Chapter 10-II
The Executive Branch


The Executive Branch will administer the legislation and projects that are created and funded by the various level Congresses. As can be seen in the organization chart, (org chart), we imagine the Executive Branch to be built as a hierarchy of Advisory Councils, with the organization’s National President exerting influence, and a degree of authority, (though not necessarily complete control), over the entire hierarchy.

We imagine these Councils as being both administrative and advisory in function. We imagine that they will have executive responsibility to their respective electorates as a whole, rather than representative responsibility to any specific constituency. They will have no powers to initiate projects, or spend money, other than as authorized by the appropriate level Congresses. The National, State, and District level Councils will maintain offices at their appropriate level to manage and administer the projects and programs legislated by the Congresses. (Like all other ideas presented in this paper, these are only prototype ideas, to serve as a point of departure and discussion).

We imagine that the organization’s president will be elected by direct popular vote. We imagine that certain ‘departments’ will be constitutionally defined to be administered by the President, and that the National Congress will have the power to create and fund new departments as needed. Such departments will include a Treasury, to manage and account for the organization’s funds, and others as needed to manage the organization’s projects and affairs. The President will appoint the heads of these departments, with approval of his appointments by a majority of the National Congress required. The appointed department heads will serve at the President’s discretion. She or he may dismiss a department head at any time, without prior approval from the National Congress, though Congressional approval of a replacement will be required.

We imagine that the National Advisory Council will be made up from representatives from each of the State Advisory Councils. The State Advisory Councils will be made up from representatives from the various District Advisory Councils, and the District Advisory Councils will be composed of representatives from the internal Advisory Councils within the Local Groups.

We imagine that the President will serve as head of the National Council, and will appoint the ‘coordinators’ (heads) of the State Councils, with the appointments requiring majority approval from each relevant State Congress. The Coordinator of each State Advisory Council will appoint the Coordinators of the District Advisory Councils within their States, and again, the appointments will require majority approval from each relevant District Congress. We further imagine that the removal of an Advisory Council Coordinator, at any level, will not be at the discretion of those who appoint them alone, but will require the approval of a majority of each relevant Congress at that level, with Congressional approval of a replacement also required.

The administrative function of these various level Advisory Councils will be to carry out mandates from the President’s office, to administer the projects and directives passed by the Congresses, and to generally manage the Executive Branch’s business at each level.

We imagine that the major advisory purpose of these Councils will be to maintain close communications between the President, (and her or his Executive Staff), the State and District Congresses, and The People, (through the Local Groups), so that the President’s office will have a broad and well rounded viewpoint of opinions and ideas throughout the entire organization, and every level of the organization will have a direct channel of communications with the President and Executive Staff.

As we described in other sections concerning Local Citizens Groups, and the various level Congresses, the Advisory Councils will create and maintain interactive public forums that will provide for the means for citizen-members, either directly or through representatives, to make their concerns known to the Councils.

Those who serve on Local Group Councils will work closely with the District Councils to establish outreach ties into the communities, to exploit every opportunity to work with other social and political community groups, (in churches, PTAs, social service groups, schools, local governments, community activist groups, etc), on various projects as they are conceived and created. They will work to forge an ongoing working network between these community groups.

The President shall be recognized as the chief executive, and primary spokesperson, for the organization. Besides her or his managerial and administrative powers over the running of the Executive Branch, (which shall comprise considerable powers in and of themselves), her or his powers shall consist primarily of persuasive communications. As President, she or he will have constant access to communicate with the entire citizen-membership of the organization.

The President’s signature will be required before any legislation or projects passed by the National Congress shall 'take effect’. At the State and District levels, the signature of the relevant Advisory Council Coordinator at each level will similarly be required for measures passed by the Congresses at those levels to 'take effect’. These signatures, or the withholding of same, shall express the free political discretion of the Executive Branch. Lacking the required signature of the appropriate level Executive Branch official, all measures emanating from the Congresses shall not take effect unless they are passed by a super majority, (as shall be constitutionally defined, perhaps 2/3rds), of the Congress from which they emanated.


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