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The Kastron Constitution
1b) The Presidents

19 May 2024


We should learn from our leaders, not fear them

Presidents have a lot of authority

This Constitution creates a government that is similar to the management of a business or military. Specifically, the government officials are leaders rather than submissive representatives, and there are not many government officials, so each of them has a lot of authority. In regards to the three presidents, each of them has the authority to:

1)
Determine the ministries in his division.
A president is in a similar role as the executive of a corporation, and the ministries are similar to the departments of the corporation. Each president determines how many ministries are in his division, and what each of them does. Since technology and culture is constantly changing, he will have to occasionally create, terminate, and modify the ministries.

He makes decisions by himself, but for the benefit of the city, not to appease the public or any of the organizations.



2)

Implement policies and experiments.
Each president has the authority to conduct experiments with the city, and to change or impose new policies, without getting permission from other government officials, the voters, or the public. The presidents have to work with other presidents only when they deal with an issue that overlaps their division of the government.

There is no dividing line between when an issue affects only one division of the government, and when it overlaps into another division. Therefore, when the voters provide a job performance review for a president, they must pass judgment on whether a president has made wise decisions about what his responsibilities are.

The voters must watch for overly aggressive presidents who get involved with activities that interfere with the work of the other presidents, and they must watch for the opposite problem; namely, a president who is excessively submissive and passive, thereby allowing other presidents to have too much influence over his division.



3)

Fire and hire ministers and employees.
A president cannot micromanage his ministers, but he is responsible for passing judgment on their performance, and has the authority to hire and fire them.

A president is required to replace the worst performing minister every five years so that somebody else has a chance to test his abilities. A president is required to judge his ministers according to their value to society, not according to their popularity with the public or their employees.

The president can also fire employees within a ministry, and he can fire an employee within any of the businesses that his ministries is in control of. The reason he has that authority is for the same reason that the ministers can fire employees of a business

None of the government officials have any secrecy. Each president and minister must post a document in the appropriate database to explain his decisions so that the voters, and everybody else, can pass judgment on whether any of them are making idiotic or abusive decisions.

The explanations should be brief, but an explanation is worthless unless we can understand it, so the voters have the authority to demand a president answer their questions about his explanations, and edit his documents to make them more understandable.

Reason presidents have so much authority

1)
To increase efficiency

When government officials do not have much authority, they must spend more time trying to get other officials to agree with them on a policy, and less time analyzing problems and experimenting with improvements.

By giving the presidents a lot of authority, they can rapidly make changes to their division of the government, and to the city.




2)

To make it easier for voters

The U.S. Constitution expects voters to select a lot of different government officials, including district attorneys, school officials, and sheriffs, and to also vote on policies. However, the more officials and issues that the voters must choose between, the less time they have to analyze the candidates and issues, and the less time they have to analyze the officials that they previously elected, and the policies that they previously approved of.

As we reduce the number of elected officials, we increase the time that a voter can spend analyzing the officials and candidates. This allows the voters to provide more intelligent analyses of the officials and candidates.

This constitution has chosen to have the voters elect only three presidents, and they do not vote on policies. If the city is so large that it is divided into two sectors, then the voters elect six presidents.

Voters must give job performance reviews

A serious problem that has been occurring throughout history is that government officials tend to create more agencies and hire more employees than they eliminate, thereby causing the government to slowly grow larger. That would be acceptable if the government became increasingly beneficial, but history has proven that the government officials who complete the work that they were hired to do, or who turn out to be incompetent, do not voluntarily quit. Instead, the government slowly becomes dominated by incompetent, parasitic, and dishonest people who do not contribute much of anything of value, or who cause trouble.

Furthermore, the larger a government is, the more stupid it becomes because it requires hiring more of the less talented people.

To reduce the chances of the government growing larger every year, the voters are required to replace the worst performing president at least every five years, although they can replace a president at any time.

