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The Constitution of the Homeland of America: Revised Abridged Edition

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No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time, unless the Unitary Executive or his military chooses otherwise.

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state, except as his Holiness the Unitary Executive deems right and just.

Section 10. No state shall question the authority of the Unitary Executive , nor disrupt the legislature's broadcast of its shenanigans on C-Span.


Article II

Section 1. The executive power shall be vested collectively in a Unitary Executive of the Homeland, a Vice President, and a secret council of corporate advisors, consiglieri, and propagandists. The Unitary Executives, consisting of the Unitary Executive and the Vice President, shall hold their offices during the term of four years, and, shall be elected in a two-year-long election process as follows:

The Media Corporations of the Homeland shall tell the voters whom to elect.  The Diebold Corporation shall elect those candidates.

No person except a natural born citizen or Arnold Schwarzenegger shall be eligible to the office of Unitary Executive; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

In case of the death of the Unitary Executive or the Vice President, the one still living shall tell the legislature whom to approve as a replacement.  In case of the death of both the Unitary Executive and the Vice President, the Media Corporation shall transmit exclusively sports for a month until the situation is resolved.  No Unitary Executive or Vice President shall ever be removed from office during a term except by death or disappearance.

The Unitary Executive and Vice President shall join, if they do not already belong to, the permanent plutocracy, and shall be financially rewarded by said plutocracy.

Before they enter on the execution of their offices, they shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Unitary Executive of the United States how ever I see fit."

Section 2. The Unitary Executives shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, and of the Media Corporations, and of every resident of the United States when called into the actual service of the United States and at all times; they may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and they shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, without exception.

They shall have absolute power to make treaties and appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States.

Section 3. They shall from time to time give to the Media Corporations and the Congress a speech called "The State of the Union," in the course of which they may show off their abilities as crafters of fiction and fantasy.

Section 4. The Unitary Executives of the Homeland shall never be impeached.

Article III.  Courts, Tribunals, Prisons, and Torture Chambers shall be created and controlled by the Unitary Executives.

Article IV.  States shall not transgress the will of the Unitary Executives.

Article V.  All rights imagined to belong to the people of the Homeland shall be removed or granted at the pleasure of the Unitary Executives.

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