Stop the Authoritarian Takeover: Pass the Restore the Constitution Act

State and local governments have the power to stop the authoritarian takeover and protect their people. The Restore the Constitution Act is model legislation ready for adoption by any state government, and adaptable for localities.

The Act:

• states the nature of the crisis and commits the state or locality to defend its people and work to restore constitutional governance;
• creates a framework for forceful, strategic action targeting the authoritarian power structure, including measures to keep RCA cases in state court, neutralize federal interference with RCA enforcement, and coordinate with other jurisdictions that do the same;
• puts pressure on the people carrying out the takeover—from its planners, to those who issue the illegal orders, to the agents who carry them out—in two ways:
  • empowering the people it harms, and the state attorney general on the public's behalf, to bring lawsuits against them; and
  • empowering the governor to turn the state's regulatory powers, over licenses, permits, contracts, and the like, against those same people;
• is built for escalation: additional measures from Democratism's growing Catalog of Legislative Actions can be plugged into the Act to increase pressure on the federal government to return to constitutional governance.

This is not another narrow response to one abuse. It is a new kind of response because we face a new kind of threat: an assault on the whole constitutional order.

Existing state and local responses do not confront the authoritarian power structure driving the crisis. The Restore the Constitution Act does.

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