Jack of Harts

The United States President denounced the reforms the Convention of States ratified on live network feed. The United States Congress passed a bill declaring the convention illegal and the President signed it. Twelve of the Eighteen United States Supreme Court Justices ruled that the Convention of States had no standing. The Convention of States returned fire by Impeaching the President, Vice President, every member of their administration, Congress, and the Supreme Court. The States immediately selected new Senators, whose first action was to elect a new President Pro Tempore of the Senate. The man they selected was a household name in America. Impeached by the previous House and Senate. The former Vice President of the United States. His new position placed him atop the line of succession to the Presidency of the United States. That is how John Jefferson Freemon was selected as the new President of the United States of America.

The Convention of States that convened during the Second Great Depression did not follow the American President’s order to stand down. The Forty Nine States had assembled their delegations to deal with the issues America faced, and they were not alone. Numerous Indians Nations stood with them, sometimes as part of State delegations, and sometimes on their own. They had no official votes in the proceedings, but their influence was not to be ignored. The United States Armed Forces also had no votes. The American military properly remained out of political matters, but nearly every surviving American military base had sent observers. The delegations voted out of the convention complained to the news, and their pet networks were quick to denounce the convention as a partisan witchhunt persecuting the President and Congress. That did not stop the convention from meeting each day. They agreed on many points and disagreed on others. What they all agreed upon is they were going to deal with the Federal Government before they closed the convention. They did deal with it in the end.

The Second Great Depression and the Drug Wars changed the United States of America forever. For one, we were far less united than we thought. Decades of political infighting had badly damaged American’s unity, and most States looked to their own for help. Many suffered greatly when the cities that governed them collapsed under the strain of budget cuts, protests, riots, gang violence, and drug wars. The Federal government poured its resources into helping cities governed by their friends, and ignored those governed by it’s political rivals. Or so people thought at first. Then Texas called for all of the States to deal with the Federal government over charges of facilitating the death and destruction that had consumed so many cities. The Forty Nine States answered their call to form the Convention of States, which quickly became the judge, jury, and executioner of the United States of America as we knew it.