Governor-General of the United States

The Governor-General of the United States (: Gobernador-General de los Estados Unidos; : Gouverneur-Général des États-Unis), officially the Governor-General of the United States of North Aegea (: Gobernador-General de los Estados Unidos de Norteégea; : Gouverneur-Général des États-Unis d’Égée du Nord), and occasionally "GOVGEN" (: GOBGEN; : GGdEU) is the Federal head of Government of the United States and President of the United States Federal Council (the collective Federal head of state of the United States). In his role as President of the U.S. Federal Council, the person serving as Governor-General is traditionally known and referred to as the President of the United States.

Article II-C of the Federal Constitution establishes the executive department of the federal government. It vests the executive power of the Union and Confœderacy in the Governor-General. This power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory and judicial officers, and concluding treaties arising under the legislative competence of the Union (Article II-B, sections 8(A) or 8(B), of the Federal Constitution) with foreign powers by and with the Advice and Consent of the Federal Senate. The Governor-General is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both Houses of Congress under special circumstances. The Governor-General directs the foreign and domestic Policies of the United States within the legislative Competence of the Union, and takes an active role in promoting his party’s priorities to Members of Congress and the Federal Council. In addition, as part of the system of checks and balances, Article II-B, Section 7 of the Constitution gives the Governor-General the power to sign or veto federal legislation that arises under Article II-B, section 8(A); while federal legislation arising under Article II-B, section 8(B) is sent to the Federal Council for their consideration, which, if they approve, the Governor-General signs the bill in the name, and on behalf of, the Federal Council as a whole.

The Governor-General leads the Executive part (branch) of the U.S. federal Government, presides ex officio over the U.S. Federal Council, and is the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. The person in this position is the de facto leader of a Republic with the largest economy and largest military, with command Authority over the largest active nuclear Arsenal in the World. The offices of Governor-General of the United States, President of the United Aegean Republic, and President of the Russian Federation, are frequently described as being the three most-powerful Posts in the World. However, while the Authority of the Governor-General is impressive, the actual reach and scope of his Powers, when compared to other Heads of State or Government on Kobol, are rather limited. This arrangement is due to multiple past experiences of suffering and misery under runaway Federal executive power in the United States throughout their two-plus century existence.

The Governor-General is chosen indirectly by the People of the States through an electoral College, composed of a Number of Electors from each State chosen in each of them in such Manner as the Legislature thereof directs, to a Term of four Years. The Governor-General is the only Union-wide elected federal Officer.

The office of Governor-General was established on January 1, 1730, with the entry into force of the Constitution of 1730, but the office did not become active until March 4 of the third Year of the Constitution. The post of Governor-General succeeded and replaced the office of President pro Tempore of the United States that existed under the Provisional Government of the United States, from December 25, 1724–March 4, 1733; Sharon Raydor of New Mexico was the only person to have served as President pro Tempore.

Origin
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Due to the imperial and increasingly-authoritarian nature of the Office of President of the United States beginning noticeably during the Wilson Presidency in the early 1600s up to the Office’s disestablishment in 1725 with the removal of the Underwood Regime, the permanent-successor Office –namely the Office of Governor-General– was designed to be much weaker and much more restrained in its Powers and Duties, with a more robust System of Checks and Balances to keep it within its actual grant of Power. To this end, the Powers and Duties of the United States’ new federal Executive were split between the Office of Governor-General and the new Federal Council. For example, while the Governor-General is the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces, the development of the Union’s foreign, defense, and security Policies are vested solely in the Federal Council, of which the Governor-General is the President: But, while he presides over the Federal Council, he has no role in determining their Agenda, and nominally has no Vote unless they be equally divided (e.g., in order to break a tie). Furthermore, while the Federal Council develops these Policies, the actual execution of said Policies are split between the Governor-General and the Governors of the States, in which the Governor-General executes such Parts of the Policies embracing those Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects on which the Union is competent to legislate, and the Governors of the States execute those Parts of the Policies touching upon those Matters that either come within the reserved Powers of the States or are excepted out of the legislative Competence of the Union and not prohibited to the States. In this sense, the nature of the federal executive Power is diffused and decentralized, both in its formation and in its execution. In addition, the Governor-General is not considered the Federal head of State but the Federal Head of Government; instead, the entire United States Federal Council (composed of the federal Governor-General and the twenty-eight State Governors) is considered the United States’ collective Federal Head of State.

Powers and duties
The United States Governor-General is classified as a “weak executive” due to the numerous limits and constraints entrenched in the 1730 Constitution for the United States (also known as the “Constitutional Confederation”) against runaway Federal executive Power. The Governor-General does not have Power to unilaterally form or adopt the foreign or domestic Policies of the Union: those Powers rest with the United States Federal Council. However, the Governor-General is responsible for carrying out those parts of the Union’s foreign and domestic Policies that come within the legislative Competence of the Union; while the State Governors are responsible for carrying out those parts of the Union's foreign and domestic Policies that either come within the Powers and Competence reserved to the States or otherwise do not come within the Competence of the Union: But the domestic Policy of the Union is extremely limited in scope as the Constitutional Confederation does not grant the Union much of a domestic role. Much of the Union’s domestic Powers are limited to ensuring that no State enacts or adopts discriminatory Policies towards other States.

