The Founders wrote the mission statement.
Mandate Democracy® gives literal technological life to the "Mission Statements" for a constitutional democratic Republic, as originally propounded by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.
In Jefferson's words.
A Republic "… means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally …"
— Thomas Jefferson
A government is more or less republican … as it has this ingredient of direct action of the citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
The mother principle [is] that 'governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.'
— Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
A 232-year perpetual challenge.
We inherit the oldest democracy in history: a 232-year-old, perpetual challenge, and today an exciting opportunity applying new political technology.
It answers Ben Franklin's worry about what government the Constitutional Convention had given us.
A Republic – If you can keep it.
— Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention, 1787
Keeping it is this generation's work.
See where the initiative stands in the long history of democratic survival, or return to the initiative itself.