US Constitution v2.0
Every citizen is an equal co-owner. The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times, most recently in 1992. This section asks what we’d write if we drafted the country’s operating agreement today: what it would promise, what it would ask in return, and how we’d know it was working.
Each idea is held to four rules: write it as a clause, not a slogan; attach a measure; name the hard part (cost, enforcement, who gives something up); and start from what already exists somewhere.
These are working drafts. Coming next: 435 seats since 1913, on why the House stopped growing.
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The deal: what every citizen gets, and what every citizen owes
One clause in three parts: the guarantees, the duties, and the freedoms of every citizen.
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The citizen dividend
If citizens are the shareholders, they should get the annual report, and a share of the results.
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Shelters that work
Paid work and a savings account, for anyone in a shelter who wants them.
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A fourth branch of government
A nonpartisan branch, staffed by career professionals, that keeps the referees out of politics.