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Kottayam democratic system The primary governmental units are Nation, States and City. The voting majorities are either constitutional majority ( more than 2 / 3 of the votes for constitutional issues) or simple majority ( more than 1 / 2 of the votes).

The President is both Head of Government and Head of state; a Prime minister does not exist, the cabinet of Ministers is run by the President himself and his Deputy President (the equivalent of a Chief of Staff, responsible for Day to Day tasks). The President is selected by the Parliament instead of being elected directly by the people. Members of the legislative branch and the judiciary are barred from serving in the executive. The Vice President has no vote inside the legislative branch, as so often the case in other Presidential systems; this position is given in general to a Minister in the cabinet or the Debuty. Governors and mayors are selected likewise.

The Ministers and all the members of the executive branch need not to be confirmed by the Parliament, however they can be dismissed for cause from the Parliament. The judges on the other hand are selected by the Parliament without direct input from the executive.

The legislative branch for the Nation consists of a Parliament and a Senate.

The Parliament has n seats for n districts. Each seat can either go to an independent contender or to a Party, which then fills the seat in case of victory with a person of their own choice. The Parliament is not fragmented into Parties.

The Senate consists of n seats for n states. The Senator is selected by the Governor of the respective State. Senate votes on issues only, if it directly effects State's laws, regulations and overall constitutional issues. The vote of a Senator can not be dictated by the Governor of that State. A vote for a random law is not mandatory, usually the Senators have an informal prevote to clarify, whether they feel a vote is necessary; if the Senators do not informally demand a vote, the law is passed without discussion.

There are no speakers in each chamber, instead there is a fixed Primeparliamentarian or Primesenator. That person must be member of the chamber. The position can pass from member to member.

The Nation can pass laws, that direct, influence or override laws in the States and regulations in States and Cities.

The legislative branch for the State is the Parliament. Parliament consists of n seats for n Cities and has the same duties as the national Parliament. Since the State unlike the Nation does not pass laws for the cities, nor has a constitution, there is no need for a Senate.

The legislative branch for a City is the Parliament and consists of n seats for n City districts. This Parliament does not pass laws, but regulations, that effect the city only.

Each lawmaker can serve 1 term in a seat in lifetime; while he / she is member of a Legislative, he / she can not serve in another Legislative or position inside the country. While a person is serving, he or she can not campaign for another seat. Endorsements are not allowed. A person can only move vertically, not horizontally. That means, a person can not be representing more than one city or state; or can represent a city in one state and then move to represent another state and vice versa. However whether a person starts in the State or in the City is irrelevant. A person must have clean tax records.

Each legislative period lasts for 5 years.

Presidents, Governors, Mayors and Senators must be selected beginning each legislative period by a simple majority.

Lawmakers, Senators, Presidents, Governors and Mayors must at least be 50 years old, citizens of the nation and not of any other nation and living permanently primarily in the nation for the last 20 years. Likewise the duration for State and City are 10 and 5 years. They must be fluent in the local language; that means for a Nation like India, that means for example the Senator, Parliamentarians, Mayor or Governor in Kerala needs to be fluent in Malayalam. The President must be fluent at least in 1 of the national languages.

President, Senator or Parliamentarians need to have served on the State or City level prior to their national political career to prevent opportunistic, glamour seeking otherwise inexperienced Politicians.

All elections are held the same date. Special elections have no impact on the next regular election.

Cities, States and the Nation have courts. The judges are selected by the Parliament for a life time. All courts are specialized for a set of crimes. An appeal can be handled by a different court of the same level (the case ends with 3 appeals).

The highest court is the Supreme Court, which handles constitutional matters; that includes laws in general, that are under suspicion of being unconstitutional. Citizens can have a case be handled by this court, if a law is forced on them, that contradicts with their constitutional rights.

There is only the one national constitution, no other constitutions are tolerated.

Each unit collect their own taxes.

A State in principal could be run by a (constitutional) monarch with powers of a Governor. That provision allows kingdoms to come into the Union.