The Seven Branches of a Care-Based Government

Why Seven Branches?

The current three-branch system (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) was designed in 1787 for a slaveholding agrarian society of 4 million people. It concentrates too much power in too few hands, creates gridlock between branches, and lacks mechanisms for long-term thinking, ecological protection, or accountability for historical harms.

The Seven Branches of Care-Based Government distribute power more equitably, create specialized democratic structures for different types of decisions, and ensure government actually serves people instead of concentrating authority in an imperial presidency or gridlocked Congress.

Core Principles:

No single executive: Collective leadership (Council of Stewardship) prevents cult of personality and authoritarian consolidation
Ecological representation: Nature and future generations get institutional voice (Ecosystem Assembly, Office of Future Generations)
Truth before progress: Cannot move forward without confronting past crimes (Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
Democracy in economy: Economic decisions democratized through cooperative ownership and worker power (Legislative Assembly chambers)
Care as infrastructure: Government's primary function is caring for people and planet (Ministry of Care)
Subsidiarity and fractals: Same seven-branch structure replicates at federal, state, county, municipal levels

This isn't just reorganization—it's reimagining what government is for. From empire maintenance and capital accumulation to collective care and ecological regeneration.

BRANCH 1: The Council of Stewardship

Its Role:

Collective executive leadership coordinating between branches, managing international relations, and responding to emergencies without concentrating power in a single presidency. Seven elected Co-Chairs serve staggered four-year terms with diverse mandatory representation, operating by consensus or supermajority to prevent authoritarian control while maintaining governmental capacity.

Total Staff: ~1.2 million
Total Budget: ~$1 trillion annually

Departments and Agencies:

Department of Foreign Relations and Peace

Replaces State Department with focus on diplomacy, base closures, reparations distribution, and cooperative international partnerships rather than military dominance.

Department of the Treasury

Manages progressive taxation, reparations distribution, cooperative banking support, and IRS expansion focused on wealth/corporate tax enforcement.

Department of Transportation

Builds high-speed rail, free public transit, bike infrastructure, and accessible transportation while phasing out car dependency nationwide.

Department of Energy

Oversees renewable energy transition, nuclear weapons dismantlement, and energy efficiency while ending all fossil fuel subsidies.

Department of the Interior

Returns 50 million acres to Indigenous nations through Land Back, ends extractive industries on public lands, and implements co-management of parks.

Department of Technology Commons (DTC)

Develops and maintains the digital infrastructure of all non-classified projects, assisting government, worker-cooperatives, federations, and small businesses in digital services.

Emerging Technology Integration Agency (ETIA)

Tests and deploys emerging technologies (AI, biotech, nanotech, and quantum) with ethical guardrails and public benefit requirements.

General Services Administration (GSA)

Manages federal buildings, procurement, and real estate with living wage requirements and cooperative vendor prioritization.

The People's Monetary Reserve

Transformed the Federal Reserve providing public banking, zero-interest loans to cooperatives, and democratic monetary policy without Wall Street control.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Expanded space exploration, climate monitoring, and international cooperation with all research data freely shared globally.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Five-fold budget increase for basic research grants with all publicly-funded research released as open-access commons.

Office of Democratic Coordination

Replaces White House Office with smaller staff (500) coordinating Council operations, public communications, and constituent services without Chief of Staff gatekeeping.

Office of Budget and Economic Democracy

Transformed OMB conducting participatory budgeting and economic analysis without regulatory veto power over people-protecting regulations.

Office of Peace and Cooperative Security

Replaces NSC with focus on diplomacy and international cooperation, eliminating regime change operations and coup planning.

Council of Scientific Integrity

Expanded OSTP ensuring evidence-based policymaking, science communication, and research funding coordination protected from political interference.

Office of Social and Ecological Policy

Coordinates domestic policy across Ministry of Care while integrating social and ecological considerations in all policy development.

BRANCH 2: Legislative Assembly / Economic Democracy

Its Role:

Democratic lawmaking through three chambers—Representatives (population-based proportional representation), Commons (economic democracy with worker/cooperative delegates), and Relations (Indigenous sovereignty and international solidarity). This structure ensures economic decisions are democratized, monopolies are broken, and cooperative enterprise is supported while Indigenous nations maintain sovereign voice in governance.

