Serious applications of the Work-Standard in America are tantamount to the realization of the “Federalist American Union (FAU),” the beginning of another America that has yet to come. Its People’s Party is not the Democratic-Republican Party nor any of its supporting third parties but a new-old Federalist Party. This “Greater American Federalist Party (GAFP)” would preside over the Federal, State and Municipal Governments with various other political parties affiliated with its United Front, the United Front animated by the Hamiltonian Worldview. Hamiltonianism will reassert itself in America, guiding it away from the Empire of Liberty and fulfilling the need for a genuine American National Culture. It shall strive to address many of the problems that continue to plague America, paving the way for a new future worthy of attainment.
The GAFP, like the FAU, is an American idea for the future rather than the immediate present. Its establishment will occur when America is at weakest and when the American people yearn for a newfound purpose as a Totality. That moment has yet to pass in the 21st century, as the Empire of Liberty continues to remain a powerful force beset upon by other great powers. As I had alluded to in the first half of this Entry, one policy problem alone is not going to foster the necessary imperatives for change. A massive series of policy problems without proper policy responses, coupled with popular discontent and decades of decline, might. Until that moment arrives, a political program is in order.
The proposed political program of the GAFP should be designed with a preconceived definition of Americaness in mind. This definition of Americaness will be required for pursuing its various ideological goals. A new conception of American Federalism is to be created, seeking to restore the balance between the Federal and State Governments, where the State Governments will be called upon to assist the Federal Government in the achievement of its various policies. The Federal Government shall regain its old purpose of fostering the creation of a genuine American National Culture with the American people. The American National Culture is forged from the diversity of regional cultures that characterize each of the States.
“E Pluribus Unum”
America is not a monolith. Each State developed after a few centuries of historical developments, culminating in their current forms. These States also maintained their own regional cultures, which is currently at risk of being lost due to the Culture Wars. The GAFP should promote these regional cultures, integrate them into the broader American National Culture, and use them to promote a shared sense of national solidarity, community, purpose, and belonging. The overarching purpose of the American National Culture is to fulfill one of the timeless ideals of American Federalism, personified in its official motto: “E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One).”
“E Pluribus Unum” finds its origins in one of the fragments written by the ancient philosopher Heraclitus, who wrote: “The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.” Here, we find the concept of the Totality, the same concept which has been an integral part of understanding the Work-Standard as an alternative currency system. The Totality is comprised of a collection of various different parts whose whole is far greater than the sum of their parts. Everyone and everything that is considered a part of that one whole contributes to it.
This whole, this Totality, is embodied by the idea of America as a Perpetual Union which binds all States to a single National Consciousness, National Culture, National Identity, National Essence. The American National Essence and American National Identity are to be cherished by the Federal Government, whose purpose of promoting the American National Culture is supported by the States and the American people as the ultimate beneficiaries. The American people and their States control their Federal Government. They rise and fall with the Federal Government.
In the GAFP’s reconceptualization of American Federalism, Council Democracy reigns over the Federal, State, and Local Governments. The American Congress is a “Congress of Councils.” The American people chooses their Representatives, their “Federal Delegates,” while the State Governments appoint the Senators, their “Federal Councilors.” The “Federal Electors” of the Electoral College are known and accountable to the American people, drawn from the ranks of the Federal Councilors and Federal Delegates, who will be tasked with electing the next President of the United States. The President chooses their Vice President and appoints their Council of Ministers with senatorial approval.
The State Governments have their “State Governors,” “State Councilors,” and “State Delegates.” The Municipal Governments have their “Municipal Mayors,” “Municipal Councilors,” and “Municipal Delegates.” There is a direct line of succession from the President to the Mayor, the latter being capable of becoming the former by ascending Social Ranks and performing achievements that compel the Congress of Councils to support them in the presidential elections. Nobody joins the Congress of Councils without proving themselves in the State and Municipal Governments first.
The implementation of the Work-Standard in America will require the passing of a new Amendment, the “Greater America Amendment,” by the Congress of Councils. To pass that Amendment, the Congress of Councils must gain the support of the States. Here, it becomes necessary for the GAFP to build up its political base and electoral support at the local level first before proceeding to the State and Federal Governments. Local residents and their communities have to be convinced that the policymaking decisions of the GAFP will bring peace, order, stability and prosperity to them as members of the Totality.
Why should the GAFP pass an Amendment rather than ratify a new Constitution that retains the best of what the original one had and reapplies them in more contemporary times? That is a question that the GAFP must always be asking itself at times, especially when it is in control of the Federalist American Union. Assuming the Democratic-Republican Party have lost all political power that Jeffersonianism has ceased to be relevant, the ratification of a new Constitution should be considered as one possibility among countless other possibilities. For the foreseeable future, passing an Amendment to implement the Work-Standard should suffice.
But for those convinced that a new Constitution is necessary, one important trend that has been occurring over the centuries is the pivot toward a centralized decentralization. Under the Jeffersonians, the Federal Government has had to centralize power in certain areas and decentralize power in other areas by giving those powers to the States. However, not all of the powers given to the States are enough for them to act on their initiative, and a similar situation has also occurred in the Federal Government. It is sometimes claimed by some that the Federal Government is incognizant of the will of the American people. It is also claimed by others that the Federal Government is not doing enough to further the interests of the American people at the local level.
