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Just an image I found on Twitter X

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ae2527f8.jpg

Some of those are kinda based ngl.

*leaves topic*

United States of the EARTH?

Abolishing the senate is an excellent idea.

the good ol' US of E

who wanted to abolish the army and navy and why?

An attempt to limit personal wealth to a million [lol]

OriginalPlain2 posted...

An attempt to limit personal wealth to a million [lol]

While I've argued for a wealth cap in the past, in the end it wouldn't be feasible.

ironman2009 posted...

who wanted to abolish the army and navy and why?

Lucas Miller. He is also the source of the "United States of Earth" one as well.

And it was largely a reasonable thing prior to the brain rot, though a bit misguided. Originally the US had substantially lower issues with funding due to not having a standing army and instead having it be based on conscription from the various militias in every town/city (yes, the second amendment part that conservatives have a massive whine over existing had an actual point). While it had long since fallen to the wayside of what the US did by 1893 there were still quite a few people that clung to the idea that a military could be just drafted from militias and be comparable to one that was trained specifically as an army as a way to reduce taxes/expenditures.

ironman2009 posted...

who wanted to abolish the army and navy and why?

A one-term Representative named Lucas Miller. In this single amendment, he apparently wanted to rename the USA to United States of Earth, abolish the Army and Navy, swap all major federal offices including Supreme Court justices and Cabinet heads to be elected positions, abolish the pension system and have each county given funds to care for its elderly and disabled, and also force Congress to vote with electricity.

I can't actually find his reasoning for why he wanted to abolish them though. His plan for national defense was to have the President call upon states' militias in proportion to their population, so it might just be that he didn't think the US should have a national army. Which kind of conflicts with him wanting to rename the country to the USE because he thought we'd eventually subsume all other nations, but he was an 1800s Democrat which is like a 2000's Republican, so the lack of logic tracks.

This is his amendment in full.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Zv4_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false

Honestly, I'm kinda for United States of Earth. Can we get this amendment back in the running please? It will open the door for us to finally annex the UK as our 51st state :)

I could see somebody thinking in 1793 that a formal army and navy would be unnecessary due to individual State militias that could presumably rally together if there was an international threat to the United States (of Earth).

But to be that naive by 1893? This was three decades after the American Civil War. If you let the States handle their own militias, with the promise that they would work together if needed, you'd have all of the Confederate militias conveniently rallying together to reinstate slavery. Then it would be a question of whether or not all of the Union States would do the same or not.

Half of those are regular CE topics

EPR-radar posted...

Abolishing the senate is an excellent idea.

aslong as congress and scotus go with it

hereforemnant posted...

While I've argued for a wealth cap in the past, in the end it wouldn't be feasible.

yes it would that would be tons to live on now

$1,000,000 in 1933 is worth $23,595,846.15