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     A website promoting the concept of direct democracy for America

    Submitted by B. T. Marking, SD on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 8:14am.
    Imagine the United States of America once again recognized as the world's leading democracy. The route to this new world has been plotted in a new novel titled, AMENDMENT XXIX. If you long for the idealism of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, you should visit and order your copy.

    Direct Democracy

    Submitted by B. T. Marking, SD on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 7:58am.

    The primary issue must be restoring the power of the American citizen over their government. The Citizenry must become the fourth and most powerful branch of government. To accomplish this, we must demand the right to vote on issues of national concern, like we are doing here at Unity08, but those decisions must be binding on the other branches of government. Consider the path described in the proposal below --

    Amendment XXIX

    Direct Democracy

    Ctizens who believe they must be allowed to cast binding votes directly on issues - not just candidates.

    Greetings good citizens.

    This group is for those who have come to realize that our freedom will
    only be restored when we change our form of government from a republic
    to a democracy. In the words of the great Walt Whitman:

    " We have frequently printed the word Democracy
    yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word
    the real gist of which still sleeps, quite
    unawakened . . .

    It is a great word, whose history, I suppose
    remains unwritten, because that history has