Category: Messages from the Chairman

  • You are not alone!

    You are not alone!

    There are many like-minded individuals out there. Get organized now for Liberty!

    “If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.” – Samuel Adams

    The strategy of tyranny is to convince individuals that they are alone and defenseless and unable to resist the oppression they are under. It is the goal of the tyrant to keep individuals living in fear and solitude so that no effective resistance can be organized.

    Fortunately, we know that it only takes a few to organize resistance and be effective. “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.”

    Everyone needs to reconnect with the community around them. We need individuals to understand that they can unify around liberty and resist tyrants. We need individuals to step up and organize their community to resist tyranny and meet the needs of the community. We need you.

    “The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv’d them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas’d them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath’d to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.” – Samuel Adams

    “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


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  • What are you sacrificing for the cause of Liberty?

    What are you sacrificing for the cause of Liberty?


    George Washington:

    “I sacrificed every private consideration and personal enjoyment to the earnest and pressing solicitations of those who saw and knew the alarming situation of our public concerns, and had no other end in view but to promote the interest of their Country; and conceiving that under those circumstances, and at so critical a moment, an absolute refusal to act, might, on my part, be construed as a total dereliction of my Country, if imputed to no worse motives.”

    The level of sacrifice you are willing to make to shows your level of commitment. People’s lives demonstrate what they believe in and the depth of that belief. In other words, talk is cheap.

    The Founding Fathers committed “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to the cause of Liberty. These were not idle words. The Founders literally put their lives at risk and spent their own money to achieve limited government and the greatest freedom for themselves and their families.

    John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 April 1776

    “But I will not bear the Reproaches of my Children. I will tell them that I studied and laboured to procure a free Constitution of Government for them to solace themselves under, and if they do not prefer this to ample Fortune, to Ease and Elegance, they are not my Children, and I care not what becomes of them.”


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  • Are You Keeping the Government in Line?

    Are You Keeping the Government in Line?

    Who is in charge, you or the government?

    What is a Citizen? In 1789, David Ramsay published A dissertation on the manner of acquiring the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States. In it he states that “Subject is derived from the latin words, sub and jacio, and means one who is under the power of another; but a citizen is an unit of a mass of free people, who, collectively, possess sovereignty.” Citizens are part owners in their government and the public functionaries work for them.

    Public functionaries derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. The just power given to our public functionaries is to to secure these certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and Private Property.

    When government shifts from securing our individual rights to taking our individual rights, it becomes the very thing it was created to protect us from. What is worse, we are paying for it to violate our rights.

    A Citizen takes personal responsibility for the public functionaries in the government which that Citizen owns! When public functionaries do wrong, they need corrected. When they are not sure what they should do, they may need advice. Above all, public functionaries need the accountability of having their boss (YOU) attending public meetings to check in on them.

    Make sure you are getting to your municipal and school board meetings in your area. Get organized with others in your area so that you can keep up with what is going on by sharing the load with other Citizens.

    Read Ramsay’s work here:

    “A dissertation on the manner of acquiring the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States.”

    “Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.”

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, page 3.


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  • Keeping up with Bills Proposed In Your State

    Keeping up with Bills Proposed In Your State

    Keeping up with your legislators is easier than you think. It is important to find out what they are working on and what bills they are considering so that you can better direct their efforts. If your representatives do not hear from you, they will do whatever they wish to do.

    Let your representatives know when they are not doing something right or when they shouldn’t be doing something at all. Tell them you appreciate when they do follow the U.S. Constitution and your State Constitution. Let them know when you have expertise or insight to share with them.

    Above all, keep in contact with them. Once they know that you are following what they are doing and sharing that information with others, your representatives may be more inclined to respond positively to your suggestions and take appropriate action.

    Following are the Congressional and State Legislature sites you can use to track what your representatives are doing. There are also other sites which may require you to purchase subscriptions and or payments to make the process smoother and more efficient.


    CONTACT YOUR FEDERAL CONGRESSMAN, LOCATE LEGISLATION or SEND A MESSAGE.

