Instead of 1 president & 1 vice president & the supreme justices, the justices get voted in instead as presidents. 9 of them & no vice president.
Congress: House of Representatives & the Senate goes bye bye. They are not needed & provide too much confusion, fighting, & ignorance because the states arent as tight-knit as they should be.
There is a governor for each state/territory (which New England needs to be combined into one or two states). Every 4 years the governors & presidents meet up at either the old building where the senate had met or the white house, or some other chosen location every 4 years to discuss any amendments or changes needed in any laws. More if something big happens.
There is a mayor for every city/town and they collect information to give to the governors.
Presidents are elected by us the people, not congress & electorals, every 20 years. Governors are elected every 13 years. Mayors are elected every 8 years. I chose these numbers because I think the elections & amount of advertising we're forced to see should be limited much more & there's less a chance of an overlap. If 2 elections do lie on the same year, the office with a longer term gets an extra year.
If anyone in any office commits any crime or does something that would cause them to be impeached, or dies, the remaining mayors, governors & presidents vote in a replacement for the remainder of the term. This is the only person who is ever allowed to re-run for an office.
All states need to have the same laws, same sales tax, no tax on the survivals like food, otc medicines (except for certain drugs which all should be legal & the ones like heroin, cocaine, things like that have an extra excise tax that gets specifically put to education so the drugs are there, but because it's not as taboo people wont want to rebel as much and will have better education so they either avoid completely or not get addicted.) In the ( ) that gets it further away from kids because the people selling those drugs are not asking for IDs nor really care what the age of the person buying is as long as they're buying which same could be said for some of our pharmacies but regardless. The only thing that needs to change between the states tax-wise would be like property or land tax. The more available the less the tax and the less the more. "Your" tax when you purchase doesn't change unless you move. I'm not too familiar with any others but if I was I'm confident I could come up with a plausible solution to any problem, or a way to make them more fair I guess?
Every state needs to have the same legal adult age which needs to be raised to 25, not 18 or 21. 21 should be the new 16/17 also know as the age of consent, hire for a job, and age to drive/go for a license. I know it's going to suck and there may be a lot of angry spoiled brats, but that needs to happen for safety sake. 25 is also the age in which you'd be able to purchase any recreational drug or alcohol. (it's more known now that you're not fully an adult at the age of 18. You're almost there, but more times than not you haven't developed into an adult including the parts you cant see at 21, when it's legally allowed for you to drink. The prefrontal cortex is the last really to develop fully and it doesnt until between the ages of 21 and 28. 25 is a good medium.)
Grade school, public schooling, really needs to last 4 extra years. Instead of k - 12 it should be k - 16. The 1st 4 or 5 years of school should be nothing but health classes (like nutrition, exercising/gym, hygiene, similar) and arts and crafts. Doing those teaches basic math, logic, and similar using physical examples instead of text and provides them something to do more so than just sit there. They dont actual math skills at that age other than by sight if you can make sense out of that. After that it should go as it usually would.
For protection of the children, they should have the winter off, or the colder season for vacation so they are in more clothes. There's still weekends & holidays for the beach in the summer. School should start in March & end in November leaving December-February off for winter vacation. Most of the major major religious are during that time anyways so it would be more convenient for everyone.
The military needs to all be brought home and mixed in with and as the police and other emergency workers. We have no reason to be in any other country other than for business. If you want to prevent war, get rid of the fighters & create a better defense. Not a prison fence though. Walls don't work and are easy to get around or destroy. All the money we put towards them could be put more towards this country. The military has not fought for our safety since World War 2, All the other wars we fought were not for our safety but our businesses & why we get attacked. We need to but out. If they need help we'll have more money to send them for aid and we'll be focusing on and making more here.
We need to start building more factories for natural gas using the lame mans/backyard method. It's not as strong but it's less combustible & safer as well as provides more ways to recycle which would mean less reasons for landfills. Anything non-organic with no sugars or fats can be steamed & compressed really tight into building material so we don't need as much wood to build & can leave the trees. There is a converter you can install into cars to switch it to natural gas and/or propane. there are some as expensive as $12,000 but there are also some as cheap as $100. This also creates job because you need people watching and checking on it, guarding it, separating the garbage for use for gas and use for building materials, transporting/storing it, etc. It also creates more merchandise we dont have to buy from another country & if we mass produce the simpler equipment to convert the "garbage" to natural gas we can distribute those to other countries allowing them to also clean up their fuels in a better way than nuclear/electric. Electric is good but it uses nuclear & defeats the purpose of being a "better 'fuel'"
We need to start building more skyscraper sized green houses with great fans & ventilation system to also take in any dirty air, filter it for the inside & what comes out is cleaner air. This would also provide a surplus of fresh food that if it goes bad, instead if worrying about preservatives using for the natural gas or compost for more food and medicines. That creates even more jobs because it's multilevel & though most of it would probably be automated, like the watering & plant food feeding, it stills needs people to check it daily for bad "apples", any bugs that happened to get into the facility, & eventually to harvest, package, and transport or store.
We need to build more recreational centers for kids to keep them busy & off the streets when they don't have school. We need to try to find a way to make it all free except for the food. Water is free, but other drinks as well. The centers should have computer labs as well as video games, some indoor sports & maybe even a kitchen & kids & adults can purchase ingredients & use the kitchen to cook for themselves. They should also have like an old school blockbuster type deal there that people can rent the games or movies, but they cant leave the building. The money from the food & rentals can go towards paying security guards & people inside watching the kitchens & other sections.
We need to give newspapers, news stations, & basically all media a time span before they're allowed to post anything about anything. They need to have written consent from everyone involved in the story regardless of they part of the story. If they cant get the consent of all the people involved it doesn't get publicized, streamed, or broadcasted. It just becomes a rumor and/or a conspiracy theory.
We need to go back to only the bill of rights & manipulate the wording a bit to make sure everyone know's they're all included; black, white, tan, green, blue red, man, woman, sheman, hewoman, whatever. Everything else needs to either get erased or put to the smithsonian. If new amendments after the change are needed they can be done through polling people at libraries & city halls. Those results get given to the governors and they take them to the meetings with the other governors and presidents and if changes need to be made or should be, if something more specific needs to be added, then it's done.
All occupations, like per specifics, need to have the same pay throughout their entire job. No more for men or more for women, or more for black more for white and blah blah. They have to be required to be the same. Again not like ALL the same. Some certain jobs deserve/need more pay than others but of the same job should be the same pay. The longer someone works there, instead of raises they get bonuses every month. The longer they've worked at one spot, the more the bonus each month is. Because the age of hire got bumped up it's also safer to have a minimum wage the same throughout the states as well & high enough to be able live comfortably off of.
There is also no reason in any state for there be a 1 bedroom or less with a rent higher than 1000 a month unless EVERYTHING is included. People should not have to decide between food or housing. People should not have to decide between sanity and housing.
I could go on where needed but that's what I've come up with so far.