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A new form of government applied to the U.S

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Federal Constitutional Minarchy that enforces an Absolute Constitution with Voter-Representation Federal government restrained to 3 roles, the courts, the military, the police that enforce life, liberty, and property rights. The uses of these 3 institutions are to be funded through user fees. The people are to decide the foreign policy decisions through what strictly 1 per 30,000 representative, equalling around 10,000 congress people right now. The president’s power will be of foreign policy strictly and only. The foreign policy decisions by Congress will and can be repealed by a referendum of 90% of the population consenting to the repeal, only. Voting is to be done through the states and counties respectively. The counties will stay as they have right now forever. The only citizen identification will be done through the local states. All government whether be municipal, county, state, or federal will not have the ability to make any law, only to enforce the Absolute constitution. All the original amendments cannot be repealed by any means whatsoever. The new amendments can only be added by the consent of 98% of the population, again done through a referendum. If 98% of the population does not show up, then all is rejected.

I think I see what you're trying to fix. The President has far too much power - far more in practice than the Constitution ever intended. Congress is growing increasingly worthless - just perpetual infighting, with no actual governing. The problems you're trying to address are real.

Turning to some problems with your proposal:

This would never pass under the standard that it proposes for requiring other things to pass. So that seems... hypocritical? I think the 90% and 98% numbers are far too high. (And 50% is far too low. And no, I don't have perfect numbers...)

User fees are a bit of an odd way to pay for the military. How much am I using? How can you tell?

No government will have the ability to make any law? That means that the constitution has to either rigidly specify the law for all local conditions, or else it has to be loose enough to be "interpreted" locally. The second pretty clearly isn't going to be what you want; the first is unworkable.

for military I would only say just maintaining the nuke-tech defense system is enough, so instead of so much tax money going into the government, private individuals can donate more to charities, and I mean donating to your country's national defense is a very asset-protection thing to do. For the government thing, what I want is for government is to just enforce natural law, eg natural rights and such, anything other sort of just slows down the economy and creates this political horribleness to everything. The ultimate goal is for a constitution in which every natural right is enforced with every single minute possible detail. This makes me think that the constitution may have to be written in a mathematical fashion, in order to have the most specific details that are completely unambiguous and totally clear even mathematically and logically.

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