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Liberty and Union War
Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
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Name - United States of America (English)
Continent - Americas
Capital - Washington, Anacostia
Administration
Head of state and government - President --------
Legislature - Congress - Senate (upper), House of Representatives (lower)
Speaker of the House of Representatives - Diane Mueller
President of the Senate - ---------
Judiciary - Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - William Roberts
Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic presidential triramic constitution
Form of law - Brougham Code (national, most states); Cambacérès Code (Orleans (civil), East Florida (civil))
Demonym - American
Geography
Area - 4,292,558 km^2
Largest cities
-New York City, New York - 18,590,000 (city), 22,385,000 (metro)
-St. Louis, Missouri - 11,121,000 (city), 15,038,000 (metro)
-Cincinnati, Ohio - 8,547,000 (city), 10,415,000 (metro)
Time zone - TMP-05:00, -06:00
Currency - American eagle
Demography
Language - None; English (unofficial)
Other languages
-Maine, Vermont - French (co-official)
-East Florida - Spanish (co-official)
-Orleans - French, Spanish (co-official)
-Missouri - French, German (co-official)
-Illinois, Nibrasca, Ohio, Pembina, Wisconsan - German (co-official)
-Minasota - Sioux, Ojibwe, French (co-official)
-Cheyenne - Sioux (co-official)
Population - 316,711,000
Density - 73.78 /km^2
Symbols
National festivals
-Independence Day (July 4) - commemorating the Declaration of Independence (1776)
-Illumination Day (August 14) - commemorating the Fall of Appalachicola (1876)
Anthem - Battle March of Liberty
Motto - E pluribus unum
Flag
Ordinary Flag
Grand Luminary
Anthem
National Holidays
-see Holidays
State flags
-emblem on purple flag
-Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Ontonagon, Wisconsan, Alleghania, Franklin, Maryland, Delaware, Juniper, Nibrasca, Kances, Tahosa, East Florida, Anacostia
-legacy of Liberty and Union War (1868-76) which saw such flags used by Constitutional Government > Constitutional Army and then principle extended to states which never fought
-special case
-Washingtonia - uses flag based on coat of arms of George Washington
-West Florida -
Congress
-held in Capitol:
House of Representatives
-702 seats
-allocated by population
-the Speaker is explicitly a party official as with British Isles before revolution
-but only holds votes in case of tie (which is almost never)
Senate
-103 seats
-86 seats, 2 per state
-12 senators elected by large, by proportional representation
-5 senators for life, of six ex-presidents
-last former ex-president (of right party) serves as President of the Senate
-unless none unavailable
Joint Sessions
-President's Annual Message to Congress held in joint session
-also, if both houses disagree, vote held in joint session
-which practically means that the House can override the Senate with sufficient support as it has almost 7x number of members
Cabinet
President
-without Jackson, a weaker presidency
-veto virtually unused, and when it is it's a major crisis
-can now officially only be used for unconstitutional legislation
-and now overriden by 3/5 veto
-no VP, got abolished
Secretary of State
-runs foreign affairs
-in general, with US being less prominent abroad, Secretary of State has less stature
-but is still primus inter pares among cabinet
-also will become president if president dies
Secretary of the Treasury
-manages the collection of revenue, federal finances, and regulates the minting of currency
Secretary of Domestic Affairs
-formed during American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) presidency
-manages
-internal improvements
-Indian affairs
-public affairs
-patents
-seals
-pensions
-general police
-National Preserve Territories
-with the general police, specifically management of the Civil Guard, being the one the public associates with it the most
Secretary of War
-manages the three branches of the military - the Army, the Navy, and the Aeronautic Corps
Secretary of Peace
-successor to the Secretary of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, runs extensions of some of its purposes
-Freedmen's Department created in 1875
-turned into Department of Peace in 1893 following Washington Convention
-runs health insurance system, other health elements
-and rest of welfare system
-as well as a legal arbitration system spanning the nation
-also runs Service Commission
-which practically speaking gives Department of Peace its own foreign policy
Secretary of Education
-runs the federal education system, regulates lower-level schools
-established in 1878 as part of Reconstruction
Secretary of Natural Resources
-manages water, mining, energy, forestry
-especially in Interior because so much of it is owned directly by the state
-and provides mining licenses for using federal land
Secretary of Agriculture
-provides information to farmers as part of management of farming interests
Secretary of Commerce and Industry
-provides licenses to companies to do interstate commerce
Secretary of Labor
-prints labor statistics
-enforces labor legislation and provides arbitration boards
Attorney General
-advises Congress on the law
-runs a narrow Department of Justice that provides lawyers for prosecution and that's it
Postmaster General
-runs Postal & Telegraph Services
-can send a message variously through mail and Telegraphy
-also calls through Telepalver
-including video call system
-and later terminals with Networking > Teledata ( United States of America )
