2016 Postmortem

to form the Confederate government and write a Constitution.

Committees and sub-committees were formed to recommend Constitutional articles. Most committees were made up of veteran government officials, everything from former Supreme Court Justices to governors to senators.

The committee on the presidency recommended some changes. They included the line item veto. They made the President's term six years with only one term allowed. As far as how to elect the President, they went round and round and in the end, ended up keeping the electoral college which was a surprise because going in, it was assumed it would be done away with. They just couldn't come up with a different system that would have the support of the big states like Georgia and the small states like Florida and Texas.