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  • Is Tryanny Our Fate?

    Is Tryanny Our Fate?

    National Chairman, Justin Magill
    What is it about Private Property?

    You can watch the fourth video from Mr. DeWeese linked below or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.

    The Silver Bullet to Victory

    There is no question that it’s getting pretty scary out there. Every part of our society is under siege. Are we just going to let it happen?

    You must not accept the idea that President Trump solving all these problems. One man simply cannot do it.

    The question is “what do we do?” Obviously, we have one of two choices. We accept our fate, or we fight. Are we finished? Do we quit? Do we surrender?

    It would be easy to do any of those things. No one would blame us. We gave it the good fight. We could hide behind the idea that ancient conspiracies set our fate long before we were born. Some argue that members of secret societies somehow trumped every ideal we hold and overpowered every move we made.

    We could pat ourselves on the back and say, well, they were just too strong. What could we do? Tyranny is our destiny. Is that what you want to tell your grandchildren when they ask you what you did to preserve the ideals of America?

    In another era, we could have loaded up boats and sailed to a new world to live by the ideals we hold. But that was already done. People ran from tyranny.

    They came here – to America. Now tyranny has caught us. And there’s nowhere else to run. We either accept our pre-ordained “fate” or make a stand. This is the moment when we decide the future of our ideals.

    You know the ideals I’m talking about:

    • That you are born with liberty.
    • That it is your God-given right to speak your mind, start a business, own and control property, build your dream home – and expect it to be there for as long as you like,
    • practice your religion exactly as you believe, and, above all,
    • expect that the government will protect those rights at all costs.

    We know by witnessing history that totalitarianism does not work. Government control of the actions of the people only leads to poverty, misery and death.

    And we know that the United States was the first nation ever created that recognized the God-given natural rights of individuals – and America’s history has proven that such a system is the only one that produces prosperity and happiness.

    So what do we do?

    Do we fight for those ideals of liberty? Or will we allow them to be lost forever under some global village? Do nothing, and they have made the decision for us. What can be easier than that?

    You must understand that these are not just random, misguided policies from confused politicians. We are facing a well-organized, massively funded agenda from a very determined gang of global thieves. They are not a secret society. They are right there in front of us – openly admitting their agenda.

    First, we must start listening. Then at some point we say NO – and mean it! Then we get serious about stopping them.

    We have to help people to speak out in an effective way. They must not be intimidated. Because that’s why many concerned citizens just give up. They are afraid to act.

    We have to teach them how to research what the enemy is doing: how to recruit reliable and dedicated activists to our cause, and how to speak and present our cause to the public.

    Above all, we must teach local activists how to create effective campaigns to get bad politicians out of office and replace them with good ones who are determined to save our Republic.

    That’s the Silver Bullet to Victory!

    Tom DeWeese,
    President
    American Policy Center
    https://americanpolicy.org/

    Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center.

  • What the CP is doing Around the Country

    What the CP is doing Around the Country

    The Better way

    The fall 2025 National Committee Meeting & Issues Conference, October 17-18 in Sparks, Nevada is right around the corner! If you have not registered for this event yet, make sure you do before the early bird price is gone. The Nugget hotel has extended our special group pricing through October 2nd to give our members the best opportunity to attend this great event. These meetings are an important time of connecting with members from other States and collaborating, strategizing, and encouraging one another.

    The spring 2026 National Committee Meeting & Issues Conference will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 15-16. This will be a special event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There will be historic tours and many great speakers. Start planning your trip now, as there are many historic places to visit around this event.

    Around the Country

    We currently have a couple of States preparing to request formal affiliation with the national party. The State of Indiana was recently affiliated at the spring National Committee Meeting. We have several more States where individuals are organizing to begin the launch of a Constitution Party in their State.

    In States that have been with us for years, we are also seeing growth. Pennsylvania and Florida are adding new County Committees. Hawaii has secured enough signatures to regain ballot access for the next several elections. North Carolina is beginning their big push to regain ballot access for the next couple of elections. If you would like to assist North Carolina in their efforts, you can donate or volunteer on their website.

    In light of many recent events, people everywhere are looking for a better way for our county. They are looking for a political party that they can be proud to be a part of. They are looking for a community of like-minded individuals who will support one another. They are looking for limited government and a return to freedom, liberty, and individual rights. If you know someone who is looking, let them know that . . .

    There Is A Better Way →

    If you would like to donate to support national efforts to build new State parties, help our States get ballot access, or spread the word about The Better Way, there is much to be done. If you would like to get involved in the work in your State, reach out now and our leaders will find ways for you to help in these efforts.

  • The Constitution Is Signed!

    The Constitution Is Signed!

