little as I like Rev. Wright and David Ayres. Despite all that colorful background I have lots of self-respect and more oddly yet, I think of myself as an authentic American Conservative who has taken some Saocialist ideas very much to heart. Arguably, I am one of the minority of American conservatives who could be optimistic abpout the Obama example of emerging from the complexities of the real political jungle of our streets and other streets. Instead of committimg myself to radical change I could commit to a conventional path in politics. I could reason that if such an oddly positioned person of such a background as Barack Obama can be President of the United States then maybe I could at least get elected parish assessor, city dog-catcher, county councilman, water-district representative or something else somewhere in the land of the free and the home of the brave. But we have run out of the sypathy and empathy I feel for Obama. Somehow I don’t think Obama’s election signifies anything nearly that hopeful for someone like me.

I dare to write a Model Constitution without ever having held public office. I am willing to advocate for big restructuring without ever having gotten a government paycheck. That is unless you include the kinds of paychecks given by fellowships and part-time job checks from school boards and universities which I have gotten in the past. I am able to say that I have won a few elections. I won a seat on Dorm Council in College, I was elected as Outstanding Graduate in my department , college and university for that particular commencement exercise at a different school. Then In China a few years ago I organized elections among my student for various class and subgroup offices. Then there are a couple of elections where I was elected to post that I can’t discuss here by groups that like their privacy. None of those races seem very much related to the Presidency or even a governorship however. In most of these races my political philosophy was not a central aspect of what people were electing me for or voting against. Many people hold office for other reasons than political philosophy. People vote for friends, members of their race or class, to keep seniority in a legislature or because they are personally opposed to the candidates opposition. But in the big leagues there are always some questions of political philosophy that become important. I would argue that Conservatism is usually not on the menu often Liberalism is not either. This Model Constitution makes room for Liberal and Conservative politics I feel If this were ratified it would impose a structure but leave a great deal more open to changing with political sway changing hands in hard fought elections. I think that a coherent expression ofmy views on American Conservative political philosophy would require at least one very long book. If someone hasn’t read any of the books which have helped to from my opinions then an article or two would not make the great sweep of ideas stand clear. Here I am drafting a constitutionin which Liberals, Libertarians and others can rightly see some of their own ideas and values reflected. But it is structure that would be changed and procedure. So how will it change as regards electing the ordinary executive.

There will be 949 Electors derived from the popular vote in Jurisdictions and Military Bases. The States will get three bonus electors assigned to their popular vote compared to the Territories and the Possessions. The members of the Bouletherion elect two more mebers by a nuanced and unique but mostly popular vote which is a kind of bonus like that for military bases which the Imperial Tribe will receive as a token for allowing the many representatives in the Imperial Conclave. The four representatives for the Colored Districts in the States will not be assigned by the popular election. The colored districts in the States will vote as citizens of the States and will be represented in the same way and at the same variance they are entitled to vote for the State Legislature members they elect. Gaining these 951 popularly elected delegates will clearly be important. However, there will be eighty-four Electors-for-Life with one each elected by each Jurisdiction and two elected by the Imperial Tribe. The Jurisdictions and the Military are entitled to assign their popularly elected lectors by any system they wish so long as the one that gets the most votes gets the most electors. Therefore it is possible some will assign them proportionaly. However, even if they are all winner-take-all pluralitarian systems the parties and candidates are likely to want to show respect for the electors for life and to keep their goodwill. That will greatly change the nature of the total elction process. Because of the royal monarchs the society will be able to afford to wait for the Conclave of the Electoral College to determine who is the First-Executive Vice President. Ideas and ideals will be better defined I believe.

**** ****** ***** ****** ***** ****

Section Three: The First Executive Vice President

Subsection One: The Office and Election

The executive Aministration and ordinary exercise of Executive Power shall be vested in a First Executive Vice President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Second Deputy Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Each Jurisdiction shall appoint a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State, Territory or Possession may be entitled in the Congress and these electors shall have been elected at a general and direct election bearing both the name of the First and Second Executive Vice Presidential Candidates and the names of the electors. The Military ditricts shall elect a slate of Free Military Electors in the same manner. The Imperial Tribe’s Bouletherion shall be recognized in the laws it establishes which shall govern how The Imperial Tribe shall also elect two electors in the time of the General election and have two members of the Boulethrion of Bouletherion Vice Presidential rank who are Electors- for-Life whatever privileges the Jurisdictional Electors-for-Life have under the Laws and Constitution shall belong equally to these two Bouletherion Electors for Life who shall also serve as Protocol directors for the Electors for Life. The Jurisdictions however shall in addition name according to Jurisdictional Law an Elector-for-Life who shall vote in each of these First Executive Vice-Presidential elections and in those of the Emperor at the Conclave, these must be named each year unless impeached by the State Legislature and convicted by the GRIHHA of High Crimes — they are elected when a vacancy occurs by reason of death or removal. No Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the Federal Government Portion of the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. Electors for Life may hold Jurisdcitional or Imperial Posts if permitted by their Jurisdiction. The electors shall all assemble within two weeks of the General Election and their proceeding shall be fully recorded and then kept secret for fifty years. On the First ballot only the Electors for Life shall be free and the others shall be robot-electors. They robots shall cast their vote by Jurisdictional caucus and the Electors for life will together cerify the their votes. Outside the Conclave, the President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. If there is some candidate with a full majority of more than half of all the votes that candidate will be First Executive Vice President. If not then a second ballot shall be announced and all those robot- electors dedicated to candidates ranked lower than fifth place or having fewer than five percent of the votes shall be free to change their vote. On the Second Ballot, the robots and freed electors shall cast their vote by Jurisdictional caucus and the Electors for life will together cerify the their votes. Outside the Conclave, the President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. If there is some candidate with a full majority of more than half of all the votes that candidate will be First Executive Vice President. If there is none then all the robots will be freed to vote as they choose and the entire sitting House of Representatives will be added to the electoral college and all military and other non-State Jurisdiction seats will be divided among the States with whom they are aforehand associated. Each Super State Caucus shall immediately choose by Ballot a candidate for President and all the votes that caucus are to be certified for that single candidate. Then the wholly free assmbly shall vote and their votes shall be added to those of the caucuses and this process will be repeated with the elimination of the lowest vote-getter on each round until the majority emerges and that majority candidate is First Executive Vice-President. The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors in a General Election, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States and Federal American Empire. No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of First Executive Vice-President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

***** ***** **** ***** **** **** **** **** **** **** ***

If you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in Subsection One: ” The Office and Election” of Section Three ” The First Executive Vice President” of Article Three ” The Executive and the Monarchy” is that for our system to work there must be an effective executive and more as well, and that while the Emperor and Empress will take some things to a new level and perform some vital roles the the First Executive Vice-President will exercise the ordinary political executive power entrusted to t him by the Emperor. This portion of the third section of this article introduces to us figure much like the current President of the republican Union who nonetheless has certain reforms in the nature and practice of both the election and the office itself. One of the specific changes is that the people in the Electoral College are called the Electoral College but the meeting at which they assemble to elect the First Executive Vice-President is to be called the Conclave or the Vice-Presidential Conclave. Another change is that like the current president who can only stand twice for election the FEVP will also be restricted that way but the constitution would function one who receivesa a pertial term throough detah of the FEVP to hold two full terms in addition so long as the portion he recieved did not exceed half of th unfulfilled term. The Electors-for Life who are a voice for a more sober approach are part of the other election in the executive as well the one that elects the Emperor and Supreme President which will be called the Imperial Conclave. Those changes are integral to the new system itself.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussions on the Model Constitution(11th in a Series):The Executive & Monarchy, Emperor & Empress

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (11th in Series): The Executive & the Monarchy, Generally, the Emperor and the Empress
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 10:18am ·
This Note will be about the the numberless and untitlted preamble as well as Sections One and Two of Article Three in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following link:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

I am convinced and am trying to communicate to the readers of this note the conviction that if the revolutionary changes described up until this point were carried out in the context of an American Revolution that would create a much stronger and more just country than we have today. Such changes are vastly out of sync with what is discussed and proposed in Washington and in most of the United States of America as political options. Here we come to two areas of large difference. First we do have all sorts of laws that are directed to men and women but almost no offices of any political type that are restricted to one sex or the other. In the text discussed to day we have the Emperor who must be a man and the Empress who must be a woman. Both of them have the largest part of their office and title subssisting outside the politics of the Union. However, both do have political roles in the Union itself as well as in the more complex structure of Union and Empire which this Constitution defines and empowers. That brings us to the second thing we must deal with here, these are Royal Monarchs and they are therefore a radical departure from our current republican conditions. However, I think that I general our Founding Fathers and the responsible leaders among the Revolutionary leaders thought that in time our republic ought to evolve into an Empire but that it should do so in a good and free way (they never equated freedom and democracy). I assert that the next large constitutional transformation of this society ought to be into an empire. I propose that when this Constitution is ratified the reconstitutionalized country should have two official names “The United States of America” and “The Federal American Empire of the United States”.

To fully understand my proposal for a transition from exclusive Republicanism to a Royalist constitution with strong republican elements you will have to read materials in separate notes in this series post on my blog using site searches like “American Royalism” or “Fulfilling Plans of Empire” although I have not tried those searches myself. The mere basics of American royalism can be mentioned here but remeber if you read this alone that all of the elected legislators I propose would increase the number which currently exist. In the great plan of our Union the federalism would still exist and these wouldinclude many democratic state and local posts. This constitution would also add to federal judiciary a number of posts for life which are not royal called Censors and Electors for Life which would exist as described and provided for in this constitution. This changes the question in some mindes to whether with all of these elections this is still a radical royalist system that I am proposing.

The Electors for Life will help a limited group of others to even elect the Emperor himself from a small field of hereditary and mostly hereditary heirs in the Imperial Conclave. Yes, an elected Emperor could be fully royal. The Holy Roman Emperor was elected, the Pope ( who is a Royal Monarch of an odd kind) is elected, the Kings of England before the Norman Conquest were elected, The King of Poland in recent centuries was elected, Numerous Royal Chiefs and High Kings of Scotland and Ireland have been elected. There is also this dirty little secret which doubtless the United Kingdom would feel the need to deny if this were an official US document — QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FATHER AND PRINCE PHILIP’S GRANDFATHER WERE BOTH ELECTED KINGS. Thus if Charles become King of England then he will have a grandfather and a great-grandfather who were elected kings of different countries. However this system would be like the Holy Roman Empire and Poland and the Pope and ancient England in that the elections would be regular and a matter of course not exception.

There would be a change in the title of the ordinary Executive elected every four years from President to First Executive Vice President and some of his powers and duties would be reduced but mostly the Emperor would fill a different role. Emperor would have a fulsome executive power over a central governance outside the Constitutional Jurisdictions and the Federal government per se in the Imperial House, Imperial Tribe and Direct Imperial Government. Even this government would have two broad types of land in its sway. First, the District of Columbia and the Federation of Compact Zones would be in the Direct Imperial Government category along with a substantial one time grant of lands currently owned by the Federal Government and administered by the federalBureau of Land Management bureaucracy. The composition of theis complex DIG Jurisdiction is to be defined elsewhere in this series and is defined in my blog in a variety of posts. It is a jurisdiction which will play an important but very limited role. There is a lot which will be left out of this post about a royalist regime but one thing that must be addressed for such a post as this to be in any way genuine as a serious piece of revolutionary literature which is what I intend it to be. To do this I need to discuss the royalist tradition which is relevant in America and tied to America.

In the empirically unlikely event that the United States converts to a royalist system within a short time the Monarch if they are to be in any very good sense a Monarch and in any very good sense both royal and royalist will have a lot to do in terms of creating and restoring, both renewing and establishing royal and royalist culture. Hawaii can certainly still be restored to a royalist culture it can both influence a new regime and it can be influenced to conform to the New regime. Using the Councils of Nobles which I have mentioned the ideal Ordinary Nobility would be a mix of new titles and some renewed from worthy preserver of such color of right to those titles as French, English, Spanish and other powers have left in good families of committed Americans upon our shores. However, while I am constrained by space and unable to really do a decent job of presenting these ideas I am going to suggest that there is a royal line, tradition and apparatus which has pre-eminent claim to an American Empire for many reasons and that is the Arcadian — Acadian royal line.
This line is almost entirely unknown for a variety of reasons. There is a great deal to take in and almost no chance to weave it in coherently in this post. Yet it is imperative that we try to do so.
the first really key point is that the real roots of the American Revolution occurred in a larger colonial context. I am going to recommend a book that does not declare ( as I do here and now) that the Acadian expulsion (loosely described in Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline) were a principal cause of and stimulus to the American revolution. But it does show the connections of this event to the revolutionary ferment in a broad contest. In this regard I recommend Leach’s book. http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Conflict-Colonial-Americans-1677-1763/dp/0807842583#noop
Secondly, I want to show that the destruction of Acadie was a large and significant act. That it had everything to do with creating a British profile and character the Americans could distrust and that in their early history the Acadians had both elements the Americans were eager to restore to their experience of the British Constitution and also the chivalric and aristocratic values which I argue that we need to restore today. In which regard there is a recent book by John Mack Faragher: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Noble-Scheme-Expulsion-Acadians/dp/0393051358 to understand the British view of how great and wealthy a land the Acadians had created and how eager they were to have its wealth for themselves. The Acadian experience is deeply tioed to the American experience as a whole.
Two men whom I know (one much better than the other and neither all that well) have also written books that are relevant to this theme and discussion Carl A. Brasseaux has written The Founding of the New Acadia and Acadian to Cajun. Meanwhile Warren Perrin has handled the appeal for the Apology from the Queen of England and Scotland and has discussed this journey and its partial success in the book Acadian Redemption. Le Grand Derangement or the Great Upheaval brought Acadians to all parts of the Thirteen Colonies before they were settled in Louisiana successfully in 1765 by the King Joseph Broussard Dit Beausoleil. During their scattering they did not get on well with the general population and there times were sad and bad mostly. But that does not mean that they did not have a powerful influence in turning the minds of their fellow North American Colonists against the English Government. Even if it had only been the example of their suffering they would be the most likely true proximate cause of the Revolutionary ferment in America. But in fact we know they had vast network of communications and logistics with which they reassembled small groups of survivors from many parts of the world to found the New Acadia in South Louisiana. Res ipsa loquitur — the thing speaks for itself and although they have been cheated of that recognition and sought to conceal it just as they have been cheated and concealing of many other things the American Revolution is profoundly tied to and rooted in the Acadian experience and expulsion. It can also play a role in the new American Revolution if it comes.

In the Acadian Constitution is the resource for a royalist Empire that is truly American the Kings of the Acadians are not directly mentioned as such in any of the many books which describe or recount the lives of Joseph Broussard, Governor Mouton, General Mouton, Severin Leblanc, Dudley Leblanc or others who have held the title. But both the people’s lives and much of the constitution is obliquely or directly availabel from respectable history. The Basileus Arkadion (or Arkadios) is elected from those most eligible in a complex line of succession this would be merged into a Unity Conclave where Acadian electors were the majority but Imperial and Louisiana Royal electors were substantial minorities. The voting still comes late in the selection process. Tests of merit are extensive and these are only only available to those with the heredity required. The Arcadian Bouletherion would have to be fully and openly re-established but it has in its ancient history been hybridized. They would supply the majority of electors but the US Electors for Life and other Peer Electors could also vote. Thus Americans as a whole would always have some voice in their Sovereign’s selection without doing violence to his tradition which would be very difficult to achieve anywhere else from existing options. The Keys to the Line of the Basileus Arkadios have always been known to very few as have the remnant of Acadian government in the Ethnos Arkadios (or Arcadian Tribe translated fully into English). These elements of Comites, Ridelles, Courires, Loups Garous, Gran Famille and Prince Chef de Gran Famille are very seldom mentioned by anyone. They are almost ignored in the public works of the Acadian Renaissance in recent decades. Nonetheless the Acadian royalist system might still be saved to come to America’s aid should it desire a royalist system. There is no European descended culture more North American than the Acadian and Cajun culture. The Acadian system would also have some of the advantages of cost from both systems. In a royalist system the cost is contained if it works properly because a few facilities and people are paid a lot for their role and this is not done away with so that over time one build up great capital with limited expense in royal hands. Ina republican system costs are contained over time if it works well because standards are lower for all the executive accoutrements. In Acadian lines since 1604 no great fortune has ever been in Kingly hands ( nor for hundreds of years before by the terms of European Royalty) and Arcadian and Spartan royals were often austere in the mists of time’s long past. This has not usually been so much deliberates it has been part of the historic reality. Nonetheless, compared to other precedents one could bring to a truly Imperial USA this set of traditions has the most apparent low price tag.