    STATECONTACT REPRESENTATIVESFIND LEGISLATION
    ALABAMA:Find My Elected Officials Map | Alabama Secretary of StateBill Search | Alabama Legislature
    ALASKA:Alaska State LegislatureAlaska State Legislature
    ARIZONA:Find My LegislatorActive Bills
    ARKANSAS:Arkansas Secretary of StateBills & Resolutions – Arkansas State Legislature
    CALIFORNIA:Find Your California RepresentativesBill Search
    COLORADO:Find My Legislator | Colorado General AssemblyBill Search | Colorado General Assembly
    CONNECTICUT:C G A – Connecticut General AssemblyC G A – Connecticut General Assembly
    DELAWARE:Find My Legislator – Delaware General AssemblyHome – Delaware General Assembly
    FLORIDA:Contact Your Elected Officials – Division of Elections – Florida Department of StateBills for the Regular Session 2025 | Florida House of Representatives
    GEORGIA:Contact State Legislators | Georgia.govGeorgia General Assembly – Legislation Search
    HAWAII:Hawaiʻi State LegislatureHawaiʻi State Legislature
    IDAHO:Contacting Legislators – Idaho State Legislature2025 Legislation – Idaho State Legislature
     ILLINOIS:Find My Elected OfficialsGeneral Assembly – Bills and Resolutions
    INDIANA:IGA | Find Your LegislatorIGA | Bills for 2025 Session
    IOWA:Iowa Legislature – Bill Tracking ToolsIowa Legislature – Find Your Legislator
    KANSAS:Welcome | Kansas State LegislatureBills and Resolutions | Kansas State Legislature
    KENTUCKY:Find Your LegislatorBill Watch
    LOUISIANA:How Do I..? – Louisiana LegislatureBill Search – Louisiana State Legislature
    MAINE:Maine House of RepresentativesBill Tracking and Text Search
    MARYLAND:Members – Find My RepresentativesSearch – Legislation
    MASSACHUSETTS:Find My LegislatorSearch Results for: Bills
    MICHIGAN:Legislative BranchBills – Michigan Legislature
    MINNESOTA:LCC-GISBill Search, Status, and MyBills – Minnesota State Legislature
    MISSISSIPPI:Contact | MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURELegislation Search | MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
    MISSOURI:Missouri House of Representatives – Member RosterMissouri House of Representatives – Legislation
    MONTANA:Legislator ExplorerBills – Montana Legislature
    NEBRASKA:Nebraska Legislature – HomeNebraska Legislature – Legislation Search
    NEVADA:Who’s My Legislator / What’s My District83rd (2025) Session
    NEW HAMPSHIRE:The General Court of New HampshireCurrent Legislation Search
    NEW JERSEY:NJ LegislatureBill Search | NJ Legislature
    NEW MEXICO:Find My Legislator – New Mexico LegislatureBill Finder – New Mexico Legislature
    NEW YORK:New York State Elected Officials | New York State Board of ElectionsBill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly
    NORTH CAROLINA:Representation – North Carolina General AssemblyBills & Laws – North Carolina General Assembly
    NORTH DAKOTA:Contact My Legislators | North Dakota Legislative BranchLegislative Bill Tracking System | North Dakota Legislative Branch
    OHIO:District Maps | Ohio LegislatureSearch Legislation | Ohio Legislature
    OKLAHOMA:Oklahoma LegislatureBill Tracking Reports
    OREGON:House RepresentativesAllCitizen Engagement Find Bills and Vote Information
    PENNSYLVANIA:Find My Legislator – The Official Website of the Pennsylvania General AssemblyThe Official Website of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
    RHODE ISLAND:State of Rhode Island General AssemblyWelcome to your Voter Information Center
    SOUTH CAROLINA:South Carolina Legislature Online – Find Your LegislatorsSouth Carolina Legislature Online – Legislation
    SOUTH DAKOTA:Find My Legislators | South Dakota LegislatureHome | South Dakota Legislature
    TENNESSEE:Tennessee General AssemblyTennessee General Assembly Search
    TEXAS:Who Represents Me?TLO
    UTAH:District MapUtah State Legislature | Bills
    VERMONT:Find a LegislatorBill, Act & Resolution Search
    VIRGINIA:Find a LegislatorLIS
    WASHINGTON:Washington State LegislatureBills
    WEST VIRGINIA:West Virginia LegislatureBill Status – West Virginia Legislature
    WISCONSIN:Wisconsin State Legislature Home PageSearch
    WYOMING:Legislator HomeWyoming Legislation
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  • Is Your Local Government Doing What It Is Supposed To Do?

    Is Your Local Government Doing What It Is Supposed To Do?

