I'm about to pitch you the best hope I’ve ever made. It can be reduced to a single question: Should we, the American People, organize a Constitutional Convention?

I am not proposing an Article V convention of states. We would not add an amendment to the Constitution, we would draft an entirely new document, one fit for the challenges and complexity of the modern age. The American Experiment, act III.

Next question: Is that even allowed?

I think so, and my argument has four corners. The 1st, 9th, & 10th Amendments, and the Declaration itself. The 1st Amendment guarantees our right to free speech and peaceful assembly; the 9th Amendment states that the rights listed in the Constitution are not exhaustive; and the 10th states that all other rights are retained by the People. Most importantly, the Declaration of Independence, the very thing that birthed our Union, says the following:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

When our political bonds become harmful, not only do we have the right to change them, we should change them. Our government has become harmful and oppressive, destructive to the lives, liberty, and happiness of our People, and as such, it is our right and our responsibility to alter or abolish it and institute a new government.

The power and process to convene a Constitutional Convention is not specifically delegated in the Constitution, yet the Declaration explicitly states it is a right; therefore, it must be one of the natural, inherent rights reserved to the American People. There is no roadmap or mechanism for convening a full Convention, but there is enormous demand for one. As an American citizen, I am exercising that unenumerated, inalienable right to propose a full Constitutional Convention. I invite you to join me in exercising your own rights and help legitimize this momentous occasion.

Joining me will undoubtedly invite calls of sedition, treason, and insurrection. These accusations are definitely false. Nonviolence is the only certain aspect to this proposal, and all three accusations require use of violence. Leadership, language, delegates, schedule: everything is up for debate except nonviolence.

Third question: Hypothetically, if this Convention were even possible, what might it look like?

First of all, we would broadcast it. Rather than simply relying on the knowledge and intuition of our foremost intellectuals, we could mobilize the intelligence of millions of Americans. We could know what the ever-invoked Will of the People is in unprecedented detail. This convention, if organized and livestreamed, would produce the most democratic Constitution in recorded human history.

Beyond that innovation, I see it as a three-step process.

The first step is Convention Day, a single day where some of the nation’s leading experts educate the American People. Everyone goes to school for a single day and syncs realities. The goal of this step is to annihilate decades of misinformation with truth of the highest caliber, giving every citizen a foundation of knowledge needed to engage meaningfully with constitutional choices.

The second step is your traditional convention. To minimize the risk of this proposition, I offer a 30,000-word Constitution. It draws heavily from our current constitution, as well as the South African, Swiss, German, Irish, and Scandinavian constitutions, among others. It’s not perfect, and AI did a lot of the language, but it is a start. I do not expect you to read a 100-page document on the basis of this pitch alone, so I made a two-page executive summary that outlines the basic structure and key innovations.

The main argument against this proposal is that delegates would be unfit for such a delicate, consequential task. To minimize that risk, I identified 152 of the nation’s leading scholars, 34 of the nation’s leading institutional figures, a bi-partisan committee of co-chairs, and 71 international advisors that bring expertise that cannot be found in the American People. They constitute a constitutional dream team.

The third and final step is a democratic referendum. This is the most important step, ensuring that if the convention produces a worse constitution than our current one, it never gets ratified. At present, transitioning governments requires at least 60% approval with at least 50% voter participation. While I have invested considerable time and effort into imagining these first two steps, I have not invested almost anything into this third step. The logistics and details of such a pivotal event is better left to more competent, experienced, trustworthy leaders, such the seven co-chairs I have nominated.

In addition, I have used AI to model a transition plan for actually changing governments if the referendum passes. It has drawn inspiration from the recent constitutional transitions from around the world. It is the least important of these four documents. You can find them all in the Docs tab of this website.

Fourth question: What else can you do?

The problems we face are many, huge, growing, and none of them have simple solutions. The thinking and systems that created these huge problems cannot resolve them. With every passing day, our nation grows more polarized, our interest payments increase, our economy becomes more unequal, the dangers posed by our technology accelerate, our political system becomes increasingly corrupt, and our civilization continues polluting the environment, destabilizing the climate, and destroying the habitability of the Earth. Without addressing our political corruption, we cannot address any of our other systemic crises, and without a Constitutional Convention, we cannot address the corruption of our political system in any meaningful way. Every other option is simply shuffling chairs on a sinking ship; a ship that is sailing into the greatest hurricane ever recorded.

So, honestly, ask yourself: what other options do you have right now to address the multiple, interconnected crises we face? Public protest? No Kings changed nothing. Voting in midterms a few months from now, or in a Presidential election two years from now? Will electing individuals from your party heal the culture war? Will it stop the blatant bribing of politicians, the profitability of outrage, or the consolidation of market power across the economy? Will it release the unredacted Epstein files and deliver justice for the victims in those files? Will it apply a Pigouvian tax on carbon and methane? No, because most real solutions are politically impossible.

We genuinely need saving and this is the only credible plan to save us you are going to get. Pretending we don’t need saving is willful ignorance, it is ignoring the catastrophic state of the nation and the planet because recognizing it is too distressing and depressing, it is denial; and it is literally lethal. Not today, or tomorrow, or the day after that, but in the coming years and decades you are fighting for your life. Just ask any credible climate scientist. We are down by a lot late in the fourth quarter, hail marys are not just rational, they are required.  

Fifth: If not now, then when?

This proposal is unique in its moral necessity, legal justification, digital innovation, and extraordinary preparation. The corruption of our government is plain to see and overwhelming to consider, and waiting will not produce a clearer, safer, more democratic opportunity than this one.

Sixth question: If not you, then who?

You, a living, breathing human being, matter enormously. While you may not be a co-chair or a delegate for this convention, while you may not even be an American citizen, your voice and your actions matter. The delegates and co-chairs I have nominated would give almost anything for the opportunity to participate in such a history shaping, legacy defining event, but they cannot do so without the moral legitimacy only you can provide. They will not even see this proposal without your support. You cannot control the future, but you can control yourself. You can react. You can make noise. You can tag the delegates and co-chairs. You can share this proposal with your family, friends, and followers. You can check my work and propose language or delegates. I am not looking for blind obedience or cult worship. I am looking for stress testing from every possible perspective. I want your help, your honest feedback, and your public support. I want you to join my team and start fighting for your life, nonviolently.

Seventh: What are you willing to give for this possibility?

You have, for the first time ever, the opportunity to help create a nonviolent, digitized, diplomatic, democratic revolution in the most powerful nation on Earth, for the benefit of all Americans and all Humanity. What is that worth to you? Your reputation? Your liberty? Your life?

And finally: just who do I think I am?

I am not a genius. I am not a prophet or messiah. I am just a good man obsessing over a single question: what is the best thing possible? This convention is my answer to that question. I choose attempting to create the impossibly beautiful instead of spending the rest of my life wondering if the impossibly beautiful was right there, at my fingertips, and I chose to let it slip through them because of sheer cowardice. I want that impossibly beautiful future more than I have ever wanted anything, and I am willing to look like an idiot to make it possible. Are you?

We can restore our Republic when all hope seemed lost, or we can watch passively as our democracy finishes changing into a kakistocracy, a society where our worst citizens are our most powerful leaders. And so, once more, for the record: Do you want to help create the greatest comeback in 250 years of American history?