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The former president's political spectacle frequently appears to transform including resistance into part of the circus. We are like supporting actors responding as he thrills his supporters by violating established standards. But why not we staged our own public demonstration omitting the former president out – or alternatively having a distinct priority?

Earlier Precedents of Political Action

Colonists from 1768 to 1776 established novel forms of resistance against England's crackdown. Instead of employing existing governmental institutions, they selected non-importation committees and even an initial intercolonial assembly with no apparent official status or prior example.

Those measures of political theater, however weak, eventually culminated in a new nation. After the revolution, founders convened a convention – nominally to amend the initial governing document with consensus among all members. However, the framers worked in secret, overhauled the system completely, and modified the process to amend the updated system to a three quarters vote.

A Contemporary Chance for Reform

That political era marks a colossal setback to constitutional norms, yet it also presents a chance to improve such principles constructively. Following the example of the framers, we could create a selective, by-invitation assembly – an initial framework development – that anti-Trump blue states specifically create for themselves, restrict to themselves, and control.

The constitution contains some authority for doing so.

Proposing an Multi-state Partnership

The selected governments might assemble to develop a regional agreement by and between participating members, in the spirit if not the precise language of the compacts which the constitution’s article I, section 10, clause 3 describes. They would submit formally to national representatives for ratification as binding policy. Obviously approval seems unlikely in this case, given the federal government in its current broken form is incapable of anything like a new constitution, embryonic or not.

But the objective is to put forward a model for an alternative form to governance, for a post-Trump country, that maintains components of the current governmental structure with enduring value, alongside significant reform in response to current challenges.

A Concrete Example

As an illustration: New York, California, Massachusetts and Illinois might announce a national emergency. Regional leaders could convene a limited group of similar-minded anti-Trump governments to appoint delegates chosen either by popular vote or state representatives. The delegates’ job would include to create a multi-state partnership, a declaration of protections for residents and duties of involved regions.

The compact would distribute resources for these responsibilities among participating regions and the federal government, if it were somehow adopted at the federal level. It would create mandates that the federal government would fund – just for participating regions and future that later choose to participate the partnership.

An Inspirational Preamble

This agreement would open with a statement where The residents of these several states recognize not just our protections but our obligations to respect all members with dignity. The introduction would acknowledge our obligations to provide each person obtains adequate food, social protection, health services, productive jobs for protection in an age of digital transformation. It needs to specify about the risks automated systems and climate change. It should insist on national responsibility in medical research and evidence-driven public health so that we live better with increased longevity.

Confronting Past Abuses

And then the document should include a specific list of wrongs from the previous government, acts of cruelty, that deserve addressed and corrected, and wrongs by federal courts, for example the campaign finance decision, that ought to be voided by states ratifying this agreement.

At the outset, participating governments ought to include DC and Puerto Rico to participate with equal status with equal standing and participate the agreement.

The Hardest Aspect – Finances

Next involves the hardest part – money. This agreement would outline the specific programs that member states ought to support and the programs that Washington must finance – basically for participating regions that enter the partnership. The document would not only be a structural document for the ages, but a budget document for immediate implementation. It should include a reinstatement of resources for healthcare programs, and decreasing of payments for other forms medical care.

A Welcoming Opportunity

Ultimately, the partnership should include a call to Texas, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and all additional non-participating state to enter also, despite they weren't first approached.

Political Significance

Regardless of what may be said opposing such a compact, it could move Trump from prominence and display a specific tradition-defying courage from a status-quo left. It might offer progressive regions credit for independent little smashing of the pottery. More effective if the other states decline to participate. {In