Reforms

The constitution lacks the text for the fundamental ideas of the Union expressed in the declaration of independence. Specifically, “All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights among them (1) Life, (2) Freedom, and (3) Happiness.”

We have to enact in the constitution that the power of the central government, national sovereignty, derives from the power of the people, and only from the people, the popular sovereignty. The constitution must make clear that there is no power higher than the power of the people’s sovereignty.

We have to make “a more perfect Union.” Benjamin Franklin said that “we need a revolution every two hundred years because all government becomes corrupt at that time.” He was right.

The people’s right to dismiss or change parts of the constitution, and or to establish a new government, “lays on principles and the organization of their powers as to them will seem more likely than indeed their Security and Happiness.”

This book presents evidence that the founding fathers understood the weaknesses of the Union, its government, and democracy. So, they included fundamental ways to review the government’s performance and to reform the constitution, updating and maintaining the Union.

This book will soon be on Amazon, look for it.