We, the people of America, the independent and interdependent members of her many communities, cities, and towns — are the true and sole guarantors of her safety, economy, and wealth.
We alone wield the power to uphold the social, economic, and political systems which inadequately bind us, or to instead reject them in favor of newer forms of self-governance built by and for a modern, diverse, and participatory populace; ones more humanizing and more robust.
We hold that the path to the renewal of self-determination and the pursuit of human flourishing must necessarily originate not within our highest levels of government, which have ossified, but within our closest ones: our cities, our localities, our towns, our neighborhoods.
So we have begun a shared contributist project: the political definition and assertion of the right to human flourishing at the local level — towards the end of establishing and applying a radical and sensible new social, political, and legal framework across our nation that carries the legitimacy of self-determination.