B.1 — Contributions and Advisors
The following individuals, institutions, frameworks, publications, and technologies contributed to the structure, refinement, research, or conceptual integrity of this document. Their contributions came through authorship, consultation, historical influence, investigative journalism, or technical assistance.
CONTRIBUTOR | CATEGORY | CONTRIBUTION |
|---|---|---|
Todd McGuckin, Founder | Founder | Author of these Articles, the Bylaws, and of the original Constitution v2.0; architect of the constitutional framework the Nonprofit exists to advance. |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) | Foundational Document | Served as the moral foundation and philosophical compass for the ethical principles, governance philosophy, and human rights framework incorporated throughout these Articles, the Bylaws, and Constitution v2.0. |
Five-Power Constitution (Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, 1906) | Historical / Structural Influence | Provided the structural inspiration for ReDrafting America’s Five-Branch model of government: Legislative, Executive, Judicial, Education, and Oversight. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen’s original fifth branch was named Examination; ReDrafting America expanded that concept and renamed it Education. |
Government | The nation’s largest repository of legal, legislative, and historical scholarship. Its collections and research services informed the historical and comparative constitutional research underlying Constitution v2.0. | |
Government | Permanent steward of the original Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights, and of the federal government’s enduring legal and historical record. Its custody of the nation’s founding documents underscores why any serious constitutional reform effort, including Constitution v2.0, must be grounded in the actual historical and legal record rather than abstraction. | |
Government | Steward of the nation’s museums and the public’s shared memory of its history. Its model of turning preserved records into public understanding inspired the distinction between The Museum and The Archive. | |
Civic | A national leader in primary-source constitutional education whose nonpartisan, founding-document-centered approach to civic literacy parallels ReDrafting America’s own commitment to grounding reform in first principles rather than partisanship. | |
Civic | Through its Convention of States Project, provided a well-developed procedural and legal framework for invoking Article V of the U.S. Constitution, including model state resolutions, delegate apportionment approaches, and convention-rules scholarship. Its work helped inform ReDrafting America’s thinking on convention mechanics, delegate credentialing, and the procedural safeguards a lawful Article V process requires. | |
Civic | Founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the nation’s most widely used civic education platform. Its work advancing informed civic participation reflects the same educational mission ReDrafting America pursues through Constitution v2.0 and its companion materials. | |
Civic | America’s leading platform for nonpartisan constitutional education, whose Constitution Drafting Project — convening libertarian, progressive, and conservative teams of scholars to draft competing constitutions — stands as the closest national analog to the cross-ideological, evidence-based approach ReDrafting America has tried to bring to Constitution v2.0. | |
Policy | Publisher of the nation’s most widely cited annual survey of public constitutional knowledge. Its research on the state of American civic literacy helped inform the educational urgency behind ReDrafting America’s mission. | |
Policy | Nonprofit board governance reference. BoardSource guidance on board structure, roles, committees, and accountability was consulted repeatedly to resolve governance questions during the drafting of the Bylaws. | |
Policy | A leading nonpartisan voice on structural democracy and governance reform, whose research and advocacy on the mechanics of American government paralleled and informed the structural reform questions Constitution v2.0 attempts to answer. | |
Policy | The nation’s oldest cross-partisan organization devoted to improving the structure and performance of American government, founded in 1894. Its long history of work on governmental efficiency and accountability informed the design principles behind Constitution v2.0’s Five-Branch model. | |
Public Education | Through more than a decade of award-winning investigative journalism and public policy analysis, John Oliver and his team of researchers helped illuminate numerous systemic failures within American government, law, economics, and public administration. While the constitutional solutions proposed by Constitution v2.0 are original to ReDrafting America, Last Week Tonight served as an invaluable public education resource and recurring research reference, helping identify institutional weaknesses, ethical failures, and governance challenges requiring structural reform. Throughout the development of Constitution v2.0, the series functioned as an informal “checklist” of real-world problems to be studied, independently researched, and addressed through durable constitutional solutions. | |
Think Tank | One of the nation’s most widely cited think tanks on governance and public policy. Paired with the Cato Institute below, its inclusion reflects the same cross-ideological principle that shaped the National Constitution Center’s own Drafting Project. | |
Think Tank | A participating institution in the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project, representing the libertarian constitutional tradition. Its inclusion here reflects ReDrafting America’s commitment to engaging seriously with constitutional perspectives across the ideological spectrum rather than from within a single one. | |
AI | Assisted with structural drafting and revision, legal and coherence audits, terminology and cross-reference consistency, formatting standardization, and document integrity and version control. | |
AI | General analysis, fit and finish. | |
AI | Assisted with initial drafting, diagrams, figures, tables, Pennsylvania nonprofit research, and finalization. |
This section may be expanded in future versions to acknowledge additional contributors, advisors, researchers, institutions, technologies, or historical influences that materially contribute to the ongoing evolution of ReDrafting America and Constitution v2.0.
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