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Brennan Center for Justice

“Today it is clearer than ever: We are engaged in a great battle for the future of constitutional democracy in America. Nothing less.”

~~ President, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU Law School

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Participate in the actions and passions of your time – or else be judged not to have lived at all.”

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison agreed

Each generation has the right to determine the shape of their own Government – or else we’re ‘ Ruled by the Dead. ’

  • Flawed Democracy

    U.S. is still a “Flawed Democracy”:  “Differences of opinion in the US have hardened into political sectarianism and institutional gridlock”. In 2020, the Functioning of Government “fell to a new low” (International Democracy Index 2020)


  • Aristocratic

    Privileged, self-perpetuating ruling class supported by plutocracy.


  • Killing Markets

    Degrading both the Political & Economic marketplaces.


  • #2 Issue for U.S. Millennials

    Govt/Corruption (Inequality #1) (World Ec. Forum 2018)


  • Ruling demographics

    Plutocrats | Career politicians | Party functionaries | Lawyer/lobbyist


  • A Fractured Nation

    Intentional, fomented civic polarization for vote-pandering & fund-raising.


 

“Wherein the people themselves control directly all matters within their reach and competence and only in all others, by elected representatives.”
~~ Thomas Jefferson,  founder University of Virginia

Democracy = The People Rule

  • DEMOS (The People) + KRATOS (God of power)
  • Sovereign power rests with the people to control their own government.

Representative Democracy = Republic

  • The People act directly for government control, or
  • Through enjoined elected representatives

Mandate Democracy® = Direct public control & compelled representatives

Mandate

  • A decree, an edict that representatives act accordingly.
  • A command to bind representatives.

Mandate Referendum

  • A fiat: Authoritative electoral pronouncement.
  • Imposes electoral authority over acts of accountable officials

Mandate Democracy®

  • Referenda compliance: an obligation for gaining and holding elected office.

Politically Compulsory

  • Pre-pledged adherence from candidates.
  • Coercive enforcement by monitored public and media accountability.
  • Recall & No-Confidence referenda on elected and appointed officials.

Citizen Initiated & Administered

  • Freed from usual state-level initiative blockades:
    • Legislatures, petitions, time limits, big money.
    • Votes on reforms squelched by entrenched Parties.

Precepts for Mandate Democracy®

  • A Republic means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally…


  • “… government is more or less republican…as it has this ingredient of direct action of the citizens.”


  • OVERDUE STRUCTURAL REFORM

    “ We must extricate & rehabilitate democracy & government ”
    “ We’re entering an era of confrontational politics ”
    “ We MUST HAVE profound structural change ”

    Prof. Terry Moe, Stanford, Political Science, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution


  • “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.”

    – Thomas Jefferson


  • We have a genuine crisis NOW: A matter of URGENCY

    “Global [radical] populism is a reflection of ineffective government ”
    “ There must be an agenda-setting authority: YOU MUST ACT!”
    “ Super-majorities want meaningful ACTION

    Prof. William Howell, Univ of Chicago Director Center for Effective Government



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