# A Government That Works for the People > Official website for the book and governing-plan project by Alexander Hendrix. The site contains the online book, sourced policy explainers, companion research, implementation tools, and civic simulations. Important interpretation note: distinguish current law and sourced historical/economic evidence from the author’s proposals, author estimates, and fictional or illustrative simulations. Election demonstrations are explanatory, not forecasts. ## Start here - [Home](https://govthatworks.org/): Project overview and navigation. - [Read online](https://govthatworks.org/reader): Online book reader. - [Get the book](https://govthatworks.org/get-the-book): Free PDF access and paperback information. - [Research method](https://govthatworks.org/method): Sourcing, assumptions, uncertainty, and correction method. - [Objections & answers](https://govthatworks.org/objections): Structured objections and responses. - [About Alexander Hendrix](https://govthatworks.org/about): Author biography. ## Interactive tools and research companions - [Congressional Reform Lab](https://govthatworks.org/congress): House-size model, 50-state delegation map, multi-member district explainer, and interactive STV count. - [Presidential Elections Lab](https://govthatworks.org/elections): Interactive explanation of the book’s presidential-election proposal using fictional candidates; not a forecast. - [Fiscal Model & Budget](https://govthatworks.org/fiscal): Ten-year fiscal scenarios, assumptions, sensitivity views, and source notes. - [My Plan Calculator](https://govthatworks.org/my-plan): Household-facing policy impact calculator and assumptions. - [Amendments Explorer](https://govthatworks.org/amendments): Explorer for the book’s proposed constitutional amendments and implementation paths. - [Government Reorganization](https://govthatworks.org/reorganization): Interactive department and agency reorganization explorer. - [Policy Scorecard](https://govthatworks.org/scorecard): Implementation and accountability scorecard. - [Reparations & Wealth Gap Research](https://govthatworks.org/reparations): Companion research, historical evidence, wealth data, counterfactual cautions, and possible commission questions. - [Roadmap](https://govthatworks.org/roadmap): Ten-year sequencing and implementation roadmap. - [How It Becomes Law](https://govthatworks.org/how-it-becomes-law): Legal pathway explorer distinguishing statutes, regulations, and constitutional amendments. ## Policy and implementation pages - [Courts That Are Independent and Accountable | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/courts): Regular Supreme Court appointments, eighteen years of active service, senior-status rotation, transparent recusal, and an enforceable ethics framework. - [Emergency Power Without Emergency Government | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/emergencies): A 30-day affirmative-renewal model for national emergencies, with itemized authorities, public reporting, spending controls, Insurrection Act guardrails, and automatic cleanup of old declarations. - [Security Without Permanent War | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/security): A war-powers and national-security framework built around expiring authorizations, auditable defense spending, procurement discipline, cyber rules, diplomacy, and voluntary service. - [Health Care | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/healthcare): Explore the proposed National Health Guarantee, financing, household examples, transition timeline, and risks. - [Housing Is Infrastructure | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/housing): Chapter 16 housing policy: production incentives, social housing finance, rental assistance, and an interactive infill-capacity lab. - [Income Floor & Wages | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/income-floor): Chapters 18 and 19: child allowance, Work and Security Credit, marginal-rate ceiling, poverty-trap visualizer, and household calculator. - [Care Is Infrastructure | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/care): Child care, pre-K, paid leave, family caregiving, home- and community-based services, and the care workforce are treated as one economic infrastructure system. - [Opportunity Accounts | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/opportunity-accounts): Chapter 20: universal birth accounts, progressive public deposits, qualified uses, and a compound-growth calculator. - [Food, Farms, and Rural America | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/food-rural): Crop-insurance reform, agricultural competition, nutrition, conservation, rural health, broadband, and rural finance as one capacity agenda. - [Education From Childhood Through Reinvention | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/education): A cradle-to-reinvention education architecture: literacy, adequacy, special education, a tuition-free first credential, apprenticeships, and adult skills. - [Justice, Safety, and Equal Protection | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/justice): A public-safety architecture that combines crime reduction, police accountability, usable courts, proportionate punishment, civil legal aid, and disability rights. - [Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/immigration): Independent adjudication, lawful migration channels, portable work visas, faster work authorization, earned legalization, verification, port modernization, and constitutional citizenship. - [One Door Into Government | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/one-door): An optional Public Services Account, ask-once data, measurable service guarantees, assisted access, appeal continuity, and a hard privacy firewall. - [Tribal Nations | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/tribal): Compare current federal–Tribal policy with the book's proposals for treaty and trust obligations, health, land, water, jurisdiction, consent, and data sovereignty. - [Energy, Water, and National Capacity | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/capacity): A technology-neutral clean-resource standard, transmission and permitting reform, hydrology-based water policy, tribal settlements, resilience, and a ten-year capital plan. - [Digital Rights & AI | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/digital-rights): Chapters 12, 32, and 33: data minimization, data brokers, government purchases, automated decision rights, synthetic media, provenance, and anti-SLAPP. - [Downloads | A Government That Works for the People](https://govthatworks.org/downloads): Download the first-edition book and fiscal-model files in universal and original formats. ## Agent and machine-readable interfaces - [API Catalog](https://govthatworks.org/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727-style catalog for the site’s public read-only research services. - [OpenAPI description](https://govthatworks.org/openapi.json): Public REST research