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Principles of Direct Representational Democracy
- Beyond its task to maintain Israel as the democratic homeland of the Jewish people, the government is mandated to protect the rights of individual citizens, not groups.
- Every individual citizen shall have an elected representative in the Knesset
- The interests of citizens as individuals, not political parties, shall be represented in the Knesset.
- The voting public is the source of governmental authority and legitimacy.
- The voting public should directly determine its individual representatives in the legislative branch and the leader of the executive branch. Elected officials will serve for fixed, limited terms of office.
- Political parties function to organize citizens into lawful political action; they should have no authority within government and may not circumvent the voting public as the final selector of government officials.
- Members of Knesset should bear individual responsibility for their conduct as representatives of clearly defined contituencies.
- Every Knesset member will be elected individually, as the single representative of his electoral district of residence, by a majority of voters in his district.
- The primary responsibility of MKs should be to serve the interests of the citizens in their districts and the country as a whole, not the central committee of a political party.
- Governmental abuses of power shall be prevented through the separation of government branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) and through their checking of one another.
- The Knesset will have the sole authority to pass legislation. Every government official, including supreme court justices, the president, and Knesset members, may be subject to impeachment by the Knesset.
- The executive branch will be a presidential system, with a chief executive elected separately from the Knesset in a direct, national election for a limited term. He will set policy within the executive branch; he will appoint government ministers, subject to Knesset confirmation.
- The Supreme Court will have limited original jurisdiction and be the final court of appeals. The Supreme Court will serve as the final interpreter of law and check the legal consistency of Knesset legislation. Appointments to the Supreme Court bench will be made through selection and confirmation processes involving the executive and legislative branches. No member of the judicial branch will have either conclusive or partial decision making authority on the appointment of Supreme Court justices.
- No member of government shall serve concurrently in more than one branch of government.
- The fundamental purpose of democratic government is to efficiently provide essential governing services.
- The number of executive ministries will be limited to provide essential governing services. No new ministries shall be created without the approval of a majority of the legislature.
- The legislature shall remain a unicameral body, and may increase in membership only according to strict criteria of population demographics.
- The purpose of government is not to amass and distribute resources in a system of political patronage.
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