After Ratification: Building the New System
The constitutional convention concludes. The referendum passes. The Legal Code of Care is ratified.
Now what?
Ratification is the beginning, not the end. We must immediately begin the work of dismantling the old system and constructing the new one—not in theory, but in practice. This means reorganizing millions of federal workers, restructuring thousands of agencies, and implementing care-based governance at every level from federal to municipal.
This is the Great Federal Worker Reshuffling—the largest administrative transformation in U.S. history.
Federal Departments and Agencies: Reorganization Under Seven Branches
The current federal government has 15 executive departments, hundreds of agencies, and approximately 2.9 million civilian employees (plus 1.3 million active-duty military). Under a care-based Constitution, these workers and functions don't disappear—they're reorganized under the Seven Branches of Care-Based Government.
Guiding Principles for Reorganization:
- Workers are not punished for the old system's design. Federal employees didn't create patriarchal government; they worked within it. They receive job security, retraining, and often better working conditions under the new system.
- Functions follow purpose. Agencies are reorganized based on their actual function (care provision, environmental protection, democratic facilitation, etc.), not historical bureaucratic inertia.
- Harmful agencies are abolished, not reformed. ICE, CIA covert operations, nuclear weapons programs, fossil fuel subsidies cannot be reformed. They're dismantled, with workers transitioned to care-based roles.
- Democratic accountability increases. Every reorganized agency has worker councils (elected by employees) and community councils (elected by people served) with binding decision-making power.