Premier of the United Commonwealth

  

Premier of the United Commonwealth
Coat of arms of the United Commonwealth
Incumbent Joseph Ojeda since March 1, 2019
Style	Mr. Premier (informal) His Excellency (diplomatic)
Type	Head of government
Reports to	National People's Congress
Residence	?, Chicago
Appointer	National People's Congress
Formation	1 May 1921 (1921-05-01)
First holder	Aeneas Warren
Deputy	Vice Premier

The Premier of the United Commonwealth, known also as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars or abbreviated to just Premier, and sometimes informally as the Prime Minister, is the head of government of the United Commonwealth, as the overseer of the executive Council of People's Commissars. The Premier is appointed via election from the National People's Congress, following each general election, and is tasked with nominating members to the Council of People's Commissars to form a government. This council is made up of all the various heads of the major departments of the executive branch, known as the People's Commissariats, and is tasked with executing the laws passed by the Congress or the Presidium of the United Commonwealth. As such the Premier and People's Commissars is often comparable to the role of a President and a Cabinet in non-Landonist, presidential republics. The Council of People's Commissars also has broad authority to publish Continental Decrees, which are binding resolutions similar to an executive order, and as such the Premier has the ability to act as a policymaker in his own right.

The Premier of the United Commonwealth has its roots in the provisional executive council overseen by Aeneas Warren during the Continental Revolutionary War. With the declaration of the United Commonwealth via the Union Treaty and the first Constitution of the United Commonwealth, the Council of People's Commissars was established formally in 1921, with Aeneas Warren as its first chairman. Prior to the 1982 Constitution, the Premier could simultaneously be the President or a member of the Presidium, as was the case with Aeneas Warren and Seamus Callahan, however, this ability was curtailed to ensure power is not consolidated behind a single person.

Powers and duties

The premier is the highest administrative position in the Government of the United Commonwealth, and the premier is responsible for administering and organizing the nation's civil bureaucracy. This includes the planning and implementation of national economic and social development plans, as well as the creation of a state budget, which is ratified by the National People's Congress. The premier oversees the various ministries, departments, commissions, and statutory agencies of the federal government, and announces candidacies to the Congress for the positions of Vice Premier, state councilors, and ministerial offices. Unlike a prime minister as seen in the Westminster system, who governs by convention or tradition, the premier is codified into the constitution of the United Commonwealth. The premier is not the commander-in-chief, and therefore does not have command authority over the military of the United Commonwealth, however, commissions regarding national security and mobilization are departments of the executive branch and therefore are controlled by the premier. Since the 1982 Constitution, there has been a separation of powers present between the premier and the President, with the president tasked with gathering the political support necessary for government policy, while the premier is most often tasked with the technical details of implementing that policy.

List of officeholders

No.	Portrait	Name (Lifespan)	Term of office and Mandate (Duration in years and days)			Cabinets	President	Paramount leader
1		Aeneas Warren (1871–1922)	1 May 1922	14 September 1922	–	Warren	Himself
			1 year and 136 days
2		Samuel Gompers (1850–1924)	16 September 1922	20 June 1924	–	Gompers	William Z. Foster	Seamus Callahan
							Coleman Mueller
			1 year and 278 days
3		Bill Haywood (1869–1928)	20 June 1924	28 May 1928	1924	Haywood I
							Seamus Callahan
					1926	Haywood II
			3 years and 343 days
4		Winston Ashtabula (1886–1983)	28 May 1928	25 June 1932	1928	Ashtabula
							Seamus Callahan
			4 years and 29 days
5		Seamus Callahan (1885–1947)	25 June 1932	1 June 1947	1932	Callahan I	Himself
					1936	Callahan II
					1940	Callahan III
					1944	Callahan IV
			14 years and 344 days
6		John L. Lewis (1880–1950)	1 June 1947	25 November 1948	–	Lewis	?	Second Triumvirate
			1 year and 178 days
7		William Green (1873–1953)	25 November 1948	5 September 1953	1948	Green I	Darlington Hoopes
							Clarence Senior	Amelia Crawford
					1952	Green II
			4 years and 285 days
8		Jack Spruance (1904–1979)	5 September 1953	8 October 1970	–	Spruance I	?
								Lysander Hughes
					1956	Spruance II	Lysander Hughes
					1960	Spruance III	Rupert Gardner
					1964	Spruance IV
					1968	Spruance V
			17 years and 37 days

See also

• President of the United Commonwealth
• Elections in the United Commonwealth