SECTION I. INTRODUCTION

Number 1. Introduction and the Plan of the Rationist 

SECTION II. PRELIMINARY NOTES ON HUMAN NATURE AND POLITICAL THEORY

Number 2. That Mankind is Programmed for Political Revolution, and that Political Revolution Resolves in Historical Cycles

Number 3. The Greek Constitutional Forms and their Natural Revolutionary Sequence: Anacyclosis

Number 4. On the Theory of the Mixed Constitution, and the Constitution of Government Distinguished From the Constitution of Society

Number 5. That an Independent Middle Class is the Sine Qua Non of Authentic Democracy and Democratic Republics

Number 6. That the Extremes of Poverty and Luxury are the Grim Reapers of Democracy and Democratic Republics

Number 7. That the Roman Republic was the First Superpower to Consummate the Complete Sequence of Anacyclosis

SECTION III. ON THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES

Number 8. That America’s Founding Fathers Studied Classical Antiquity and Designed the Constitution to Protect Against Anacyclosis

Number 9. On Whether America Owes its Political Stability more to its Middle Class or to the Constitution

Number 10. That America’s Historians have Failed to Educate the American People in the Lessons and Morals of History

Number 11. That a Bewildered Nation and People has Accordingly been Neglected by its Political and Business Leadership

Number 12. That Social Mobility has Accordingly Decreased and Racial Disparities have Accordingly Persisted

Number 13. That the American Republic Accordingly Appears to be Degenerating in Like Manner to the Roman Republic

Number 14. On Certain Grievances Relating to American History and their Relevancy to the Matters Discussed Herein

SECTION IV. HOW TO RESTORE AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE CLASS

Number 15. That Saving an Independent Middle Class Requires Solving for Both Precarity and Dependency, While Observing the Fundamental Guarantees of Due Process and Individual Liberty

Number 16. On Left-Leaning Approaches: That Socialism and Social Democracy Cannot Solve for Dependency; That Communism Does Not Observe the Fundamental Guarantees of Due Process and Individual Liberty

Number 17. On Right-Leaning Approaches: That Laissez-Faire Capitalism Cannot Exist; and That Neoliberalism Cannot Solve for Precarity

Number 18. On the Roman Republic’s Attempts to Preserve its Middle Class: The Lex Licinia Sextia and the Lex Sempronia Agraria

Number 19. That Philosophy, History, and Necessity Dictate the Application of Mathematical Ratios to Political Society; Hence, the Theory of Rationism

SECTION V. THE THEORY AND BENEFITS OF RATIONISM

Number 20. That the National Median Household Net Worth is the Measure of All Things; Thus to Raise the Median, Tether the Top Households To the National Median

Number 21. That Rationism Operates on Flesh and Blood Households, not the Hydrae of Multinational Corporations, and Permits Markets to Determine the Method to Raise the National Median

Number 22. That Rationism Would Nullify the Adverse Impacts of Expatriation of Labor and Labor-Saving Technology on American Workers

Number 23. That Rationism Will Solve for Dependency and Precarity, Align the Social Classes, Restore Social Mobility, and Mitigate Racial Disparities

Number 24. Rationism as Distinguished from Socialism, Social Democracy, Communism, and Neoliberalism, and Why Rationism Diminishes the People’s Desire for Them

Number 25. Why Republicans and Democracts Should Approve of Rationism, and that Rationism Will Mitigate Political Faction

Number 26. Why America’s Founding Fathers would Approve of Rationism

SECTION VI. AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO IMPLEMENT THE THEORY OF RATIONISM

Number 27. Why the Principle of Rationism Must be Implemented on the Federal Level

Number 28. Why the Implementation of Rationism Requires the Legal Form of a Constitutional Amendment

Number 29. The Proposed Amendment and the Constitutional Provisions Amended Thereby

Number 30. A Defense of the Proposed Ratio of Ten Thousand to One

Number 31. That No Proceeds of the Tax Herein Described May be Used for any Special Interest; and that Half of such Proceeds are Proposed to be Allocated to Federal Old-Age Benefits Programs, but if Congress Does Not Timely Act, all Proceeds Shall be Distributed Equally to the States

SECTION VII. SUGGESTIONS AND GUIDANCE FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Number 32. Calculating the National Median Household Net Worth

Number 33. Defining Covered Households and Covered Incomes

Number 34. Identifying and Appraising the Net Worth of Covered Households

Number 35. Enforcing the Ratio, Punishing Noncompliance, and Streamlining Federal Revenue Enforcement Activities

Number 36. A Fair Incentive to America’s Top Households that Will Raise Additional Revenues and Further Benefit American Workers: A Method to Liquidate all Illiquid Securities

Number 37. On International Tax Arbitrage, and Why it Will not Frustrate the Purposes of the Proposed Amendment

Number 38. That the States can Make Efficient Use of Illiquid Securities Levied Pursuant to the Proposed Amendment; and Considering Offsets to Other Taxes Which Would be Made Possible by the Proposed Amendment

Number 39. Periodically Reevaluating and Resetting the Social Aspect Ratio of Ten Thousand to One

SECTION VIII. MODESTY IN LAW REQUIRES MODESTY IN CUSTOM

Number 40. That America must Continually Strive for Modesty and Moderation