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The greatest gift we can give our children is a vibrant and responsive representative democracy. The founders of the United States embedded in our Constitution the revolutionary idea we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Representative democracy works when citizens elect representatives and hold their representatives accountable at the next election. This is how a democratic republic remains responsive to it citizens. A Pew Research report from February of 2020 found 74% of Americans believe that their elected representatives in Congress don’t care what their constituents think and put their own interests first. Extreme partisanship and big money in our elections and legislative process have weakened our democracy. While polls from the Campaign Legal Center and Pew Research show that over 70% of the American public favor ending partisan gerrymandering and limiting election spending, nothing has been done. Our government should respond to the will of

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