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What you’re saying says something about the national and global complacency about the threat that exists to our survival. When you recognize that this nuclear or this environmental threat to our survival is real, then you have to ask yourself, why has this come about? What is the failure of representative government that has permitted this situation to exist? And the obvious answer is that if representative government is so deficient, which it is, then what’s the alternative? The alternative is the people. Now the problem with the people taking responsibility is that the Constitution does not provide any procedures for the people to act. So what we need to do is to have a national election. And the book that I’m just finishing, which will be out in a couple of months, is essentially a manual for the creation and operation of a Legislature of the People.

The founders all said that the people should be able to change their government to suit their purposes. Well, the problem is they never gave us procedures for the people to do that. And that’s what I’ve written in this manual, procedures to enact a Legislature of the People. And then at the same time, on a parallel note with a constitutional amendment, there is a Legislative Procedures Act, so that once the people have the power to make laws, they have to do it in a deliberative fashion. Otherwise it’s anarchy, and we see that with Brexit, where some people say, “Well, the Brexit referendum was direct democracy.” It was not direct democracy. It was the foolhardiness of representative government that put the issue to the people without providing detailed information as to the consequences of the vote. And so, the Legislature of the People is just that simple. It’s a constitutional amendment that has to be enacted by the people in a national election, unrelated to the government.

And in this national election we use the criteria that when 51 percent of the people who voted in the last presidential election vote for this Legislature of the People, it becomes the law of the land. And then we proceed. The constitutional amendment provides for the appropriation of money for the Legislature of the People, equal to the sum that’s appropriated to the Congress. And it goes into extreme details — subcommittee hearings, the entire process of legislating. And so that is what is in the book, the manual to do it. My hope is that because of the kids, who are bringing new celebrity status to me as a candidate, this knowledge of the Legislature of the People can be spread.