Welcome to the PRF a website dedicated to proposing new constitutional amendments and/or federal legislation, regulations or policy and to scholarly discussion of those proposals.  For example, a proposed constitutional amendment  to replace the electoral college with the direct election of the President and Vice President can be found in the Proposed Constitutional Amendments Forum.

The PRF is not a “blog” for expressing personal political opinions. The Site Administrator reserves the right to remove any material posted at this website which he or she considers a “rant” of personal political opinion.  The purpose of the PRF is soley to provide forums for free idea exchange among persons of all ages regarding reforming  U.S. government structure and its laws, regulations and policies.

Any person can become a member of the PRF by registering.  No member information will ever be shared by the Site Administrator with any commercial entity or otherwise except with a member’s express written consent.  Using the Membership Directory, any member can communicate directly with any other member.

Any member can add a new Forum thread, enter draft amendments, legislation, regulations or policies and make comments in any Forum thread.  Only the Site Administrator can delete any posted material.  If a member wishes to delete anything posted, the Site Administrator will do so upon their written request.

The PRF does not solicit or accept any funds for any purpose.

Why the “Progressive Republican Forum”?  Simply because the GOP was born as, and until approximately 1912 continued to be, a party that believed that the federal government (rather than the private sector) was the best means to “promote the general welfare” of American citizens under the constitution (and ironically enough it was the Democratic Party that advocated state over federal rights—including the right to own other human beings.)

In fact the Republican Party, during the Lincoln and Grant administrations, enacted the most socially progressive legislation until the New Deal including: the Land Grant College Act, which was designed to provide any citizen with a higher education or skilled trade regardless of ability to pay, the Homestead Act,  which afforded any citizen the opportunity to own a farm, and massive infrastructure programs of roads, railroads, canals and trans and inter-continental telegraph (the internet of that age).

It is to honor this original soul of reform of the GOP for which the PRF takes its name.