Submit a Proposal Suggestion

Because the proposals are public discussion drafts, submissions are for improving the ideas, not scoring partisan points. A strong submission identifies a specific problem, proposes a concrete improvement, and gives readers enough context to evaluate the idea fairly within the American civic and legal system.

Public discussions and proposal submissions are hosted through GitHub Discussions because it provides a transparent, organized public record. You do not need to be a coder to participate, but GitHub does require a free account to post.

Core Pillars

Submissions do not have to agree with every existing proposal, but they should seriously engage with one or more of the project's Core Pillars rather than repeating a shorter principles list.

• Citizens over corporations

  Government should answer to natural persons, not corporations, donors, lobbyists, trade groups, or party machinery.

• Money out of politics

  Public power should not be buyable through campaign donations, dark money, super PACs, lobbying access, gifts, or post-office cash-outs.

• Voting rights and election protection

  Voting should be secure, accessible, protected from suppression, and insulated from election subversion.

• Anti-corruption and public accountability

  Public office should be treated as temporary stewardship, not a wealth-building strategy or loyalty reward system.

• Public education and civic education

  Public education, civics, history, media literacy, and critical thinking are democracy infrastructure.

• Tax code reform

  The tax system should be simplified, made fairer, and stripped of loopholes that let the wealthy and powerful avoid obligations ordinary people cannot avoid.

• Equality for all citizens

  Rights should not depend on race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, geography, wealth, or political identity.

• Secular government

  Government should remain neutral toward religion and nonreligion. Private belief is protected, but public law should not be governed by religious doctrine.

• Transparency and plain-language government

  Laws, budgets, public influence, and government decisions should be understandable to regular people.

• Citizen participation and review

  Ordinary citizens should have a formal role in reviewing, questioning, and improving government decisions.

• Media and platform accountability

  Media and social platforms should not knowingly profit from civic falsehoods, manipulation, or algorithmic amplification of misinformation.

• Antitrust and anti-monopoly reform

  Excessive corporate concentration, especially in media, technology, housing, healthcare, and essentials, becomes political power and should be checked.

• Executive power limits

  Emergency powers, war powers, pardons, and prosecution influence should be limited so one person cannot bend government into personal rule.

• Court ethics and institutional safeguards

  Courts need stronger ethics, transparency, recusal rules, and legitimacy protections.

• Digital rights and privacy

  Modern rights must account for AI, data brokers, surveillance, biometrics, deepfakes, algorithmic manipulation, and ownership of personal data.

• Labor, housing, healthcare, and economic stability

  Democracy is weaker when ordinary people are economically terrified, medically trapped, underpaid, or unable to afford shelter.

• Criminal justice reform

  A justice system that treats poverty, race, and power differently destroys legitimacy.

• Climate and environmental responsibility

  A functioning government has to protect clean air, clean water, livable communities, and future generations.

• Truth, history, and reconciliation

  The country cannot repair what it refuses to tell the truth about, including slavery, Jim Crow, Indigenous dispossession, redlining, and other state-backed harms.

• Humane immigration reform and due process

  Immigration policy should be lawful, fair, humane, and administratively functional, with dignity, due process, family unity, labor protection, and international obligations at its center.

Submission alignment questions

• Does it strengthen ordinary citizens over corporations or insiders?
• Does it reduce corruption, hidden influence, or money in politics?
• Does it protect equal rights and voting rights?
• Does it improve public education, civic understanding, or transparency?
• Does it make government more accountable and understandable?
• Does it respect due process and humane administration?
• Does it consider tax fairness, economic stability, or public responsibility?
• Does it avoid partisan revenge and focus on durable reform?

What should be submitted

• Specific proposed changes to Proposal One or Proposal Two.
• Missing reform pillars.
• Better wording.
• Legal or practical concerns.
• Evidence-backed criticism.
• Examples from U.S. states, cities, public agencies, courts, schools, or comparable democratic institutions.
• Tax reform suggestions.
• Public education reform suggestions.
• Anti-corruption and campaign-finance reforms.
• Ways to strengthen equality and rights protections.
• Humane immigration reform suggestions.
• Ways to reduce corporate capture.

What should not be submitted

• Partisan slogans with no reform substance.
• Attacks on ordinary citizens based on race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality, or political identity.
• Calls for violence.
• Doxxing or private personal information.
• Conspiracy claims without evidence.
• Corporate lobbying language disguised as citizen reform.
• Spam, fundraising, or self-promotion.
• Proposals that remove rights from one group to benefit another.