Congress right now has the power by JOINT RESOLUTION to use a PUBLIC VOTE OPTION to put the COMPETING VERSIONS of any BILLS to a public vote. Binding on only Congress itself to pass along the eventual PUBLIC VOTE MAJORITY winning version of a bill to the President. Joint Resolutions carry the same weight as a bill. For example, Joint Resolutions are used to make a formal Declaration of War (in the good old days).

The present PUBLIC VOTE OPTION idea could itself be put in writing as Constitutional Upgrade 28.0, inserting just 18 hard words into the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Article I section 7:

...Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, OR AT THE DISCRETION OF CONGRESS, EVERY COMPETING VERSION OF A BILL HAVING GAINED THE PUBLIC VOTE MAJORITY, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President....

Generating a psychological restoring-force fix to the psychologically broken system. Wherein we effectively have a government by signing statements and psychological operations (i.e., approach-avoidance, transference, etc.). Wherein JOB ONE of BOTH PARTIES is to MEDIA-SPIN every new idea or issue apart by its extremes culminating in BAIT-AND-SWITCH business as usual.

The present intention is to return to the Founding Fathers' protocol of the Consent of the Governed.

Consider that, in practice of the present PUBLIC VOTE OPTION, moderation would prevail. Since the competing final Republican vs final Democratic versions of a bill would need to be written away from party base extremes in order to gain the PUBLIC VOTE MAJORITY. In a process that would re-strike the BALANCE OF POWER, effecting the line-item veto and campaign finance reforms, by re-directing the CASH FLOW (corporate groups would have to inform the public directly, rather than lobby elected officials to obscure the facts). Thus pulling out of the media information vs. disinformation spin.

Consider more amendments have dealt with the EXTENSION OF VOTING RIGHTS than any other single issue. A PUBLIC VOTE OPTION would form the next logical term in the series.

National Initiatives (i.e., privately written federal laws) are NOT supported here. Perspective here is to take the best of the LABORATORY OF THE STATES' experience with direct democracy, noting there already has been one and only one national referendum in the nation's history. The idea is to now apply to the statutory level the process by which the U.S. Constitution itself was written by elected delegates and referred to a public vote, Thereby reviving the Constitution from its near-death experience thru HUMAN GROWTH, just as every previous step in the extension of voting rights has promoted human growth.

Congressional already first writes any significant legislation into competing versions of a bill along party lines...to the extent there is a government solution. Initially that is...however every bill gets watered down until it becomes useless information...since no current or newly elected representatives can be expected to make the hard decisions themselves.

Problem is every solution becomes a problem.

For example, at the time the current competing Democratic healthcare plan was passed it was termed a "flawed plan" by its Democratic representatives. So during the State of the Union speech at the time Republican representatives held up pieces of paper symbolizing their competing healthcare plan...which turned out to be blank. Irregardless, the Democratic representatives stated, "let's pass it anyway, and fix it later." That time has come, again, where we always hear every new candidate from both parties say they have a solution for every problem: just don't expect any details to emerge until after the election. The currently broken system is such that we now always hear prior to an election the most critical issues can't be discussed in any detail, since that would "politicize the decision!" Hence the issue is marginalized, and any new candidates attempting to debate it are marginalized, until we are left with nothing but a beauty contest - wherein all the remaining candidates only want world peace - as voters are continuously exhorted to get involved in finding solutions, since it is ultimately their responsibility as citizens, and so on, ad infinitum ad nauseam.

The present idea is to legitimize the present government by competing private-sector polls, and focus groups - now used to psychologically determine what "new lies will fly" to get through continuous campaign election-news cycle. Of course if the present Joint Resolution Public Vote Option were put to use not everyone would have to vote on every issue, the national public opinion polls the country is running on now use less than a 3,000 voter sample size.

One thing the conservatives, liberals, and communists all said in the beginning is: "Eventually the government will just wither away." Right now the U.S. government is buying its own bonds, which can only end in insolvency. Meaning national bankruptcy, where history shows when an economy is destroyed the stage is set for a revolution. The choice here is to lay all the cards on the table and face the facts, prior to requiring the zombie crowd control the military and police practiced in San Diego just before Halloween 2012.

Re-writing the TAX CODE bottom line is logical place to start. Exactly as every candidate claims - presently via the competing final Republican vs. final Democratic versions of a bill submitted to a public vote.