About Democracy
Democracy is a commitment to shared authority, mutual accountability, and respect for individual initiative among all citizens, in which we all realize our inalienable right to the freedom and opportunity to better ourselves and to fulfill our potential, as individuals and as citizens of the community.
Democracy is not an ideal for nations alone. It is for states, counties, cities, towns, councils, churches, institutions, cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, clubs, and households.
Democracy must be for all these places. How could we ever hope to get better at democracy if we spend our lives in places where we don't get to practice it? How can our children learn what democracy is if it has no place in their day-to-day lives?
If you don't like democracy quite that much and prefer to keep it in a cage called Election Day, to look at it just every once in a while, then this site is not for you. If you want to experience democracy in American government and throughout American life, read on.