Restoring the Consent of the Governed: The Public Check on Congress Would Hold It More Accountable for Serving the National Interest

Even before the Pandemic, the one thing we all agreed on was that Washington is broken. But now the stakes are much higher and the need for bold robust ideas has become even more urgent. And so this brief e-book, which presents a breakthrough concept for fixing Congress, could not be more timely.

Restoring the Consent of the Governed describes a new constitutional mechanism, the Public Check on Congress (PCC), by which the general public would hold the members of Congress, of both parties an...