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The premiere resource of this, or any other country, is the collaborative power of the hearts and minds of its people. It is more important than technology, more important than natural resources. The human resource is the key to a country’s success and America, after 12 years of Republican executive administration, suffers from the degradation of its human infrastructure to a degree that is even more alarming than the deterioration of its physical infrastructure. The New Covenant Process is a 100-day program to assess the damage, propose solutions that have proven they work, publicize these insights, and create a sense of individual involvement in a shared national purpose among people
from all parts of the political spectrum. The model for the process finds its genesis in the town hall meetings begun by Governor Clinton during the New Hampshire primary, as well as one of the few previous successful nationwide efforts at social change when, in the 1970s, the American military was transformed from a conscription institution to a volunteer one. The New Covenant Process draws on the same national citizen dynamics that proved so successful in getting Ross Perot qualified in all 50 states with a speed undreamed of by most political observers. Clearly, the people’s willingness to craft a New Covenant is present, and accounted for.
Publication History: In Blueprint for Presidential Transition. Section. IV – Citizen Participation and
Public Consensus. (The Blue Print for Presidential Transition Project: Los Angeles, 30 October 1992).
An edited version appeared under the same title in The New Paradigm Digest. Vol. 1. No. 4. Winter 1992.
pp. 63-64