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    The U.S. Constitution is signed September 17, 1787

    The signing of the U.S. Constitution, by the delegates of the Convention of 1787, begins its long journey to ratification. The delegates had met for months creating a new government in secrecy. It was now being sent on to the Congress with the recommendation to send it on to the States for ratification.

    But ratification was not a foregone conclusion. The Convention had created a new constitution rather than attempt to modify the old one to cure the problems facing our States. The Framers created a confederated republic using fundamentals from other systems. The public were faced with a new animal, and needed time to explore it, have it explained, and have questions answered.

    The debates that raged through the States, in newspaper and flyers and in the ratification conventions, provide us with many insights into the views and understandings that Americans had of the new document.
    It took nine months for the required nine States to ratify the new constitution and it took nearly two and a half years to get all thirteen States to ratify it.

    Today we have people pushing for another convention to open up the U.S. Constitution for changes; great and small. The Constitution Party opposes these attempts that put the constitutional protections of our natural rights at risk, and we encourage everyone to contact their State legislatures to tell them to refuse to go along with such efforts. We also encourage those in States that have made application or passed resolutions, to contact their State legislatures to call for a recission.

    Constitution Party Platform: Constitutional Convention

    Letter of the President of the Federal Convention, Dated September 17, 1787, to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution. In Convention, September 17, 1787.

    Sir,

    We have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most adviseable.

    The friends of our country have long seen and desired, that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union: But the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident-Hence results the necessity of a different organization.

    It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all: Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.

    In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible.

    That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish.

    With great respect, We have the honor to be, Sir,

    Your Excellency’s most obedient and humble servants,

    GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.

    By unanimous Order of the Convention.

    His Excellency the PRESIDENT of CONGRESS.

    Source:
    Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States.
    Government Printing Office, 1927.
    House Document No. 398.
    Selected, Arranged and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill

    Source: Avalon Project

    (1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894) pp. I, 2. Back

    (2) From Washington’s copy of the Journal of Congress (Vol XII, p. 164). Back

  • Freedom of Speech: The Early Years

    Freedom of Speech: The Early Years

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    John Peter Zenger Found Not Guilty!

    In 1735, John Peter Zenger was found “not guilty” of seditious libel against the Governor of New York. The Royal Governor of New York, William Crosby, went after John Peter Zenger, one the few skilled printers in the colonies, because of the things printed against the governor in the New-York Weekly Journal, the newspaper where Zenger was a printer. Zenger’s attorney, Andrew Hamilton, argued that Zenger should not be found guilty if what he printed was true. While this was not a defense allowed under the seditious libel laws at the time, the jury came back with a verdict of not guilty.

    This case and the outcome of it, laid much groundwork for the American Revolution.

    The rights to free speech and freedom of the press were being limited by the British government and dissenters were being targeted. Blackstone, later in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, supported criminal punishment for libel without regard for truth. “For the same reason it is immaterial with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false.” However, the Letters of Cato gave a different sentiment about free speech:

    “The exposing therefore of publick wickedness, as it is a duty which every man owes to truth and his country, can never be a libel in the nature of things.”

    Cato’s Letters No. 32.

    Read the Zenger Trial story →

    “Men who injure and oppress the People under their Administration provoke them to cry out and complain; and then make that very Complaint the Foundation for new Oppressions and Prosecutions. I wish I could say there were no Instances of this Kind. But to conclude; the Question before the Court and you, Gentlemen of the Jury, is not of small nor private Concern, it is not the Cause of a poor Printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying; No! It may in its Consequence, affect every Freeman that lives under a British Government on the Main of America. It is the best Cause. It is the Cause of Liberty; and I make no Doubt but your upright Conduct, this Day, will not only entitle you to the Love and Esteem of your Fellow-Citizens; but every Man, who prefers Freedom to a Life of Slavery, will bless and honour You, as Men who have baffled the Attempt of Tyranny; and by an impartial and uncorrupt Verdict, have laid a noble Foundation for securing to ourselves, our Posterity, and our Neighbors, That, to which Nature and the Laws of our Country have given us a Right – The Liberty – both of exposing and opposing arbitrary Power (in these Parts of the World, at least) by Speaking and writing Truth.”

    Atty. Andrew Hamilton

    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

    Samuel Adams

  • A System of Government “Help” Control

    A System of Government “Help” Control

    Tom DeWeese will be one of our featured speakers at the Constitution Party’s 2025 fall National Committee Meeting in Sparks, Nevada October 17-18. We will be sending out several emails from Mr. DeWeese, to provide our subscribers with some background for the topic he will be discussing with us at the NCM.

    You can watch the third video from Mr. DeWeese linked below or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.