    Do your local officials know what the purpose of government is? Do they judge their actions on how they do what government is supposed to do? Do they know how to find private solutions for things government isn’t supposed to do? How well do they connect and communicate with your community?

    The purpose of government, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, is to secure Individual Rights.

    Governments, those public functionaries who make up government, are not to be doing anything more than that. And they are certainly not supposed to be doing less than that. A government that attacks Individual Rights is the very thing government is supposed to protect us from. And you are paying to have your rights violated.

    There are certainly things government should do. No one has a right to violate the rights of others. If all roads were private, you could be prevented from accessing your property or from going to the grocery store. If your neighbor could do anything they wanted on their property, they might dig a hole that could cause your structure to collapse. Or they could cause smells or toxic fumes that could prevent you from using your property.

    It is up to every individual to keep government to its limited role, and to have continual discussions with their public functionaries about that role as situations come up or things change.

    It is not the job of government to entice employers or tourists to the area. It is not the job of government to provide education nor to pay for libraries.

    It is the job of the community, community leaders, private individuals, and private organizations to do these things and to fund them. When we allow government to do these things, we give public functionaries the right to take money by force from individuals and businesses to pay for these things. We also allow politics and agendas to control these things.

    We must keep government limited and we must step up in our communities to do the things that government should not be doing.

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  • Leaders are Readers

    Leaders are Readers

    “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”

    ― Harry S. Truman

    True leaders have a thirst for knowledge and understanding. Their ability to understand situations and people allows them to lead wisely. Knowledge leaves individuals unsatisfied with status quo and with average thinking and action. Understanding allows leaders to use the knowledge they have gained, effectively.

    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours, April 24, 1816:

    “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of the day.”

    The Law – Frederick Bastiat:

    “Fundamental knowledge can be used broadly by understanding concepts. Understanding the concepts that guide good government can allow us to make wise decisions on specific or technical matters that we are not well-versed in. Citizens can, and must, hold their public functionaries accountable for their actions, and advise them on what actions they should be taking.”

    Benjamin Rush, Essay, 1786:

    “It is favourable to liberty. Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty can be neither equal nor universal.”

    Each of us can determine to advance our knowledge and understanding by taking advantage of the many opportunities to read. In this day and age, even those who don’t care to read can listen to books in audio formats. Everyone can advance their understanding of interests they have through books, audios, videos, classes, and discussions.

    American Patriots will always have an interest in our freedoms and the foundations that built it. With the many sources available, we hope that all will continue to learn.

    Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779:

    “If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.”

    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William C. Jarvis, 1820

    I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

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  • Preparing for the 2025 Election Cycle

    Preparing for the 2025 Election Cycle

    Off Year Elections and Party Building

    “Off” year elections provide opportunities for the Constitution Party to gain local offices and to focus on building County Committees. Local races are often easier to win, and in some cases, no one else is even running for those offices.

    This is the season for building the local Constitution Party. States have the opportunity to build momentum in localized areas that will later impact larger races. In one Pennsylvania School District, the Constitution Party of Pennsylvania has taken first one seat then two, and this year three more candidates are running. The impact of having Constitution Party members on the School Board has already been felt in the shift in focus away from Progressive indoctrination and back towards quality education; but if these three candidates win, the School Board will have a Constitution Party majority and will be able repel all Progressive agendas and show the community what the fundamental principles of the CP can do for them.

    States also have the ability to let more people know that we are an option without breaking the bank on advertising. Local races provide more person-to-person contacts and candidates can meet every voter in their district. Local CP organizations can also work on voter registration drives and educational classes and host less formal fundraisers.

    But, even in States that have no 2025 elections, “off” years do not mean the CP is sitting around not doing anything. Local CP organizations are hard at work scouting for candidates for the 2026 election cycle and are identifying and training new county and local leaders to expand our effectiveness. Some States are hard at work gathering signatures to gain ballot access for future races, giving CP members better representation at all levels.

    Supporters, Voters, Leaders, & Patriots have many opportunities right now to make major differences right where they are at! Will you join the fight?

  • Why Is private property so important?

    Why Is private property so important?

    What is it about Private Property?

    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 three-and-a-half-minute video from Mr. DeWeese linked below or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.

