Our plan of action comprises two distinct but integrally-related phases-- an educational campaign to inform people about the fundamental concepts of democracy, and an electoral campaign through which the People will vote to enact the National Initiative For Democracy.

Phase I
This phase, which will be funded and managed by The Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, includes three major components:

1. Informing the People of First Principles, their rights and powers in the formation and modification of their governments.
2. Subjecting the proposed Democracy Amendment and Democracy Act to continuing analysis, critique and refinement until presented to the People for enactment.
3. Convening, the Democracy Symposium (The Edwin and Joyce Koupal Memorial Conference), a national conference on the constitutional, political and practical aspects of the National Initiative. The Symposium was held February 16 - 18, 2002 in Williamsburg, Virginia, bringing together legal and political scholars and electoral experts who presented formal papers for discussion by all participants. As a result of the Symposium, the National Initiative has undergone significant refinement.

Phase 2
The second phase is an electoral campaign, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2002, to secure the affirmative votes of more than 50 million registered American voters in order to fulfill the self-enactment provision of the Amendment-- a provision patterned after the self-enacting Article VII of the Constitution.

The election will be conducted by the nonprofit corporation Philadelphia II. The election was formally announced in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 17, 2002 and will begin in Portland, Maine in October, 2002, with voting being accomplished using paper ballots and the Internet.

After the People have voted and the self-enacting clause of the Amendment is satisfied, the President of Philadelphia II will certify the enactment of the Democracy Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the enactment of the Democracy Act adding to the Federal Code, and will so advise the federal and state governments.

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.” George Washington, 1787

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