To have new founding fathers, you need to found a new country. Although I admire the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org/ http://freestateproject.or

To have new founding fathers, you need to found a new country. Although I admire the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org/ http://freestateproject.org/), and I find the concept of charter cities fascinating (see http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli... or Scott Adam's previous post http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/startup_country/ http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/startup_country/) I think it will be extremely difficult to do any serious experimentation with new forms of government on any land already claimed by an existing government. I do not think that existing governments will permit any truly radical experiments on their territory, they would be too afraid of spawning something that would change the status quo and push them out of power. I think that our best hope for innovation in government is to open a new frontier, perhaps in the ocean with projects like seasteading (http://seasteading.org/ http://seasteading.org/) or in outer space. We need people to found new nations in places that are free from any existing form of government (and don't have existing residents). I think it is much more likely that we will be able to enact real change in America when there is a better example that is actually functioning in the real world. If we didn't have the example of the United States, would democracy (or democratic republics) be nearly as widespread in the world today? I suspect most of us would still be living under monarchies.