As with other government officials, the voters cannot operate in secrecy. Each voter must post a document to explain which president he believes should be replaced, and why. This forces each voter to give the presidents a job performance review and pass judgment on such issues as which of them has created too many ministries, or has allowed his ministries to have too many employees, or has done the worst job of dealing with conflicts between the ministers.

To provide some further checks and balances, the Voters Minister of the Quality Division is required to pass judgment on which of the voters is providing the most idiotic analyses, and he must replace the most worthless voter at least once every five years so that somebody else has a chance to be a voter.

The Voters Minister also has the authority to fire a president if he doesn't believe the voters are doing a proper job, thereby forcing the voters to find a replacement for that president. As with other officials, he must post a document to explain his decisions so that everybody can pass judgment on whether he is providing appropriate leadership.
The responsibilities of the Presidents

Each president coordinates his ministers

Each Minister is responsible for a different aspect of the city, and each Ministry is independent of the others, but the work of one ministry will frequently have an effect on other ministries, so the ministers will regularly encounter issues in which they must work together and compromise on policies. The president is responsible for coordinating his ministers and resolving disputes between them.

The main reason that the president has to coordinate the ministers is because the government has total control of the economy, so the president and ministers have to make a lot of decisions. They have to decide which products to produce, when to phase in a new product, when to discontinue a product, and how to divide up the employees and resources among the different businesses.

For example, the president and ministers might authorize the production of a new type of robot, and that could require several different ministries to get together to plan the production of it. The ministry that produces iron, copper, and other metals will have to know how much metal to provide for that particular factory, and when to provide it. Likewise, the ministries that produce plastic, integrated circuits, chemicals, and other items will need to know what they have to do to support that factory.

The President has the authority to initiate or get involved with those discussions, and to make decisions for the ministers if they disagree on what to do, or if he disapproves of their decision.

Sometimes ministers in different divisions have to get together to make plans on what to do, in which case two, or all three, presidents have to get involved with the decisions, or to settle disputes.

Presidents resolve disputes between ministers

When the ministers cannot resolve their disagreements, any of them can request their president to get involved and make a decision for them.

If none of the ministers ask the president to settle a dispute, then the president must do so if the conflict persists for more than a month. The president has to respond within a month in order to prevent a problem that has been occurring frequently in governments; namely, officials that do nothing about a problem for years or decades.

A dispute does not always have a definite starting point, so the president has to make a guess as to when a month has passed.

A president does not have to wait a month. If he regards the issue as important, and wants it settled quickly, he can get involved and settle the dispute whenever he pleases.

If a dispute is so complicated that the president wants more than one month to investigate the issue, then he can delay his decision, but he must post a document in the Explanations category to explain why he is delaying it.

The Economic President arranges for technical changes

The free enterprise systems do not allow businesses to get together to make plans on how to deal with changes in technology or culture. This results in a lot of wasted labor and resources, and makes managing a business very confusing.

For an example, CD-ROMs were in widespread use during in the 1990's, so there were a lot of businesses producing, distributing, and selling CD readers, writers, and discs. As nonvolatile memory became more advanced, some businesses and consumers began using memory cards in addition to, or instead of, the CD-ROMs. Everybody had to guess as to whether the nonvolatile memory would eventually to replace CD-ROMs, and if so, when.

A free enterprise system does not allow the businesses to get together to plan for the future, so it was impossible for the businesses to make plans on how and when to replace CD-ROMs with nonvolatile memory. Instead, all of the businesses had to continue pandering to the consumers and investors.

The end result was that a lot of businesses produced CD-ROM products that were never used, thereby wasting labor and resources. Furthermore, the inability to plan for the phasing out of CD-ROMs made it impossible for people to know when their job or business might vanish, and which jobs would be available in the future.

To improve upon that chaotic situation, the Economic President has the responsibility and authority to plan for changes in technology, and to supervise his ministers so that they implement the changes as efficiently as possible. This allows the Economic President to replace old technology without wasting labor and resources, and it allows the Health President to arrange for schools to adjust their curriculum to prepare students for the upcoming changes in technology and jobs.

