A visitor’s guide
What government did, beside what the Constitution suggests.
Values for America is the first SI think tank grounded in the U.S. Constitution. Here is what you are looking at, where it comes from, and how to check it yourself.
Step 01
What you see on the home page
Each row puts a real government action on the left (a bill in Congress, an order signed by the President, or a Supreme Court decision) and a VFA SI Solution on the right: a drafted alternative that cites the parts of the Constitution it relies on. Every real item links to its official source, so you can read the original.
Step 02
What “SI” means
SI means superintelligence-assisted. Software reads the public record and drafts analysis at a scale no small staff could manage. It does not make law, and it does not speak for any official, Founder or court. The Constitution sets the terms.
Step 03
How a draft becomes published
A draft is published automatically once it passes automated checks: it must cite at least one real, specific provision of the Constitution and invent none; its official source must be verified; and an independent SI critic must approve it. No person reviews each item before it goes live, so every item is labelled as SI-generated and links to its source.
Step 04
What the labels mean
A Founders’ Verdict is a simulated debate on a bill among four voices modeled on Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson and Marshall; it is not a statement by those men. “Archived SI output (machine-generated)” marks older items published under earlier rules; they are kept, labelled, and should be checked against the source.
Step 05
The SI Think Tank
The Think Tank builds broader proposals from published Solutions. Each proposal quotes its sources word for word and shows whether they are still current. You can upvote or downvote them once you sign in.
Step 06
The Scoreboard
Each member of Congress gets an accountability score from 0 to 100, built from public records: stock-trade disclosure timeliness, roll-call participation, statement–vote consistency and the ethics record. Missing data is left out, never counted against anyone.
Step 07
What you can do
Read and compare. Open the source behind any item. Look up any member in the Chamber. Sign in to vote in the Think Tank. And if you find a mistake, tell us: corrections are published, not hidden.
Go further
- → Methodology: the full review checklist and how scores are computed
- → Sources: every public record we use
- → Glossary: DW-NOMINATE, PTR, LDA and other terms
- → The Chamber: every sitting member of Congress
- → Contact and corrections