Vice President's New Job?

      The US Constitution does not really detail what functions the Vice President has, other than being President of the Senate with the responsibility of breaking tie votes on legislation. It goes into some lengths about his qualifications and determines through the 25th Amendment the succession to the presidency, basically to bring continuity to the government. But this continuity basis has changed over the years and there is again a possibility that the remarkable prescience of the Founders has embedded an empowerment in the Constitution that is only applicable to the present globalization of humanity.     

      Many nations have joined in the United Nations to prevent the Dracunculus plague of international aggression that virtually all governments held as a sovereign 'right' that had little to do with protection of its territory, but a great deal to do with acquiring wealth created by the hard work of other societies.  In the last 10,000 years, nearly all human aggression was for the purpose of acquiring wealth, power and women by a parasitic attachment to other people or societies.   So powerful is this biological imperative that even so-called modern societies legitimatize  parasite aggression or ignore it within their own societies.  The most obvious examples of this parasitism are the Taliban (Afghanistan),  Al Qaeda (Pakistan), Organizatsija (Russia),  and Zetas (Mexico) cults that operate within the safety of a nationalist state.

       The problem with the sociopathic cults is that they attempt to acquire weapons of mass destruction in order to carry out their parasitic aggression, or simply from a hatred of humanity doctrine that allows them to kill humans.  There is no real Constitutional mechanism for dealing with this deadly cult process except by a very extensive military attack against the host state, noting that the use of cults as an attack weapon by the state is an act of war.  The United Nation Charter's Article 51: (Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security) allows an attacked state to defend itself without the consent of the UN but does not define an attack.  Drug smuggling into a country could qualify as an attack by a weapon of mass destruction since hundreds and thousands of citizens are harmed by the smuggling.  Using a cult factory to manufacture a toxic consumer item for export to a target population can also be considered an attack not covered by Article 51, but certainly a location that deserves the attention of an artificially intelligent munition.

      Note the powers of the Congress as listed in the Constitution: Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11 (powers of the Congress):  To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;.  The letter of Marque was used in the 1700s to permit individuals to act as military extensions of a government who was protecting citizens far from its own borders and as a means to justice without resorting to full scale war.  Note the power of the President as stated in the Constitution:  Article II, Section 2, paragraph 1 (powers of the President):  The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;. 

      The Letter of Marque was largely used against pirates, criminal strongholds, mercenary bases such as slave centers and cross-border murderer sanctuaries.  But this is very close to the definition of havens for the sociopathic or parasite cults attacking people in the modern world.   Suppose that the Congress issued a Letter of Marque and Reprisal for a particular cult  that empowered  the elected President of the Senate to act as an elected ambassador to the UN in order to use necessary and precise force under Article 51?  That is; the Vice President acts as the American ambassador to the UN and is empowered by the Letter of Marque to use force against  an international cult that combines not only  substantial rewards for capture of the sociopaths, but appoints law enforcement cadres, paramilitary units, and governmental special troops to remove the threat. In addition, there would be options for the use of guided munitions into host countries when they could not show the concept of 'territorial integrity' for the area within their borders, a condition that might exist in sixty per cent of the world's 'sovereign' land areas.  Territorial integrity is defined by the ability of the constituted government to maintain law, including laws against Crimes against Humanity, and order in the territory.  A cult will define territory in its own terms and if its activities are in violation of UN Crimes against Humanity declarations, it would be subject to a Letter of Marque by the targeted society. If the sociopaths are engaged in the production of WMD or suspected of it, they are guilty and subject to immediate reprisal unless they can prove their innocence. That is, possession of the means or method is sufficient to establish guilt.

      Modern technologies can establish a pattern of genocide in areas of no territorial integrity and in some cases within a heavily protected state facility.  The pattern itself is sufficient to establish guilt of mass murder unless it can be shown otherwise. A standing letter of Marque and Reprisal giving authority to an elected vice president that represents both the Congress and the President internationally might free the government from constantly engaging in warfare debates when an act of reprisal is immediately necessary.

      As elected UN ambassador , the Vice President's Letter of Marque and Reprisal could bring force against an enemy of Humanity without the declaration of war or the consent of the full UN Security Council if there was an immediate need of using force.  It is absurd to 'discuss' elimination of a cult suspected of Crimes against Humanity when it can relocate in a matter of hours.  There can be no sanctuary for such a dangerous entity,  regardless of the state that fosters it, and no nation has a right of veto over the use of the Letter of Marque that prevents mass murder.

      This new empowerment by the Congress through the Letter of Marque would place the Vice President in an active role that allows him to compliment and succeed the president quickly and easily.  The 'Common Defence' and 'General Welfare' of the American Constitution is extended to Humanity by this new duty of the Vice President, as well as adding security to the citizens he is responsible for during his election.