How would you build a government?
If you were designing a government from the ground up, and weren’t trying to work within the current US system, what would you build?
Assume you still have to deal with the same basic problems any modern country has: defense, courts, taxation, infrastructure, regulation, individual rights, elections, corruption, emergencies, etc.
What would the structure look like? How would power be divided? What parts of the current US system would you keep, what would you get rid of, and what would you replace them with?
I’m less interested in “what policies would you pass” and more interested in the actual design of the government itself.
I’ve been thinking about this as a thought experiment, and I’m curious where conservatives and liberals would actually differ once you get below day-to-day politics.