The Titles of the Emperor would include “Emperor, Supreme President and Extraordinary Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America”. Among the perquisites of the Emperor he would have the White House as his Imperial residence. Some duties of the current Presidency would go to him but many would remain in the hands of an official to be titled “First and Executive Vice President, ordinary Commander-in-Chief and High Imperial Political Minister” of the United States of America”. This person would become a Censor on retirement by right, would have a Deputy First Vice President elected on his ticket and doing many of the same things in the same ways as the current Vice President. The First and Executive Vice President would reside in the Naval Observatory and would have a country residence as well provided by his office. The Emperor will also be tied to an elevation of America to royalism by the institution of Forty Peer Electors not usually part of the Elections of the First Executive Vice President for whom the Electors for Life are entitled to vote just as they do for Emperor. The Peer Electors would include the long secret Princely Chiefs of the Acadians — The Prince Boulet, The Prince Theriot, The Prince Broussard, The Prince Mouton and The Prince Leblanc. They would include the King or Queen of Hawaii but they would largely include scions of old families with claims who were selected for this special honor partly because given their claims they had agreed to conform to the Acadian four-part succession system of heredity, trials of merit, election and fealty. They would also include some key leaders of religious , academic and a tribal organization who have played a large role in America in this the republican era and have the qualities to pass things on with a title over generations.

This text from the Model Constitution is the first of many provisions which sexual discrimination is openly and blatantly described. That is despite the fact that most laws apply to both sexes equally and most offices are accessible to both equally. However, there are a good number of exceptions. The Emperor is and must be a male and man (although he could be so young that most moderns would not all him a man — to contend in Trials and Ordeals an Heir must have celebrated his thirteenth birthday and no more is required of age although age has advantages in the selection system so does youth). The Empress must be female and a woman. A Full Empress must be married to the Emperor in the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox Church. An Acting Empress must be appointed by the Emperor in the absence of an Empress. An Acting Empress can be the Emperor’s mother, legitimate and full gnealogical sister, or his legitimate daughter. She is required to be a female (as should be obvious) of at least fourteen years old. Aside from the fact that there has never been a female President of this republcan Union there are other advantages to women in the institution of the Empress. However tp justify all of this one must first revisit the question of whether or not discrimination between men and women is a correct course of actionfor a polity or not. I think men and women are very different and therefore must be regarded as such in the law.

First, human females are truly shockingly extraordinary. They are not only very different from men they are different from other female earthlings. Women distinguish our species so enormously that it is simply inevitable magic. The combination of human extreme bipedalism (walking on two feet) and the shape of chidlbearing hips combine with prominent breasts to create a figure which is very extreme sexual dsiplay compared to men’s beards and very little else is so specifically developed as sexual flesh. This is somewhat different from our nearest biological relatives the apes. It is very distinct from the myriad examples of ducks, deer, chickens, lions, turkeys and other well known species where the male expresses the physical “come hither” material in the sexual dialog. In most species there is either no sexual dimorphism meaning there is asexual morphism — meaning males and females look mostly alike OR the male wears the plumage.

Having shown a major difference we are only geeting started. A heathy adult female can have coitus on any day at any period of that day. Most females are penetrable (in species like large animals which penterate) only infrquently and are fertile only on these realtively rare occasions. Healthy adult human females are fertile and infertile every month when they are not pregnant or lactating to supply a dependent nursing heavily. The variations between fertile and infertile periods within the month are not common to the whole species nor linked closely to the weather but vary from woman to woman. Further, there is very little physical difference between fertile and infertile women so that estrus is largely hidden. This is also a very limiting set of sexual characteristics which human famles share with few if any other females on Earth if taken as a whole.

To add another level of complexity to the totality of the factors in the paragraph above the human female fertility cycle matches the length of one of the most obvious cycles on earth that of the moon but is not tied to its periodicity. It generaly runs according to the woman’s own biology but does tie in and sychronize to some degree with women she lives with and is somewhat (but very subtly and eraticaly) related to sexual stimulus from men especialy in very young women.

Additional to all the other differences there is the difference between the baby dlivered by a woman and an adult human. That difference is called the “degree of neotony”. Almost no creature has a greater degree of neotony and when one combines this degree of neotony with the degree of involvement and care a young human will generaly accept and seek from its mother this creates a greaer demand and matched capacity for mothering per individual human than almost any other earthly species.

These are actually only a few of the reasons why women are objectively one of the most fascinating and compelling subjects to which one could apply the human mind. I actually believe that one of the greatest windows for insight into the state of well-being, progress and potential of any society is to look at women as women within that society.

Here is a woman functioning in Acadian or Germano-Acadian home ‘s kitchen and living room where she plays a vital role in social and economic development in the family and community. The painting is in turn painted by another woman, my great-great-grandmother Regina Oubre Hollier. Dhe is drawing from childhood memories for the composition.

There are a great number of things to learn if one wants to understand womanhood and perhaps in the modern age we are losing the last ties to many of them. Among the most influential men of my own lifetime a few of them have been distinguished in large part by something having to do with sex and womanhood. These include Karol Wotija/ Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Hugh Heffner, Bill Clinton, Prince Charles Arthur George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha- Battenburg-Lyons-Windsor (or whatever one chooses to call the current Prince of Wales) and John F. Kennedy. However, unlike many religious people what strikes me about the modern era is how sexles and lifeless it is not how we are all a bunch of sex maniacs. These men while very different from one another are perhaps more normal in that sex is a pulsing shaping force in their public biography. Most modern biographies are perhaps best described as freakishly wierd. Sex is not a side note to the decisions people make in public office. Sex is very much a part of a sane governance. Sex is also enormously troublesome in our current poltical life. The Edwards trial, the IMF President DSK, the Secret Service Agents scandal in Colombia and the Clinton Impeachment are just a fewinstances whwere the trouble is very visible to everyone watching our system. The Emperor and Empress would change the sexual debates and dialogs in many ways without more heavy-handed hostility toward one group of people or another. There will be conflicts over sexual issues in the new regime but men and women will be acknowledged sexually in a better way than they are now simply by having an EMperor and an Empress.

In a royalist or aristocratic high republican or a number of other regimes the family has a stature which can tie together the privacy of sex, affection and home with the qualities of a public institution.The modern era has largely abandoned this whole vast set of institutions and patterns which tie these huge parts of the world together.

The point of all this is not that women should have no meaning or existence outside of their role as sexual coun terparts to men and mothers to children. However, the point is to show thattheir is almost limitless capacity for development and discussion in that aspect both of women and of the idea of women. To know woman one must first renounce that kind of asexual androgyny which has had a great deal of credence and influence in the world of my lifetime. Men and women are profooundly different and that difference is vital, useful and profoundly energizing in a decent and healthy society.

There are many layers of sexual exchange and perception between men and women. The Bible is one of the sources for wisom and the perception of ages regarding the relations of men and women. In the iconic story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis in the Bible Adam is the first man and his words upon seeing the first woman are memorable. As Genesis 2: 22b-25 states:” When he brought her to the man the man said.”This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;This one shall be called “woman” for out of “her man” this one has been taken.”That is why a man leaves his mother an father and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.The man and his wife were naked but they felt no shame.”

The extreme intimacy of the passage is in comparison to the anmials with whom Adam cannot marry or form an intimate partnership. But it remains a very intimate passage. There is almost nothing that has been more under sustained attack for millenia than this excited, intimate and personal recognition by man of his mate in women. Real moral science ia very demading and elegant pursuit and thus is more often abandoned than pursued. However, real moral science must always take a careful measure of relations between the sexes.

I think it deserves to be said in this context that I believe in a moral struggle as a desirable thing. I find that those who are not struggling have usually settled for something bad. One of the powerful shaping forces of humanity as it is remains the strong belief that anything related to the relational structure of humanity must either be very ancient, fixed and setled or else a really blank slate upon which any given generation can write or draw whatever it wants. For me I think that the entire mystery and meaning of humanity is something quite different. Humans have numerous intrinsic qualities that cannot really be changed much in any generation. Yet one may face the future with confidence when aware of these strictures of the past and present. A generation and an individual can compose any vast number of varied tunes using these notes given by nature. By preserving and fully working the great musical tradition one can even enhance the range and delicacy of notes available to future generations of musicians. Sexuality and the role of women is one of the great musical worlds in which the human race can operate. It is an area where we all practice some form of art whether or not we even acknowledge it.

What evolution, the idea of original sin, reincarnation, eugenics and quite a few other theories about the proper living out of humanity have in common is the idea that we pass on something different to the future based on our actions. Humans may not agree on what the mechanism for passing things on is, nor what ought to be passed on, nor how that which is passed on relates to present behavior. But in many different ways and at many different levels of intensity we remind ourselves and are reminded by those we put in charge of our most serious thinking that we are changing the present of future generations by how we live out our own present here and now.

This is a rather serious business and humans are able to make rather substantial changes in the population in relatively short periods of time. One of the most notable struggles of human race is our struggle to define and make ourselves as a species. That our greatest project is ourselves is a perspective which gives great importance to waman’s involvement in the human adventure. One of the characterisitics of the modern era is that we expect the totality of sexual relations to be easily defined. Consider that terms like: harem, concubine, paramour, mistress, courtesan, sister-wife, rival, Abbess, novice, midwife, maid, lady-in-waiting, placement, princess, Queen, Official Mistress and countless others once denoted roles which were available to women in many cases simultaneously and which in huge numbers of places have all disappeared down to the last one. I write here not so much to change the world but more as any defeated soldier may write when he decides that before his life ends he wants to make really clear how badly he views this new order and the triumph of what he fought against. So for me I see layer upon layer of both personal defeat and the coming to an end of much of what makes the human species human. It goes back to my recurring theme thayt life has mostly been a nightmare.

One thing about sex and womanhood being very near the core of the human moral struggle is that the issues related to womanhood and sexuality are subject to the same regional and epochal variations as are other part of the human moral drama. From my point of view I may say that all humans are severely confused and diseased in their understanding of these things. However, I would not say that they or we all suffer from the same delusion or disease. We may all be in error but we are in distinct errors across the species. A loose translation of the Bible called the Catholic Living Bible translates a passage as follows: Luke 11: 45-47a”Sir,” said an expert in religious law who was standing there, ” you insult my profession, too, in what you just said.””Yes,” said Jesus, “the same horrors await you! For you crush men beneath impossible religious demands that you yourselves would never think of trying to keep. Woe to you!””

Sex is an area where evil intentions , evil plans and hate often come dressed up as morality. One of the greatest problems humanity faces is the problem of overcoming the advantages acrued by evil in human affairs once evil is recognized as a real thing. I think that for me sex is an aspect of the human condition which accentuates hoew badly flawed our species is and yet, at the same time, is the point of glory at which we can most resemble the species we were once meant to be.

Sex remains the great risk and gamble on which we still place the most on the table. Where we can never entirely wipe out our divine destiny whether we believe in it or not.I think of Lawrence Summers my distinguished nonrelative ( as far as i know) who has had his name on the money of the United States of America and beeen president of Harvard and I think of the uproar and probable beginings of the move to boot him from the presidency of that famed institution. He merely suggested that the difference in representatation in hard sciences and maths and engineering between men and women migh have something to do with natural predilections varying by sex. He did not say women could not be good engineers, scientists or mathematicians. This is a story where I think the female faculty at Harverd is 100% justified in being very vigilant to the point of near para noia in guarding access to these fields for women candidates. I think Lawrence Summers — aside from having phenomenaly good taste in last names — was fully justified in speculating that there may be proclivities varying by sex which were relevant here. I think in that regard both sides in the dispute acted as relatively wise and intelligent people. Nonethless, I would favor the Swedish Parliament funding a Special “Silly Goose Award” comparable to the Nobel prizes they already give out and making all parties to this public dispute designated recipients. “Sex” it has often been said “makes fools of us all”.

Misogyny is a quality which abounds among the total population of male humans. But degrading all tradtional familial institutions and not allowing men to feel like men is not excusable anyway. Killing love and marriage is not godd for women. Neither is covering over millions of cases of rape with non-notification laws on abortions for teenage girls. America must support the royalist opportunities for women in the world if it is to be a substantially feminist society. It must also acknowledge it exists in the world that is full of real institutional brutality and abuse against women like the female genital mutilation of millions of women throughout the world to destroy their sexuality. So is the killing of countless girls and women without prosecution by their families and lovers every year in the worst situations and without hope of justice huge portions of the world. I am not sure the ladies of Harvard can afford quite the ivory tower they live in. However, in that way they resemble their male counterparts.

I do not believe that the story at the begining of the book of Genesis was written by Moses after visiting the origins of the human species in a time machine. I do not believe the writer had a Ph. D. in biology. I do not believe it is a book coded from another book which was largely a straight first hand bio-history of its time — that is what I believe about the Gospels. I am even willing to say that he early stories are myths which is a word that atheistic relativistic scholars love to use for them. However, I do think that they are true stories written to pass on ancient coded trruths and insights which come from miraculousy ancient parts of the human story. Why is so much in the Bible coded?

That is a question for a long an important note on another occasion. In this note we will examine a bit more of Adam and Eve. There are three phases of the sexual relationship betwwen the two. in very general terms I mean for one could argue for a dozen phases.

The first is the phase in Genesis 2: 22-25b which I have already quoted this is the relationship between Man and Woman which God intended as unique to the human species. This really reflected the Image of an ultimate divine nature. The qualities of that relationship are intimacy, passion, empathy, excitement sex, good bodily self-image and fertitlity. It sounds tiring to those of us with enough mileage but otherwise one who can think can see the logic and goodness of it.

To preserve this humanity needed God’s friendship and to avoid eating the fruit of the knowleddge of Good and Evil. The writer here is using code for cannibalism. Yes, that again. The passage says that iti is a tree in the middle of the garden of course humans are in the middle of their own world always. That on the day one eats it humans will die and again if humans are eaten then the human eaten will die. It brings knowledge of Good and Evil and we actually have a lot of data across many centuries and cultures to show that eating human flesh is a passage which brings cunning, insioght and moral guilt into human minds in a unique way whether the society endorses or forbids cannibalism.

The last set of relations is the abusive marrasige and the loss of God’s friendship which define behavior which is in the survivable margin for humans as we currently are. These last two phases of the story are descibed in Genesis Chapter three. We all are still living in the last phase at best from the story’s own point of view.

It goes far beyond my capacity in time and space in tis note to show instances of cultures where men have driven their lands into desert and ruin to make sure that women were sastarving and dispossessed and fit into one of three (to them) acceptable catgories hyper-breeding terrified slaves, spies or religiously deluded cattle reared as food. rthis of course has always included the need to kill and maim some large number of men who cannot overcome (or heroicaly resist overcoming) their lover for mothers, sisters, and female lovers. Some of the time homosexuals have led this misogynistic elte.

