Week 1: Introduction: The US Majority and the Diagnosis
Week 2: The Roadmap: Numbers, Districts, and the 21st Amendment Precedent
Week 3: The 2% and the Voting Booth Trap
Week 4: The Constitutional Case: Article V and State Conventions
Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
Week 7: The Powell Memo: Origin of the Corporate Capture Project
Week 8: Midterm + The Slow Bleed and the Broken Family
Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
Week 10: Worker Displacement: H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Tech Giants
Week 11: AI, Corporate Personhood, and Constitutional Human Obsolescence
Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
Week 13: Movement Security, Nationalism, and the Policy Platform
Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
Week 15: The Call to Action: Synthesis and Critical Assessment
Part I: The Destination
Part II: The Map
Part III: The Obstacles
Part IV: The Action Plan
Part V: The Policy Platform
Part VI: The Covenant
Part VII: The Call to Action
Appendices
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Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
RandellHynes July 17, 2026
Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
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Lecture Topics
- Chapter 32: "Broken Promises to Americans" — every broken promise the book has examined, with the veterans’ betrayal (18 million veterans) at its heart as a case study in institutional betrayal and a natural constituency for the amendment movement
- Chapter 33: "Our Humble Requests — The American Covenant" — the book's petition to Congress, framed as the "Olive Branch" that precedes the harder work (with author's note acknowledging its early, idealistic character)
- Chapter 34: "The Reluctant Rise of Gig Work" — the 70 million gig workers as evidence of the failure of U.S. labor law to adapt to changing employment relationships
- The book's argument that gig work is not "chosen freedom" but "reluctant default" — workers turn to gig platforms because traditional employment no longer provides security
Reflect & Discuss
The Covenant chapter (33) is the book's earliest writing, drafted before the full structural diagnosis was developed. The author's framing note characterizes it as "the respectful petition that precedes, and historically fails to prevent, the harder work that follows." Discuss: is a petition to Congress consistent with the book's own argument that Congress is structurally captured and cannot reform itself? Or does the petition serve a rhetorical purpose — establishing that the respectful approach was tried and failed — that strengthens the case for the constitutional remedy? The gig economy: evaluate the "reluctant default" thesis against survey data on gig worker preferences.