All over the world, especially in the so-called "free world", it is accepted that the government is the legitimate representative of the people and acts in their name and interest. However, in these same countries, the feeling among the population grows every day that their governments do not represent them and that they act only in their own name and interests, never in those of the population. Something has gone wrong. The State founded on the legitimate representation of the will of the people is no longer functioning in this way. The mechanisms that supposedly allowed the people to express their wishes to their rulers and to monitor them have simply stopped working. There is even a doubt in the air as to whether they ever did so.

This work is an attempt to find this error and to begin an attempt to repair it. The author does not intend to exhaust the subject, as he understands that it is too long and would not fit into such a small work. Instead, this work is an invitation for other thinkers to join in an effort to, first, recognize that the problem exists and, second, seek alternatives that can solve it.

The author believes in the principles of the founding fathers of the United States, who were responsible for the American Revolution. He also believes that they made a serious and honest attempt to put into practice the principles that guided that movement. However, as is common when trying to build something radically new, the first attempt failed. At first, the institutions they created based on those principles worked. It was for no other reason that the United States became, in less than a century, the greatest economic power on the planet and, a few decades later, also the greatest military power. However, the evidence that the institutions that operated based on those principles can no longer function based on them is growing every day.

We need to recognize the problem. The first attempt failed. Now it is time to go back to the beginning and make a new attempt. With the experience of the first attempt and the history of what went right and what went wrong, we now have a better chance of getting it right. But that doesn't make the task any less challenging.

This work is an invitation for modern thinkers to accept this challenge to try again and show that we can do better than the pioneers. Without any discredit to them, as the legacy they left us is quite valuable for us to begin this new attempt.