Life is often hell and human society often a sewer which exceeds my capcity to espress and usually it involves building things on one of two principles men hating women or women hating children. Often this is dressed up as religion or ideology but it is really about that. This engine allows the most foul and wothless kinds of people to amss almost all available power and resources. It has happened occasionaly since time imemorial.

The sexualy intense path of paradise requires lots of restriction and guidance in the real world. It always has unless you believe we may have had an unfallen Eden somewhere in the pre-historic past. But it is the path which produces real joy and love, wealth, pressure for progress and other necessities. I presume that almost everyone alive today is someone I would consider fundamantally insane. But I do not take such a dim view of insanity as some do. Homosexuality is a condition of some sons of women which is in my view tolerable when thaose who are homosexual know it is a limiting thing and have the humility to see it as a special status with some rewards like a special survival adaptation or even a near talent and some disease-like qualities requiring a routine of self -care such homosexuals are plenty sane enough to be in the category of people saner than a whole lot of fellow humans. The same is true for homosexuals they publicly acnkowledge it as a kind of loss in bio-sweepstakes in which they make the best out of a less than first place postion. But there are many modern American homosexuals who are lying evil men supported by many feminists encouraging other evil men in a way which opens on to an ininite pool of evil. Yes sexuality can be evil and not just in aggressive direct ways that very strong heterosexuls can do evil.

Women are tied to certain kinds of inferiority too. The way a man is supposed to feel superior is in the act of achieving coital satisfaction. Unthinkably in allowing the killer and crusher in him to feel fed by her sufferings in pregnancy and child birth and then letting the good and protective part of him make it up to her in other ways. Women are supposed to have a capacity for maistakes as a class which is not the same in men. If women stopped getting pregnant and being a little optimistic about it when everything was bleak and horrible there would never be a brighter tomorrow. What is wrong is that there have for hundreds of centuries been people racing to the bottom, giving women less and less of their share for breeding expenses as it were. There is a lot more I could say on this subject. Men have also been maimed and crippled by women in many ways and that is also part of the drama.

Darwin is selected as the father of modern evolutionary science partly because he earned it and partly for the toxic views on sexuality, breeding, polygamy and other sexual subjects. We have been poisoned by political pseudo-science against a real and worthy understanding of sex. I believe that we all face a need for learning more and better views of marriage, culture , midwifery and other subjects. However, only when humanity is able to see that women were maent to inflame men and so were made by God and yet we cannot handle it can we begin to handle it. I truly think that both medical contraception and the church sponsored studies of natural family planning in recent centuries can bring us much closer to what we are meant to be. And yet I would be lying if I said that I believe the Catholic Hierarchy or Gynecolgists have handled the test very well. I think there is a massive sexual crisis on Earth and that is a separate note because it relates mostly to the last 1,500 years where as what I have discussed is about all humans at all times. In the West our current disoprder is usually to be blindly iresponsible and lie about why. In the East it is to use responsibility as an excues for racing to the worst positions because they are sustainable. I think that anyone who believes in a God Gods, Fates, Karma or Providence should be very afraid to account for our species’ sexual legacy. The rest of you, well you sort of amuse me –maybe that is your cosmic purpose.

In this new Constitution a man and a woman who are either married to one another or else have another close family tie preside over the Empire in an ultimate Earthly sense. They provide an exmple that may not be what most Americans in power want but is what the whole society needs. We shall see in the next note and Section Three that the ordinary exercise of political power remains in the hands of persons more analogous to our current republican presidents. These officials will now be called First Executive Vice Presidents. However, the Acadian and Louisiana Titles, the Imperial House and Tribe will all be recognized by the United States Ordinary Executive. In addition the Head of State, whether Emperor of Empress will retain some executive perogatives. The Empress will also have some executive perogatives which are hers as Empress and do not depend on the arrival of times when she is the Full Head of State or near to that because the Emperor is absent or dead.

***** ******* ****** ******
Article Three: The Executive and the Monarchy
This is a complicated and vital section of this document and charter. There will be a Jurisdiction called the Direct Imperial Government where the Emperor will function as a Royal and powerful chief executive, The Imperial House where he will operate as a Royal Despot in a Constitutional House, an Imperial Tribe where he will reign and rule in an extremely complex non-state traditional constitutional mixed government, and a Harem within the House where he will be an absolute authority in one sphere. All of this is only part of his possible collection of functions. However his function in this Empire as Emperor will be as described and defined in this Constitution.
Section One: The Emperor and Supreme President
This is the greatest new change. At the time of the Founding all executive and Command power will be in the Emperor who is also head of State. The Emperor will entrust ordinary exercise of this power to the First Executive Vice President after he and the Second and Deputy Executive Vice President are duly elected and have paid him public homage.
Section Two: The Empress and Temporary Supreme President
The Empress will be full Head of State during an Interregnum if she is full Empress. She will be Supreme Deputy Head of State in Absence or Indisposition of the Emperor. There can be times when she has his full Executive Authority. Normally she will be a mjor executive figure between the Highest minister and the Emperor in the DIG. This is also a transformative position and state in which all language is presumed to require some change in law and constitution compared to the state of law and policy in the Second Union.
***** ***** ***** **** **** ****

If you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this the numberless and untitled preamble as well as in Section One “The Emperor and Supreme President” and Section Two “The Empress and Temporary Supreme Presidenti” n Article Three ” The Executive and the Monarchy” is that for our system to work there must be an effective executive and more as well. This portion of the article introduces to us the idea of a royal man and a royal woman holding some executive power as heads of state. We are made aware that the next section will deal with a figure more like the current President of the republican Union.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussions on the Model Constitution (10th in a Series): Congress and the Full Society Budget

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (10th in Series): Congress and the Full Society Budget
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 10:09am ·
This Note will be about the Section Five of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following link:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

The Congress in this Model Constitution will be a much larger body and and will interact with a more complex structure. This in turn will coincide with an economic philiosophy which has a particular set of realities to contend with in guiding society. This fifth section of article two is one of many sections dominated by a list which is given meaning elsewhwere in the Constitution, one will need to know what a guild is under the new regime, what the Imperial Tribe is and a great deal about the Household. Those things are defined but elsewhere. Should this Constitution be ratified it would be published with crossreferences, footnotes and a glossary. The crossreferences alone would have a more or less official quality, the other two would be unofficial reader’s aids. However, in this note discussing a text in which lists dominate I will get the reader used to dealing with lists by having several in the discussion section of the note itself. There have been many regimes founded mostly on an economic philiosophy such as Communist and Socialist transformations most of all and even Fascist and National Socialist revolutions to a lesser degree. While Capitalists sometimes say so, this Second Union of the United States of America was scarcely founded on the basis of an economic philosophy. There are elements of economic philosophy in its founding but that is a different thing. This transformation is more economic in nature as is the Constitution of the Third Union compared to the current Second Union. Nonetheless, economic philosophy is not the central much less the vastly preponderant basis and theme of this transformation. Also, this economic philosophy is not the work of a single man such as this writer seeking to impose an effective theory on everything. The econmic philosophy can correctly be said to have elements of very ancient European, Acadian, American Aboriginal and even African Tribal roots. It can be said to have elements of classical capitalist, pure free market capitalist, socialist, communist and fascist ideology — this mixture is unusual but not as unique in practice ast the public discourse might make it appear to be as one reads these lines. The main feature of this economic philosophy is bow it works itself out and how its limits are defined. Here is the first list in this note:

1. Mostly this regime leaves intact the edifice of economic definitions and structures created by State and Federal Law, by corporate and individual contracts and by professional codes and regulations in this the Second Union.
2. Through the creation of the new Jurisdictions and the establishment of an Empire it reshapes the functioning of certain trends in the economy.
3. Through reforms like the removal of the social goal of reacial equality, the creation of the line item veto, the maps and varied property regimes required for special jurisdictions and creation of small dedicated set-asides the regime establishes a framework for wealth and prosperity of the Union as a whole which does not currently exist.
4. Through replacing the anti-trust system with the guild system the Union will be able to at least aspire to an economy that can survive and prosper in the real world without becoming an increasingly decadent economic oligarchy.
5. Only in a relative handful of fairly small and minimalist new institutions does the new regime truly positively act to produce one of several influences on society in an affirmative sense.

There is no disputing the fact that in some ways our current society is a very great and powerful ecnomic success. Nonethless, it is more difficult to measure such things than is admitted. There is in this regime a great settling up of accounts that is not reflected on modern balance sheets and a restructuting few accountants would acknowledge as such. Less emphatic a certainty than almost all believe it to be we may still be currently the largest economy in the world ( by about half the reported margin). However, the fullness of the economic policy of this regime has implications for how Congress will do its job. The current fiscal and economic system is showing signs of strain and disorder. There is an economic reality to fiscal policy which many of us want to avoid confronting and dealing with in life. This regime puts into concrete form an alternative economic philiosophy to the one currently in effect. The fiscal crisis is part of the total geopolitical crisis which is in paret related to the careful defining of capitalism, socialism and other highly developedeconomic theories and philosophies of our time.

Our overall vision of the way fiscal policy ought to work is out of line. We must face the consequences of not having a healthier view of things.

We must create a sound fiscal policy.It must in turn be tied to a sound economic philosophy. Furthermore, it must respond to the state of affairs in which this constitutional transformation is occuring. This Section Five of Article Two helps to define how Congress as a whole can be connected to an even larger definition of this constituted society than the Federal government itself.

The crisis we face is not marginal. Our overall point of view is unsustainably bad and very unsuitable to our situation. It is time to fix the value of our money to a nuanced metallic policy. That metal standard is defined elsewhere in this constitution. Instead of doing all sorts of extreme and unsustainable things to curry favor with the world we should fulfill the obligation that we entered into when we became the world’s default currency of record after World War II. America left this responsibility behind when Nixon changed the policy and unpegged the US currency from gold. We foment a policy of dishonor, chaos and random suffering when we constantly meddle with other currencies and have no basis or standard for our complaints or behavior.

America shows evidence that it is under deep and dangerous strain. Congress needs more than a warning to deal well with a crisis but it does need that early information and the opportunity to be warned. Americans had a little news at almost this time last year that Standard & Poor gave a negative outlook report on the nation’s credit rating– as it is expressed in the US government’s credit rating. The notice merely indicates that the credit rating may be reduced from a triple A rating (AAA) to something lower. It did not actually lower the rating when it sent that April 18 notice. The action that actually lowered the rating did come but it came later.

However, it was a significant bit of financial news that gave Congress and the reat of us a chance to react to what might be coming our way in terms of fiscal and economic developments. I think that in the ability to service paper debts the United States is still very strong indeed and yet it is much weaker than it once was and it is still dangerously and badly structured debt. It is still part of a currency sytem that troubles me. Whether the degradation in our system is bad enough that it is necessary for people mostly concerned with the single aspect of wealth which involves paying ones debts to lower the credit rating that relates to paying debts I do not know. I do know that as regards this aspect of wealth America is very resilient.

Congress will need to play a role in the complex interface with the new Imperial structures which in many ways are so much smaller than the continuing Federal and Union structures from our current republic. This bridging and a larger focus function will be achieved through an annual full service budget conference. This is outside the regular legislative function and that is why it has its own section in this article. Even the conference is narrow compared to all that is the true economy. The economy widens our view to things Standard and Poors seldom considers as well as what it does consider. The totality of our economic problems goes far beyond even what the conference directly is here required to address. I will empower some groups to work togeether in broader ways and that will be an improvement. However, there are other measures of wealth about which I am more concerned. Here are twelve measures of wealth in which I feel the United States of America is on the wrong track or an insecure footing that Standard and Poor’s rating probably did not take into account in most cases, and only barely concerned themselves with in other cases. The following things which will be addressed in the new regime as economic do not show up on a national spreadsheet at the current time.

1. I am concerned about coastal erosion in Louisiana and the Mississippi delta region and the loss of land hurricane barriers, habitat and the natural support of what are among America’s most viable fisheries industries.

2. I am concerned about the Atchafalya estuary and the failure to invest in routing fresh water through it in the countless ways that could and should have been done cost -effectively long ago.

3. I am concerned about ending our heavy lift rocketry and human crew space travel capacity and about what the cessation of the shuttle program means.

4. I am concerned about the absence of apprenticeships, “shop classes” in sound high school programs and the network of real liberal education programs and employers as all resources flow to a shallow conception of technocracy.

5. I am concerned about the toxic relationships I perceive between labor, industry and government which join to block off hundreds of good futures.

6. I am concerned about the many signs of the erosion of marrige in a society where the family was already too weak to allow for many good things to happen.

7. I am concerned about the declining resources of newspapers as a sector and the vaccuum created by their decline.

8. I am concerned about the weakness and shrinkage of the varied family farm sector in its better incarnations.

9. I am concerned about the wastage and weakness of human intelligence and diplomacy assets over decades.

10. I am concerned about the lack of a stronger reserve infrastructure of gardens, cottage industry and kinship networks.

11. I am concerned about the decline of many of our most secure tax bases.

12. I am concerned about the decline of constitutional education and thought among certain vitally influential groups.

So, these are my concerns. What kind of country will we have left when we pay off our staggering debt — if we do pay it? The Congress will host a conference which will enable the Congress and others to do the hard work of shaping the economy through a set of specific and rather minimal influences that will begin in the Conference and then continue mostly under Imperial auspices.

I have gotten around to advocating large-scale change.That is what this Model Constitution is mostly about. The future is not at all certain and so I am playing the long pass and the swing for the fences. I think that unless we succeed in greatly and profoundly transforming the discourse we are just burning through all hope, long-term capital, and resources to make a decent and livable future. However, in the end perhaps a brutal stupidity is the greatest of all superior powers. If one has enough brutal stupidity one can always feel that one is doing the best that can be done. One can always believe that one’s faults and shortcomings or inconsequential and the myriad lies, offenses and acts of intellectual and other kinds of looting and thievery can first be justified and then rationalized.

Our destruction of linguistic and cultural wealth is real and horrific. Our support of ecological degradation around the world in countless ways is real and horrible. Our failure to recognize the ugly truths of ISlamic desert making in many areas is real and horrible. Our failure to educte young women in the difficult reality of both all that they can be and also of the reality of how a woman’s place in society must be secure in ways that amn’s need not be and not by constant regulatory meddling and welfare. Our misallocation of helathcare resources is real and horrible. Almost every day of my life I have lived in the sense not of how gosh darn wonderful life is but of how amazingly horrible the world and the human adventure has become and how (in so many both distinct and combining ways) we live in the worst of all possible (really possible that is) worlds. It is certain then that despite efforts at moderation, this regime would come into being with many enemies in many parts of the political and economic world. In return the regime can mostly offerthe sober rewards of sanity which always seem a bit small compared to the possible rewards of looting and insanity. The programs and changes I propose would involve one of those periods when a significant part of humanity engages in setting things right and cleaning things up. It will be a costly period of progress if it happens and that progress will not endure forever as a living process. However, I believe that it from such periods as I hope to see coming into being that much of the survivability and almost all the good progress of the human race has largely come. Great and vast projects , a healthy economy, habitat growth, a strong military and real conservative caution are all required goals for our society. This regime will put us all in the business of dealing with all those demanding realities to differing degrees. Our view of what is necessary is very deficient.
.
Our dreams are also in trouble. The Bible is not (except in a handful of places) really in the category of dreams, fiction and what could be if all were perfect. Far more often, the Bible contains elements of history and biography as written in a particular time on the one hand. While on the other hand it includes advice for imperfect communities of imperfect people aspiring to a perfect communion and a plan of life progressing towards perfection. However, science fiction is about dreams and I have also written about it in these posts. I really enjoy the things that are being filmed and written today. I see a lot of good in them. However, I see that there is so little being done about using resources of our own solar system and of our seas in ways that we could if we perfected and enhanced existing technologies and had the heroic spirit easily created in fiction. Even our dream machine is failing to lead us forward.

