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CHICAGO — November 2025 — Independent scholar Melissa Cosgrove will release Project Reconstitution on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, a 35-page civic treatise offering a care-centered framework for rebuilding democratic integrity in the United States.

“The Constitution organized power but not responsibility,” Cosgrove writes. “We find ourselves living within its failures; but we also live within the possibility of its repair.”

Released as a care-centered civic counterpoint to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Project Reconstitution reframes the present constitutional crisis as a rupture — a moment when hidden fractures become visible — and a necessary opportunity to rebuild governance on the principles of care, repair, and integrity.

The document is structured in seven sections, moving from diagnosis to prescription. It begins with a cultural reckoning (“We Are In Rupture”) and redefines the premises of governance, arguing that integrity, not control, should be the measure of political health. Later sections outline the practical implications of care-based governance across law, economy, labor, education, family, environment, and health. The work concludes with a call for Collective Restorative Rupture — a nonviolent method of social transformation rooted in accountability, repair, and care.

“Care is not sentiment or charity. It is structural attention, the continuous tending that keeps coherence alive. When care becomes constitutional principle, governance transforms from control into stewardship.”

Cosgrove developed the theoretical foundation through her Dynamic Fractal Theorem of Relation (DFTR), which describes how systems — biological, social, and political — sustain themselves through patterns of rupture, repair, and care. Project Reconstitution applies this universal grammar to the American political project, contending that care is not sentiment but structure: the necessary condition for democracy’s endurance.

The full text, executive summary, and media assets will be available at projectreconstitution.org when the embargo lifts on November 19, 2025.