The basic idea I would like to promote is that the House of Representatives should take charge of the process of nominating and appointing the heads of the executive departments, the President's Cabinet. The House could do so by telling the President that if he did not nominate and appoint the persons the House wants, it would not fund the positions. I know that the first reaction will be that the nomination and appointment of the executive officers is a power given by the Constitution to the President, and indeed it does, but the Constitution says nothing at all about how these persons are selected, or who has the power to make those selections. In fact there was some discussion of this issue in the first Congress, and the power was given to the President by the Congress largely only because the first President was George Washington. It has been a tradition ever since, but it is not part of the written Constitution. Thus it is not unconstitutional for the House to take on the role of selecting the persons whom the President nominates. Such a change would result in a cascade of changes in out government, most of them, I feel, for the better. More later.