Our American democracy is not broken. Our two-party political system and constitutional government are working, though perhaps not at their best. Shays's Rebellion. The Civil War. The turbulent Sixties. Our Founders designed our Constitution to bend and not break. Compromise does not have to mean milquetoast, meet-in-the-middle solutions that satisfy no one, but rather it can mean integratively complex solutions that revolutionize government. After all our Constitution, the foundation of the American government, has been described as "a bundle of compromises." Such solutions satisfy the differentiated positions of the left and the right in a "bisociated compromise," a term defined and explored in this book.