Prime minister Winston ChurchillOn theadvantages of there being a prime ministerBy Cacildo Marques - Sao Paulo A)President. The president starts to suffer less pressure, like Thomas Jeffersonwanted. The existent presidential system is not what Jefferson designed, whenhe defined that the president would be a leader to represent the federation,served by a very small body of officials, delegating the function of governingfor the governors. It is not at random that up to today the position of biggerdistinction among the assistants of the president of the USA is that ofSecretary of State, position occupied originally by Jefferson himself, in thepresidency George Washington. What was developed, in practice, is thispresidential system concentrating and suffocating, in what the chief of Stateaccumulates also the role of chief of government. In the United States, of fouroriginal desks it went on to a number of fifteen. Every president, however, inthe remainder republics of America, is helped by a Secretary of Government, or,if they are Ministers, by a Minister-chief of the Civil House, but this onedoes not divide with the president the task of directing the country, since hehas not the deserved distinction among the holders of the desks of government.To nominate this assistant how Prime minister means to relieve the president ofthe weight of carrying alone the responsibility of the leadership of thecountry, besides correcting the perversion that the pragmatism created on theformulation of Jefferson. (In the USA, the desk more similar to that of asecretary of government is the Secretary of the Interior, without demerit forthe Secretary of State, which will never lose his importance.) B)Crisis. In the moments of untenable difficulty for a government, the Primeminister is substituted, without there being break in the driving of the State.Then he can, in harmony with the president, touch the remainder of theministry, giving a new configuration to the ruling staff. Differently of whatit takes place in the traditional parliamentarism, together the nomination ofthe Prime minister, there is nominated the first Vice-Premier and the secondVice-Premier, like guarantee of not debauchery of the parliament, ofquadrennial legislature. C)Transition. The institution of the position of prime minister pays attention toa popular demand, once informal inquiries show that more than 80 % of thecitizens want that there is a prime minister (the question on preference forthe parliamentarism is impertinent, something how to ask someone if he prefersGluck or Grieg, for the people know the work, but not the names). The steps forthe transition of the degenerated presidential system for the SoftParliamentarism are the next ones: (1) The Secretary of Government - Minister of the Civil House - is thefirst one to be indicated by the president; (2) The Minister-chief of the Civil House becomes a Prime minister, orPremier; (3) The Minister-chief, now Premier, helps the president in the choiceof the other Ministers; (4) The Premier accumulates the position of presidential spokesman, togain exhibition; (5) The Premier is a member of the party with bigger number of chairs inthe House of the Representatives when of the oath; (6) The Premier cannot have been a president of party in the last fouryears before the indication; (7)