The following six reasons are the basis for this writer's rejection. Firstly, the central authority of the Archbishop and the Archdiocesan Chancellery will be Balkanized into politically competing ecclesiastical principalities with princely bishops out from under the immediate control of the American Archbishop. Such a prospect is disastrous. The Archbishop would not have full control over his bishop's behavior. Thus this loss of direct administrative power over his bishops makes Article VII a sham.
Accountability can only follow where responsibility and direct control are found.
In this constitution, the Archbishop is placed in an untenable power position and role. Secondly,each bishop separately will incorporate his own diocese under state law. Additionally, local parishes will be burdened with new assessments to support an unnecessary, expensive but expanding church bureaucracy. In our hardening economic times, this prospect is less than welcome. California's Jarvis Gann mentality has import here.