When I think that we put men on the Moon more than forty years ago and exploded a nuclear device more than fifty years ago it makes me very aware that we have not followed the paths to a full a rapid development of the kind of resources in outer space which would make it possible for us to have a more slow and cautious pace in the full and rich development of ourselves. One great truth which Thomas Jefferson was very aware of and wrote about a good bit during his life was that America offered humanity a chance at a better path of development if it allowed people to slowly evolve from healthy agrarian communities. This kind of development need not oppose science and venture such a s founding universities (like Jefferson’s University of Virginia) nor need it oppose technology (just as the USA led demand and assisted in the growth of key technologies like rifles, railroads and telegraphs more than other countries of comparable importance because it had so many agrarian centers to link together over a large area). We really should have a thriving colony on the Moon by now just as we really should have many other things as a human species. Like many of the challenges involved in developing the United States we would find that the colony was pushing nuclear, communications, solar power, recycling and other vital technologies. However, working on these technologies without a great cause like the space colonies will not pay as well and therefore will harm far more people and other living things than necessary. We can define free market capitalism as we define and practice it these days as the fine art of kicking the can down the road. Many other economic systems have been worse. However, the fact that there are so many other worse alternatives does not mean that there are not also better ones left untried. In fact it does not mean that we do not face terrible consequences for not doing better than we are doing.

One can think of the billions of gallons of untreated sewerage that enter the water surrounding cities at the same time when many of thee cities have people who need low-level jobs and a demand for the fodder that could be grown on marginal lands with slightly treated waters and their heavy organic waste loads. We are all drunk on and addicted to the kind of liquidity our economic doctrines, models and concepts. We can think of how little attention we have given to fixing our decaying dams and sewer lines in the United States and remember that we are still above average in regards to some of our infrastructure. Katrina in New Orleans and 9-11 in New York are both small tastes of the horrible feast being served to the world. Worldwide humanity is failing to make key improvements to its infrastructure as it make widespread increases in demand on both the infrastructure and the surrounding environment.

Family farms and foundations as well as all sorts of laws and programs which support varied forms of community striving to be viable in a complete way must be successful participants in the change we need. We must include the right kind of input from the groups which can reward respect for the slow and precious values capitalism ( and many other systems) can only destroy unless they are kept in check by other values. Those values must be supported by the institutions which are able to act within a structurally secure position within society. The guilds which will usually represent various regional industries and be required to have a guildhall in Direct Imperial Government Jurisdiction will be joined to special estates and the new Jurisdictions to change the values of our country to an economic system that attempts to preserve and enhance the greatest and most enduring values.

Congress and the Federal Government will not seek to control all that the new regime will be and that in itself makes it
challenging to decide exactly what belongs in this Model Constitution.
1. The era we live in focuses more on society as an institution than on family or community and to a degree that is not desirable. Yet ironically we also deemphasize society too much compared to the concept of the economy and the drive of personal gain. These are important things but are often excessively prioritized in this era.
2. I have reached the point where I am openly working to help usher in a new era. I am encouraging others to take more or less pronounced actions to help bring us into a new era. This is not a position to which I have applied myself as directly and for as long in the past although I have worked for several transformative causes.
3.We will need constitutional support for the structure of families and communities within a more intrinsically stable society.

This Constitution urges a citizenship and populace to function as effectilvely as a free people in a complex society, On the other hand it is not an entirely new thing either. That is how both America and the international order of things would be after being revamped and brought into a new order. This has been a bit of a rambling discussion but has reached it conclusion anyway. Here follows the text of the Section of the Constitution under review in this Note:

****** ******* ******* ******* ******** ******
Section Five: Hosting the Annual Full Society Budget Conference
Subsection One: Scheduling and Logistics
Provision One: Two weeks before the meeting of the Grand Senatorial Congress Session the leaders of each Chamber of the Congress shall elect fifteen members of their own chamber along with between ten and fifteen leaders in office to host Annual Full Society Budget Conference. This Conference shall last a week.
Provision Two: The Senate shall host five Censors elected by the Censors, five GRIHHA members elected thereby, five members Imperial Tribal Conseil des Droits elected thereby, ten members of the DIG Council of Nobles elected thereby and fifteen Jurisdictional Electors for life by scheduled rotation.
Provision Three: The House of Representatives shall host five guildlords it shall select itself, two representatives selected by the lower house of each Compact Legislature, five representatives of the Lower Chamber of the DIG Legislature elected by themselves, seventy untitled persons chosen at random from the rolls of the Imperial Tribe and twenty seats sold at auction with proceeds paying into the Conferences Budget.
Provison Five: The Administrators of the Imperial House and Household Bank shall administer the work of the Conference and the Bank’s Comptroller General shall be the President of the Conference. The Censors, the Internal Revenue Service and the Senate Working Group will submit a summary of collections and how they were derived on their first meeting and the Senate-hosted Confreres will certify it. The House Working Group, the Congressional Budget and the Internal Revenue Service will report on the work of the last year’s conference and projected changes and the House-hosted Confreres will certify that report. This shall be done on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday there will be a joint conference of all members and Bill of Constitutional Set-asides of Federal Collections will be read.
Subsection Two: Distributions
Provision One: Four percent of all Federal revenues in each year will be set aside in advance of each conference. It is to be understood that much of this money is to be recovered by the Federal budget proper.
Provision Three: On Wednesday evening all special tarrifs and milages collected by the Federal government and dedicateded to others shall be paid. Thursday morning Imperial House funds for the Grand Senatorial Council will be certified. Then all Constitutional transfers between the Federal government and the Imperial tribe. this includes the transfer at that time of one half of one mil of all funds collected by each of these two parties to the other or the difference transferred by the larger budget.
Provision Four: The Budgetary Conference will oversee and certify all of the transaction of the last year in the DIG’s report on Guilds as specified in the following provison and fund their federsal share of the following year according to these same billings and rules:
1. The federal government will distribute one percent of all revenue it collects among the capital trusts of the guilds each year. A third will be divided among the guilds according to a formula that does not take into account annual performance. E third will be divided by the fulfillment of the general standards for best guilds and each guild will receive a share according to a performance score. The last third will be in a relatively few awards presented at a banquet for winners of prizes based on great excellence which will be held the week after the Budgetary Conference .
2. No less than seventy percent of all Federal government vendors in each and every sense and category shall be Guild approved interests. Complaints related to this will be certified by the Conference.
Provision Five: The Senate-hosted Confreres will appoint five members of the Senate to the next year’s Senate Working Group. The House-hosted Confreres will appoint ten members of the House of Representatives to the House Working Group.
Provision Six: The Imperial Household Bank will charge the Federal budget one percent of the amount of the specifed Constitutional federal set-asides. Then the Bank will report how much is left in the four percent set-aside from general Federal funds. The Confreres by simple majority of each house will dedicated at least a tenth and as much as half of the remainder to the Conference Continuity Project.
Provision Seven: The Conference Continuity Project will be staffed solely by the the Imperial House and Household Bank, the Senate Working Group and the House of Representatives Working Group. Their funds shall consits of up to ten percent for admistrative contracting, ten percent for their own properly billed services and the rest divded equaly into three parts or returned on the next year. These will be emergency grants to any government in the empire, innovation grants to any guild in the Empire and honors awarded to the best bureaucrats and bureaucracies in operating with fiscal discipline and economic efficiency in any and all governments within the Empire. The Emperor will be the veto-power President of Conference Continuity Project.
***** ******* ****** ****** ******* ****** ***** *** ***

f you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this Section Five “Hosting the Annual Full Society Budget Conference” in Article Two “Congress ” is that for our system to work there must be an effective means for Congress which is at the heart of that political life which we will all share under the proposed Model Constituion. The Senate is already tied to a larger set of institutions through the Grand Senatorial Council but the Congress entirely and jointly be allowed and encouraged to interface with the rest of society. That includes the guilds which are vital to the new larger economic philosophy and ideology . There are varied economic institutions which have their own nature and their own exigencies even under our current Constitution. However, there will be all the essential functional componenets of a particular royalist monarchy. In addition both government economic interest and functions and those of private enterprises are affirmed. They are preserved and are more different in the Model Constitution than under the one currently in force. The private enterprises in the Empire and Union’s sway have a new life in the establishment of Guilds which embody a sort of public economic covenant that is not the government. This is a path that is neither capitalism, socialism or fascism as these ideas have been understood. The functions of the Congress are delineated in such a way that one can see that although they are a legislature their functions are broader than legislation proper. This conference is a function outside of legislation proper required of the Congress by the new consitution.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussions of the Model Constitution (9th in a Series): Special Duties and Privileges of Congress

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (9th in Series): Special Privileges and Duties of Congress
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 11:37pm ·
This Note will be about the Section Four of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following link:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

I am exploring what a particular version of another American Revolution might mean. By revolution I mean not only to the Left but in the older sense where various political forms were seen as points on a wheel and sometimes it was necessary to move the wheel radically to a new position for a society to survive. I am looking at what this would mean for the Congress which was such a central part of the revolutionary period which formed our current Second Union and the First Union under the Articles of Confederation. The Congress will still be very important in this proposed third Union. This is in part about where that status and importance could come out of and where it might bring us. Here, in this post I will very briefly try to draw out the continuity of Congress from our Revolutionary Heritage, through the Congress as it it today and on into the Congress as it would exist in and under this Model Constitution. Many of the Founders of our current Union were eager to make sure the Congress and the Union were far more complete political structures than a mere democracy, thus in many ways this third union will complete the promise of the first and second. It is often forgotten that founders such as Adams were more openly critical of the whole espousing of Democracy as an ideal and they did not believe that they had intended to create a democracy nor that such had been the result of their efforts. Adams was on the committee which assisted Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence and approved it before submitting it to Congress. Yet he did not hesitate to declare. “Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” John Adams There are many elements besides democracy which are supposed to be operating in our country’s governance and conventual. We are a country founded on getting these mechanics right under an accepted and specific constitution which provides the ground rules and lines of operation for the “game” which is government and indirectly culture and society. There is no way that people can all be persuaded to understand the same questions as being priorities nor to come up with an understanding that the same answers are always right and especially not right for all. This is a Congress proposed under the Model Constitition which balances racial interests, is more inclusiive, balances the access points for women. I t assures both preservation of the republican heitage of theUnion in many ways as wellas assuring royalist and aristocratic influences. That means it must be and remain a Congress where conflict and negotiation are nearly inevitable — that milieu is what we should expect and hope for in our future. Naive optimism is how our enemies have described our nation’s political philosophy but it is not fair even to our most idealistic founder: ”An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.” The previous sentence was authored by the famed idealist Thomas Jefferson. There is more than conflict resolution here that is intended. Federalism itself allows some conflicts not to be resolved and states to live under different laws while all still are participating in the great American society with its greater resources and grand purposes. Far from Term Limits for everyone I believe that in a new constitutional order we should have three US Senators for each State. Let popular elections choose two as has become habitual but let a third one be elected by the state legislatures (as in the original constitution) but let this one officer be subject to certain qualifications tests (not too onerous) and be elected for a longer term. The new regime will in the very fabric of the House of Representatives allow a new and more mature “national” federal self knowledge known by the Censors who also play other roles in Congress without being members of Congress in the strict or regular sense. Let former Presidents, retired General Officers and the US and retired Justices of the US Supreme Court serve on a small per diem and their pensions as Censors. Let them control the Census now taken by the Commerce Department and also create districts and apportion seats for Congress. Let them serve independently and for life. Let them also hold some power over the organs for ethics in the federal government. Radical as this may seem there is evidence the founders thought we should get to this eventually. This Council of Censors would restore the nondemocratic elements which have wasted away and left us in chaos as we see all power in the hands of popular majorities. That is very un-American. We have a more complex society now and it should be under a more complex government not a less complex one.The Censors will intime help to lift Congress to a much more esteemed place as an institution than where it currently is and the cost in power to create districts is well repaid in the worth of the Congress that is gained in increased trustworthiness and dignity.

This Congress has a varity of roles in rebuilding the worth and dignity of our instituions. This is a matter of instituions which are effective and yet can also inspoire a little bit of respect even in an adversary. This moral aspiration is part of our hertage as a union. Neither the current Constitution nor this Model Constitution were designed to consider all starting positions as equal. Neither was crafted so that all ideas and ways of life could start on exactly the same footing. Few were more in touch with the founding of the country that is the USA than John Adams and he did not hesitate to write about what was to be favored. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams. Nor was Adams merely concerned with any kind of piety. He could not have been more certain in his own mind of the pre-eminence of Judaeo- Christian values and cultural traditions in forming the national fabric. “The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ” John Adams. Remember that the racial and ethnic implications are coming out clearly from one of the Declarers select committee. This diverse proposed Congress is more rooted and secured in its Americanism than is the one we currently have in power.

After the addition of the State of Puerto Rico there would be no new States added without a Constitutional amendment. There would also be the one additional Senator for each State elected by the State Legislature and serving a longer term. That would bring the total number of US Senators to 153. These Senators from the States would with the Second or Deputy Executive Vice President would constitutite the Senate Proper and would serve for all purposes of Law, Procedure, Equity and Normal Business. They would be the only ones allowed to vote when the Senate considered such matters. However, there would be a number of additional members of high office and some elected by the Censors and Tribunes to serve in a Grand Senatorial Council entitled to vote on some amendments to the Constitution and a variety of other matters of very special and limited types of acts. The current Congress of the United States numbers a bit under 550 and the new Congress would number a bit under 1000. This would be more in line with our revolutionary heritage.

Obama ran on the slogan of “Change you can believe in!” It may turn out in 2012’s November election that his policies are now change you can be leaving behind.Or it may turn out that this will be the midway point in an eight year period of his Presidency. At least that may be how many people are trying to see many of the thrusts of the Obama program. Well we did see the Democrats lose the giant gavel of the House of Representatives which transferred from Pelosi to Boehner’s Republicans, let us not read too much into the change of party control in the House of Representatives. Barack Hussein Obama can certainly continue to come back among many voters during the rest of 2012 when his own name is on the ballot and when many people in this country will vote for the black man without reference to any other issue. History shows that vey often once blacks have gotten someon of the right skin tone into an office they will do all that is necessary to keep him there and then see him succeeded by another black man (or sometimes woman) that will often not have anything to do with other support for that executive’s legislative slate, policy or popularity in general. For Obama this election may have very little significance as a harbinger for next chance to finish destroying the country with hate, racism and hypocrisy which are the heart and soul of his life and our country in so many of it worst hours whether black or white inquity is involved. The other issues of getting citizen politicians involved, of challenging statism and of resolving the problems of the economy or also interesting. I think there are some good ideals in this ever-changing political world. However, it is possible and even likely that like the readership of this blog the USA is in systematic and permanent decline.
In Louisiana I am able to say that Republican US Senator Vitter won reelection by a large margin. I voted for Vitter in 2004 but this time in 2010 I voted against him and for lifelong Democrat Charlie Melancon whose COngressional District was changing because of the fact that my Senator David Vitter first sought to further shelter BP from Louisiana’s wrath and because I thought Melancon was interesting and for other ethnic reasons which served as a tie-breaker in the decision I suppose. Of course in the Federal picture these were all conventional politics and these notes I am writing are about Constitutional reform and change. However, in Louisiana we had a very large number Constitutional issues grouped into a number of Constitutional Ammendments that were up for a popular vote. I did inform myself about these things and I did vote on each Constitutional Ammendments. I also saw that most of the Constitutional Ammendment in my State went the way I voted. For me it is almost always a matter of mixed results. The proposed Congress like the current one will be a web of persons and relationships that attracts connected people who continue to weav more connections and who holds posts which are vulnerable to the vicissitudes of national and local politics.

