Half of America has no voice.

The IPA exists because the half of America that stays home was never offered a sentence worth signing. Its foundation is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and its one requirement to run is authorship: you must have helped write your community's own statement of how it wants to live. Read the full mission.

1. Write the context

A community answers three questions in writing: how do the people want their lives to be, what has to be produced to live such lives, and what must the land, water and soil look like hundreds of years from now. No candidates, no parties, no policies. Consensus, not compromise.

2. Elect the author

People who helped write a community context may run on the IPA ticket. The community votes, and its elected representative carries the context to the next table up: city, county, state, nation.

3. Test every policy

Seven honest questions, run in order, judge every policy a candidate creates or votes on. Most proposed laws fail at question one. A decision that passes all seven is usually a good one.

4. Fail safe

Every policy carries a fail-safe clause written in advance: the moment an unintended negative consequence is confirmed, the policy is void and must be re-debated from scratch, in public.