“Americans could learn a lot from the Westminster system”—Michael Philip PARTI

–“Americans could learn a lot from the Westminster system”—Michael Philip

PARTIES

The Jury is in that the British and Germany Party systems are far superior to the American FPTP party systems, because they allow for more consistent policy over longer periods, while ensuring rotation of the party bureaucracies as they fall from competence.

HOUSES

The jury is in that the British legislative houses are far superior to American legislative and executive houses. Primarily because of the emphasis on debate. And partly because of the superiority of the primary schools that (were) in place.

EXECUTIVES

The jury is in that a ‘presidency’ is a failed experiment as a replacement for a monarchy, and that the prime minister provides a superior executive function with greater accountability.

MONARCHY

the Jury is in that a monarchy limited to veto and dismissal is superior in incentives to all of the houses, prime ministers, and presidents. (And the same applies to the governorship of the states. )

JUDICIARY

The Jury is in that the American judiciary is far superior to the British judiciary primarily because the later (stricter) construction of our constitution.

British trials are superior to American trials primarily because of the division of roles between the two classes of lawyers.

BUREAUCRACY

The jury is in that the german method of education and apprenticeship, (and just about all policy other than international) is superior to all others (on earth). this applies to the bureaucracy as well. Although, the jury is also in that private management of any function that services the public is superior to bureaucratic function that services the public.

ECONOMIES

The Jury is in that a mixed economy is insufficiently diverse and that each class effectively requires its own economy and means of distribution of work. The maintenance of the commons for example is absurdly expensive if maintained by the professionals in the private sector. And there is no reason that we do not sop up millions of workers for the permanent maintenance and beautification of the commons by MANUAL means (cleaners, gardeners, arborists, stone and brick masons, painters and plasterers. )

SCALE

But then we are also comparing 60M(a medium nation) to 360M( a continental empire)

SOLUTIONS

American would have been better off by retaining a monarchy limited to veto and disbandment, replacing the senators with the governors upon the invention of the telegraph; splitting the house into business(property requirements) and commons(everyone else), and adopting the Westminster system. This would put the common people in administrative control but limit fashion of the people by multiple layers: common, propertied, regional, monarchic, and judicial. Washington would be weak and the states would be strong, and this central imperial dictatorship would be impossible.