The New Century: A Parliament for The People

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Excellent timeline! Labor seems great. I wonder what Bernie's New Progressive Socialist Workers Party's platform is as well as Tim Kaine's Christian Democratic party. How will those parties campaign? What about the Texas National Party?

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Thanks for replacing Northup with Yarmuth in Louisville. Great job writing the election results!

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Keep it! It's an awesome timeline!

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

The Labslide keeps chugging on. It's also a good night for the 'Murican Tories as they're filling some of the vacuum left by the collapse of the Liberals.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

The Northern Kentucky (Ohio River) and Nashville seats.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Thanks for Dennis Keene!
Can I see Eastern Tennessee (Hatchie-Obion) and Dallas Northeast.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Can you do the Michigan tossups?

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Couple of questions: what do the states have Premiers? If so, who controls most of the legislative agenda for them? Finally, what role to the governors serve?

So here's the thing: the Constitution only requires that states' governments are democratic. This means, ITTL, that some states choose to maintain their old governmental structures of state houses and an independent elected executive (the governor). ITTL, many small-c conservative states do this; example of KY and TX. Some states, however, reform their own constitutions after the St. Louis convention as well, becoming parliamentary systems, such as, for example, (initially) Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine, and later on, California, Hawaii, and New York. Premiers, however, rarely run for Parliament because it is seen as a step down, and often are already old enough that they do not build much seniority.

Interesting.

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I wonder how did Reagan reach the highest office of the land in this TL, since he probably didn't want to spend much of his life working up to becoming Premier of California. Did he serve in Parliament during the same time he was Governor during OTL. What's his story?