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Foreword

Those fortunate enough to be citizens of the United States of America have much for which to be grateful. For this is the best nation on Earth. This nation’s wealth, abundance of resources, and social experimentation by the governing institutions are by far the best the world has to offer and beyond the simple calling for greatness, ours is a history of success, accomplishments and personal achievements that astound the imagination. Even those people found trapped in America’s poverty, live a better life, are available for and exposed to greater levels of opportunity than those impoverished in many other nations around the world.

The opportunities found in this nation are surfaced on top of layers of yet unseen, unrecognized, and even unimagined fortunes and liberties that are the envy of all the rest of the world. All this stated and even recognized by most of the patriotic followers, the fact can not be hidden that the sum of all our satisfactions have yet to measure up to our own individualized expectations. Many Americans sense, and calculate an erosion of the Common Wealth and the extensions of increased individualize accumulation has taken a serious set back following the Cold War. As if the public expected a sigh of relief to come in the years afterward. Yet we have all experienced greater levels of anxiety with regard to trade, employment, inflation, social balance, internal and external threats as well as actual attacks on our own soil.

The purpose of this book is to identify the constitutional elements that are broken, present ideas that are possible in the short-and long-term fix - and go beyond simple repair and find a sound argument for IMPROVING America. After all this nation in all of its more than 233 years of glory and manifestations of liberty need not explore all the complaints within the public to understand that it is not enough to find satisfaction in this nation’s accomplishments but to also insist that every attempt be made to IMPROVE our freedoms, expand our liberties, forge an even higher standard of living, compound our sacrifice and invested Common Wealth and thus demand the dividends of the Great Social Experiment that this nation can and will do better, and never again will settle on the accomplishments of the past however gratifying to the previous generations. Each new generation should meet the calling to improve. Let the new season of thinking begin, with ever higher expectations - this is the essence of leadership to improve; this is the soul of American hopes, dreams, and pursuits of happiness.

It is not my intention to express the ideas found in this text to be a blueprint to the cliche that everything must be, “my way or the highway.” My full intention is simply to express freely ideas that may come under consideration, be weighed out within the public forum, provoke and promote other ideas to flourish and come forward. For at the heart of all improvement is the steady supply of new ideas, new concepts, NEW SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS that also deserve a chance to live on the surface of the great American landscape. Perhaps one day some or all of the concepts presented in this text will find their way into the mainstream practice of this ever changing world and encourage a more fluid freedom to the future of the Greatest Social Experiment ever conducted by the human race.

Nonetheless, any lesser truth be found than those simply seeking a truth to greater deeds, beyond self service, yet serving the better good for the Common Wealth which in turn serves the unique individual. One thing has proved certain: if we enslave ourselves to any system or bind our lives as patriotic servants, short lived will be our liberty. Our Common Wealth will be redistributed even to the point that we gasp for any breath of economic solace we can find. This is said not to bring out our innermost fears, rather to provide warning that a more responsible governance is required if we are to improve our lives and the lives of future generations. Improvement is essential, it is not utopian. There must be some measure of improvement, even if it is but one inch at a time. Science and technology are examples of improvements that are leaving the Social Contracts in the dust. Perhaps it is time, perhaps overdue, that the Social Agreements improve as well, if there is to be a chance for free thinkers to improve the governing body - that raises the question, “if not now, then when?”