The Economic President must prevent premature technology

In a free enterprise system, businesses are in such a rush to be the first with a new product that they often release new technology while it is still somewhat crude. Some consumers have become so annoyed by the premature technology that they wait for the second or third revision before they purchase it.

The Economic President is required to prevent this problem by setting a date in the future to switch to the new technology, and by giving the engineers enough time to put the item through several improvement cycles before the switch occurs.

No technology is ever "fully developed" because all of it can always be improved. Therefore, whenever we put new technology into production, it can always be described as imperfect and in need of further testing and development. The president has to decide when new technology has developed to the extent that the benefits of switching to it outweigh the disadvantages of using the existing technology.

One reason that the US government created the FDA was to prevent "premature" drugs from being released to the public, but no government has an agency to prevent premature software, robots, drones, or other items. The Economic President has that authority and responsibility.

The Social and Health Presidents also prevent premature technology

The Social and Health Presidents are also required to prevent premature technology in the areas that they have control of, such as the school curriculum, medical drugs, holiday celebrations, and social clubs.

For example, if a minister authorizes a new bicycle path, social activity, or water fountain for a city plaza, the Social President has the authority to pass judgment on whether the concept needs more development before it is implemented. If so, then he can reject the proposal, and the minister who approved it will have a failure listed in his database entry.

Likewise, if the Medical Minister approves of a new surgical procedure or drug, the Health President has the authority to reject it if he considers it to be too premature to implement.

None of the ministers or presidents benefit by being the first to implement new technology. Instead, they are judged by their value to society. Therefore, their goal is to provide the city with the most beneficial technology.

Presidents must sometimes compromise with one another

Each president is independent, but there will regularly be issues that require them to work together and compromise. For example, the Economic division has the authority to allocate land for businesses, such as farms, mines, and factories, and the Health Division has the authority to use land for the activities they are in control of, such as hospitals and schools, and the Social Division has the authority to use land for their activities, such as recreation and plazas.

When a city is first created, the land will be divided up in a manner that all organizations get what they need, but there will regularly be a need to alter the way the land is divided as a result of changes in technology and culture. Earthquakes, volcanoes, sinkholes, and other changes to the land and rivers can also result in changes to how the land is used.

When the presidents have to deal with an issue that affects one another, such as how to use land, they must work together and compromise on a solution. Since there are only three presidents, there will never be a tie when they vote on an issue, so they will always be able to resolve it.

Presidents are held accountable for their decisions

The presidents are prohibited from making changes to the city in an anonymous or secretive manner. They are required to post a document in the Explanations category to justify each of their decisions. (More details here and here.)

By putting all of their documentation in the Explanations category, it is easy for the voters and everybody else to pass judgment on whether a president is making sensible decisions, or whether he is showing signs of being deceptive, ignorant, or suffering from brain damage.

The voters are required to hold the presidents to higher standards than public because the presidents have tremendous authority over our lives, which makes them the most potentially dangerous. This issue is repeated and emphasized in many documents because our natural tendency is to do the exact opposite.

Specifically, we have emotional cravings to become submissive to whoever is in a leadership position, but we set high standards for, and are extremely critical of, the people who are below us in the hierarchy.

This results in us becoming submissive to leaders who are corrupt, senile, or incompetent, while being extremely demanding with gardeners, clerks, factory workers, and waitresses.

It is important for us to be aware of our animal cravings, and to push ourselves and one another into being more demanding of our leaders, and refrain from tormenting the people who are below us in the hierarchy.

Presidents cannot arrest or censor people

Although the presidents are dictators for their particular division of the government, they cannot have anybody arrested, and they cannot censor or suppress any information or people. They have no influence over the Security or Courts Ministries, or any of the other ministries in the Analysis Branch.

