Emma had the assignment in school to write a constitution for our family; so for the past week we have been discussing the formation of the Constitution of the United States as well as what we would like the Anderson Family Constitution to entail. The final document created a legislative, executive and judicial branch within our little family. Today, after several days of heavy campaigning, we held elections. In a landslide victory Mary was elected President (assigns jobs, organizes meetings and play dates, and selects the Judge) and shortly thereafter chose Emma to be the Judge (throws criminals in time out as needed). As you had to be at least 8 years old to be President, 10 years old to be judge Miia was elected to be one of two Representatives. That left Karen to be our sole Senator and me to fill the role as the second Representative.
Mary and Emma thought they had pulled off the ultimate coup of course. They could not believe that they were now the President and Judge of our family. Alas, Karen and I are no dummies. What they haven't yet figured out is that as the principle lawmakers, we can sign any bill we want into law and have the 2/3 majority needed in our Congress to override any veto that may come back to us from President Mary. Imagine the laws we could make....
