Editing Concord Principles

{{Short description|American political pledge in 1992}}
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[[Image:Ralph Nader 3 by David Shankbone edited-1.jpg|thumb|Ralph Nader]] [[Ralph Nader]]'s '''Concord Principles''' were offered in 1992 as an invitation to the [[President (government title)|Presidential]] candidates to improve civic dialogue and the [[democracy|democratic]] institutions of the United States.

They are written as 10 pleas intended to avert a trend of [[corporatism]] in [[government]], [[plutocracy|plutocratic]] influence, banal sloganistic [[election]]s, power singularities and a popular sense of political futility in political dialogue.

The list calls for:
*More governmental [[transparency (humanities)|transparency]] and civic communication for social consensus.
*More public control over civic assets such as public lands, airwaves and pension funds.
*Strengthened protections from [[big government]] and big [[corporation]]s.
*Democratic protections against nullification of voter powers by:
**Bold options for "[[None of the above]]".
**12 year maximum [[term limits]].
**Improved [[Voter registration in the United States|voter registration]] and ballot access.
**[[Publicly funded elections|Public financing of elections]].
**Binding [[referendum]], [[Popular initiative|initiative]] and [[recall election|recall]] powers for state voters and non-binding national referendums.
**Checks on [[President of the United States|presidential]] and [[United States Congress|congressional]] pay raises.
*Improved taxpayer oversight of public expenditure.
*Improving the civic information infrastructure through:
**[[Digital transformation|Computerized]] government records.
**Utility company billing as a civic notification process.
**Expanded [[public access television]].
*Strengthened access to [[court]]s to prevent corporate and government abuse.
*Protection for [[whistleblower]]s.
*[[Shareholder]] protections against corporate greed.
*Strengthening school [[curriculum]] in civic [[participation (decision making)|participation]].

==See also==

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*[[Collective intelligence]]
*[[Concordance system]]
*[[Consensus decision making]]
*[[Consensus democracy]]
*[[Corporatocracy]]
*[[Deliberative democracy]]
*[[Direct democracy]]
*[[Knowledge management]]
*[[National initiative]], which Nader endorsed
*[[Public domain]]
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==External links==
*[http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIPol_ConcordPrinciples.html Ralph Nader's Concord Principles]

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