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Welcome to DemocraticPromise.org

DemocraticPromise.org is dedicated to renewing the promise of democracy in America by building on the strength of America's founding principles.

We reach out to all citizens, regardless of political party, who want to support a true democracy of shared authority, mutual accountability, and respect for individual initiative, in American government and throughout American life.

Recognizing the historical heritage, the promise, and the reinforcing power of our progressive ideas, we gather, out of the multitude of progressive proclamations from the founding days of our nation to the present, a single statement we can hold in our hands.

This statement of principles is a promise that can, like a river source, feed all the diverse yet connected streams of progressive thinking, living, and governing in which we engage and so help us to see how these streams, some small in themselves, can replenish a sea of change.

We can renew democracy only if we truly want democracy.

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America's First Progressives

"It is essential to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of society, not from an inconsiderable portion, or a favored class of it...."
—James Madison, The Federalist, No. 39, 1788

Progressive Diary

Barack Obama and the Question of Delivering
—January 3, 2009

Leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama, I have heard a lot of people asking aloud whether Obama will be able to deliver all that everyone expects of him. They usually start the question with "I just wonder if..." or "We'll see whether..." ... Read more.