-political appointee, but w/ underlings in civil service
-often serves as minister without portfolio
Corporations
National Corporations
Bank of the United States
Railroad Corporation of the United States
National Constitutional Photonics Corporation
-originates in the Constitutional Gazette used for Constitutional Government propaganda
-during Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-then with the rise of Photonics it gets transmitted over the air
-in 1919 the American Presidents > 1917-1923 Paul Drennan Cravath (Free Trade) administration splits photonic section
-as national corporation organized similarly as the others
-this also means a big rush on people buying shares which gives government in er a of Recessions > Panic of 1911 money to balance the books
-quickly becomes big on the phote and later on the Photescope
Private Corporations
-the United States has seen the vertical consolidation of corporations into a number of cliques
-in practice many of these cliques are unstable and the Free Trade Party rather hostile to them
-however, they must follow rules of business re. treatment of workers to continue to have a license
-and they must also disclose their documents and not sell overvalued stock
Mackintosh
US Oil
-essentially a clique in years after Liberty and Union War
-emerges over exploiting huge reserves in Pennsylvania and expands to Cimarron and Kances
-expands into United Provinces of Buenaventura
-extremely controversial in this
-the Heads of Buenaventura > 1916-1925 Henry W. D. Bridges (Association of Workers and Peasants) administration nationalizes US Oil's land in its area which means it's hammered in economy
US Maple
-maple sugar emerges as a huge industry due to sugarcane slowdown after Second French War (1821-32) and British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9)
-see this
-biggest centers in Vermont and New York, other smaller centers in Michigan, Wisconsan, and Ontonagon, and with smaller ones in Ohio, Indiana, Juniper, and Alleghania
-but with some production in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky
-and even some in Tennessee, Virginia, and Franklin and a tiny bit in North Carolina
-though re-emergence of sugarcane economy postwar damages this emergence, it does still stick around
-US Maple emerges during Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-the state nationalizes, distributes to friendly industrialists the maple industry
-postwar several maple forests reserved for conservation of this resource
-and in conquered Kentucky, Tennessee, and Franklin this valuable resource is especially conserved
-and maple sugar industry prospers in years that follows
Armed Forces
Service Commission
-often considered "the fifth arm of the military"
-and serves as a branch of foreign and domestic policy in its own right
-formed in 1887 soon after Antillean War (1880-4)
-to continue the concept of national service now that the army has become less important in scope
-and out of Quaker conscientious objectors to war who formed their own service committees like this
-and also out of other ad hoc arrangements to provide conscientious objectors with alternate service
-and to consolidate the United States Sanitary Commission, newly nationalized, into something wider
-mandatory to serve in various professions:
-lawyers
-doctors
-teachers
-a number of high-profile universities make service a prereq for graduation
-also rebates for education for people who serve
-and additional scholarships within it
-serves various tasks
-health
-nonprofits
-conservation
-education
-rapid response
-includes a lot of overseas work
-and historically funded a lot of missionary work in Africa where it worked wholly with colonial powers
-also did a lot for immigration because of the sort of links it created between US and Africa
Universities
-all public universities and a great many private universities wear uniforms
-part of militaristic legacy of the Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-also, most universities have been remade on New England model
National University
Harvard University
Yale University
University of New Jersey
-OTL Princeton
-Queen's College (which in OTL eventually became Rutgers) fused into it
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Brown University
Dartmouth College
Williamsburg University
-OTL College of William and Mary
-got refounded after Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-but only as a constituent college of a newly expanded school
-main anchor university of Richmond area
Republican University of New Orleans
-got founded as Royal University of New Orleans in Spanish era in 1812
-with US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8), got refounded as Republican University
-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76), dramatically reconstituted once more
Mackintosh University
-formerly University of Cincinnati
-receives massive endowment from founder of Mackintosh Analyzer Company
-this endowment turns this university into an incredibly influential one
Transylvania University
-reconstituted after end of Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-with Kentucky seeing land rush due to land cleared from confiscations it gets new base for educational institutions
-quickly turns into most impressive institution in the south in the years that follow civil war
Ogden University
-founded by John Ogden, an abolitionist, for freedmen
-in Memphis and has become a lynchpin of southern school network
-on model of New England schools
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