Total Staff: ~300,000
Total Budget: ~$300 billion annually

Departments and Agencies:

Department of Commerce

Massively expanded FTC breaking up monopolies, enforcing anti-trust, prosecuting corporate crime, and supporting small business/cooperative development.

National Cooperative Coordination Agency (NCCA)

Supports 50,000 worker cooperatives with financing, technical assistance, training, and coordination after Fortune 500 breakup.

Democratic Economic Commission (DEC)

Facilitates worker buyouts, cooperative conversions, and democratic economic planning with participatory input from workers and communities.

Innovation Justice Agency (IJA)

Protects open-source innovation, opposes software patents, supports right-to-repair, and breaks Big Tech monopolies.

Federal Artificial Intelligence Agency (FAIA)

Regulates AI development ensuring transparency, accountability, worker protections, and prohibition of autonomous weapons.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Transformed to prosecute financial crimes aggressively, support worker cooperative financing, and regulate markets democratically.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Breaks media monopolies, enforces net neutrality, provides universal broadband, and supports public/community media.

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Administers 100% public campaign financing, enforces contribution limits, and ensures automatic voter registration.

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Aggressively supports union organizing, prosecutes union-busting with million-dollar daily fines, and enforces card-check certification.

BRANCH 3: Judiciary of Care / Constitutional Rights

Its Role:

Restorative justice replacing punitive incarceration, aggressive civil rights protection, constitutional accountability through rotating judges, and religious institution oversight ensuring tax-exempt status serves public good. This branch dismantles mass incarceration while prosecuting corporate crime and protecting constitutional rights through democratic judicial selection and community accountability mechanisms.

Total Staff: ~250,000
Total Budget: ~$230 billion annually

Departments and Agencies:

Department of Justice

Transformed to prioritize corporate crime prosecution, civil rights enforcement, and restorative justice while abolishing 95% of federal prisons.

Federal Bureau of Accountability and Justice

Renamed FBI redirecting from political surveillance to corporate crime (12,000 agents), civil rights enforcement (5,000 agents), and ending COINTELPRO legacy.

Civil Service, Rights, and Enforcement Department

Enforces civil rights, prosecutes discrimination, protects voting rights, and ensures constitutional protections with community oversight.

Office of Religious Institution Accountability (ORIA)

Enforces 35% community service requirement or taxation for religious institutions, prosecutes abuse, supports religious trauma survivors, and administers progressive theology test.

BRANCH 4: Office of Future Generations

Its Role:

Long-term planning and ecological restoration with appointed guardians serving 10-year terms who cannot be removed by short-term political pressure. This branch protects rights of future people and non-human life through aggressive EPA enforcement, soil/water restoration, climate tech deployment, and circular economy transformation while maintaining independence from election cycles.

Total Staff: ~2 million
Total Budget: ~$350 billion annually

Departments and Agencies:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Massively expanded and empowered with enforcement teeth, criminal prosecution authority, and mission focused on restoration not just regulation.

Ecological Restoration Agency (ERA)

Plants 50 billion trees, restores 30 million acres of wetlands, removes dams, and rebuilds ecosystems through 300,000-worker corps.

Soil Remediation Agency (SMA)

Restores 400 million acres of degraded farmland through composting, cover cropping, and regenerative agriculture technical support.

Water Conservation Agency (WCA)

Constructs Great Water Grid (2,600 miles of aqueducts), removes PFAS contamination, and replaces 10 million lead pipes.

Climate Tech Innovation Initiative (CTII)

Develops and deploys living seawalls, carbon capture, enhanced weathering, and climate adaptation technologies with Global Commons sharing.

Department of Circular Economy (DCE)

Operates 10,000 materials recovery facilities, 2,000 biogas plants, and manages zero-waste systems eliminating single-use plastics.

BRANCH 5: Ministry of Care

Its Role:

Universal services ensuring healthcare, education, housing, food security, social infrastructure, and economic security as guaranteed rights rather than commodities. This largest branch employs 10 million workers providing comprehensive cradle-to-grave support through Medicare for All, free education, housing guarantee, UBI, and vast expansion of libraries, museums, parks, and community spaces.

