With are country mired in partisan politics at a critical juncture in its history and the history of the world, it is instructive to look at the Roman Republic's government format. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_republic.
They had co-regents instead of presidents. There were two coregents who ruled for a year with each ruling for one month at a time then switching to the other. Co-regents could not be regents again for 10 years. So why don't change the constitution to fix partisanship. The current Democratic and Republican nominees would then become co-regents for 2 year, perhaps switching off regentship every 2 months. This would: * Solve McCain's age issue, because he wouldn't be president after 2 years. * Palin would at most be president for 2 years. * If the co-presidents/regents have the interest of the US in imnd and not their own party's , they would not reverse each other's decision as much and would move to the center. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
