Before you go all Marx on me, yes yes I know about utopian socialism vs scientific socialism, but its ok to have fun once in a while.
This is what my ideal leftist government looks like.
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Unicameral legislature. No separate elections for executive. Ranked-choice voting.
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Executive is formed from the directly elected legislators through voting among legislators.
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1:10,000 elector-electee ratio at the state level and 1:100,000 at the federal level.
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All state and federal reps can be recalled by an 80% no-confidence vote. This vote doesn't need to be initiated by the majority, you just go to your local govt office and submit a form of no-confidence, and once the threshold is reached, the elected rep is sacked.
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No head of state, either at state level or federal level. This means no President, no Governors, no Speakers etc.
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Anything in the constitution can be repealed, amended or added with simple 60% majority.
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No more national-level courts. State-level judges are appointed only for 5 year terms. Judges have zero power to nullify laws.
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The standing army is abolished and military duties are assigned to all adults.
a small professional body of people who basically just keep war-knowledge & maintain advanced equipment who have the ability to go out and organize a given militia into something decent--but don't actually control manpower & get treated with suspicion
The special weapons corps, which cannot hold ground or police a populace. Things like anti-air/anti-strategic weapons, air force, other odds and ends. Small elite military that can't be used for coups or invasion (at least not very easily). Units in the permanent military must be integrated into the civilian population, possibly by having other jobs.