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Could A Fourth Branch For The People Balance The Republic?
For those who still have hope in the legacy of Amerigo Vespucci and want to see this great nation preserved for all eternity (or at least as long as possible), the U.S. federal government is going to have to find some balance. In particular, the tree of democracy that has been planted to shade the world needs another branch. In addition to the branches getting power to executive, legislative, and judicial energies, there needs to be a branch for the people. After all, that really is what it’s all supposed to be about, right?
Granted, the republic formed in 1781 has done well to serve the people it was meant to, namely, the white, male landowners who framed it with three corners. However, in 2020, the world is a different place with different needs, different technologies, and different capabilities. To put it simply, if our constitution has four corners, then so should its framework.
Consider it this way… cars with four tires are much less apt to flip over on fast corners than cars with three tires. They also look much less goofy. Wouldn’t a fourth branch of government, building on technology that couldn’t even have been imagined in 1776, to empower people to have a greater voice than the parties, make our transfers of power less precarious?
