How?

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• Timing: 
  
• Have you ever noticed the dates on the Constitutional amendments we've passed? They don’t occur regularly but cyclically, sometimes in clusters. We are at the end of a long era of corruption, the time when reform amendment succeeds.
  
• An election turning over an administration has the largest turnout, when a single-issue focus can impact Congress the most.  

• A Specific Written Goal:  
  
• Vagueness doesn't work. A written instrument is a specific goal whose progress can be measured. This amendment is a complete written resolution that can be specifically demanded and passed.  

• An Independent First Move: 
  
• Getting a resolution into Congress is the first hurdle for the public. 
  
• One independent first move, primary reform, bypasses Congressional resistance by using the courts. Current caselaw on primary elections defies the Constitution's plain text but the Justice responsible for the most invalidating opinion recently passed away, making the simple error easier to correct. Removing primaries from the protectionist control of political parties will make it easier for the people to hold members accountable. Besides being a tremendous improvement in itself, primary reform will help get the amendment into and through Congress.

• Using Win-Win Power: 
  
• Whenever we make a specific resolution an electoral issue, legislators withstand behind-the-scenes opposition to it. These repairs benefit them. Being free from monetary influence will make their work much easier. Remember, though, they can't do this themselves. Because of public interest, several flawed proposals have passed some of the levels in both House and Senate. Or good ones have started the process, then been watered down to ineffectiveness. The public has to demand passage as drafted.  

• Electing People Who Will Get It Done: 
  
• If our officers can't withstand corrupting pressure despite public pressure to pass this reform, we have to place people in office who will. By electing candidates who don't take corporate or PAC money, free candidates can win or hold enough seats in the House to pass the only proposed measure that is effective and enforceable. The Senate will take note of it as an electoral issue. If not enough Senators can stand their ground for it, we'll have to make sure enough free candidates win Senate seats to pass it. 

• Bypassing Obstacles when Possible: 
  
• Our Amendment uses ratification by state Convention, bypassing state legislatures. If we keep supporting it with local and state officers and candidates, and nominate good people to the state ratification conventions, it'll be ratified within the given two years - most Amendments have been.

• Public Involvement: 
  
• It’s up to the public to decide together. The public's role in the political process has eroded. This isn't legislators' problem, it's ours. And it won't solve itself. Do you want these repairs, restorations of constitutional text and safeguards? This proposal has been sent to Congress, to a few other government officers, to colleges, universities and law schools across the country, to a few major libraries and religious and community leaders and to media outlets. Press releases will announce the petition and all votes. 

Everything you learn about the political process makes you a more effective member of the community. This proposal contains a lot of information but the best way to learn self-governance is by doing it.

And if we can't Free Congress? 

Be Congress! ​

Free Congress!

They can't do it themselves.