Total Staff: ~10 million
Total Budget: ~$9.3 trillion annually (including UBI)

Major Departments and Programs:

Universal Healthcare Administration

Medicare for All covering all residents with zero copays, deductibles, or premiums; expands NIH/CDC for research and pandemic prevention.

Department of Education and Public Broadcasting

Free universal education (pre-K through PhD), $68,400 teacher salaries, transformed public media, and cultural programming without corporate influence.

Social Security Administration

Expanded with $3,800/month minimum benefit, retirement age 60, caregiver credits, and SSDI transformation ensuring dignified support.

Department of Labor and Worker Justice

Enforces $68,400 living wage, federal jobs guarantee, aggressive union support, and wage theft prosecution with triple damages.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Transforms service member transition through Peace Corps programs, comprehensive healthcare, housing guarantees, and economic opportunity.

Universal Housing Guarantee Administration

Constructs 33 million social housing units (rent capped at 20% income), ends homelessness, and provides tenant unions legal support.

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Administration

Administers SNAP expansion, free school meals, farmers market vouchers, and supports regenerative agriculture transition.

Social Infrastructure Agency

Operates 120,000 libraries, 200+ museums, public theme parks, extreme sports hubs, worker-owned gyms, and democratic sports franchises.

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Provides $24,000/year to adults ($18,000 net after $6,000 Imperial Deduction), $9,600/year to children, ensuring economic security.

BRANCH 6: Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Its Role:

Documents all historical crimes (slavery, genocide, coups, and wars), facilitates accountability through prosecutions where applicable, administers (at least) $152.675 trillion in reparations over 50 years, and ensures historical truth is never erased. This branch is led by commissioners from harmed communities with authority to compel testimony, declassify documents, and coordinate international cooperation on accountability.

Total Staff: ~100,000
Total Budget: ~$3.1 trillion annually (mostly reparations distribution)

Functions:

Historical Documentation Division

Archives all evidence of slavery, genocide, coups, torture, wars, and systemic racism with public access and educational integration.

Reparations Administration

Distributes $152.675T over 50 years: $80T to ADOS, $15.5T to Indigenous peoples, $56T internationally, $500B to other harmed Non-ADOS POC communities.

Accountability and Prosecution Coordination

Works with transformed FBI and DOJ to prosecute war criminals, corporate criminals, and government officials who committed crimes against humanity.

Declassification Authority

Forces release of all classified documents related to coups, assassinations, torture, and surveillance with 25-year maximum classification.

Education and Memory Programs

Develops curricula, memorials, museums, and public programming ensuring crimes are never forgotten or denied.

BRANCH 7: Ecosystem Assembly

Its Role:

Represents non-human life and ecosystems in governance with veto power over ecologically destructive policies, enforces Rights of Nature legislation, and ensures all government decisions consider seven-generation impacts. Members include ecosystem guardians (scientists and Indigenous knowledge-keepers selected by lot), species representatives advocating for threatened ecosystems, and biocentric ethics councils maintaining ecological integrity.

Total Staff: ~15,000
Total Budget: ~$25 billion annually

Functions:

Legislative Review Division

Reviews all proposed legislation for ecological impact with power to veto laws that harm ecosystems or violate Rights of Nature.

Rights of Nature Enforcement

Prosecutes violations of river rights, forest rights, and ecosystem rights through legal personhood framework.

Ecosystem Guardian Selection

Administers sortition process selecting scientists and Indigenous knowledge-keepers for guardian roles with term limits.

Species Advocacy Program

Provides institutional voice for threatened species and ecosystems in all government decision-making processes.

Seven Generation Impact Assessment

Requires all policies to demonstrate they protect resources and ecological integrity for seven generations forward.

Total Federal Government (All Seven Branches)

Total Employment: ~14-15 million workers
Total Annual Budget: ~$13 trillion

Budget Breakdown by Branch:

Ministry of Care: ~$9.3T (largest—care is labor-intensive, includes UBI)
Truth & Reconciliation: ~$3.1T (mostly reparations distribution)
Council of Stewardship: ~$1T
Office of Future Generations: ~$350B
Legislative Assembly: ~$300B
Judiciary of Care: ~$230B
Ecosystem Assembly: ~$25B