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mk  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you could add one department to your country's government, what would it be?

That's a tough one. I think it might be nice to have an office that was charged with ensuring that citizen's rights weren't being infringed upon. I think their powers could include fast-tracking issues to the Supreme Court, and also putting a stay on new questionable legislation until it the courts made a determination. However, these entities always seem to have unintended consequences.

Personally, I think most new departments that we envision would be to deal with corruption and disenfranchisement. If lobbying and campaign contributions were drastically limited, I think we'd get results that we would hope these new departments might achieve.





BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

With a large enough population, everyone will get their toes stepped on at one point or another.

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ll  ·  4407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wouldn't that be the Department of Justice in the US? Although now the DOJ seems to look after the music industry and so on, other than the interests of people, the NAACP seems to worry about Justice more.