The stalemates in politics in recent years, the bickering in Congress, the use of our military overseas without the Declaration of War, the recurring national financial crisis, unpopular Supreme Court decisions, discriminatory voting law changes and voting irregularities, increased mass killings, the world’s highest incarceration rate, more than $16 trillion in national debt, foreign ownership of more than 20 million acres of our farm land, and the many other political, financial and social issues present today show us that some things are simply not right in our system of government. The starting point for positive change seems to be revision of our archaic Constitution. A new Constitution is proposed herein.

This fictitious story depicts starting our nation anew after a cataclysmic decimation of the world adult population by an uncontrolled biological event, The Happening. A surviving old man in Angel Fire, New Mexico, helps the children of that village survive using pioneer-like skills. As contact and communication increase among surviving groups of other young people the need for rules becomes evident. Starting with their library copies of the U.S. Constitution, the New Mexico Constitution, and the French Constitution the now young adults develop a new constitution applicable to their current lives. That constitution, presented in the Appendix to this novel, is applicable to us today.