Mandate Democracy® gives literal technological life to the “Mission Statements” for a constitutional democratic Republic, as originally propounded by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence:
- A Republic “… means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally …”
- “A government is more or less republican … as it has this ingredient of direct action of the citizens.”
- “The mother principle [is] that ‘governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.’”
- “The Constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people;
- that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty.”
- “Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”
We inherit the oldest democracy in history — a 232-year old, perpetual challenge – and today an exciting opportunity applying new political technology. To answer Ben Franklin’s worry on what government the Constitutional Convention had given us:
“A Republic – If you can keep it.”
