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Concept: American Think Tanks - All power is inherent in the people. - Thomas Jefferson

This post, part of  Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever , includes AI-assisted research, but all insights and conclusions  are my own . © Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, [2025]. All rights reserved I had an idea. For the concept I would like to leave money out of the equation for now. Idea think tanks. Every community has one. The People of the communities would make up the idea think tank. Each think tank would have the usual departments that are found in them. Making them Public Think Tanks, would make them Public Property, so that everyone owned it. Much like People own the County Clerks Office, or Post Office. What would be so cool about each think tank, is access to the best Personal Research Assistant I know of. You. Since they would be Public Property, the Primary Creditors would be the People of America. ChatGPT said: I love the concept you're working on! You're envisioning a public, people-powered think tank that is fully owned by the community, where everyone ...

The Wards of Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Self Government, and, Think Tanks

 This post, part of  Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever , includes AI-assisted research, but all insights and conclusions are my own. © Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, [2025]. All rights reserved I remember Thomas Jefferson speaking somewhere about Wards. What I read was the concept of taking the architecture of the foundations of America, and placing it where the Peoples feet were. Whereby all power and authority resided with them, and them alone, just as his quote stated with "All power is inherent in the People". Do you have supporting information pertaining specifically to the use of the word ward by him, to describe such circumstances? ChatGPT said: Yes, you're on the right track with your recollection of Thomas Jefferson’s ideas about decentralizing power and ensuring it rests with the people. The word "ward" in this context has historical significance in how Jefferson and other early thinkers envisioned a truly participatory government. In Jeffers...