It is important for the voters to realize that prohibiting the presidents from being abusive cannot prevent them from being abusive. For example, the US government officials are prohibited from arresting people and censoring information, but they are censoring information about the JFK assassination, the Apollo moon landing, the 9/11 attack, the Holocaust, pedophile networks, and possibly thousands of other issues, and they arrested and convicted Christopher Bollyn even though he did not commit any crime.

As described in the Laws documents, we cannot make people honest. Laws are only guidelines for us to follow. Therefore, the only way we can provide ourselves with honest government officials is to restrict voting to people who have the initiative and ability to routinely pass judgment on whether the government officials are behaving properly, and replace those that are abusive, dishonest, or incompetent.

Nepotism

One of the problems of current and previous governments, businesses, and other organizations is that a top manager often gives management jobs to his friends and relatives simply because of his emotional attraction to them. This allows incompetent people to get into influential positions.

This problem is difficult to deal with because we tend to pick friends who are similar to us, so a person with excellent leadership abilities might have a friend who also has excellent leadership abilities. It is also possible that some people who are closely related to each other will have excellent leadership abilities. In those cases, we benefit by having the friends and relatives of the leader get into influential positions.

We cannot prevent a president from being biased towards his friends and relatives, but the voters can compensate for that bias by deliberately being biased in the opposite manner.

Specifically, when a friend or relative of a president or minister gets into a leadership position, everybody should be more demanding with those leaders in order to compensate for the potential bias that they have for one another.

To rephrase that concept, when people in leadership positions are friends or relatives of each other, we should be more critical of all of them than we are of the other leaders, in order to compensate for potential bias that they have for one another.

An example is when President Trump brought both his daughter and her husband into the government. The voters should have been more demanding of all three of them, and when neither his daughter nor her husband did or said anything of value, the voters should have demanded that both of them be replaced. Furthermore, the voters should have also considered replacing President Trump for putting such incompetent relatives into the government.

Another example of this problem is this accusation that Greta Thunberg is related to the Rothschild family, which would explain why she was given extremely favorable, worldwide publicity. Unfortunately, we cannot determine whether that accusation is true because every culture allows people in leadership positions to have tremendous secrecy.

We provide our leaders with so much secrecy that we do not know who decided to make Thunberg a world leader; who told journalists to promote her; who told her what to say; or who her parents are working with or related to.

Thunberg is another example of why we must eliminate secrecy, give our leaders job performance reviews; and replace the leaders who fail to bring improvements to our world. Thunberg is also an example of why we must prohibit adults from using children to manipulate us.

Presidents must justify firing and hiring ministers

The presidents are responsible for hiring and replacing ministers, and they can combine and split ministries, but a president must provide documentation whenever he makes such changes so that the voters, and everybody else, can pass judgment on whether he is truly providing useful leadership.

This constitution gives presidents much more authority than the US Constitution, so it is important that we do not allow the presidents to operate in secrecy. If we allow the presidents to fire ministers secretly, we run the risk that they get rid of the people who are honest and replace them with their friends or crime network members.

For example, the US military is frequently firing people in leadership positions with the meaningless explanation of "Loss of confidence in ability to lead". If the military leadership had been successfully protecting us from our enemies, then we would realize that they have been doing an excellent job of removing the incompetent leaders, and we would not need to be concerned about them firing people.

However, the US military leaders have been behaving just like other government officials, and just like the Hollywood celebrities, journalists, and business executives. Specifically, they have been fooled into supporting the world wars, Israel, the attack on the USS liberty, the 9/11 attack. They have been helping our enemy destroy our nation. Therefore, we should wonder which of their leaders they are replacing. Are they removing the people who realize that Jews are our enemy, and replacing them with blackmailed pedophiles who follow orders from Jews?

Requiring the presidents to post a document to explain why they are replacing a minister is not putting a burden on them because in order for them to make such a decision, they must first spend some time thinking about the issue. That thinking process provides them with the reasons for their decisions.

