America is steeped in uncertainty with a society that is replete with media-driven social, political and legal aggression, racial, ethnic and gender divisiveness, corporate dishonesty and irresponsibility, economic chaos and stock market madness, inept government saturated with selfish interests and the failures of good intentions, and a socialist public education system consisting of little more than factories of ignorance and warehouses of violence.

That was and is the sorry state of the union before and after the terrorist attack on America, the war against terrorism, the frightening threat to world peace emanating from the Middle East crisis, and, most of all, the state of political terrorism thriving, unabated, within our own country.

Optimistically speaking, however, the United States of American society can only hope to come to terms with itself, if and when, the power of Washington is unconsolidated and the sovereignty of the several states, and the people as a whole, is restored -- no so different from what those before us did by establishing the United States Constitution, including the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people (1791).

Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
The Direct Democracy Center