The Constitutional Foundations of the Hundred Overseers Pathway: Citizen Supervision as a Mechanism of Lawful Reform

This paper establishes the constitutional basis of the Hundred Overseers Pathway, a proposed framework for citizen-supervised legalization and institutional accountability within the United States. It argues that the American Constitution, when interpreted through the lens of civic sovereignty, not only allows but requires mechanisms by which the governed can oversee the acts of governance itself. Drawing from the principles embodied in the Preamble, Article I, and the First Amendment, as well as from the historical ethos of republican virtue, the study develops the theoretical structure for a participatory oversight model rooted in law rather than activism. The paper situates this design within the broader crisis of democratic legitimacy, contending that institutional self-regulation has proven insufficient to preserve constitutional integrity. By restoring the people to their original constitutional role—as the ultimate check upon delegated power—the Hundred Overseers Pathway envisions a lawful, structured, and ethically bounded method for civic supervision, transforming democratic vigilance from moral aspiration into enforceable architecture.