Governorship of Jed Bartlet (United States)

The governorship of Josiah “Jed” Bartlet began on March 4, 1717, when he was inaugurated as the 1st Governor-General of the United States of North Aegea. A Governor of California, Jed Bartlet was elected on November 8, 1716, the first Governor-General of the United States, and the first head of government under the new Federal Constitution that went into effect earlier in the Year.

As Governor-General, Bartlet saw the United States through the final stages of the reorganization of the United States from a highly-centralized quasi-federation –in which the States were largely powerless– into a highly-decentralized supranational Fœderal Union —in which the member States are the preeminent and plenary sovereigns, and where the federal Government is kept restrained within its express delegation of Power; and where both the State and Federal governments are powerful and supreme within their respective fields of competence.

Relationship with Congress
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Relationship with the Federal Council
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Foreign policy
Shortly after taking office, Governor-General Bartlet directed Attorney-General Ted Cruz to inquire whether it was constitutional for the Federal government to be engaging in foreign Aid. Attorney-General Cruz discovered that, in fact, the Government of the United States was not permitted to grant aid or otherwise spend the taxpayers’ money on Things that do not further “the common Defence or the general Weal of the United States.” In fact, Cruz found, the United States cannot spend even a penny from the Federal Treasury if it does not go towards the “common Defence or general Weal of the United States,” which means that not only is the United States Government not allowed to spend on foreign aid, it cannot even spend for foreigners residing within the United States, or even appropriate money out of the Federal Treasury for local or special projects. However, under the Constitution Treaty, while the Federal Government cannot do these Things, the States can. As a result, the Bartlet Administration ordered an end to all foreign Aid by the federal Government of the United States, while at the same time encouraged the States to create their own foreign Aid programs.

One of Bartlet’s first actions upon taking office was to undertake the repair of relations with the United Commonwealths of Canada, which were greatly damaged by the Underwood Regime.

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Treaties from which the United States withdrew

 * Migratory Bird Treaty
 * Fourth Geneva Convention
 * Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
 * Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
 * Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
 * Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
 * Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
 * Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
 * Partial Test Ban Treaty
 * USKO Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
 * Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
 * Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
 * Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
 * Convention on Psychotropic Substances
 * Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
 * Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or Between International Organizations
 * USKO Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
 * USKO Convention Against Torture
 * USKO Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
 * Convention on the Rights of the Child
 * USKO Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
 * Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
 * USKO Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
 * USKO Framework Convention on Climate Change
 * USKO Convention on the Law of the Sea
 * Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
 * Convention on Cybercrime
 * New START
 * Arms Trade Treaty

Domestic policies
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Customs union
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Fiscal policy
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Federal transfer payments to States
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Gun policy
One of Governor-General Bartlet’s first actions after taking office was to notify the USKO that the United States, pending total withdrawal from the Arms Trade Treaty, would consider all citizens of the several United States as members of the militia, and as such, members of a State-actor military force, thus rendering the ATT’s civilian gun restrictions irrelevant. This announcement led to massive protests by the USKO and many of its member States, claiming that the United States were violating “human rights” and “international law”. Furthermore, according to a joint decision by the Bartlet Administration and the United States Federal Council, the United States, in addition to their permanent withdrawal from the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), also announced they would roll back the policies put in place by former President Frank Underwood to implement the ATT, much to the great anger of the USKO. Included in the roll back were the repeal of gun registration requirements; the repeal of the limits on the number and type of firearms that civilians may own (automatic weapons excepted); the repeal of all licensing requirements; and the destruction of the numerous databases of firearm owners in the United States. Furthermore, the United States also decided that they would no longer allow USKO or other foreign actors access to the few firearms records that would be retained by the States (also much to the great anger of the USKO). In addition, the Governor-General and the Federal Council decided to cease including any and all so-called “gun control” NGOs in any possible future foreign aid omnibus package.

Governor-General Bartlet stated that firearms offenses, gun violence, and crime control generally, are, under the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States, exclusively-State matters, to be addressed solely by the people at the State-level. He also stated that, internationally, “[i]t is not appropriate for the United States or any of them to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries,” which, according to him, included “taking any side in any internal matter related to crime or violence in any foreign State.” Furthermore, in his inaugural State of the Union address to the United States Congress, Bartlet opined that “any interference or meddling in the domestic Affairs of the United States, or any of them, by any foreign State or Power, or Agent thereof, would not be tolerated by this Government or, I'm told, by the Government of any of the respective States united […] and, to this end, the Federal Council have directed that any foreign State or Power, or Agent thereof, that violates this directive will be disciplined accordingly[.]”