endpoints. - [MCP Server Card](https://govthatworks.org/.well-known/mcp.json): Discovery metadata for the read-only MCP endpoint at `https://govthatworks.org/mcp`. - [A2A Agent Card](https://govthatworks.org/.well-known/agent-card.json): Discovery metadata for the deterministic read-only A2A endpoint at `https://govthatworks.org/a2a`. - [Agent Skills index](https://govthatworks.org/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Research skill instructions for compatible agents. - [Agent authentication guidance](https://govthatworks.org/AUTH.md): Public research interfaces require no login; reader, chapter text, full corpus, and PDF access use the one-time human browser sign-up. - [Agent policy](https://govthatworks.org/agent-policy.json): Public read-only capabilities and content-use signals. - [Search API](https://govthatworks.org/api/search?q=congress): Search public policy pages and book-section metadata. - [Page API](https://govthatworks.org/api/page?path=/congress): Retrieve clean Markdown for a public page. - [Book sections API](https://govthatworks.org/api/book-sections): List the 48 online-book sections. ## Book sections - [Introduction — The Test of Government](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/introduction) - [Chapter 1 — Democratic Humanism](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-01) - [Chapter 2 — Freedom Requires More Than Noninterference](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-02) - [Chapter 3 — Markets Are Tools, Government Is a Tool](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-03) - [Chapter 4 — The Six Tests](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-04) - [Chapter 5 — The Constitution Was Built to Be Amended](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-05) - [Chapter 6 — An Equal Vote in a Federal Republic](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-06) - [Chapter 7 — Rebuilding the House of Representatives](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-07) - [Chapter 8 — Congress Must Eventually Decide](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-08) - [Chapter 9 — No More Government by Fiscal Crisis](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-09) - [Chapter 10 — Courts That Are Independent and Accountable](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-10) - [Chapter 11 — Rights We Should Stop Re-Litigating](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-11) - [Chapter 12 — Privacy, Guns, and Social Guarantees](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-12) - [Chapter 13 — Emergency Power Without Emergency Government](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-13) - [Chapter 14 — Making Constitutional Change Possible](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-14) - [Chapter 15 — Why Things Become Expensive](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-15) - [Chapter 16 — Housing Is Infrastructure](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-16) - [Chapter 17 — Health Care Without Financial Fear](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-17) - [Chapter 18 — Work Should Produce Security](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-18) - [Chapter 19 — An Income Floor Without a Poverty Trap](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-19) - [Chapter 20 — An Ownership Society for Everyone](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-20) - [Chapter 21 — Food, Farms, and Rural America](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-21) - [Chapter 22 — The Budget Has to Add Up](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-22) - [Chapter 23 — Education From Childhood Through Reinvention](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-23) - [Chapter 24 — Care Is Infrastructure](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-24) - [Chapter 25 — Justice, Safety, and Equal Protection](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-25) - [Chapter 26 — Rebuilding the Executive Branch Around Missions](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-26) - [Chapter 27 — One Door Into Government](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-27) - [Chapter 28 — Who Actually Delivers: Federalism and Local Capacity](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-28) - [Chapter 29 — Tribal Nations and the Duties the United States Owes Them](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-29) - [Chapter 30 — Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-30) - [Chapter 31 — Energy, Water, and National Capacity](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-31) - [Chapter 32 — A Digital Bill of Rights](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-32) - [Chapter 33 — Free Speech in an Age of Manufactured Reality](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-33) - [Chapter 34 — Journalism, Political Parties, and Better Arguments](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-34) - [Chapter 35 — Security Without Permanent War](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-35) - [Chapter 36 — The First Hundred Days Are Not the Finish Line](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-36) - [Chapter 37 — The Ten-Year Test](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/chapter-37) - [Conclusion — A Bright Future Is a Governing Choice](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/conclusion) - [Appendix A — The Eight Proposed Constitutional Amendments](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-a) - [Appendix B — What Requires an Amendment, Statute, or Rule Change](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-b) - [Appendix C — Proposed Executive-Branch Organization and Transfer Maps](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-c) - [Appendix D — The Ten-Year National Scorecard](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-d) - [Appendix E — Fiscal Framework, Assumption Registry, and Bridge Tables](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-e) - [Appendix F — Research Method, Source Hierarchy, and Source Freeze](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/appendix-f) - [Glossary](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/glossary) - [Notes](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/notes) - [Bibliography](https://govthatworks.org/book/chapters/bibliography) ## Machine-readable resources - [AI site index](https://govthatworks.org/ai-index.json): JSON directory of pages, tools, policy signals, and all book sections. - [Full Markdown corpus](https://govthatworks.org/llms-full.txt): Consolidated corpus; book text requires the one-time browser access cookie. - [XML sitemap](https://govthatworks.org/sitemap.xml): Canonical public-page sitemap. ## Content-use signals Search indexing: allowed. AI input/grounding at query time: allowed. AI training/fine-tuning: not permitted via Content Signals. Reuse level: reference (linking, indexing, and excerpts rather than full reproduction).