A Reason To Vote

Breaking the Two Party Stranglehold

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreward
America's Great Awakening
John Hagelin, Ph.D., Natural Law Party presidential candidate

Preface

SECTION ONE: THE BATTLE
1 Does Politics Matter Anymore?

2 Ruminations of a Third Party Operative

3 Are Third Parties a Threat to Democracy?

SECTION TWO: THE MESSAGE
4 Media tips from the Front Lines

5 "The Best-Kept Secret in America"

6 Preparing for the Vice Presidential Debate

SECTION THREE: THE ISSUES
7 Genetically Engineered Foods: The Hazards of Tinkering with Natural Law

8 Putting Health Back into Our Disease Care

9 Beyond Sustainable Agriculture: Going Organic

10 America's Energy Future: A Solid Basis for Optimism

SECTION FOUR: THE PRINCIPLES
11 The Roots of Natural Law in American History

12 Science, Consciousness, and Public Policy

SECTION FIVE: THE APPLICATIONS
13 Quiet Time at the Fletcher-Johnson School

14 An Opportunity to Meditate

15 The Forgotten Victims of Inner-City Streets

16 Creating a True Peacekeeping Force

SECTION SIX: THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
17 What's So Funny about the Campaign Trail?

18 New Leadership for California

19 The Most Valuable Asset in the Global Information Economy

SECTION SEVEN: THE FUTURE
20 This Is What Third Parties Do Best

21 Final Thoughts

Afterword

SECTION EIGHT: APPENDICES
Appendix 1
The Natural Law Party's Fifty-Point Action Plan to Revitalize America

Appendix 2
The Natural Law Party Platform

Notes

"Third parties have contributed huge ideas to American politics, from the abolition of slavery, to a woman's right to vote, to child labor laws. Their relatively recent exile to the margins of American political life is highly unfortunate. A Reason to Vote gives us the information we need to bring third parties back to center stage."

-- Marianne Williamson,
author of The Healing of America