Amending the Constitution can be initiated by the Federal Government, the State Governments, or the American people. It always involves getting the support of the Federal and State Governments. State Governments approve and ratify a proposed Amendment, the Federal Government passing and enforcing it. The passing of an Amendment like the Greater America Amendment is why it is necessary for it to become a key tenet within the political program of the Greater American Federalist Party. The Greater American Federalist Party must establish its own electoral base throughout the States of the Union, beginning with the Municipal Governments and ending with the Federal Government. The rotting edifice of old Jeffersonian institutions are to be supplanted by the appearances of new Hamiltonian ones.
It is not a question of Geld, but a question of manpower and organizational clout to lay the groundwork for the passing of the Greater America Amendment. Here, Arbeit takes greater precedence over Geld, asserting its superiority over it as well as Kapital and Schuld. Leadership and a strong, influential organizational base are important in order to allow for the development of the new Hamiltonian institutions destined to replace the old Jeffersonian ones. This will require a large movement willing to coalesce around Hamiltonianism as defined by the Greater American Federalist Party in its political program.
New Amendment or New Constitution?
Compared to the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution achieved its goals of establishing a Federal Government to lead the American Union. It had been amended dozens of times over the centuries, with certain passages of the Constitution being phased out in response to the historical development of the American Union. The old compromises on the question of Slavery, to which the Federalists remained steadfastly Abolitionist, ceased with the passing of Amendments XIII, XIV, and XV. Amendment XVIII was later repealed by Amendment XXI. Yet the passing of any new Amendments has not occurred since the 1990s, the latest one being a purely bureaucratic provision regarding the fiscal policies of the Federal Government.
One must always bear in mind that the SMP Compendium was written on the premise that any implementation of the Work-Standard in America would involve the passing of a new Amendment to formalize it. This Greater America Amendment must establish the basis for another conception of American Federalism where Legal Duties are accompanying Legal Rights and Constitutional Intents accompanying Constitutional Obligations, Council Democracy is reintroduced, and the Empire of Liberty replaced by the Federalist American Union. It must facilitate the restructuring of the Union and all of its institutional actors toward a more Hamiltonian and less Jeffersonian pivot. The UFSE, Federal-State VCS Economy, Reciprocal-Reserve Banking System, and Federalist Intranet are to be established alongside the reimplementation of Council Democracy in the Federalist American Union.
The US Dollar will be replaced by a new US Note featuring the characteristics of the Sociable Currency. The Federal Government will receive a newfound purpose in fostering the creation of a genuine American National Culture befitting of the American National Essence, National Identity, and National Consciousness. It will also receive a Constitutional Obligation to promote a balanced budget and convert the Federal Reserve into a Federal Life-Energy Reserve with State counterparts designed to store contributions of Arbeit and Geld from the entire Federalist American Union. The Tournaments and the Social Ranking System will be introduced alongside the decentralization of the Financial Regime to allow for the establishments of State Kontore and State Commissariats.
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, a lasting testament to the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s, will be replaced by a new Internal Revenue Code designed specifically for the LER and LERE Processes. Most Federal Taxes will be eliminated as the Federal Government is going to become more self-sufficient within its own finances as well as drawing from the Federal Life-Energy Reserve. Backed by a balanced budget provision and the absence of support for the Empire of Liberty, the Federal Government will be able to finally start paying off the US National Debt.
The proposed conception of American Federalism by the Greater American Federalist Party begins with its own conception of National Sovereignty. Other versions of American Federalism envisaged National Sovereignty being split between the Federal and State Governments, rather than National Sovereignty being held by the American people, the real benefactors of American Federalism. The powers of the Federal and State Governments should be proportionate to the amount of Americans that have been bestowed to the American people as a Union, as a Totality. Every Legal Right bestowed to the American people under the Constitution is to be complemented by the presence of a corresponding Legal Duty. Every Constitutional Intent to act in the interests of the Federalist American Union by the Federal Government and States is to be correlated by a coexisting Constitutional Obligation.
