Braver Angels

In my last essay, I described how a nationwide deliberation campaign could produce a People’s Proposal: a common-ground agenda for renewing our system of self-governance, sourced directly from the American people. But a proposal, however broadly the people support it, is not self-enacting. Someone has to carry it into state and national legislatures, onto referendums, and, for the deepest reforms, into the Constitution itself. Who carries the People’s Proposal matters as much as what it contains. If one party shoves reforms through over the other’s objection, it will become simply another round in the toxic partisan boxing match that has left Americans exhausted and bruised.

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