"What is a just society?" and "What is justice?" are questions that have  engaged the minds and energies of countless men and women – philosophers, ethicists, lawyers, legislators, judges... – over the course of history.

But the difficult task of creating a just society has been attempted, in earnest, only four times:

The last time, at Philadelphia about 230 years ago.

Before that, in Athens, about 2,500 years ago.

Before either of these, by King Solomon in Israel about 3,000 years ago and LaoTzu in China about 2,700 years ago.

This website is dedicated to attempting the task once more, for the fifth time.


Why?

Most importantly, because there are no human beings anywhere on the face of this planet living in a just society today: 

Can any society in which the administration of criminal justice allows a large number of innocent people to be convicted and a huge number of criminals to be exonerated be considered to be a just society?

Second, because so much has changed in our lives, our affairs, our world and our understanding since the question was last asked by the Continental Congress of the United States of America.

Today, we have become the Global Village that Marshall McLuhan predicted….

The time has come to consider a quantum leap similar in spirit to the noble leap that the Founding Fathers took... out of monarchies and the feudal system and into government of, by and for the people: republican, representative democracy.

Our own leap must be out of republican, representative democracies and on into a new structure and form of governance that will enable us to competently manage the world as it is today… not as it was 250 years ago.

I ask myself: 

If Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Madison, Adams and all the others were convening today instead of the 1770's... what kind of legal, economic and political systems would they design?

When they met, the steam engine had not yet been invented. Other than eye to eye, exchanges of information between them were written in longhand with quill pens and moved at the speed of horses and sails.

Today they would have available to them information and communication systems and technology that they could not have imagined.

That makes a huge difference.

And that is why it is necessary to ask the question again.