Posted on 02/11/2022 12:01:15 PM PST by jonrick46
No. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.
And maybe the 18th for good measure.
However, even they couldn't have foreseen the massive power of bloated bureaucracies. Those need to be cleaned up.
Not no.... HELL no.
NO. Tom Jefferson hated everything British and made sure we do everything differently as Americans. I should know, I’m originally from Sask. Parliament is a clown show.
No. In a Parliamentary system, you are a subject, not a citizen.
I want an AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT in AMERICA!!
Follow the Constitution!
Meanwhile, we must convert to being a more virtuous people.
Cheers!
For all its flaws, a system of government like hours with an independent executive branch is far more stable than its parliamentary counterparts.
Anything to break up the duopoly. We really were never meant to have a 2 party system, we do now because the 2 parties have agreed to close the door behind them.
We pretty much do already. It’s a two party system. Until that ends, we are no better than France or Italy.
No thank you!
In America, the executive is not the creature of the legislative. The president does not come from the Congress, as prime ministers do in parliamentary governments.
Furthermore, our elections our scheduled at regular intervals, much to the aggravation of incumbents. Our executives, at either the state or federal levels, CANNOT call elections. The governors can schedule elections only if there’s a vacancy.
There are no “snap elections” in America, whereby the executive can dissolve the legislative and call for a new election to repopulate the assemblies.
We dealt with parliamentary government prior to the American revolution and we specifically avoided it in the state constitutions and then the federal constitution.
There is literally no advantage to parliamentary government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd—UO0
Repeal it again!
NO!
Instead of just adding to the chorus of "No"s and "Hell NO!"s, let me instead ask you a question: What is it about a parliamentary system that appeals to you?
There must be some aspect that appeals to you, otherwise you would not have posed the question.
Is it the thought of voting for a party, not a specific candidate? Is it the majority in the House of Commons choosing who will be Prime Minister, instead of the people voting directly for their leader?
Is it the ability to have a "vote of no confidence" in Parliament and have a sudden election season unexpectedly thrust upon the nation?
Is it perhaps some other aspect of the Parliamentary system that appeals to you?
Can we do the 19th while we’re at it?
Some of the founders profoundly feared powerful political parties.
I agree with them, and have never belonged to any ‘party’.
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