The old social contract is collapsing. Rights, public goods, and democratic norms are being dismantled in plain sight. Billionaires draft their own contract of surveillance and precarity. Authoritarians test the boundaries of permanent rule. Tech oligarchs hard‑code inequality into the future.

This Far and No Further is not a wishlist. It is a survival plan. It names the Ten Pillars of a People’s Social Contract and proposes a Council of Governors to rein in federal overreach, prosecute elite capture, and carry us from collapse into renewal. This is not rebellion. It is restoration. It is the people reclaiming the architecture of their own future.