Democracy: A Proposal For a New Constitution For the United States

By Brian Rush

Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence that the purpose of government was to secure the rights of the people, and that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. By that measure, the U.S. government is a failure. It serves the interests of a privileged few, not the public good. Although some of what has happened was unforeseen by the Founding Fathers, in fact the flaw goes all the way down to the Constitution itself.

It's time for a new Constitution that will actually give us government of, by, and for the people, as our ideals demand but as has never existed in reality in the United States.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Rush
• Release date: Oct 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465751263

Brian Rush

Brian Rush has been writing compulsively in one form or another for many years. He has been a student (one is always a student) of the occult for just as long, and has published articles and taught classes on the subject. He has lived on both coasts of the U.S., never far from the sea, and currently resides in northern California.

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Democracy

A Proposal for a New Constitution

For the United States

By Brian Rush

Copyright 2011 Brian Rush

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America Needs a New Constitution

Thomas Jefferson was right. Mao Tze-Tung was wrong. Power does not flow from the barrel of a gun. It is derived from the consent of the governed.

All government is an exercise in arriving at the consent of the governed, in making and implementing collective decisions. All citizens must, directly or indirectly, by default if not otherwise, contribute to the decisions and give their assent or dissent to any proposal. Consent need not be unanimous nor even, necessarily, the will of a majority, but at minimum must have a sufficient gravity in its affirming portion of the collective will that the ayes carry and the people at least tacitly affirm the decision.

Our own American system of government – in theory – arrives at the consent of the