Congress has ties to the experience of violence in the world an the Union. It has toies to universities and in the case of Senator John Glen and a number of others with the elite world of astronauts. Each person in Congress is in themselves a vital part of our national and federal dialog and so they must be both protected and assisted. This was recently brought home to all of us in a new way as it often has been before. January 9th which followed the midterm elections was my father’s 68th birthday. I was busy with issues and activities related to this event. However, January 9, 2011 was also the occasion of a tragedy which occurred at a “Congress On Your Corner” event hosted by Gabrielle Giffords, the only member of Congress married to an active duty member of the United States military. This shooting spree yesterday in Tucson killed a child recently elected to student council and who was there to see how government works as well as a federal judge and several other peope. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of them and to those who are suffering the loss of treasured friends and family members.
Congresswoman Giffords had been a fairly young and exciting kind of Democrat serving the people of Southern Arizona. It was in this innovative and open spirit that her office has held these “Congress on Your Corner” events. Rapid response by a number of people has resulted in some survivals, the aprehending of the shooter and other good outcomes in this horrible incident. However, I have little unique information to occasion my commenting on this and leaving out some names and mentioning others. “Congress on Your Corner” allows residents of Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to meet their congresswoman one-on-one and discuss with her any issue, concern or problem involving the federal government. The Lictors in the new Cogress will not guarantee safety or even a decrease in violence but in time will devlope a capacity to support others in protecting the COngress they police so that one person is less able to frustrate the voice of the people. I have been and am in contact with the Space community and so I am aware of Congresswoman Gifford as one who knows something about this field. I am reproducing her astronaut husband’s statement from her website:
Statement from U.S. Navy Captain Mark Kelly“On behalf of Gabby and our entire family, I want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the people of Arizona and this great nation for their unbelievable outpouring of support. Gabby was doing what she loved most – hearing from her constituents – when this tragedy occurred. Serving Southern Arizonans is her passion, and nothing makes her more proud than representing them in Congress.
“Like all Americans, we mourn the loss of Gabe Zimmerman, a fine man and beloved member of Gabby’s team, Judge John M. Roll, Christina Taylor Green, Dorothy Morris, Phyllis Schneck, and Dorwan Stoddard. We must never forget them, and our prayers are with their families. Our hearts go out to everyone injured yesterday; we hope and pray for their quick recovery. We also extend our thanks and appreciation to all of the first responders, medical personnel, law enforcement, and Arizona citizens who acted swiftly yesterday and continue to assist our community through this tragedy. Many stories of heroism are emerging, and they are a source of strength for us during this difficult time. We are forever grateful.
“Many of you have offered help. There is little that we can do but pray for those who are struggling. If you are inspired to make a positive gesture, consider two organizations that Gabby has long valued and supported: Tucson’s Community Food Bank and the American Red Cross.”

In 2010 I voted for former COngressman Cao as his name appeared on a ballot for a statewide position he had already conceded to his opponent. His loss and the loss of Melancon were not in my view good for the Congress. The Parties will still have an influence but new factors will make things more complicated in a good way. Besides Cao, Giffords, Melancon and others we are able to thinki of all a man was able to contribute in a long carreer. Senator Byrd who knew the Senate so well is still remembered, so is Daniel Patrick Moynihan and a number of others and just before the midterm elections we saw Scott Brown elected and I hope he will do well in bringing a lot to his party, chamber and country. He is able to embody the values of rising form nowhere which this Model Constitution does not condemn. He may be a founder of something great given a history of various kinds of excellence. But it is also revealing to see the seat he has filled. Continuity and connectedness was so well embodied in the life and ambitions of Edward Kennedy the Senior Senator from Massachussettes. His father served as Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. His brother Joseph was killed in an experimental aircraft in the midst of World War II. His brother John Fizgerald was President of the United States of America after having been a Senator and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His brother Robert was Attorney General and a United States Senator who was gunned down during his bid for the Presidency of the United States. His sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband founded and oversaw the Special Olympics. His niece Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger is the First Lady of California. His nephew John Fitzgerald Kennedy Junior was a publisher of “George” a political magazine and died in a plane crash. Given the wealth of his father it is not surprising that with this record of untimely death and public service many people have called the Kennedy family America’s royal family. While I do not see that as an apt description they are certainly a special family which deserves some recognition.
Edward Kennedy was a strong and committed voice in the legislation of our country. He played a significant role in electing Barak Hussein Obama to the Presidency. I may not approve of that and it may be his voters back home did not either — but he was in this as in all else able to stand tall as a Senator. He was an example of leadership in an era in which leaders are rare. Kennedy was the kind of man who becomes a national monument no matter how one feels about any of his ideas or policies. Edward Kennedy is going to be buried in Arlington National Cemetary. My cousin Severin Summers III who was killed in Afghanistan will also be buried there very soon. So he will be linked in my mind by this coincidence to my own family.

This Congress of the Model Constitution will also be compelled to keep alive the quality of discusssion and language on the floor. This will be part of the total structure which will make Congress what Congress is supposed to be. It will be the best and not the most demeaned version of itself if we can make it such. The work of producing a budget bill will be kept as central to a Congress in the modern era.

****** ****** ******* ***** ***** ******** ******** ****
Section Four: Special Privileges and Duties of Congress
Subsection One: Immunity
Members of Congress may not be arrested while in office except by the Lictors and for the purposes of remaining in Lictorian Custody. Other law enforcement may collect information may attempt to indirectly protect public safety on their own and may assist in the arrest so long as a Lictor is physicaly present and presiding. The Emperor may remove any Member of Congress from Office Pending Review on Published Suspicion of High Treason or Grand Piracy.
Subsection Two: Status
All Members of Congress are legaly entitled to their proper form of address, are to be given a preferred status within known limits on Common Carriers, shall have property taxes waived on their principal home in the District of Columbia should they own it and shall be exempt from the servile obligations beyond address which their otherwise low station may place them in as regards higher ranked persons in the Imperial House or Fivefold Nobility. The Emperor is still in his person absolute and many duties attach to him and in a lesser way to the Empress when they are present.
Subsection Three: Requirements
Provision One: The Budget
The Congress must submit a credibly balanced Central Budget Bill in the first five bills and the first six weeks of each Congressional Year to the First Executive Vice President each Year. Spending Bills beyond that Bill must be numbered each session an published in the public media and the Capitol and shall have a preamble explaining why it was needed.
Provision Two: Homage
Each Member of Congress must pay homage at the Imperial Palace in each term of Office either received directly by the Emperor or one he shall appoint to receive them.
Provision Three: Conversation, Debate and Special Cases
1. Members of Congress shall remain an acknowledgedly ambiguous term, It shall have at times and in certain cases the meanin of only Representatives and the true Senare consisting of Senators from the States and no other member of the Grand Senatorial Council. In other instances such as immunity from arrest it shall mean all those in the Grand Senatorial Council and the Representatives. The Narrow meaning is intended in this provision.
2. One tenth of the salaries of Members of Congress shall be paid according to a certain formula in this provision. On every Wednesday that Congress is in Session that is not a first class solemnity or its equivalent in the Roman Catholic, one of the two most major holidays not shared by the Roman Catholics observed by the Greek Orthodox Church, not a Jewish High Holy Day and not a recenly disestablished American Holiday Shall be Floor Debate and Conversation Day in Congress. Where the schedule finds fewer than twelve such days a number of Thursdays shall be created to bring the number up to fourteen such days in a Congressional year. No matter how many days there are in a year proper attendance at thirty or more such days shall always constitute perfect attendance. a Days attendance shall be four or more hours spent in the Chamber itself on such a day. One tenth of the Member of Congress’s salary will be paid on the basis of a/h * .1S which shall be the number of such days attended divided by the number of such days held times one tenth of their annual salary.
3. One percent of their annual salary will be withheld from every Member of Congress who does not deliver a speech of four to six minutes length during one of these Floor Debate and Conversation Days during a given Congressional year.
4. Floor Debate and Conversation Days shall run from nine in the morning to six in the evening with an hour recess between noon and one. From Nine to Ten President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House shall present presentations on a single day’s theme to their respective chambers. Each must speak personally with three excused absences each year. Half the presenting time nearly must be from members of the Chamber and half must be from those no members. The Cabinet member from the Chamber shall have the right to the next fifteen minutes. Until eleven discussions shall be confined to the major presentation and the cabinet presentation. At eleven any visiting dignitaries, legislators or heads of state will sspeak first followed by any maiden speeches made by Members who have never before addressed Congress. Should their be any time remaining an ephemeral media screen or other such device will present the bills awaiting a vote in the chamber and members will vote their first, second and third choice for those to discuss in the afternoon. At one if the voting just described has not been done it will be done and then scheduled speeches by Members of Congress will be presented until two. At two bills will be discussed in the order of the voting points awarded each with four points for a first place two for a second and one for a third. Those having obligatory speeches prepared on the selected bill will go first. This discussion will go on untill three thirty. At three thirty the Cabinet member and any subpoenaed or invited mebers of the Executive shall be questioned and answer questions untill four. At four there shall be open comments, speeches obligatory and otherwise as well as discussions on all of the days events untill there no one more deisres to speak or until five. If there is time before five then the Speaker or President will call on any heads of committee to report to the chamber on recent work and buisiness. All debate and speech up to this hour shall, without prejudice to linguistic color and illustration, have been entirely in English or the evolving American Imperial Dialect. At five the Certified Language Caucuses of each chamber shall have the priority of scheduling one day per year when the hour of five to six discussions, business and speeches in the Chambers on Floor Conversation and Debate Days will take place in their caucus language with simultaneous translation provided in headsets to other members. On days not scheduled for such languages the Members obligatory speeches will take priority and then there will be scheduled reading with discussion of sections from the Constitution, the authorized biography or biographies of the Monarch, the Bible, Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, Aristole’s Politics, the Minutes and Acts of the Imperial Tribal Council and Declarations of the Censors.

****** ********* ******** ****** *********

So if you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this Article Two: “Congress” Section Four: “Special Privileges and Duties of Congress “is that for our system to work in the new context proposed there must be means for the Congress to hold a special status, to enage in broad consultations and to exercise with dignity and effeciveness its proper role as the legislature of the Union. Because this is complex system in type there must be varied measures and distinctions which strengthen the real effectiveness of the Congress. Under this Model Constitution the society has evolved into one in which rank and position are expected to be borne and worn in a way seen by this writer and some others as more honest and useful in keeping people aware of who is in charge and while facilitating democracy also seeking to persuade people to use the opportunities of civilization to fully tend to their own responsibilities. This Congress exists in a system which in many ways strengthens the role of the ordinary executive power wielder but compells him or or her and other figures in and outside of the FEVP’ s admisinistration to deal with a more effective and autonomous Congress than ever before. This COngress will be structured to have great floor discussions — that is one of its jobs in itself. This Section is in brief a list of immunities and related privileges of Congress as well as few duties which keep it independent of the Executive in key ways and which create an environment which is suitable to the position of the main legislature in an Empire and Union with great and global interests acknowledged state responsibilities uniting various kinds of polities and with a royal monarchy in an Imperial framework. These privileged and empopwered positions and operations of Congress under this new system do not prevent the Congress being held in Checks and Balances as is the American and also Acadian tradition while it still holds an Imperial dignity and is able to be an effective legislature.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

The Passing of Beverly Miller Summers Videographed

This post is about the wake, funeral and burial video of my grandmother who died on March 27, 2012. It is part of her memorial in this blog.

I have been slacking off on posting for many reasons since this was first posted and videos are harder to find as the software finds me less active but the one you want is Gammie’s Paschal Passing and should be at the link below. as well as through the title. You can also drag the link below into your browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtAOzrfZO9c

Also see the rest of the list.

Discussion on the Model Constitution (8th in a Series): Vetoes and Complications for Congress

hy and How I am a Committed Radical (8th in Series): Vetoes and Complications for the Congress
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 10:24am ·
This Note will be about the Section Two of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following linK:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

For someone reading this Note today, the most relatively shcoking thing compared to almost all other political discourse and opinion they may be reading in this country will be the role of the Emperor and Empress in the functioning of Congress. This includes writing exspecially for Americans and those sympathizing or dealing with Americans which describe an exaggerated amount of limitation and weakness in the roles and positions of some of the world’s other royal monarchies. Most Americans have insanely and unjustly and sloppily been taught all their lives that democracy and legitimacy are synonymous. Democracy has no valid claim to absolute power in this regime, this society or these lands. Later in the Model Constitution we will discuss the nature, status and role of the Emperor in more detail as it is empowered and authorized. The first and Founding Emperor will have already been elected Basileus and cannot stand for another ordinary election but the process of ratifying this constitution will be a due election as Emperor in itself. Then in future elections during the interregni, the three signioficant toitles will be elected in a unity conclave and process.
At no time during my memory has there been anything that amounts to a widespread popular demand for an Emperor in the United States. Although in Part One of this post I listed royalist elements of the culture which may be said to have expressed a sort of pent-up demand for a royalizing revolution that is different from suggesting that there has been a popular demand in any focused political sense. But it is possible to discuss what such a figure would be like .
The Federal American Empire of the United States will send Fifty-One Electors from the States, Fifteen Electors from the Territories, Sixteen Electors from the Possessions and Thirteen from the Compacts as well as Forty Peer-Electors and a random selection of 72 Citizen Subjects to the Conclave and Electing Delegate from Each of the Three Chambers of the Direct Imperial Government Legislature to Elect the Emperor. These 210 voters will be joined by 210 voters from whatever may constitute the Kingdom of Louisiana. But 840 Electors in the Conclave will come from the Ethnos Arkadios alone. however all three interests and titles must be united in one man. So whom will they choose? Their will also be a few Heir’s Electors because each Heir begins the Merit phase of Trials and Ordeals with a certain number of passes. when an Heir fails to prevail in a trial or ordeal he must use a pass or be eliminated from candidacy. He will then himself become an Elector for that Conclave. Then those who complete the Trials and Ordeals are allowed to appoint two electors for every pass they have left. However, there will not be agreat number of such Electors earned with passes nor can the majority of Heirs become candidates in the actual conclave, although the number will vary. The Empress has certain powers and privileges in this political system. However, whole she is not elected directly her election is through the Emperor in that whose who elect him understand that they are electing a man whose wife, mother or sister is possibly going to exercise significant executive power at various times.

The Heirs consist of the Top Twenty in the Ordinary Line of Succession plus as many as six and no fewer than five more. Thus there are at any time Twenty-Five or Twenty-Six Heirs. The five outside the Ordinary Line are Peer-Electors themselves. Later in this Constitution the function, titles and nature of the Peer- Electors will be revisted several times. Nonetheless, the Emperor while hereditary will also be elected every single time and not only in times of crisis as in some monarchies. Also there is support for Royalism in American society and culture.