Homeland security policy
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Immigration policy proposals
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Interstate trade
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Military and defense policy
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Reorganization of the Union
In his inaugural State of the Union address, Governor-General Bartlet declared the state of the Union to be “greatly damaged,” and recommended the Congress enact suitable Measures to address and resolve the problems carrying over from the Underwood regime, including:
 * Repeal of portions of the United States Code that embrace Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects in which the United States have Power to legislate, to be replaced by a new codification of Federal law, namely the United States Revised Statutes; and transfer jurisdiction to the States respectively the portions of the United States Code that touch upon Matters that either come within the Classes of Subjects on which the States are reserved Power to legislate, or any and all other Matters not directly coming within the Classes of Subjects on which the United States have been expressly delegated Power to legislate.
 * Abolishment of the system of Federal Courts as existed under the previous Constitution, and establishing an United States Federal Court to replace the United States Supreme Court; and the jurisdiction of the abolished lower federal Courts would be transferred to the Courts of the respective States, as envisioned by the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States


 * Massive decentralization of Power, culminating with the States as the plenary Powers in the Union; but, at the same time, the Union would remain plenary within its express Powers.
 * Enact a major reorganization of the federal Treasury, and replace the Federal Reserve System with a United States Federal Bank, subject to regular audits by the United States Federal Council and Congress
 * Repeal all federal Regulations, executive Orders, and other executive Decrees not in complete comport with the Constitution Treaty.
 * Replace the numerous federal law enforcement and intelligence Agencies with the Fœderal Security Bureau (FSB) and the Fœderal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), respectively. The States can (and are encouraged to) establish their own intelligence Agencies in addition to their respective law enforcement Agencies.
 * Replace so-called “cooperative” (read: coercive) federalism with collaborative federalism, in which the Union and the States are each supreme within their respective fields of Competence (as in dual federalism); and the States and the Union collaborate with each other as equal partners to achieve jointly-desired results: On those projects that embrace a combination of Powers delegated to the United States and Powers reserved to the States respectively, the United States would legislate on those parts of the project that fall within their competence, and the States, respectively, would legislate on the parts that fall within their remit, with the combined Federal and State legislation forming one, complete, mechanism to bring the project into fruition.
 * Recognize the United States Federal Council as the collective head of state of the United States.
 * Fully restore to the people of the respective States united their Rights as natural-born (and naturalized) North Aegeans.

Abolishment of certain executive departments and agencies
Under the Bartlet Administration, the following departments and agencies were abolished:
 * United States Department of Agriculture (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Commerce (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Defense (most functions transferred to newly-created United States Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, other functions returned to the States; some functions transferred to the newly-created United States Department of Public Safety)
 * United States Department of Education (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Energy (most functions returned to the States; other functions transferred to the newly-created United States Department of Emergency and Military Affairs)
 * United States Department of Health and Human Services (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Homeland Security (some functions returned to the States, others transferred to the newly-created United States Department of Public Safety and United States Department of Emergency and Military Affairs)
 * United States Department of the Interior (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Justice (some functions transferred to newly-created the United States Department of the Attorney-General, other functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Labor (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of State (some functions returned to the States, other functions transferred to the newly-created United States Department of State and Foreign Affairs)
 * United States Department of Transportation (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Department of Veteran Affairs (functions returned to the States)
 * Environmental Protection Agency (functions returned to the States)
 * Bureau of Land Management (functions returned to the States)
 * National Park Service (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Forest Service (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Fish and Wildlife Service (functions returned to the States)
 * United States Mineral Management Service (functions returned to the States)
 * Food and Drug Administration (functions returned to the States; the States then created an interstate compact agency to carry out the functions of the former FDA)
 * Federal Bureau of Investigation (some functions transferred to newly-created Fœderal Security Bureau, other functions returned to the States)
 * Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency (some functions transferred to newly-created Fœderal Bureau of Intelligence, other functions returned to the States)
 * Federal Emergency Management Agency (some functions transferred to newly-created United States Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, other functions returned to the States)

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Jed Bartlet
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Sharon Raydor
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Ted Cruz
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David Clarke Jr.
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William Adama
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David Dawson
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Dan Tangherlini
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Meagan Brennan
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Appointments
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