Core thesis: democracy should be run by citizens, protected from money, grounded in truth, limited by rights, and supported by education.
Scope
This proposal assumes a rare scenario where major constitutional reform is possible. It keeps Congress and the Senate, but adds a powerful rotating citizen body whose powers phase in over time.
The draft is intentionally ambitious. It treats the legal and political threshold as a central problem, not as a footnote.
Main reform areas
Citizen representation
Adds a National Citizen Assembly selected by civic lottery, with expert support, transparency, job protection, and phased authority.
Clean elections and public accountability
Requires public-only election financing, bans corporate political influence, and replaces private lobbying with public petition systems.
Institutional safeguards
Strengthens voting rights, reforms courts, weakens concentrated executive power, cements secular government, and rebuilds civic education as democratic infrastructure.
Implementation warning
The draft says plainly that this package cannot be implemented by a normal act of Congress alone. It would require deep constitutional change through Article V or another lawful constitutional path.
The proposal is prepared for discussion and refinement. It does not claim that every provision could survive under the current Constitution without amendment.