https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=171966.msg3689470#msg3689470What, to you, is the ideal form and structure of government?
To give you some ideas...
1. Does your ideal form of government have a constitution? If it does, what absolutely must be included in it for you?
2. Is it a representative democracy or a direct democracy, or benevolent monarchy, or an elected and constitutionally-limited liberal monarchy, or a military police state dictatorship?
3. Is it fascist, corporatist, feudal, capitalist, mercantilist, socialist, or communist?
4. Is it federal or unitary or confederate?
5. Is it parliamentary, or presidential with checks and balances and a separation of powers?
6. Is there a unitary executive, or two co-presidents for executives, or perhaps a triumvirate of executives, or some other number? Perhaps a cabinet elected on the national scale?
7. How many lawmakers are there? One? Five? Or does each state/province/district get an equal number? Or does each state/province/district get a number based on their population?
Or perhaps lawmakers are chosen based on recognized demographics instead of a people in a particular territory (ex: a national representative for all blacks, a national representative for all whites, a national representative for all jews, a national representative for all atheists, a national representative for all women, a national representative for all those disabled, etc.)?
8. If there is body of lawmakers, is it unicameral or bicameral or tricameral?
9. Are lawmakers and executives and judges appointed or elected, how are they appointed/elected, who appoints/elects them? If people vote them in, what are the qualifications to be a voter, or is there universal suffrage? Are there term limits?
10. Is there freedom of religion and separation of church and state, or is it some form of theocracy?
11. Is there freedom for an independent media, and for freedom of speech/movement/assembly/petition?
12. Is there civilian control of the military?
13. What is the legal status of political parties, are more than one allowed?
14. If there are democratic elections, are they publically-funded?
15. Is there a respected right to Privacy, and a respected Due Process of law? Protection from torture? Protection from the Death penalty? Protection from Slavery and other involuntary servitude? Protection from Discrimination in the workplace, housing, marriage, adoption, medical treatment, etc.?
16. How much influence does government have in areas like social security, housing/shelter, food, healthcare, education, childcare, infrastructure, resource/environmental management, working conditions and wages, consumer protection, job creation, etc.?
17. What is the tax structure like?
18. Is one component of society valued over another? (examples: Educated over Uneducated, Rich over Poor, Property-owners over non-property-owners, Majority over Minorities, one Gender over the other, Straight over Gay, Old over Young, Able over Disabled, one Race/Ethnicity/Territory over the others, or certain Families/Bloodlines over the others, etc.)
Etc.
These questions are just to get you thinking.
(Or is there no ideal government... and the ideal actually is when government is deemed no longer necessary, and abolished?)