These claims are demonstratives of the notion that the State Governments will always be the center of gravity in the Federalist American Union. Whoever controls the States has the support of the American people as a Totality. The more States are controlled by a particular political party, the more likely that political party has a chance at gaining control of the Federal Government. Whoever the Federal Government has the political power to shape the Destiny of the Union.
The Federal Government must work with the State Governments to guide the future of the Union. A single State Government is powerless without the other State Governments. The Federal Government cannot intervene in the affairs of the State Governments without their approvals, otherwise the constitutionality of every decision it makes will be challenged in the Supreme Court. To gain and maintain the support of the States should always be a priority of the GAFP. For the old Federalist Party’s weakest links have always been among the States.
Socioeconomic Restructuring
Under the Greater America Amendment, the Presidency and Congress shall phase out the existing Federal Tax Code in favor of a new one more suited to the purposes of the Work-Standard. The Federal Government will be required by the Greater America Amendment to achieve a balanced budget, pay down the US National Debt, and replace the United States Dollar with a new Sociable Currency, the “United States Note (USN).” Most forms of taxation will be repealed to accommodate the Life-Energization Reciprocity (LER) and Life-Energization Reciprocal-Electrification (LERE) Processes, the conversions of Arbeit-into-Geld and Geld-into-Arbeit facilitated by the US Note.
The “Federal Life-Energy Reserve” is complemented by “Federal Banks” and “State Banks” as well as a “State Life-Energy Reserve” for each State in the Union. Households, Enterprises, Municipal and State Governments contribute Arbeit and Geld to their respective State Life-Energy Reserve through economic activities and transactional sales. State Banks transfer the Arbeit and Geld from State Life-Energy Reserves to the Federal Banks, which in turn transfer them to the Federal Life-Energy Reserve. The US Note is backed by the Final TPP Value of the Federal Life-Energy Reserve, limiting how many units of Sociable Currency can be put into circulation at any given moment. Every Fiscal Year, the Congress of Councils is required under the Greater America Amendment to decide how much Actual Geld should stay with the Federal Government and how much should be going to the State Governments and Municipal Governments. States that contribute more of their State Life-Energy Reserves to the Federal Government are entitled to receive additional funding from the Federal Government.
The introduction of Tournaments in the American national economy will coincide with the implementation of a Social Ranking System, which determine how much each Household is going to receive from the Federal Government. Opportunities for promotions, medals, awards, decorations and letters of commendation may be conferred to those who have proven themselves worthy of advancing to the next Social Rank.
All American Enterprises will be reorganized by Social Rank as well. There are Federal Enterprises which are subject to congressional oversight, while State and Social Enterprises are beholden to the oversight of the State and Municipal Governments. Enterprises that attain higher Social Ranks by achieving a higher Quality of Arbeit will have their oversight transferred from one Government to another. Only the largest and most influential of Enterprises in the American national economy will be brought under congressional oversight at the Union’s behest.
Although the Federal Government has the power to decide how much Households should be receiving in their Paygrades, the State Governments are the ones with the power set the Income Brackets on behalf of the Federal Government. Each State Government shall determine their Income Brackets and submit them to Congress, which will be required to approve them. Similarly, the pricing of goods and services are also determined by the State Governments. It is in the interests of each State to ensure that their segment of the American national economy serves the interests of the Federalist American Union. Federal preemption laws may be imposed to ensure that all States are complying with the terms of the Greater America Amendment, the enforcement of which shall be maintained by the Supreme Court.
There will be a decentralization of financial power in the Federalist American Union. Instead of financial centralization by Financial Markets and a Fractional-Reserve Banking System that keeps them afloat, Kontore will be established in each State with branches in every Municipal Government’s jurisdiction. Like the State Commissariats that they are meant to complement, the Kontore are beholden to the American people, who will receive every power under the Greater American Amendment to hold them accountable. Special “Federal-State Financial Instruments (FSFIs)” may be issued by Federal, State, and Municipal Governments as well as Federal, State and Social Enterprises, attracting investment with offers of additional sources of Arbeit and Geld.
The Student Government of the American national educational system will operate at the Federal level with Student Councils spread out across the States of the Union. This “Unified Federalist Student Economy (UFSE)” is designed to instruct and train the Student Body for governance of the Federalist American Union and its VCS Economy. Student Enterprises operate in the Student Enterprise of the UFSE and are beholden to the Student Government, which is accountable to congressional oversight. Rather than a WWW where the Empire of Liberty imposes a digitalized extension of itself in the Digital Realm, the Federalist American Union relies on a “Federalist Intranet,” connecting all of the States to each other and the broader International Internet. The Federalist Intranet is designed to implement the principles of American Federalism and the Constitution in the Digital Realm.
All of these concepts are related to a distinctly American application of the Work-Standard by a recontextualized Federalist Party, the Greater American Federalist Party. The GAFP and the Federalist American Union are ideas for another America, an America unlike the one that already exists. In contemporary America, as long as Jeffersonianism, the Democratic-Republican Party and the Empire of Liberty continue to exist, such ideas will never be able to see the light of day. For the rest of this Section, we will be exploring the Federalist American Union as a concept related to the Work-Standard. Those who are interested in the Work-Standard as an alternative currency system, who are presumed to have mastered its concepts and perhaps contributed to them in their own way, may find the rest of the Section to be a worthwhile read.
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