Therefore, requiring them to document their decisions is requiring them to let us know what they were thinking. We are not asking them to do any additional research or analyses. We are simply asking them to give us a summary of the reasons that they made their decision. With software to convert speech into text, they can easily and quickly create such documents.

Humans and other animals do our best work when we are under pressure. Allowing government officials to operate secretly encourages them to do whatever they please without any concern for the effect they have on other people. Making them explain their decisions puts pressure on them to think more carefully about their decisions.

Another reason that it is detrimental to let government officials fire people in secrecy is that it can cause other officials to worry about being fired. This can be seen in the communist nations when government officials are fired or executed for reasons that other officials cannot understand. That confusion creates a miserable social environment because it causes both citizens and other officials to be afraid of and disgusted with the top leaders rather than be impressed by them.

The president is required to occasionally replace the worst performing minister, so by requiring him to explain his decision, everybody will understand how he is judging the ministers, and that allows everybody to pass judgment on whether his analysis is intelligent.

The presidents, and all other government officials, do not have to provide lengthy, detailed documents when they explain their decisions. They only need to write enough to allow people to understand what they did, and why. If a voter wants more detail, they have the authority to demand a president provide it.

Presidents are city employees

Several sections of this Constitution emphasize the concept that the presidents, ministers, business executives, and other leaders of the city are employees of the city. They do not work for themselves, or for their organization. They do not have any special privileges or treatment. They have a lot of authority, but they are equal in status to gardeners, farmers, technicians, and all other city employees.

This concept is emphasized more than once because we inherited the animal's craving to be submissive to whoever is above us in the social hierarchy. This results in us tolerating abuse by people in leadership positions, and giving them special treatment.

In order to improve our leadership, modern humans must be aware of our emotional craving to become submissive to our leaders, and we must have enough self-control to suppress the craving. We must differentiate between being "submissive" to a leader, and treating him with respect. We must treat our leaders with respect, but we must also treat the gardeners, farmers, technicians, and everybody else with respect.

Modern humans must regard everybody as a team member of equal status, but who have different jobs. A president, a business executive, and a minister are team members in a management position. The people in management positions are not allowed to have any special privileges or treatment, and nobody should become submissive to them. The people in management positions are city employees, not Kings or Queens.

When a president hires or fires a minister, he is doing so for the benefit of the city, not for his own selfish desires, or to appease his friends. He is working for the city, so the city has the right to know why he is hiring and firing other city employees.

When a person is hired to be a president or minister, he is hired to bring improvements to the city and the lives of the people. He is not hired to be worshiped or pampered. He is hired to do a job.

When he creates or modifies a law or custom, he must do so for the benefit of the city, not for himself or an organization.Therefore, everybody in the city has the right to know his reasoning for making changes to their city and culture, and they have the right to pass judgment on whether they believe he truly is bringing improvements to it.
Requirements to be president

Presidential candidates must be 50 to 65 years old

The candidates for president must be between the ages of 50 and 65, and they must be replaced before they are 70 years old, so the voters should start looking for replacement when a president is 69 years old. The two reasons for having such a narrow age range are:


1)
The prime age for leaders is 50 to 70

People under the age of 50 have superior mental and physical characteristics in people over 50, but the older people have more knowledge about life, and that makes them superior leaders.

The information that we gather during our life has a significant effect on our attitudes, goals, behavior, and opinions. Most people of such a strong resistance to learning and thinking that they don't learn much during their life, which causes them to have the same opinions and behavior when they are 50 years old as when they were 20, but some of us accumulate valuable information about technology, human behavior, history, school systems, recreational activities, and other issues. That results in us becoming more productive at our jobs, and it allows us to make more intelligent decisions about our life and what the future of the world should be.

A person over 80 has more knowledge than somebody who is 50, but people beyond the age of 70 have suffered so much degradation from aging that they should be restricted to being consultants and part-time officials.