I wish to outline the subject of monarchy and royalism in the United States of America. It has to be a significant part of the total discussion of the changes I am advocating in this long series of posts advocating an American Revolution. This time returning to mixed government from something which is tyrannical derivation of republican democracy whereas before we returned to mixed government from a corrupt royalist monarchy. In both cases seeking an equilibrium of the three forms of good governance which are monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. However, in this case moving from a republican to a royalist context. In a world where very long but entirely simplistic analysis is common we would need a bit of concise but complex analysis.In these brief posts I have tried to provide some of that. We had a republican mixed government at the federal level with the President as the republican Monarch, the Senate and the Supreme Court represent the republican Aristocracy and the House of Representatives comprising the Democracy. That is the ideal government of many old forms of government. The President was elected by electors variously chosen, the Senators were elected by the States legislatures. We now live in a dictatorship of the masses which is tyranny modified and complicated but still a majority tyranny at heart. The mixed government equilibrium is lost. I have proposed restoring mixed government this time Revolving into a royalist system.
This is not an easy thing to discuss and in fact is an entirely enticing thing to flee from discussing as rapidly as one possibly can and never look at again. Yet I feel that I should discuss these issues here. I am afraid some of my dreadful lists may be coming up soon in an effort to address these matters. The changing of a from of government is always difficult and a bit traumatic under any circumstances but is even more difficult if on ie trying to establish a royalist regime like this one in this country. That is because the specifics of this case are altogether very challenging. It is important to make clear that this is not being proposed in abject blindness and disregard as concerns the strong factors related to the frustration of these plans.
We do have some royalist cultural elements so lets list some of them in no particular order:
1. Many of the Mardi Gras traditions of the Gulf Coast
2.The Kingdom of Hawaii and the role of Royal Hawaiian culture
3.The little known and appreciated but not inconsequential Acadian royal tradition.
4. The many ties with the Bourbon monarchy and aristocracy in the Revolution and Louisiana.
5. The heritage of the Napoleonic Empire and its aristocrats with Louisiana, the Louisiana Purchase and the Confederacy.
6. The British ,French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian colonial heritage of many and varied regions of the USA.
7. Mexico’s failed European based empire launched under Napoleon and ending in the execution of Emperor Maximilian is tied to our history.
8.Mexico’s Aborignal American Empire of the Aztecs and the Mayan kingdoms (much less so) have ties towards our land’s populations and history.
9. The Bible and many of our religions which are influential have a strong royalist component and affect people’s thoughts and lives.
This is not nearly an exhaustive list. Also if (and that is nearly inevitable) there are some of these models that you particularly despise and reject for some reason remember that Hitler’s Third Reich, the French Reign of Terror andmore than half the failed states you ever heard of were republican systems. Yet surely we do not believe that everyone who founds a republic is going to end up where they were in those republics. Our examples given would be the sort of supermarket from which we could shop for precedents and patterns with the greatest legitimacy. This Model Constitution has proposed a very specific and definite royalist scheme. Some elements may be controversial but very little is vague and left to chance.

Besides the “Royalist Shock to Republican Sensibilities” which is a theme in this series there is also a kind of line item veto for the First Executive Vice President. The Congress will be made aware also of all the complexity of the new regime. The Congress in the loose sense includes Tribunes who exercise many restraints upon Senatorial privilege. The Censors have an even looser tie to the Congress only by having a few in the Grand Senatorial Council. But they also can exercise real restraints upon Congress. However, in the next Note we will discuss texts which show the privileges and benefits of being a Member of Congress and the exalted stature of Congress itself.

**** ****** ********* ******* ****** *********
Section Three: Vetoes and Other Executive and Special Interventions
Subsection One: The First Executive Vice President
The First Executive Vice President shall Have the Authority to veto any bill of Congress and it shall require two-thirds majority in both houses to defeat that veto,. He shall also be allowed a single line item veto each year on the Central Budget Bill that shall be submitted to him by the Congress. In all matters of protocol and procedure the Congress shall be led byt House of Representatives Leadership in the matter of the Central Budget Bill and all Apropriations Bills. The Congress must pass an override of his entire list of budgetary excision by sixty percent of the votes in each House in order to restore these items. However, those items vetoed may be reintroduced individually without prejudice as stand alone bills.
Subsection Two: The Emperor
The Emperor may require that a bill be read to the Grand Senatorial Council or to the DIG Government or both for official comment prior to being presented to the First Executive Vice President setting aside a six month schedule for such a purpose. The Emperor may adjourn Congress for a week at his whim and for a minimum of two weeks longer if petitioned by the First Executive Vice President or up to a month longer if authorized by the laws enacted under this Constitution and by the Congress authorized in this Seond Article thereof . The Emperor may deliver a rebuke to Congress or a House thereof with a Bill of Abuses duly published and burden the Capitol’s operations with inconveniences from the Government of the District until the Abuses are properly Addressed.
Subsection Three: Others
The Empress shall have the authority to summon two Members of Congress to her Court by Subpoena under criminal penalty for one day of Public Scruitiny in each Session. The Senior Tribunes alone can veto six Senate Bills each at their whim and require that the Senate Pass them by sixty percent vote in each session however such bills simply become dormant and are automaticaly considered to have defeated their veto in the next Session of the Congress. The Senior Tribunes may with their Junior Tribunes agree on one bill that shall require a three fourths majority to override in each Session these bills shall require two thirds to override the veto in the next session and sixty percent in the one following that and still require a simple majority in the Session thereafter. All the Tribunes, plus or minus one, agreeing can veto any one or two Senate Bills and it shall require a two-thirds majority to override without automatic rehabilitation. The Tribunes can also attend any Committe meeting depending on the Security issues involved they may be limited to one Tribune and some level of secrecy but this must not be general. The Tribunes shall also be entitled to take into their treasury one tenth of the salary each year of the two Senators deemed least Cooperative with their offices in the previous Session. The Censors can summon any Member of Congress for Public hearing for two days in calendar year under Lictorian penalties of fines and holding cells. The Censors may confiscate a day’s pay from any mamber of Congress for every infraction on which they convict him or her and submit their further complaints to the Courts with standing if they choose.
****** ********* ******** ****** *********

So if you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this Article Two: “Congress” Section Three: “Vetoes and Other Executive and Special Interventions ” is that for our system to work tin the new context proposed there must be means for the Congress to be brought yo attention and account by the various players who are not authorized to directly vote in the legislature of the Union. Because this is complex system in type there must be varied measures which can be taken. This is a listing of vetoes and of other operations and protocols various actors and players in the system to use to impede or stop or punish the actions and operations of the Congress. Under this Model Constitution the society has evolved into one in which rank and position are expected to be borne and worn in a way seen by this writer and some others as more honest and useful in keeping people aware of who is in charge and while facilitating democracy also envling people to use the opportunities of civilization to fully tend to their own responsibilities. This strengthens the role of the ordinary executive power wielder with a budget power and a limited and well-defined line item veto. There is a list of immunities and related privileges of Congress which is suitable to the position of the main legislature in an Empire and Union with great and global interests acknowledged state responsibilities uniting various kinds of polities and with a royal monarchy in an Imperial framework. These negative and adversarial operations under this new system allow for the Congress to be held in Checks and Balances as is the American and also Acadian tradition while it still
holds an Imperial dignity and is able to be an effective legislature.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussion on the Model Constitution (7th in a Series): House of Representatives

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (7th in Series): The House of Representatives
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 8:01pm ·
This Note will be about the Section Two of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following linK:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

In the text from the Model Constitution which is the subject of this note there will be little or no scandal from the aspects of the inclusion of a royalist monarchy. That will not be the dveiation from the current state of affairs. In this section the change will be in the area of Race and White Supremacy. It will be the way these two principles of organization are regarded that will chart the deviation from the current constitution in ways most likely to shock. However, this will not be the only way in which this institution called the House of Representatives shall have been transformed. Under the current Constiution the Vrigin Islands, Puerto Rico, the District of Colombia, the Northern Marianas, Guam and American Samoa are on the outside looking in at a huge monument to hypocrisy in a society which constantly evokes democracy as it mantra and ‘no taxation without representation” as its founding principle. Under the proposed constitution these will be regular constituencies in the democratic structure of the House of Representatives. That is the case even though the idea of a complete democracy is denounced and a more correct constitution is established with democracy, aristocracy and monarchy joined in the dynamic constitution which is a great force driving Americanism and American politics.

While these changes have been propounded there has also been a change in the entire context as the same lands already under the flag of the United States of America have been divided into States, Territories and Possessions as well as the Direct Imperial Government Jurisdiction. States provide ordinary representation for Whites at X persons per district and as near to X persons per district as can be done for the largely equally treated North East Asians who have a few constitutional restrictions and may sometimes be over or under represented in a given State. This may lead North East Asians to move from California to other states in time for example, but right now North East Asians are poorly represented. The States also pool all their colored districts for a total of four seats elected at a convention. These representatives are also given an advantage which can survive demographic threats because the States are in possession of a nearly total monopoly on the power of the Senate.

The Territories provide representation primarily for Aboriginal American Peoples, Creoles of Color and Mestizos at a rate of 1.25X persons per district. The Possessions provide representation for Negroes and African-Americans at a rate of 1.5X persons per district. The Territories and Possessions will also elect Tribunes to monitor the Senate.

The Direct Imperial Government Jurisdiction will have between three and five representatives with most of the powers of a regular representative but some restrictions on bills void in the DIG Jurisdiction. The Military Bases will have representatives at a rate of 2X persons per district. However, some persons may count as a half a person or a third depending on their connection to the base thus being as 6 persons to one in the State to achieve the Count of the district. However, all of the voters in the district are entitiled to vote in their hjome jurisdictions as well.

The Censors will define the districts then so that for example if there are one hundred thousand (100,000) White persons in a State District there will be as near as possible to that number in the NEA districts. In that case there would be one hundred twenty five thousand (125,000) territorials in a district. There would also be one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) Negroes and African Americans in a district. There would be two hundred thousand Count-Value-Persons in Military base Districts. For any number the same principle would apply.

Should we adopt this constitution, we will surely have people claim and argue that our constitution is not legitimate. However, the truth is that it is very legitimate and yet the one we have now is not remotely legitimate. That is all that supporters of this constitution will need to prove out and argue to make it clear to those who have doubts. Although the government will defend itself it will include citizen’s making arguments in that defense. The presidency of Barack Obama is proof that far many Americans the current state of affairs and trajectory of our politics is suicidal. His commitment to destroy our civilization is thorough, fairly popular and well-organized. His election shows how little chance there is of our society surviving as a functional and powerful civilization. He embodies the choice of a civilization that neither understands itself nor is suited to survive. Yet in the long struggle between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama they did achieve a great good in practice which was to have primary which a sane and not deluded person could call a legitmate party election in our union. I salute them both on that account. This very judgemental country which questions Putin’s election in Russia has been a treasonsous joke most of my life in terms of party selections of the presidents.

As we discuss the Presidential election and the party nomination by the Republicans I am not a member of an early contest state nor a Republican but I did pay close attention. Almost before any significant percentage of voters had voted the media and other forces were seeking to call the election. There have been many insane and ilegitimate polities but this makes America’s political system just as insane and ilegitimate as any — we must work with it but it is already a horror and an insult to all kinds of legitimacy even as it polices the legitmacy of the world. Louisiana is entitled not only to its normal share of delegates by general formula but to an additional bonus delegate for having Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, another bonus delegate for having Senator David Vitter as a Republican voice. Further Louisiana has a bonus delegate because the House of Representatives in the Louisiana State Legislature is majority Republican. Frankly, I am not sure if the Louisiana State Senate has a Republican majority, nor if the Louisiana delegation to the House of Representatives has a Republican Majority but Louisiana may be entitled to other bonus delegates there or not. All these details and agreements and distinctions show how tied the Conventions are to the whole struggle of either party as well as to our Federal Constitution and our political theory. The desire to call forth and create a nominee of either party after Iowa and New Hampshire has been part of the campaign of treason by large television companies. Santorum did win Louisiana, Gingrich won Georgia and South Carolina and Santorum won a good number of other contests. America’s adherence to constitutional principle is horrible. It would be far better to hav low standards and achieve them than to live in the insane asylum we have created over generations. This insane asylum is largely supported and shaped by big television — everything else is secondary. These powers are invested in showing the importance of the big television buys and excluding anyone who cannot make big buys from being considered a candidate. When given broadcast spectrum the large networks take on a public trust in the spectrum rights they do not pay for which form the basis of their fortunes. They should be forced to uphold public trust and pay for the spectrum of frquency and they should have been prosecuted for treason. Remember Dan Rather calling Florida for Gore? That was the tip of the iceberg. The treason they have long perpetrated has been an attempt to play the role in our elections which the Communist Party played in Soviet elections in the seventies. There is still a popular vote in such systems but its meaning has been taken away. America tells other people how to have elections but our own system has very little legitimacy. the party conventions are supposed to nominate after elections and caucuses in all the States. Yes we will say to the world we are having a revolution to legitimacy.

The television networks have a tradition of treason and used to call the election night before California polls had closed. The media as a whole still disenfranchise military and overseas voters. We3 have an electoral college and a long delay that would cover such matters. It may be we cannot afford such delays but then we should admit that we cannot afford constitutional government.

The question of race in American democracy can be discussed at great length, more or less fruitfully. There is the fact that the laws of our own era have created an expectation of supposed racial equality which is violated in all possible directions all the time. This does require a new Constitution to change and that is what we have here. But this is within our constitutional tradition. Among the phrases of importance in our constitution currently is the phrase that indicates the framers are acting “For ourselves and our Posterity” America is meant to be a White Supremacist society. Of course by the same token it is true that preference would be given to descendants of the revolutionary population over others. I do have ancestors from among that group but also want to incorporate traditions from outside that group into the center and heart of the national structure. I believe both the founding at its best and the best of human culture and my own very relevant background indicate that the racial all-white quality of the past institutions was unjust and would be more unjust today. That is why being stupid is bad. Stupidity acknowledges only zero percent and one hundred percent as answers. We are grown stupid as a world. But we know our ancestors framed a constitution with fractions for slaves and with treaties for Indians and with ideas of universal humanity under distinct types. So this constitution is a perfection (to some degree) of the one we have in effect.

However, there is the reality of the Black race as it acts politically after the Civil Rights era and the insanity of America’s response to the crisis. The Blacks must be noted as a special class in the good ways and the bad ways that they are who they are both as a people and in our society. They will still be vastly more powerful than the Chamorros, Inuit or Samoan people even if this regime works like clockwork. But the truth is that it will take courage to honor the system even as many blacks try to break the workings of this and every other clock that lifts us above a world in which the significant moinority of Blacks who are bruitsh in their view of things have every advantage over all other human types. The Trayvon Martin rallies are part of the force pushing America to the point of crisis. When that point of crisis is reached it is not at all certain that a sane and constitutional outcome will be available on the other side. Trayvon’s parents are clearly entitled to grieve, maybe they are entitled to be outraged and maybe not. But they seem to find a national cause in championing the national coercion of Florida municipal police to arrest a hooded kid who was very possibly wandering around a community in the rain, confronted a watchman with physical force and was shot. Our huge affirmative action programs in law shools has not produced the right black lawyers for them to sue the department or th right black journalists for them to combine this suit with media rhetoric. In fact what they have the need to do is create what is really violence all though we call it nonviolence by grouping huge crowds of screaming people who interfere with traffic, public spaces and public order and who act throughout the country.

An America that can stand up to the Trayvon Martin movement and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the Black, African American and larger traditional civil rights coallition is what we must have but may not get. An America that can stand up to the Occupy Wall Street movement and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the unpropertied classes is what we must have but may not get. An America that can stand up to the Grover Norquist tax pledge group and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the tax paying classes is what we must have but may not get. An America that can stand up to the Atheist rally in Washington and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the non-religious classes is what we must have but may not get. An America that can stand up to the Gay Rights movement and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the vsried sexual preference groups is what we must have but may not get. An America that can stand up to the feminist movement and want to negotiate with leaders who have the enlightened self interest of the women and actually increase many feminist position in balance with traditional values is what we must have but may not get. I BELIEVE THAT THIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE OVERALL STRUCTURE OF THINGS WILL BE ABLE TO PRESERVE THE DEMOCRATIC ELEMENT AND TRADITION IN OUR SOCIETY. i BELIEVE IT CAN DO SO IN A WAY GOOD FOR ALL. HOWEVER, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NO OUTCOME IS GUARANTEED.

I am writing this note to explain and justify radical constitutional change in the future of the United States. This is not a pleasant or rewarding thing to do. I am not sure that radical political change is ever something to rush towards enthusiastically. This is a case of trying to explain how many factors work together to create a situation where people are pushed into the somewhat familiar patterns where a strong man leading a focused political transition is very serious. The imperative of radical change in general and how it will possibly shape our future are the central topics of this note.

