openvoting.org is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of trustable and open voting systems for use in public elections. With NI4D, we can mandate that public elections which employ electronic voting systems must use open source, peer reviewable software.

The National Initiative For Democracy will resolve intrinsic flaws in our present, purely-representative form of democracy by bringing the People into the operation of government as lawmakers, i.e., by creating a Legislature of the People, which will work in parallel with the legislatures of our elected representatives. This partnership in democracy, manifest in these two legislative organizations, the People and their representatives. will serve the People's interest far better than could either one of them working alone.

The United States of America is not, in fact, a true democracy. In a democracy, the people are the government. Today, we elect people to run the government for us. The people we elect do not, for the most part, run the country in the interest of the people; they run it in the interest of themselves. We are led to believe that we must put our trust in these people. We, the People, do not have the power to create laws in our interest. This causes an imbalance of power in the government.

The US government has not ratified many international treaties. Polls suggest that at least some of these treaties have the support of the majority of the American people. Or maybe not, but at least we could put them to a vote.

Article V Constitutional Convention

The legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states can call a national convention to modify the constitution. Any amendments would then need to be ratified by either the legislatures of or ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the states.

http://www.foavc.org/ Are you aware that we the People are being denied our constitutional right to an Article V Convention to make amendments, despite 628 (or more) applications by the state legislatures of ALL 50 states?

Redress of grievances

The first amendment reads:

The corporate personhood debate refers to the controversy (primarily in the United States) over the question of what subset of rights afforded under the law to natural persons should also be afforded to corporations as legal persons.

Freedom means participation in power. America is ostensibly the land of the free, but this page examines how much civic freedom you have in comparison to the citizens of Switzerland. You may be surprised to learn that the Swiss enjoy substantially more civic freedom than American citizens.

The following are excerpts from the book "Direct Democracy in Switzerland" by Gregory A. Fossedal.

Sovereign Acts in Direct and Representative Democracies