Model Legislation

C.A.R.E. Research-Based Model Legislation

Ongoing Research

Reframing IS social change. When you repeatedly say why you want something, you physically strengthen the idea in recipients’ brains. Members and volunteers are sought to conduct ongoing research in their states. Go to the Contacts page to request more information.

Complete Our 1-Minute Anonymous Survey

If you live in Ohio, we need volunteers to help us reach 1 percent of the population in each of our 88 counties, who will complete the two surveys below. Please consider completing the two ongoing 2-minute anonymous surveys by clicking the appropriate hyperlink. Analysis of the survey begins once there are 100 respondents and is updated when the number of respondents increases by 20 percent.

Also, please consider volunteering to help disseminate the surveys. Volunteer PDF handouts for each survey are available below.

Ohio C.A.R.E. Based Model Legislation

  • E.L.E.C.T. BillEmpathy for and responsibility to all human beings are the soul and heart of our republic and its democratic institutions. The ELECT Bill is a series of proposed amendments to the Ohio Revised Code to [a] require candidates for any office and elected representatives to declare their commitment to the duty to care for and protect human rights and freedoms, and [b] structure political parties to promote, protect, and facilitate elected party member cooperation that aligns their actions around the freedoms provided by the US Constitution and the human rights enumerated by the Universal Declaration of Human RightsEmail admin@empathysurplus.com with your name, address, and cell phone to add your name as a citizen sponsor.
  • Cultivate All Rights Empathy Education BillThe C.A.R.E.E. Bill [a] repeals the 2025 Ohio SB 1, [b] amends the Ohio Revised Code for academic standards in social studies to declare that empathy is the soul of democracy, ethical businesses, and a caring society, [c] adds the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to social studies academic standards for K-12, and [d] requires a sponsoring entity for release time instruction of religious studies it acknowledge the UDHR and its Article 18, its core values of empathy for and responsibility to humanity, and provide a copy of the UDHR to its release time students. Email admin@empathysurplus.com with your name, address, and cell phone to add your name as a citizen sponsor.

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George Lakoff's Resources

The basic idea is this: Dr. Lakoff's resources are free and open to all. He will provide framing suggestions regularly over social media, and whoever receives them can decide how to use them, and whether to share them or retweet them.  Dr. Lakoff's process is bottom-up.

Dr. Lakoff also offers this framing service to activist organizations, media folks, and elected officials and their staff.

Pro-Empathy Pledge to the People of the World

(Recited while holding a neighbor's hand. People from other countries may insert the name of their country.)

I pledge my care to the people of the world

and to my neighbors in the United States of America

and to our human rights, which I defend and promote,

one world governed with empathy and responsibility,

with liberty and justice for all.

Empathy Surplus Network USA is a 501(c)(3). Our mission is to support our members and volunteers in applying George Lakoff's science-based communication framework to frame and reframe ongoing public discourse around empathy, thereby uniting siloed human rights advocates and elected officials. Donations are exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(a) and described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL compact resources

Pro-Empathy Freedom Declaration

I am a progressive -
caring human being
in a strong, diverse community
of nurturing families.
I am a pro-empathy voter and
govern with empathy for and
responsibility to others.
I here highly resolve that
this nation shall have
a new birth of freedom
- and that government
of the people,
by the people,
for the people
shall not perish
from the earth.
I am a person
with human rights.
I care for my own
Safety and Happiness
and that of others.
I am the solution to
expanding life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
And for the support of this
declaration, joining
progressive human rights
advocates and
pro-empathy voters,
we mutually pledge
to each other
our Lives, our Fortunes,
and our sacred Honor.