Deprivations of individuals’ life, liberty, and property can be prevented not only ad hoc by not respecting unconstitutional rules, but also systematically by limiting governments.

Local plus state governments outspend the national government. In fiscal year 2021, governments’ net spends as percentages of GDP are projected to be 9% in localities plus 9% in states, vs. 17% nationally [3].

To whatever extent that a local or state charter delegates executive power to the state of local executive like the Constitution delegates the executive power to the president, the executive should prevent deprivations of life, liberty, and property by using his power thoroughly [14].

The executive should organize the structure of the executive branch.

He should lay off and hire in every position not otherwise controlled explicitly in the charter. In doing this, he should triage among scope that he himself considers either ongoing, a temporary obligation, or harmful.

For ongoing scope, he should appoint officers suited to protect the Constitution as they execute the law. For temporary obligations, he should appoint officers suited for selling unproductive assets, managing productive assets, and fulfilling limited, defined obligations. For harmful scope, he should appoint officers suited for shutting down enterprises efficiently.

He should not generate revenue to support spending he considers harmful. He should set operational targets and control spending by department. He should assign tasks and require timely performance.

Even on the scope that’s retained by his government, the executive should continually reevaluate and manage in such a way as to minimize the portion provided by monopolist government people and maximize the portion provided by producers in open competition. Make-or-buy decisions should always promote further development of the institutions of a freer future society in which these choices, too, are made by individuals for themselves [15].

The executive should screen, review, and insist that his legislature fully repeal each statute that he considers in any part unconstitutional. He should veto any bill that he considers in any part unconstitutional.

To inherently separate powers, each statute should consist solely of rules and sanctions. Each statute should contain no rule that delegates legislative power, that directs the executive branch, that directs the judicial branch, that misleads, or that exceeds the limited, enumerated powers [16].

Legislators should not try to write into the laws the judgment needed in individual cases, but should rely on judges to do their own jobs on cases. Each statute should be concise enough to leave the whole corpus comprehensible, intuitive, and memorable. The statutes should leave we the people with a good sense of where we stand as we go about our lives freely.

When statutes inherently separate powers, statutes make it so that legislators pass bills, executives enforce statutes, and judges opine on cases. Administrative agencies do not exist. Due process is clear and is readily followed.

The local or state executive should screen, review, and insist that his legislature fully repeal each statute that interferes with customers freely buying or with producers freely selling [17].

Producers arise quickly, and customers regulate producers excellently [18]. Even immediate abolishment of government schools, for example, will be handled by individual producers and individual customers more helpfully than, say, COVID responses have been handled [19]. Existing private schools will first absorb the increased demand, new schools will at first be modeled on the previous government schools, and new schools will increasingly create quality innovations such as advancing students not based on age but based on achievement.

An executive is not a government salesman. Governments aren’t sold to we the people; governments are instituted by we the people, to secure certain of individuals’ inalienable rights.

Each executive is we the people’s agent, with strong centralized power to limit the government he’s responsible for, and with the constitutional duty to do so in the way that makes our lives, liberty, and property the most secure.

When all the scope that we can do better ourselves is released back to us, then what limited scope remains will be executed better.

The central and singular mission needs to clearly be to make our lives, liberty, and property more secure from each executive’s own government, from other governments, and from tyrants nominally outside governments [20].