Here, the Federal Government leads the Federalist American Union, implementing policies that further its Constitutional Intents and fulfilling its Constitutional Obligations to the States and the American people. The size and composition of the Federal Government, like that of the armed forces, should be large enough to achieve those Constitutional Intents and Constitutional Obligations. The qualitative decision-making of the Federal Government is more important than quantitative considerations such as its size and composition. Political power is to be well-distributed among the States to ensure that each act in the interests of the Union, supports each other, and helps the Federal Government govern the Union. States with the most political power should be encouraged to lead the Federalist American Union through the Federal Government.
The evened distribution of political power among the States and the Federal Government will occur as the result of the reimplementing Council Democracy in the Federalist American Union. Unlike Parliamentary Democracy, Council Democracy draws much of its political legitimacy at the local level and its power at the national level. The extent to which a country is capable of energetic action under Council Democracy is determined by ability to realize its priorities within a discernible center of gravity. In the context of America, that means giving the States enough clout to govern themselves and to support the Federal Government as needed.
Ideologies of the Hamiltonian Worldview
The Greater American Federalist Party is a party that adheres to the Worldview of Hamiltonianism through a multitude of Ideologies. A strong and powerful Party is marked by its ability to survive after the passing of a visionary leader. There is no room for any Personality Cults or the centralization of political power within the Party by one man. It is for this Intent alone that Populism is an aversion to the fundamental aims of the GAFP.
As a Worldview, Hamiltonianism is capable of accommodating a wide variety of Ideologies because of its Pluralist tendencies. Federalist Nationalism can be supported by a Federalist Socialism, and the same could also be said for other Ideologies: Federalist Statism and Federalist Ultramontanism, Federalist Environmentalism and Federalist Traditionalism, Federalist Anarchism and Federalist Authoritarianism, Federalist Conservatism and Federalist Militarism. These different Ideologies are paired in this manner to indicate how they balance each other, ensuring that one cannot overpower the rest and vice versa.
Everlasting true love of the Federalist American Union and the rejection of the Empire of Liberty should be abetted by the power to ensure the flourishing of the American people. The concerns of the Churches and the States are to be accommodated and heeded, their empowerments tempered by a strong, yet centralized Federal Government. The struggle to maintain the balance between Nature and Technology is related to the corresponding struggle to sustain the balance between Tradition and Innovation. The building of tight-knit communities of strong families is supported by the determination to defend them. And the powers of a Self, no matter of their Social Rank and Vocation, will always be checked by the powers wielded by another Self and vice versa. That is the true meaning of Checks and Balances when it has been reapplied outside of Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court.
Any Ideologies not influenced by Jeffersonianism or any other Worldview could potentially be brought to the forefront of Hamiltonianism. The Worldview retains Ideologies which continue to demonstrate themselves as being capable of change, abandoning those which have ceased to be relevant for its own aims. For Ideologies are merely the vehicles through which a Worldview is able to conduct itself in any conceivable political-economic discourse. Adherents of any Worldview are capable of abandoning certain Ideologies in favor of others if doing so means that their Worldview will be able to exercise the most influence.
Hamiltonianism cannot be exclusively on the American Right or the American Left by seeking to overcome the opposing Worldview of Jeffersonianism and its Empire of Liberty. To let the Worldview be left in the company of either would be a waste of its Pluralist tendencies. Thus, the Worldview must strive to foster the developments of a more Hamiltonian American Left and a more Hamiltonian American Right in order to provide the basis for a new political-economic and socio-culture consensus. There may be different Ideologies on the American Left and American Right, but they are all drawn from the same Worldview, enabling their adherents to collaborate on a philosophical and theoretical level. Collaboration at the philosophical and theoretical level will eventually yield the ability to cooperate at the practical and organizational level.
Familiarity with the current trajectory of political-economic discourse should be a high priority for the GAFP. The Party needs to be able to know where and when contemporary political-economic discourse is heading in order to ascertain how it will redirect that discourse toward a pro-Hamiltonian pivot. When contemporary political-economic discourse is guided along a less Jeffersonian pivot, the Party will be able to introduce its own policies sourced directly from the Hamiltonian Worldview and expressed through whatever Ideologies it happens to employ.
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