BAILOUT ANSWER: A "Citizen's Congress," Direct Democracy" Consortium Now!

We, the Undersigned, are requesting the you expeditiously review and enact the proposed "National Alliance Renewal Act" (NARA) to establish a citizen-based "TRANS-AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR A NATIONAL CONSENSUS" (TANC) in creating an entirely new form of "Participatory Direct Democracy" for the American electorate.

Draft language behind NARA (http://www.transamericanalliance.org/19.html) is intended to set up the blueprint for a nonpartisan "Electorate-Based Consortium."  To be chaired by America's leading academics/students and inclusive all key private/public segments of American society, TANC's mandate is create a permanent nonpartisan, campus-based "Electorate Legislative Consortium" to propose reform bills, conduct localized committee hearings, draft language, and enact federal domestic legislation -- effectively serving as a "Fourth Branch" checks-and-balances arbiter between established Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government.  (Very little, if any, interaction with the Judicial branch is anticipated since TANC's focus will be on domestic socio-economic legislation.)

Positioned as a roadmap, NARA provide specific guidelines and language for the proposed enactment of a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, the complementary but binding authority of the TANC legislative assembly would be based out of a select number of universities and colleges across the United States.   With select college educators serving as "Counsels" and students as "Delegates," they will have the mandate to call for proposed bill-making reform acts and seating local/regional committee hearings to solicit testimony from all of America's leading private- and public-sector activists -- all of meant to specifically to take into account the "localized" needs of the American electorate, then to be crafted within a "consensus" national electorate bill.   If a TANC-authored gains internal passage but either the Congress votes it down or the President of the United States vetoes it outright, TANC members will have the authority to majority vote for a "National Electorate Referendum" to take the bill directly in front of all American voters for potential federal passage.  

TANC is proposing these two core components (a "consortium" legislative body and national electorate referendums) as the next logical steps of evolution in creating the "ultimate extensions of democracy" for our contemporary American society -- also in foremost establishing an "Ethical Conscience of Democracy," a beacon for our elected representatives in adhering to Constitution's overlying intent to "accede to the will of the American people."

In keeping with the democratic spirit of our Founding Fathers, NARA lays  a foundation for updating our 221-year-old Constitution with a new form of democratic participation by everyday American citizens -- to assist the established Legislative and Executive branches of the federal government in reaching true "consensus-building" on crucial domestic socio-economic legislative reform.

TANC's goal is to diffuse and, in some cases, contradict the influence of some less-than-publicly-minded lobbbyists and special interest groups funneling their influence and money into our nation's seat of federal government, Washington, D.C.  In holding localized committee hearings and authoring proposed "reform legislation," TANC's over-arching mission is to complement Congressional domestic legislative efforts and free our elected officials from the divisive, conflicting agendas and frequently corruptive practices of accepting election campaign contributions (either legal or sometimes illicit) from some powerful special interest groups and lobbyists.

Conversely, the nature of NARA's language intent is to create a non-elected, rotating pool of nonpartisan student and teacher TANC assembly members spread accross the country -- making it very difficult for many lobbyists to coordinate activities across the towns and cities of America.  

The proposed "fourth branch" architecture of TANC is much-needed, if not essential, central element in creating a "consensus" legislative body responsive to the pressing needs of the American electorate. 

As our country is reeling from the "trillion-dollar" subprime mortgage, commercial credit and stock market meltdowns, these developments point to large systemic problems with our current form of the federal government.   Not one presidential administration or presidential candidate can alone solve our problems.  With a clear pattern of nearly 40 years of federal government dysfunction -- ranging from Watergate, the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and now to burgeoning trillion-dollar federal budet deficits and national debt -- the time is now for critical citizen-based reform and oversight of our federal government.

Over two-dozen countries around the world practice various forms of "Direct Democracy" (principally with national voter referendums, ballot intiatives, etc.), so we, the Undersigned, implore our elected representatives to begin the courageous, responsible task of helping to enact NARA  to establish a new "fourth branch" mechanism, the TRANS-AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR A NATIONAL CONSENSUS (TANC).  Please consider TANC as the necessary "checks-and-balances" mechanism to restore transparency, accountability and much-needed long-term consistency to our federal government -- and to insure the domestic harmony and tranquility of the American people.