The National Initiative For Democracy

The National Initiative for Democracy creates a "Legislature of the People" and describes how it will be implemented, administered and managed.

The National Initiative includes:

• The Democracy Amendment to the United States Constitution, which asserts and institutionalizes First Principles, i.e., the People's authority to exercise their inherent legislative power to create and alter governments, constitutions and laws; and
• The Democracy Act, a federal statute that establishes procedures through which citizens can legislate, using the ballot initiative and an administrative agency, the Electoral Trust, to implement those procedures in every government jurisdiction of the United States.

The National Initiative resolves a problem faced by the Framers when they drafted the Constitution in 1787. At that time, the Framers had no alternative but to design a representative structure for our government since the technology of the day did not allow for the assembly, in person or otherwise, of the American people. Of course, that is no longer the case. Recent advances in communication technology now permits the people to exercise First Principles, which were last used to ratify the Constitution but now, through lack of use, become long forgotten.

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