Trans-American Alliance for a National Consensus (TANC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a national “Electorate Legislative Branch” as part of a nonpartisan, college-backed consortium bringing together all key segments of society to author and enact “consensus” federal legislation.  The primary mission of TANC — supported full-time by college students and scholars — is to act as a complementary, binding “fourth branch” arbiter between the established Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of the U.S. government.

To convene on a local, regional and national basis through a representational number of universities and colleges in the United States, TANC is empowered to bring badly-needed consistency, accountability and transparency to policy- and law-making from the federal government.  Also referred to as The Alliance, the overriding goal is to establish TANC as a nonpartisan “ethical conscience of democracy,” effectively seeking to diffuse and mitigate the influences of some well-funded lobbyists, special interest groups and political action committees.

Much in the same way, our military forces look for our nation’s youth to serve our country, TANC is conversely looking to create life-altering opportunities for our college students and scholars to take direct, leading roles in domestic legislative service to their country.  To power an “Electorate TANC” consortium (reaching out to all segments of society), The Alliance feels it is essential to harness the power of America’s world-leading university/college system in order to make our government more responsive to the needs of its citizens.

Initially, it is hoped that 5 to 10 percent of America’s 4,200-plus accredited universities and colleges will participate in The Alliance.  With the prospect of enlisting 240 to 400-plus universities throughout the 50 states (and outlying U.S. territories), TANC will regularly hold local/regional committee hearings and town hall-like meetings to solicit expert counsel and testimony from key public/private leaders and activists — all working together to author proposed “reform” legislative bills and enact them into federal law (followed by subsequent votes of passage by Congress and the President).  

If either of the houses of Congress vote down a TANC-authored bill, or the President vetoes it outright, The Alliance will then have the option to call a “National Electorate Referendum” vote, which can attach the bill to regularly scheduled primary and general election calendars around the country.  A majority of 51 percent or more of the popular vote in the affirmative would mean that the “consensus” TANC bill would automatically be enacted as federal legislation — where the federal government ultimately “accedes to the will of the people.”

        Consensus Lawmaking Powered By An "Electorate Legislative Branch"