The 99-Cent Solution to the 1% Problem
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
Participants1
Week 4: The Constitutional Case: Article V and State Conventions
Lecture slides with audio narration — self-paced. Click “Launch Slides” to begin.
1Read from the Book
- UNINCORPORATUS required reading:
- U.S. Constitution, Article V
- Supreme Court excerpt: Citizens United v. FEC (2010), majority and dissenting opinions (excerpts)
2Take the Lesson
Opens a full-screen slide viewer. The AI narrator reads each slide’s script aloud.
Use the arrow keys or Next/Prev buttons to navigate. Toggle auto-advance to move automatically when each script finishes.
3Go to Team Chat
After reading and taking the lesson, join the weekly discussion in Team Chat.
Lecture Topics
- Chapter 5: "Timeline Precedent — The Constitutional Case for Restoring 'We the People'"
- The 27 existing amendments: patterns, precedent, and the political conditions that produced each
- State conventions vs. state legislatures as ratifying bodies — the constitutional text and historical practice
- The book's argument against an Article V convention (the "Convention of States" trap): untested, potentially hijackable, lacks settled procedural law
- The anticipated legal challenges to the 28th Amendment: First Amendment, Takings Clause, vagueness/overbreadth, and the book's responses to each
Reflect & Discuss
Constitutional workshop: Read the full text of the 28th Amendment (Appendix A) alongside the majority opinion in Citizens United. Does Section 1 (corporate personhood limited) actually overturn Citizens United, or does it create new doctrinal problems? Does Section 2 (money is not speech) survive First Amendment scrutiny as an amendment? The book argues "a constitutional amendment cannot violate the Constitution — it becomes part of the Constitution." Is this legally sound? Optional deep-dive challenge: draft your own analysis of one amendment section and share it in Team Chat by Week 8.