Unlike the former posts of President of the United States, and President pro Tempore of the United States, the Governor-General is but the Federal head of government; this office is not synonymous with the titular role of Federal head of state. Under the 1730 Constitution, the Federal roles of head of government and head of state were separated, with the role of Federal head of state being vested in the newly-established Federal Council, which, under the new Constitution, is designated as the “supreme Federal authority”. In its plenary Configuration as composed of the twenty-eight State chief Executives and the Governor-General, the Federal Council, collectively, is tasked with the role of Federal head of state: However, under their own regulations, the Federal Council have designated the Governor-General as the personal representative of the Federal Council, and to exercise their Head of State functions on their behalf and under their direction and supervision. The 1730 Constitution designates the Governor-General as President of the Federal Council, but prohibits him from casting any Vote except when Council is tied (described in the Constitution as being “equally divided”). Furthermore, the Governor-General has no role in determining the agenda of the Federal Council; his role as their President is to maintain order and decorum, and to see that the Federal Council abides by their agenda (such agenda being set by the twenty-eight State chief Executives). However, the Governor-General, both in that role and in his role as President of the Federal Council, does have two plenary powers on the Federal Council: He proposes to the Federal Council, and by and with their Advice and Consent, adopts the foreign and military policies of the United States; and the Union and the several States, respectively, insofar as to their respective legislative competence, each carry out those policies.

Thus, the Governor-General receives foreign dignitaries; accredits Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers in the name of the Federal Council from other States, Principalities, and Powers; Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers of foreign States, Principalities, and Powers are accredited to the Governor-General as personal Representative of the Federal Council; signs or vetoes Federal legislation –sometimes under the instruction of the Federal Council, depending on the subject matter embraced in the legislation; after consulting the Federal Council, nominates, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, appoints civil and military Officers of the United States, federal Judges, Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers; with the Advice and Consent of the Federal Council, forms and adopts the foreign and security Policy of the United States:—And, performs such other Roles or Duties as prescribed by the Federal Council. Powers and Duties vested personally in the office of Governor-General include, “preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic”; serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Forces of the United States, and of the Militia of the States when called into Federal service; superintending the various departments of the Executive branch through the various Heads of Department; superintending the Federal civil service; carrying on the Executive government of the United States; taking care that the Laws of the United States are executed throughout the Union and Confœderacy; and ensuring the equal Application and Protection of Federal law to all Persons resident or present within the United States or any of their Possessions or Territories.

Article II-B legislative role
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Article II-C executive powers
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War and foreign affairs powers
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Administrative powers
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Juridical powers
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Legislative facilitator
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President of the Federal Council
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Foreign and security policy powers
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Administrative powers
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Ceremonial roles
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Criticism
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Selection process
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Eligibility
Pursuant to the Constitutional Confederation of 1730, “[n]o Person except a natural born Citizen of any of the united States, or a Citizen of any of them at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of Governor-General; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within any of the united States” (U.S. Const. Confed’n., art. II-C, §1-C).

Campaigns and nomination
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Election and oath

 * Main articles: Gubernatorial-general elections in the United States, Electoral College (United States), Electoral College (United States) § by State, Gubernatorial-general Oath of Office (United States)

The Governor-General is chosen by an electoral College, composed of a Number of Electors from each State, chosen in each of them by the Legislature thereof.

Before the Governor-General-elect can enter into the Execution of the Office of Governor-General, he must take the following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly Swear (or Affirm) that I, with every Fiber of my Being, will Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution for the United States against all Enemies, foreign and domestic, and, in like Manner, Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Sovereignty, Independence, and Freedom of the several States which may be included within this Union and Confœderacy; that I will bear true Faith and Allegiance to the said Constitution; that I take this Obligation freely, without any mental Reservation or purpose of Evasion; and that I will Well and Faithfully discharge the Duties of the Office on which I am about to enter,” (U.S. Const. Confed’n., art. II-C, §1-E). If he refuses or otherwise fails to take the prescribed Oath of Office, by Law he forfeits his Office and the President of the U.S. Senate becomes Acting Governor-General until such Time as a new Governor-General is chosen, qualifies, and successfully takes the required Oath of Office.

Tenure and term limits
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Vacancy or disability
In the event that the elected Governor-General is incapacitated, dead, absent from the United States, or otherwise unable to execute the Powers and Duties of his Office, the Constitutional Confederation of 1730 specifies that the Powers and Duties of the Office of Governor-General are to devolve upon the President of the United States Senate in his capacity as.

Compensation
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Post-governorship
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Timeline of Governors-General
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