Reintroducing the Cabinet Reform Amendment (Final vote)

[Barnes]

Can I just make a suggestion?

Pass an amendment that repeals all mentions of the Cabinet in the Constituion and replace it with a section saying that executive departments can be created by law and their primary officeholder serves with the advice and consent of the senate. 

Also include a grandfather clause to make sure the entire cabinet isn't dismissed at the adoption of the amendment.

It's ludocrois to have to amend the Constituon every time we want to change the executive departments.

[Barnes]

I'm confused with Al's objections. The Senate already retains the power to confirm or reject nominees. This amendment would not alter that in any way to the detriment of the president. The Senate also already has the power to reorganize cabinet positions - all my proposal would do in practical terms would be to remove the laborious process of amending the Constituion every time one wants to change a cabinet position.

[Barnes]

I quite like what Cranberry has proposed.  It keeps the basic structure but introduces a nice flair where the individual president can create and abolish cabinet positions that they are focused on and would be of interest.

I certainly think that it's worth a shot.

[Barnes]

Just a tiny edit: Section 4.3 still contains the reference to "ministers."

[Barnes]

I would be very glad if a native speaker could look on this again and see if there are any language issues, as obviously this is our constitution and I would very much prefer if we did not leave this just to my word-juggling/just-rarely-intelligible-English.

Your English is impeccable, Cranberry.  You shame me into studying my German with greater effort.

There is just a little edit that should be made here:

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[Barnes]

As a representative of the Cabinet, I'd like to share my support for Senator Lief's proposal as well. In the instance of someone performing egregiously badly at their duties as a deputy, the relevant secretary or the president can easily dismiss them.