Race is a significant part of my unhappiness. I think that blacks terrorize white children in lots of schools and neighborhoods, they commit sprees of violent crimes that control the lives of poor whites in many areas. Black violent supremacy and African American tyrrany is a reality for many millions of Americans. I think having this disciple of Rev. Wright in the White House will plunge many people into a deeper pool of horror and despair. Obama will energize the violent and stubborn blacks full of anger and resistance to defy all sense of civility. Life has almost certainly ended for some large number of white, North East Asian and other kids because violent black criminals have been surer of themselves. Among the meekest members of poor white communities nobody will denounce the Blacks. The Black tyrants of the American social order are out there killing, terrorizing and destroying with a new zest every day now. It will not likely cause more positive cohesion in the African-American community. Most mixed populations with black chief magistrates have seen rising crime rates, a black machine that defends itself over public interest and which energizes black violence and animus against whites. This is now our national future.

I do not think that America will ever have another real chance at finding a path towards progressive civilization. We have in Barack Obama elected a man with a long-history in a white-hating church, a man who has no real ties to the Civil Rights struggle but a great deal of ties to the Afro-Islamic demographic invasion of recent years. He is a sign of ending the old legacy of progress in the African-American Community which had been brutalized by white racism from time to time. President Barack Obama is a way of realligning Black Americans with a huge foreign web of people with centuries of history in exploiting, enslaving and slaughtering white people. My Model Constitution is a chance at survival for all peoples here in our lands and for our civilization.

So in this context I give to you the relevant text from the Model Constitution:

***** ******* ****** ***** *******
Section Two: The House of Representatives

The House of Representatives shall retain most of its functions from the 1789 legislature and add relatively few. It shall be the House of the People and must initiaite all but a small class of Apropriation bills The People’s Congressional reforms would include increasing the House 800 members and creating seats for somewhere two at large seats from each Territory and one at large seat from Possession. Beyond that the general rule would be that all seats would be apportioned with X people per seat in each State.The amount for districts charted afterwards might be negotiated but roughly come to 1.25X people per district in the Territories once they have passed almost that amount in fixed two seats and 1.5X people in the districts in the Possessions once they have passed fully that allotment for one fixed seat. Each State with a significant North East Asian heritage population shall have one or two but no more fully or majority Northeast Asian Constituted seats that will probably be more than twenty but less than forty districts. All military bases in the Empire and abroad will be allotted seats but military voters will also belong to another home district. These federalized or single districts will be given seats at the rate of 2x people per district. Their will be four sets reserved to represent the Colored Districts in the States.Each state will have these districts with some municipal governance and seats in the State Legislature for those who are not White or North East Asian and are not related closely to the peoples of bordering Territories or legislatures. These four seats in the House will be represented by those elected by a convention of the colored State Legislators every four years. There would also be between three and five seats fro those living in Direct Imperial Government jurisdiction. These DIG reps alone would be of limited powers because of some restrictions in the areas of law that have no application in the DIG areas. In basic terms, the House of Representatives will be between 791 and 793 seats apportioned by population. 800 = S+T+P+M+4+(3to5), is the structure but the representation is of the total population plus the eligible military population on bases. There are more sophisticated ways to do the math but the actual decsions of alottment and districting would be a complex cooperative effort by the Censors and the Jurisdictions. The Censors would be a board of retired very senior officials of several kinds who would run the Census Bureau and actually work with the dsitricting and would form a magistracy for ethics and public morals
***** ******* ******* ******* ****** *** ***

if you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this Section Two “House of Representatives” in Article Two “Congress ” is that for our system to work there must be a great respect for a Congress which is at the heart of that political life which we all share. The Senate is not entirely shared although it approaches that in a complex way. This is different from the current House in the largest way in that Military Base Representatives and Representatives of the Colored Districts in the States are not tied to any federal partner autonomous jurisdiction in the Union. Also many new new Jurisdictions have been created including full territories where there were once observers allowed for outside lands and some lands now represented by the DIG representatives, therefore the reality of democracy is more perfect than before. The racial nature of the democracy and the principle of a limited constitutional White Supremacy are recognized in law and structure. Not all represpresentatives are elected in the same way and there is a complex formula for electing the large majority who are in population based districts depending on what type of district is being drawn. The Censors work with Jurisdictions and the Military to create the population based districts for the House. This country is not now nor ever has been a democratic republic but rather is a mixed government Constitutional Union of mixed government republics. However, under this Model Constitution the society which has evolved into an Empire and Union uniting various kinds of polities and with a royal monarchy in an Imperial framework has a House of Representatives which is more true to the democratic and republican principles thanever before in many ways. The House of Representatives and the Senate were always different but are more different in the Model Constitution than under the one currently in force. The functions of the Congress are delineated in such a way that one can see that although they are a legislature their functions are broader than legislation proper.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussions on the Model Constitution (6th in a Series): The Senate

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (6th in Series): The Senate
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 11:13pm ·
The Senate is the body which will stand for the purpose and essence of the Union as it has always been and as it will be under the under the new Constitution I propose.

This Note will be about the First Section of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following linK:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

This is the place (or a place) to mention that there are some versions and they will need to be reconciled before this Constitutional Transformation can occur. Sometimes the difference may be as small as a punctuation mark and elsewhere there may be a phrase or two differing between the constitutional text in this or any other note in this series and the text on my blog pages. But since three-fourths of the States would have to approve the document it will surely be edited heavily and so I am not worried about these dtails too much yet. This is also the longest and most complicated section of the Model Constitution which I have excerpted into a note in this series so far. Perhaps that is a mistake. However, there is a great deal to cover as this is a much longer document than the current constitution.

This note covers the entire First Section “The Senate” of Article Two “Congress”. One reason that I have elected to cover the whole section in one Note is that we already have a Senate. That means that there is less to introduce as completely unknown material. The Senate is a bastion of American identity as well as politics however. That means that a lot of explanation and advocacy is probably suitable. Perhaps, as implied before, more than I can really allow for in this note. But, I will have a try….

In this note I am leaving out a discussion Seniority and how it has been affected under recent influences and would change in the new constitution. Further, I am leaving out a summary of the aristocratic and federal principles which the Senate emobdies because they will be discussed in so many other sections. I am leaving out a real discussion of how the legislatively elected Senators and the directly elected Senators are likely to get along. This is a very stripped down discussion because it is really a matter of adjusting and restoring our Senatorial traditions to be fully themselves and fit in with the new Imperial framework.

This proposed United States Senate is of course intended to be continuous with the current United States Senate. While the Union is new the Senate is one of many institutions which is envisaged as being reformed but nonetheless continues its existence as really the same thing.

First, like now the Senators serve the entire State and not a district within the States. Under the new regime and constitution Posessions are guaranteed at least one representative and Territories are guaranteed two but they need not be at large and their totals of constitutents are counted against total district alottments. The Senate is still unique in having a group of people working in the Senate to represent each State which is also a fully organized polity and Jurisdiction.

Second, like now the Senate shall continue to advise and consent on confirming treaties and senior officials of various kind. This and the fact that like the current Vice President the Deputy Executive Vice President is the President of the Senate Proper. These two specifics give the Senate a continuity in having a special relationship with ordinary exercise of executive power in and far the society as a whole.

Third, like the current Senate the proposed Senate is somewhat limited and restricted in taxing and apropriations bills compared to the House of Representatives more privileged position in these matters. The House is also more accessible to the whole populace which is still marginally the case now and was more the case in the past.

Fourth, the Senate as it is now and as it is proposed to be functions as a typical partner in a bicameral legislature in that it is needed to pass legislation but cannot pass it without the other chamber. As currently dual majorities and conferences will be the means of creating laws in this constitutional union.

Fifth, the Senate as it is now will be a chamber much smaller thean the House of Representatives. The Senate Proper will consist 153 compared 800 members of the House of Representatives that is a ratio of about 5 and quarter Representatives to every Senator. Currently, there are one hundred Senators to 435 Representatives which is only four and a third Representatives to each Senator. The difference in style determined by this difference is therefore maintained. That means that relative to the House the Senate will have even more opportunity to allow for individual autonomy on the floor of the Chamber.

Nonetheless, the proposed United States Senate is also supposed to be a revolutionary constitutionally transformed United States Senate. Here are some of the ways in which it is new and different.

First, all one hundred fifty three Senators from the States who together form the Senate proper will also be members with others of the Grand Senatorial Council. This Council will tie it to a whole host of new duties and influences. These include ties to the Imperial House, the Imperial Tribe’s Bouletherion, Tribunes who mostly monitor the Senate for nonwhites but also have some powers and duties outside the Senate. They are also tied to the aristocracy elsewhere in the special way that the wives named ladies of the legislatively elected Senators from each State who are qualified husbands and the wives named ladies of the First Executive Vice President and Second or Deputy Executive Vice President will be in the Council as will the Minister for the Bureau of Women’s Affairs. Also included are persons from the Lictors who police Congress and the Censors who with other duties cooperate with Jurisdictions draw the districts of Representatives. Most of all the Grand Seantorial Council has the Emperor himself as its President and while it has few duties it functions to complete the Senate as what it fully is in this sceme of governance and its own nature.

Second, all of the Congress will now be operating in a different context. The Imperial structure will change things. This note is not the place to discuss all the ways it will change things.

Third, the Senate will organize relations with the between Empire and the Union in a number of ways and Senators will become informed about the needs, strengths and weaknesses of the Imperial elements of society which will inform its ordinary operations in the Congress as well as its role in the Grand Senatorial Council and new political roles of the Chamber in the Empire.

Fourth, the Senate will be more autonomous as a focus for study, discussion and inquiry tied to its special roles. The Senate will also be a place with a bit less of the kind of equality it has sometimes had in that there are different kinds of Senators. Also though the Grand Senatorial Council is not an ordinary legislature it will still shatter the perfect equality of the States in physical presence on site. Then also the stronger role of the President of the Senate will also make equality more imperfect. Further, it is not mentioned in this part of the Constitution but one Senator will ordinarily be a member of the Cabinet of of the First Executive Vice President. This person will serve as the designated Executive Liaison in the Chamber in ordinary times. The Second or Deputy Executive Vice President will have other duties and these will prevent him really representing the Executive daily. The House of Representatives will also have its Cabinet Secretary to fulfill a similar role.

***** ******** ******* ******** ***********
Section One: The Senate
Subsection One: The Senators from the States
All fifty-one states would elect two Senators as the currently do as well as one elected by the Legislature of each state. That legislative electee would serve for twelve years at a time and if not enrolled as an ordinary Noble or Aristocrat under the rules of one of the Compacts to which the Sate belongs could only serve one term and regardless that Senator must be from the rolls of some part of the Fivefold nobility before the election. These 153 Senators would be the only regular Senators capable of voting for most things but there would be others who had limited functions. The Second Executive Vice President would be President of the Senate. there would be only 154 regular Senatorial votes (with the Senate President voting last when it will create or break a tie under fair procedure). The Emperor will not be a Senator or member of the Senate but will be President of the Grand Senatorial Council will number 200 or a little over that number and will have some key but very limited roles. The Senate will continue its roles from the 1789 Constitution. It will be the Upper Chamber of the Federal Legislature, will be required to advise and consent to Treaties and appointments of those senior Federal officals analogous to those it has confirmed under the Second Union. In addition it will advise and consent to the appointment of three of the four Justices of the US Supreme Court who will now come from outside the Federal system proper. One will be appoined by the Imperial Tribal Council known as the Bouletherion, one will be appointed by the Empress, one will be appointed by the DIG Legislature. The Chief Justice in this Union will be appointed by the Emperor with advice and consent of the Grand Royal Imperial House and Household Assembly (GRIHHA) and shall not be subject to Senatorial confitmation. The Senators will also advise and consent all parties authorized to create official and binding charters for the Rolls of the Nobility of the Chamber which shall be one of the branches of the Fivefold Nobility. These Senators alone Constitute the Senate as an ordinary elective chamber and only their votes and that of the President of the Senate who is also the Second or Deputy Executive Vice President are required or calculated to pass laws. No proportion of legislators required for law of the Union or a Constitutional Ammemndment of most types shall include others than the Senate Propoer. For all ordinary legal purposes speaking of the Senate takes into account other persons than the Senators from the States.
Subsection Two: The Grand Senatorial Council
The Grand Senatorial Council must certify by simple majority a change of dynasty after such has been achieved by a Conclave of election. It shall have the power to Impeach members of the US Supreme Court or to Convict those Impeached but may not do both. It shall certify the Rolls submitted by States to their Compacts of Jurisdictions. It shall have the power by three-fourths majority to commute any death sentence in the Empire. It shall certify the Circuit Approval stage of Constituional Ammendments by sixty percent vote. It shall maintain an “Institute of Senatorial Studies”.
1. The Tribunes
There would be no Tribunes with absolute veto like Rome but their would be Two Senior and Four Junior Tribunes elected by the Territories and One Senior and Two Junior Tribunes elected by the possessions. The Tribunes on their own will maintain a trust of one half of one mil of all funds collected in any way by the Union and Empire from the Territories and Possessions. They have use of the proper interest and earnings from these funds will from thse funds awrd grants, micro loans and honors funds. They shall maintain a fifty person Tribune’s Marshalls service. They shall have a menu of limited vetoes, the power of subpoena and the right to convene a special session of the Grand Senatorial Council no more than once in every ten years.
2. The Senatorial Ladies: Minister of the Bureau of Women’s Affairs, Wife of FEVP, Wife of SDEVP, Council of Wives of Twelve Year Senators These are the first seated in the Grand Senatorial Council. The number alotted will be one third the number of States rounded down plus three. Those wives in these catgories shall rotate the offices among themselves serving once in every three years. Should an official have multiple full wives only the highest ranking shall qualify and should there be no ranking then none will qualify. How many wives are available for these posts will vary depending upon how many of the Vice Presidents and Senators are married men. Husbands and substitutes shall not be permitted. The Minister for the Bureau of Women’s Affairs will nominate all the unfilled seats in this section of the council to serve in proxy filling those powers and duties due any given seat.
3. DIG Magistrates for the District of Columbia
The Direct Imperial Government will appoint two senior officials from the Government of DC which is alsothe Imperial Capital City to serve on this Council.
4. DIG Officials for the Ethnos Arkadios
The DIG will appoint five members of the Bouletherion who are also DIG Officials to this Council.
5. Imperial Household Capital Council
The GRIHHA will have a designated set of five officials who are part of this council.
These first five sections when meeting alone will be known as the Senate Auxillary Council. They will have the power to hold select committees, to subpoena evidence, to shedule intergovernmental activities in the capital to some degree and to suspend Senatorial staff. One half of one mil of all funds collected by the Union shall be administered jointly by them and the Imperial Household in a Capital City Trust. They shall meet at least twice on their own every year for at least a week each time.
6. The Senators are seated in this order but are unique in that they only meet in the Grand Senatorial Council meets as a whole. They may not sit in the Senate Auxillary Council nor the Senate Police Council. The Senators will however elect from their own number three persons who along with two appointees of the Emperor, one appointee of the Empress, three electees of the Senate Auxillary Council and three electees of the Senate Police Council shall form the Board of Governors of the Grand Senatorial Council of which the Emperor shall also be President.
7. The Second and Deputy Executive Vice President is the first in line of succession to the First Executive Vice President and upon assuming this office shall have already paid fealty to the Emperor and Supreme President. He may therefore assume duities before the official homage. He is President of the Senate and of the Senatorial Police Council.
8. The Commanders of Lictors. These are the three ranking Commanders who shall be in charge of a special honor guard, Capitol police and marshall service known as the Lictors. These are to be one hundred exceptional men with records at arms who have not served in the US military per se in the last five years prior to entry. No more than a third may have served in the Imperial forces proper and no more than half should ever have served in the US forces proper.
9. The Censors Governors are the next group. The Censors shall elect three of their own Governors from among themselves. These Censors Governors will be part of the Senate Police Council as well as the Grand Senatorial Council. The Censors shall be composed of retired Presidents and Justices of the US Supreme Court from the preceding constitution as well as retired Vice Presidents over seventy from that constitution. It shall also include a list of very senior officials with varied age delays and exit delays for each post. Operating under the guidance that nSX +nT1.25X+nP1.5X= total population of the Empire less those in the DIG Jurisdiction and that 800 = S+T+P+M+4+(3to5) The Censor will collaborate with jurisdictions to create seat districts for the members of the House of Representatives using this structure but seeking the representation is of the total population plus the eligible military population on bases. They would also have responsibility for public ethics and morals. This will be done with a menu of subpoenas and censures, standing to file amicus curiae briefs in any court in the Empire and the right to Summon the Grand Senatorial Council to meet in a special session once every ten years.
10. The Emperor shall be the President of the Grand Senatorial Council but not of the Senate or the two other councils. One half of the monies paid each year from the Special Tax Alottment and Settlement on the Imperial House and Household will be paid to the Grand Senatorial Council Fund as will half of all fines collected by Lictors, Censors and Tribunes One half of one percent of all revenues of all kinds received by the DIG government of the District of Columbia shall also be paid to this Council. They shall meet for a week before the Official Opening of Congress as well as for a special session of one week the Emperor may call every year and for other such special sessions. The Emperor shall be presented with the number of seats short of 200 persons in the Grand Senatorial Council at each session and shall fill those seats by fiat. Half the seats will be from his Upper Line of Succession and half from elsewhere. The Emperor shall annually give an address to the Grand Sanatorial Council on the State of the Empire. That shall be distinct from the State of the Union address given by the First Executive Vice President to the joint Houses of Congress.
***** ***** ******** ******* ****