    Consider this…

    You are a poor minority living in a government housing project called “Affordable.” It’s all paid for by the tax dollars of mostly middle-income Americans.

    Included in still more government programs are monthly checks and coupons to supply food, free healthcare, free education, and let’s also throw in free cell phone.

    Does that not make us a generous nation? Are not the poor well cared for and satisfied? Aren’t the taxpayers proud of their contribution to the common good?

    The answer to every one of these questions is NO!

    First, consider these facts about that stipend income from the welfare check. Originally, it was called “assistance” and the purpose was to help out when the paycheck wasn’t quite covering needs.

    Then that system was changed, and the welfare check means you can’t hold a job as you are collecting that monthly check. If a recipient even tries to put some away in savings, just an attempt to get ahead, it is confiscated and possibly the welfare check stops. It’s no longer “assistance” during hard times. Now it’s control.

    Then there is that public housing situation. Here’s what it’s like to actually live in those government projects.

    In many cities these neighborhoods are drastically rundown in disrepair as lights, air conditioning, and appliances fail to work. The roof leaks, windows are broken, and the plumbing backs up.

    Trash around the grounds is in ever-growing piles, is rarely, if ever cleaned and hauled away. Don’t even think about any kind of yard work to create a place for the children to play.

    Worse, the residents live in fear of gang elements like MS-13 that have taken over the neighborhoods to rule as their territory. Pimps, pedophiles, and drug dealers prey on the children.

    And no matter how many times residents may ask for repairs, it never happens.

    Why are the conditions so bad in government-controlled housing? Government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be efficient. The taxpayers are forced to pay and the money rolls in so the politicians can puff out their chests over how generous THEY are in helping the less fortunate.

    Meanwhile, the management of these properties is by government bureaucrats with no personal stake in the projects. Their paychecks keep rolling in, no matter what happens to the properties they manage. Only private owners care about the condition of their property.

    In such an atmosphere, the inherent hopelessness leaves little room for making future goals for their lives. There is no way out once the system has a hold on you.

    By herding African Americans, other minorities, and low-income families like cattle, the government is committing them to a future worse than poverty. They have lost their rights, their choices, and their ability to excel through self-determination and personal growth.

    Yet, proponents of government’s fair housing want you to think that those favoring the programs are the compassionate ones, helping minorities to survive in an oppressive capitalist world of the rich. Essentially, fear is the common tactic used to keep minorities in their programs.

    Anyone who opposes their system of control and instead, argues sound economics and a system of equal opportunity, is accused of heartlessness and racism, determined to pull the plug on their lifeline.

    Tom DeWeese,
    President
    American Policy Center

    Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center.

  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress

    The Continental Congress Meets for the First Time

    September 5, 1774

    The delegates to the first Continental Congress met on this date in 1774 with delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia did not send delegates). The colonies established this Congress in response to the Coercive Acts, also known as the “Intolerable Acts”, which targeted Boston. The meeting of the Continental Congress, in Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, was a powerful show of support and of unity in the colonies.

    This first Congress was not intended to be a governing body as they still expected to work things out with the King and continue to be British Colonies. By the agreed upon meeting time of the Second Continental Congress, war had already begun, and the Congress became a de facto national governing body directing war efforts and interacting with foreign powers.

    This body of men, many of whom are well-known to us today, helped to unify the American Colony’s efforts for independence and helped create the structure for the United States to succeed. They struggled and learned, made mistake and had successes, and out of it all they secured the blessings of Liberty for us all.


    What are you doing to unify and organize your area for freedom from oppressive government?

    I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

    James Madison

    Additional reading: John Adams’ notes from the First Continental Congress

  • What Did The Founding Fathers See That We See Today?

    What Did The Founding Fathers See That We See Today?

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” 

    John Jay

    The American Revolution and Second Class Citizens.

    Up to the French and Indian War, the colonists were largely in support of their mother country and the laws and taxes the British imposed. They understood that the taxes and duties put upon them were to support the defense of the American colonies from attacks by the French and their allies. They willingly fed and supplied the soldiers that were here to defend them.

    However, after the war ended, the soldiers remained and taxes increased. Colonists petitions for redress from the oppressive taxes and continued occupation of the British army went unheeded. In fact, every time the British eased one tax, they would double down with more additional taxes and they added insult to injury by using the British military to enforce tax collection.

    The distance and the delay in communications, along with the fact that they had no representation in Parliament, made it difficult for colonists to make themselves heard. The colonists recognized that they were being treated as second class citizens without the rights of those subjects who resided in England. The British also began to take away their local representation by disbanding the legislatures in multiple colonies.

