JUst have a squint at that Constitution, and I couldn't see where there was anything in it that requires a lengthy transition period. It looks as if all thatbstuff is left wide opoen to be adjusted to meet the needs and preferences of the day.

And it used to last until March didn't it? And I don't believe it needed a Constitutional Amendment to bring it back to January.

Dumping the electoral college would be a different matter, but that wouldn't be required. After all when a President dies in office there isn't any transitional period. A period of readjustment, but that's not the same thing.

With us the political advisiors and tghe politicians, which include all the Ministers, get booted out. There's a permanent civil service who run things anyway - "Yes Minister" is said to have been remarkably close to the truth. Far more so than The West Wing, which they have just started showing here.