We would always be hunting animals for our meat and foraging for berries. Supermarkets would cease to exist due to not being able to mass grow/produce without farming.
The Constitution gives the vice president the role of presiding over the Senate, and voting in the Senate if there is a tie. The vice president's only other formal responsibility is taking over the presidency if the president dies.
They were engaged in activism
Racial oppression is a significant cause of this matter.