So if you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this First Section “The Senate” of Article Two “The Congress” is that for our system to work there must be a Senate which is both very Federal and also arisotcratic while containing large continuity of it increasingly democratic character. This Senate is at the heart of that Union and it collaboration with Emperor and Empire which will constitute the Heart of the politics of the New Constitutional Regime as something authoritative. This is not now nor ever has been a democratic republic but rather is a mixed government Constitutional Union of mixed government republics. Under this Model Constitution the society has evolved into an Empire and Union uniting various kinds of polities and with a royal monarchy in an Imperial framework. The Senate were always Federal and somewhat aristocratic but is more so and more different ifrom the House in the Model Constitution than under the Constitution currently in force. The real Constitutional Senate is made up of 153 Senator equally apportioned among the States — two are popularly elected and one is elected by the legislature. Part of Puerto Rico is formed into the 51st and last state. This body is the regular legislature and preserves the continuity demanded by the current Second Union and the earlier First Union. However, it’ s members are all part of a Grand Senatorial Council which involves it with the Imperial Tribe, the Censors, Lictors and Tribunes as well as the Emperor Himself. The functions of the Council are delineated in such a way that the Senate itself is clearly preserved but it is empowered to connect the union effectively to the Aristocratic and more noble elements of the society and regime as a whole. The Grand Sentorial Council does not connect with the House of Representatives and so to be a Senator is both to be part of the Senate as the Upper Chamber and to be Senatorial in character as an official involved in specific dities of the Senate alone.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.

Discussion on the Model Constitution (5th in a Series): Congress

Why and How I am a Committed Radical (5th in Series): Congress
by Frank Wynerth Summers III on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 11:23am ·
In the current Constitution the first Article is about and empowers Congress. Here it is the Second Article which does such things.

This Note will be about the numberless preamble type section of Article Two in my Model Constitution. For those who want to see the Model Constitution I propose as a whole you can go to the following linK:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

Congress has some resemblance to the Parliaments of Westminster and elsewhere. It has resemblances to the legislatures of all sort of places but it is different from Europe’s Parilaments in it strong direct influence from Classical Greek and Roman examples and fromthe Chiefs Council of Iroquoia in those days. It is also a partial product othe Acadian influences which trickled and were fed into its founding members and their advisors. Then it formed itself in a revolutionary process.

As for the Acadian element in all of this it is particularly important because of the proposal at the core of the this proposed constitutional transformation. That portion of the Acadian tradition which is similar to the Parliament or Congress of other regimes is of great imporatance and still functions in an irregular and somewhat impaired and decayed state. That is significant because the idea of having a royal monarch always involves having a particular royal monarch. The House of Saxe-Coburg was vcery successful in filling out much of the royal dynastic needs of Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. That House brought week ties to what might loosely be called the legislative or conciliar aspects of governance. This is a constitution which proposes a particular Monarchy not just a monarchy the fusing of an Imperial title to the existing particular royal title proposed. This is the moarch Basileus Kai Basilissa Arkadios. The word which begins the title is Basileus A Latin lettering for the Greek word for King. Used to describe and identify the king of the secret Acadian government of the Ethnos Arkadios. The next big important word is Basilissa A Latin lettering for the Greek word for Queen. Used to describe and identify the queen of the secret Acadian government of the Ethnos Arkadios. The influence of these higher Kings and Queens whose titles come from before the Archons who give use our word for Monarchy is so great as to bend the scales of modern rank and protocol. Among the facts of this general title are that it appears in the New Testament and on the Rosetta Stone. However, there are so
many things owed that one cannot exhaust them all. While it is a truly Pre-Christian title it has countless ties to the founding and formation of Christianity which continue to this day. That includes buildings in the Vatican and Mexico City which are important to millions today. The word I am suggesting is basilica which means a building based on the format of ancient Greek “pre-archonic” kings and queens and built for a public or ceremonial use. This term has been most used by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for special Houses of Worship. The Roman Catholic Church has a set of requirements mostly not architectural in nature which a church must meet to achieve this designation. The Basileues Arkadios is under the proposed constitution entitled to many titles more often used but his highest and in a sense most correct Title of Announcement would be “His Imperial Majesty America President and Emperor the Basileus Arkadios First and Father in Title of All Earthly Kings” or in Louisiana in French with the final formulation being “Roi Premiere et Pere en Titre de Tout les Rois de Terre”. Many Americans accept the importance in one form or another of the Bibile and often the Proposed Imperial House will have reason to cite it which are not populist. While most Bible-loving Americans know Nimrod as a King in Genesis 10: 8-12 they believe the Bible says he was personally the first King in human history. However, the Bible makes it clear he was a mighty woarrior and hunter who drew his primacy from a series of Primary cities he more or less conquered. the chief of those cities was Accad and he married and Acccdian Princess to secure his title and submitted to its rites of kingship and thus gained not only Accad but Babel and Erech which were cities federated with Accad. From this title as king of Accad he was entitled to be styled “the first King and Potentate on Earth”. Despite the very demeaned and pinched circumstances of Acadian royalty if the regime proposed were to occur there could be a risk of greatly imbalancing the system of politics here in favor of the One, the Royal and the Executive principles. That danger is not real because the Acadians also bring a counterweight to the proposed role as Imperial Tribe. They have an institution which can be weighed in reverence against any king and hold its own in dignity. That institution is the Bouletherion, a very large and sacred council of the Ethnos Arkadios which alone has constitutional dignity and importance equal to the Basileus and Basilissa. In myth or legends nearly forgotten even in Acadiana it is the first and most of ancient of all legislatures. It is presided over by five Presidents on nominated by the Grand Famille des Boulets, one by the Grand Famille des Theriot, one by theother Princely and the High Chiefly Families acting as one group of the High Chiefly Families, one by the mid and Low Chiefly Families and the last appointed by the Basileus. The Greek Boleutheria of ancient times were all descended from this council. Because it can be held in abbreviated forms and because it is so senior and sacred it endures in right even when disused. While the ties of the Bouletherion to the COngress and State Legislatures and the proposed regime will be minimal compared to that of the Emperor who is Basileus there is still a real set of ties. In addition, the example of the Bouletherion’s function in the Imperial tribe will strengthen Congress in our society.

We need a very strong and vigorous Congress. We will be empowered under this new regime to say it represents all Maerican Citizens which it does not now. It will be in many ways more effective as a democracy even as it denounces democratic demagoguery in favor of a much better constitutional model. We are a country with a history and a set of geographical and cultural parameters that are distinctly ours. We are also a country of certain racial and ethnic components. We have never intended to be a pure democracy when we were sane. We must build not only for the present but for the foreseeable future. We need a basic framework that is familiar but which will see us into the future. Our ancestors used many ancient elements that had fallen into disuse to refashion these lands into our union. We will also have to look into the past for some of the elements of our future. But it must be a real forward- looking future. We need a vigorous and evolving NASA right away and not to evolve towrd the programs of Kenya in the Kennedy years. We need a Congress rooted enough to deal with realities and constituencies in all that is America whioch can also be wise and expert enough as well as romantic enough to spark vast new industries of space colonization and desert and seamount colonization. We need a Congress which even when it is not directly responsible will be able to deal with Imperial and Jurisdictional efforts to grant awards , contracts and licenses for companies to engage in extreme environmental rescue for practical profitable use. We need a Congress practical enough to act for right now, to right the wrongs of the past and to prepare for the next few centuries. That is not a fantasy it is just what we need.

I have been to several town hall meetings with Senator David Vitter and another one with Congressman Charles Boustany recently. I am not in favor of abolishing Congress and though I am one of the few voices both truly radical and truly American voices they ever here there I correspond politiely and in limited fashion with them with Senator Landrieu and with others there when the occasion suggests it, Those of you with more money and influence should do more not less for the causes you believe in. I am not eager to abolish very many institutions within the larger institution of Congress even as we experience radical constitutional change. We mostly need to reform some of these procedures and groups and create some new ones. Government itself under the new regime will recognize more of its competitors, will be limited but address the totality of forces for anarchy of various kinds on this planet. More rights for families, guilds and religious institutions will be secured which are competitors with the game of a governed and civilized society. Congress will play a vital role in the messy world in which government must be efficient and limitedbut it must not be slaughtered for the pirates who favor a dictatorship of the market. We must expect government to grow but grow very differently.

Somehow we have to get into a position where we can make wise decisions. Congress must be the main place where those ideas and plans can be discussed. Those kinds of decisions can be more difficult and costly at first than changes that come from yelled invective, apathy or fear. One reason for the most dangerous kinds of apathy arising is that a people has wasted its energy on spasms of ill-conceived response. America is in a crisis and there are serious consquences looming if we shirk our duty. there are no guaranties of success if we do our duty. But we are a great country and America has been built by taking daring informed risk backed up by well-directed hard work. But we have the makings of a major crisis.

Congress is among other the things America’s Great Conversation — Conversation Topics Include:
1. America has a nearly negative or negative personal savings rate.
2. America is at not having a satisfactory outcome from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in a worldwide struggle in which instability is increasing.
3. America has as many as 20,000,000 people in its land without documentation.
4. America has very little public transportation in a world with soaring transport fuel costs and other compelling reasons to add public transit.
5. America has ties to a Europe in which church attendance, marriage and personal freedom all seem to be declining at the same time.
6. America has ties to an Africa in which a series of crises leave wastelands and corpses abounding.
7.America is part of a world which has generally abandoned traditional ideas like chivalry, honor and sacred truce which used to limit violence in crises even across religions and nationalities.
8.Multinational corporations, global terrorism and the rise of other non-national forces is putting more pressure on all countries than I think our leaders realize. America can become just another failed state more easily than in any other century in her short political history.
9. America has many lingering problems that have not yet been resolved. They are source of conflict which can bubble up to the surface at any time.
10. The environmental problems in the world are a long way from being solved.
11. America’s coastral wetlands, seafood spawning grounds, levees and harbors are all in sub-par condition at the same time.
12. An entire generation of below adequate staffing of intelligence, diplomatic and Peace Corps positions has left us poorly equipped to deal with a world in crisis.
13. There are huge numbers of very capable people in the world determined to bring civilization to the ground and the leaders of civilization only know about the loud and obvious ones.

America would not reach perfect stability in this new regime. Nor do we seek a kind of passive stasis. But the struggle to have more productive politcal conflict in a Congress which is also a community that cooperates would be the ideal under the new regime. More of this trouble should be in Congress and less should be outside of it as general political unrest.
I think that we can look at our history and possibly reach some conclusions that we are happy about and some we are not happy about. We may find that there are quite a few where honest people can agree that America is constitutionally a certain way without too much regard to whether that is the way we like things to be arranged. In the Revolutionary Era there was armed force and civil disobedience involved, the Civil War was exquisitley violent, the Prohibition Crisis, The Depression and other eras were marked in part by violence. All of them were grave crises. We can expect that there will be a great deal of violence and chaos if we do not resolve some of the underlying problems in our society. Therefore we must persuade citizens to support the new consensus with arms, governors to organize home guards and national commanders to remain open to changes in the chain of command. We time when it is clear what the current quasi- legitimate government is not working well and we must be prepared to do all we can to ease the transition to a new status quo. America has been a place of struggle. It is a place worth struggling for and, sadly, I have not yet struggled very hard for my future America. However, it has been acostly and hard life dealing with America as it is — “You betcha” I am aggrieved and wronged. Not a mere victim however I will willingly go down fighting against the piratical interest that have stolen my country.

While I am eager to distinguish Congressional principles from Europe’s Status Quo and Westminster’s direct influence I do not do this as one hiding from Europe and the UK. One of the most sustained and developed public correspondences of my life has been with Philip Lord Norton Baron of Louth. A created Peer and a prominent Conservative in the UK’s House of Lords, he is the author of many books including the British Polity and others that deal with issues of Parliament governance and civil society. He is a professor at Hull University and leads a Parliamentary academic internship program as well as being active in varied fora in Europe and the Commonwealth. He is the blogger on Lords of the Blog with whom I became most involved in dialog and later followed to the newer The Norton View. I have been a commenter and have twice won the quiz on the website called the Lords of the Blog which is a collection of blogs united and inteactive to some varying degree over time which relate to the life and work of the House of Lords. This collection allows comments with a moderators doorkeeping function.

America’s Congress can and must both evolve and be itself and as it does so it can communicate more effectively with other legislative and conciliar portions of government. The new regime will allow this to happen. Here then is the passage from the Model Constitution in discussion in this note.

***** *********** *********
Article Two: Congress
The functions of Legislation, Representation and Scrutiny are among the most significant functions of the United States Congress. All constitutional Ammendments begun in Congress must be approved by a two-thirds majority of each chamber and then be certified for the Circuit Approval stage by sixty percent of the Grand Senatorial Council. All Apropriation bills must be initiated in the House of Representatives unless they fall into a class known and certified to be minimal and incidental spending bills linked to other objectives of law. In the ordinary course of things the Congress has the power to subpoena the Executive of the ministerial and Cabinet ranks and below but no higher. Bills must pass by a majority in both Houses of Congress. The two chambers or Houses are however quite different.
***** ******* *********

So if you have the energy to discuss this with friends that would be great. But the basic point here in this Article Two untitled preamble is that for our system to work there must be a great respect for a Congress which is at the heart of that political life which we all share. This is not now nor ever has been a democratic republic but rather is a mixed government Constitutional Union of mixed government republics. Under this Model Constitution the society has evolved into an Empire and Union uniting various kinds of polities and with a royal monarchy in an Imperial framework. The House of Representatives and the Senate were always different but are more different in the Model Constitution than under the one currently in force. The functions of the Congress are delineated in such a way that one can see that although they are a legislature their functions are broader than legislation proper.

I have tagged a few FB friends and I will in some or all my notes. Any kind of political radicalism at any time is a risk for those associated with it and so I am keeping the tagging to a minimum and while a great deal of endorsement will be needed to effect these changes there is no indication that someone tagged in a note in this series is actually endorsing the note. As always I am willing to respond to posted comments, chat and private messages.