This assemblage honors America's political journey. It reminds us of government's tension with individual liberty. The social compact, states the author, is the sentiment, a pact of political necessity formed by the citizenry. The social contract, the law derived therefrom is the authority and the power we delegate to offi cials, for governance. The author insists that each one of us is a principal to that contract with an inherent obligation to manage that tension, by politically active citizenship. Khari A. Ogle provides S-O-C-I-A-L C-O-M-P-A-C-T, an initiative. His first invitation to fellow Americans.