Although each person deteriorates at a slightly different rate, until we have a way of determining how much deterioration a person has suffered from, the candidates for president must be between 50 and 65 years of age, and a president must be replaced before he is 70, even if he appears to be in good mental and physical health.





2)

To force a turnover in presidents

If people are allowed to become a president at any age, and if they are also allowed to remain a president until their death, we would have leaders that are similar to those of the organized religions, the medieval monarchies, and the US government, in which ignorant, young adults get into leadership position, and they remain in that position even when they are senile.

The American voters should be ashamed of themselves for electing and tolerating government officials who are so elderly that the government agencies are essentially nursing homes for physically and mentally disabled people.

By comparison, when we restrict the presidency to people over 50, and when we force them out at 70, we significantly reduce the chances that a president is ignorant or senile.


Furthermore, when we allow a person to be a government official for his entire life, we prevent ourselves from experiencing life with a different leader.

Presidents must have high social scores

The people who want to become presidents and ministers must have high social scores and have qualified to be City Elders. Our leaders should be among the best role models we have. The public might not have enough in common with them to want to be their friend, or have dinner with them, or ride a bicycle with them, but they should be people that the City Elders regard as respectable people.

Presidents must be men

Women are allowed to be ministers and executives, but not presidents. The exception is that the Courts and Security ministers must be men.

Although we don't know much about the differences between men and women, this constitution is based on the theory that women have a stronger desire than men to follow other people, which gives them a greater resistance to thinking for themselves, exploring our options, experimenting with new ideas, doing research, having discussions, and analyzing issues.

Women also have a strong desire to take care of babies and children, and that craving can cause women to take care of people rather than provide them with leadership. Women have such a strong craving to take care of helpless creatures that many women are taking care of wild animals, unwanted pets, unwanted children, and incompetent adult men.

Women are friendly, sociable, and trusting, and they want to be nice to everybody, but a president must be able to deal with unpleasant people and conflicts, and sometimes impose policies that upset us. Likewise, the Courts and Security ministry must deal with very unpleasant conflicts, and impose unpleasant policies.

There is no evidence that women are more peaceful

Although many women claim that women are more peaceful than men, nobody has any evidence that women are more peaceful. We do not even have a sensible way of determining the level of peacefulness of men and women.

Both men and women are constantly getting into fights, but we fight in different manners. Men tend to fight in a noisy and violent manner, whereas women tend to have "emotional fights", such as making sarcastic remarks, ignoring one another, and unpleasant facial expressions.

Women fight in such a different manner than how men fight that men don't always notice that the women are fighting. This is especially true when the women are insulting one another while smiling at each other. A man can misinterpret that behavior as women who are teasing each other, since men often entertain themselves by insulting their friends.

If we had video surveillance of the entire population, and if computers could analyze the video and tell us how many minutes of each person's life he spent insulting, arguing, and fighting, we might find that women spend as much time fighting as men do.

We might also discover that women are more likely to fight with their friends and family rather than with strangers. An analysis of family members might show us that mothers and daughters get into arguments more often than fathers and sons, mothers and sons, and fathers and daughters.

Women might be more peaceful with strangers, but if so, it would not be because women are more peaceful than men. Rather, it would be for the same reason that children tend to be more quiet and submissive around strangers. Specifically, women and children are easily frightened and want to avoid physical fights. They expect adult men to take care of them.

We must support research of men and women

We don't know much about the differences between men and women, or why some people are sexually mixed up, so this Constitution requires the Behavior Minister in the Health Division to support research into this issue. As the future generations learn more about the differences between men and women, they can adjust their culture to fit their new knowledge.

This Constitution prohibits people from promoting the philosophy that men and women are unisex creatures because there is no scientific evidence for that theory, just as there is no evidence for astrology, witchcraft, or voodoo. Furthermore, people are not permitted to accuse somebody of "sexism" simply for believing that men and women have genetic differences.