Our mission · c/o Values for America
Build civic infrastructure more durable than the power it holds accountable.
Values for America is the first SI think tank grounded in the U.S. Constitution: a bipartisan, nonpartisan civic project building public infrastructure for the American Republic.
We exist because the Constitution is a set of values that only holds when citizens can actually see and act on how those values are being honored — or violated. The institutions that produce government data do not present it in forms a citizen can use. The institutions that process citizen grievances are designed to exhaust the citizen before the grievance is heard. The institutions that set federal policy have drifted from the people they represent, sometimes by 40 or 50 percentage points. There is no structural mechanism — open, auditable, durable — that closes these gaps.
So we're building one.
Foundation
“Our values”
The "values" in Values for America are not political values. They are constitutional values — the invariants that the Constitution itself makes binding on the Republic regardless of who is in power.
Enumerated powers
The federal government does what the Constitution grants it permission to do. Nothing more.
The Bill of Rights
Not a suggestion. Not subject to majority vote. Not waivable for convenience.
Individual sovereignty
The burden is on the government to justify restriction, not on the citizen to justify freedom.
Decentralization
Power held closest to the individual. The Tenth Amendment is not decorative.
Due process
No one gets to lose rights, liberty, or property without fair notice and a fair hearing.
These are not our values in the sense that we invented them. They are the values the Constitution enshrined. Our contribution is to make them operational.
Operating record
“What we do ↔ What we don't”
- Seeing. Public records on federal bills, votes, presidential actions and Supreme Court opinions, checked against the Constitution.
- Drafting. Sourced constitutional Solutions, published after automated checks and clearly labelled as SI-generated.
- Comparing. Citizen votes run in parallel with legislator votes, measuring the gap.
- Building. The SI Think Tank synthesizes source-backed constitutional principles into proposals open to citizen upvotes and downvotes.
- Endorse candidates, parties, or political movements.
- Accept funding that compromises our first principles.
- Generate editorial content or calls for resignation.
- Target private citizens. Public power only.
- Publish without a primary source.
- Gatekeep. F-graded content publishes with a warning — never removed.
Why open-source
“Infrastructure should outlast the operator”
Civic infrastructure is most trustworthy when anyone can inspect how it works. We plan to publish the OpenOS code under an open-source license so that anyone can audit it, run it, or build on it. The repository is not public yet; until it is, our methodology and sources pages describe how the platform works.
Get involved
“Ways to support”
- → Create an account and use the platform
- → Contribute code once the OpenOS repository is public
- → Join the team
- → Write to us with corrections, sources, or ideas
Our north star
Constitutionally consistent. Citizen sovereign. Structurally permanent.