    Recognizing that they were being disrespected and being used to fund the British Empire disproportionately, they began to boycott the taxes. They used smuggling and black markets to supply their needs and boycotted British goods that had protectionist tariffs attached. They ran tax collectors out of town and formed extralegal governments.

    When the British began efforts to disarm the colonists and brought in mercenaries to quell the “rebellion,” the colonists knew there could be no possible reconciliation with the homeland. It was independence or slavery.

    We have a government that has taxed us far more aggressively and with far more abusive taxes than the founders ever did, and yet many simply bow down and submit. We have had arms taken from us and our access to arms restricted, yet many are not alarmed.

    Many are choosing slavery over their God-given, natural rights!

    Will you choose to resist and join us now?

    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    Thomas Jefferson

    Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

    Patrick Henry

    “Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

    George Washington

  • A Constitution Party Update

    A Constitution Party Update

    We have received a flurry of new subscribers over the last couple of weeks as people discover our new website. Keep watching as the new website pages continues to be filled out. We continue to add content bringing more information and education and adding new interactive features. A new section of the website will be released during Constitution Week!

    The Fall National Committee Meeting and Issues Conference is coming up, October 17th & 18, in Sparks, Nevada. It is a beautiful area, not far from Lake Tahoe and historic Virginia City. Come and join the National Committee as we conduct our business meeting and hear from many great speakers. Look for all the details on our website over the next couple of days.

    We have reinstated our National Supporting Membership program to provide a way for individuals, in States that do not have a Constitution Party affiliate, to be able to join in supporting the Constitution Party. There are different levels of membership with an increasing number of gifts and discounts with the higher levels.

    Anyone interested in helping us in building new State affiliates, or in gaining ballot access in new States, please let us know and we will put you in contact with the appropriate person.

  • Fight the Decay In Our Society

    Fight the Decay In Our Society

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    Common Decency and Respect

    Common decency and respect for others is becoming scarce in our society. One simple example is garbage thrown on the ground. Personal responsibility and common decency would dictate that every individual dispose of their own trash in the proper place.

    We can lead in the efforts to restore our communities by considering the needs in our communities. Public spaces are often in a state of neglect because individuals make the assumption that it is someone else’s responsibility to take care of it. Government is an insatiable monster that will assume any role it can while consuming all the rights associated with that duty. The more government controls, the less individuals feel any sense of responsibility for those areas. The less individuals feel a sense of responsibility, the esteem they have for property, individuals, and the rights of others.

    By considering those in our communities, and the rights and needs of those individuals, we can find many ways that we can take responsibility for our communities. We can clean garbage up from our public spaces and along our roads. We can get to know our neighbors and their specific needs. We can help our neighbors with yard work and home maintenance. We can run errands for those who can’t get around well. We can join local volunteer groups in their efforts to provide for and protect our communities.

    The fix begins with individuals standing up and taking personal responsibility for their communities and showing others how it is done. It only takes one individual, doing very simple acts of personal responsibility for the community they live in, to start a movement back to a respectful society.

    “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

    Samuel Adams

    Take back your rights by taking back responsibility.

    “But if your spirit should revolt at this; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit enough to oppose tyranny, under whatever garb it may assume; whether it be the plain coat of republicanism, or the splendid robe of royalty; if you have yet learned to discriminate between a people and a cause, between men and principles — awake! — attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every future effort is in vain; and your threats then will be as empty as your entreaties now.”

    George Washington ~ 1783

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  • The American Revolution Did Not Start Overnight

    The American Revolution Did Not Start Overnight

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    “If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

    Samuel Adams

    The events that led to the American Revolution began decades before a shot was ever fired. The Founders were faced with a period of discovering the length and breadth of their natural rights and deciding how best to protect them. The British subjects in the American colonies were proud to be British. They, generally, appreciated what England did for them and the status they had as British subjects. However, the abuses they experienced, especially after the French & Indian War, forced them to consider what rights were theirs and how to claim them.

    As you read about the abuses from England through the 60s and 70s, and the colonial response to those abuses, you can see them sorting out what their rights mean to them. You can see them begin to more precisely define how the abuses violate their rights. You can see their responses to England become more direct and forceful as they gain confidence in their standing.

    As the Founders grew in their experience and understanding of their rights, they became more resolute in their commitment to realize the fullness of those rights. This gave them the confidence to commit their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to achieving liberty.

    We receive far more abuse from our governments today than they did in their day, yet many today do not take any time to understand their rights. They do not consider what constitutes a violation of those rights and why. They do not seriously contemplate what they are willing to do to defend individual rights from government abuse.

    Do you understand your rights? Will you commit your life, your money, and your reputation to defending our individual rights?

    “Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.”

    Samuel Adams