The Democracy Amendments

The Democracy Amendments, as envisioned by Rick Hubbard, would dramatically increase all citizens’ involvement in, and control over, how we select our federal elected officials, and once elected, would give our representatives new incentive to properly serve all citizens’ interests.

Our democracy is in trouble and we the people know it. Americans have lost confidence in our election process, and Congress’s and the federal government’s ability to properly serve its citizens. Problems with the way we select our political leaders have been on full display in the 2016 Presidential election.


Once elected, Washington politicians are not equally and properly representing our broad citizen interests since they regularly tip outcomes of law, policy, and regulation toward the interests of wealthy and influential campaign donors.

These actions move large amounts of money out of our pockets and into theirs, distort and often delay action on matters important to our welfare, and undermine the very purpose of citizen representation our founding fathers worked to provide for us in our Constitution. This adversely affects the majority of us, regardless of whether we’re conservative, moderate, liberal, or of some other ideology.

Amending our Constitution to achieve needed reforms is the paramount public policy issue of our time. Congress has refused to effectively act for decades. Thus it’s up to us – we the people - to take action. Our Founding Fathers provided us with a way.

But first we must decide how to best accomplish reform. Will we really fix the many problems, or as most current amendment proposals would do, just fix a part, in a way that would not result in the broad systemic changes needed? The Democracy Amendments, and its vision for a fully reformed political process, aspires to be an important part of this much-needed national conversation.