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  • new declaration of independence

    new declaration of independence


    From the Constitution Party, July 4, 2025

    A Declaration of the Rights of American Citizens, When in the Course of human events,
    it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
    connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
    separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle
    them, a decent respect to the opinions of the Citizens of America requires that they
    should declare the causes which cause them to declare their Public Functionaries to be
    traitors who have violated their oath of office and disregarded the Constitution.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equally free and
    independent, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that
    among these are Life, Liberty and the right to own and use Private Property.–That to
    secure these individual rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
    just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Public Functionary
    becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to correct them, and to
    return Government to its limited form. Prudence will dictate that long established
    traditions should not be changed for light and passing causes; and accordingly, all

    experience hath shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evil is sufferable,
    than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
    when a long train of abuses and violations, following invariably the same Object,
    demonstrates a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is
    their duty, to throw off such Public Functionaries, and to return to the Guards for their
    future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of We the People; and such is
    now the necessity which constrains them to alter their current Systems of Government
    and return to the limited government we previously had. The history of the present
    Oligarchy is a history of repeated injuries and violations, all having the direct purpose of
    establishing an absolute Tyranny over the People. To prove this, let Facts be submitted
    to a candid People.

    They have created a wall of bureaucracy and agencies to insulate them from
    accountability.

    They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent swarms of Officers to harass
    our people, and take their private property.

    They have refused to pass laws submitted to them, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    They have treated some individuals and groups like second-class citizens, violating their Rights for the preferential treatment or benefit of other individuals or groups.

    They have used the IRS and Law Enforcement agencies to target and harass those who have questioned or resisted them.

    They have repeatedly prevented and persecuted Citizens for speaking out at public
    meetings, Citizens who have opposed with firmness the invasions on the rights of the
    people.

    They have made Judges through bureaucracies who are dependent on their Will alone,
    for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries, and have
    directed abuse of justice by their judges.

    They have repeatedly ignored due process and, without warrants, searched private
    property and records, taken private property, and imprisoned individuals indefinitely.

    They have raised and kept among us, Standing Armies of alphabet agencies and
    bureaucrats to rule in the place of the limited legislature, executive, and judiciary
    branches of the Constitution.

    They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
    constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Ascent to their Acts of
    pretended laws:

    They have bought our schools and indoctrinate our children into their service:

    They have used the guise of environmental protection to steal our private property and
    confiscate our assets.

    For protecting their bureaucrats, by a mock Trial or no trial, from punishment for any
    abuses which they have committed on the Citizens of these States:

    For creating and facilitating conflicts in foreign lands for their own profits:

    For wasting our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers, lives and
    wellbeing and the meager resources of our Citizens, for their wars and conflicts:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent, to pay for unconstitutional expenditures:

    For abusing us with the unfettered tax of inflating away our incomes and savings
    through fiat currency and crushing debt:

    For preventing us from using sound money, silver and gold, for currency:

    For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For taking away our Constitutions, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering
    fundamentally the Forms of our Governments through their judges:

    For buying our own Legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to
    legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    They have abdicated the right to govern here, by declaring us out of their Protection and waging War against us.

    They have incited domestic insurrections amongst us and have endeavored to bring on
    the daily destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the humblest
    terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Public
    Functionary, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is
    unfit to be the representative of a free People.

    Nor have We been lacking in thoughts of our American brethren. We have warned them
    from time to time of attempts by their government to extend an unwarrantable
    jurisdiction over us. We have invoked them by the ties of our common kindred to
    disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably disrupt our connections,
    communication, and our unity. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
    kinship. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our
    Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace
    Friends.

    We, therefore, the Constitution Party, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for
    the correctness of our intentions, do, in the Name of the Citizens of America, solemnly
    publish and declare, That We the People are, and of Right ought to be Free and
    Independent; that We are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Oligarchy, and that all
    political connection between us and the Oligarchy, is and ought to be totally dissolved;
    and that as Free and Independent Citizens of America, We have full Power and Right to
    do all other Acts and Things which Free Citizens may of right do. We invoke the return to the Constitution and to a limited government that will secure our inalienable Rights.

    We demand that our States get their creation, the U.S. government, back under control. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

  • the lee resolutions and the vote for independence from britain

    the lee resolutions and the vote for independence from britain

    Road to Independence Dateline: 7 June 1776

    The decision to separate from Britain was a difficult one for young America to make. The long train of abuses and the increasingly oppressive measure from England on one side had to be balanced with the idea of breaking from a much loved mother country that could crush them in a war and leave them in a worse position. Many members of the Continental Congress were unsure about taking such a drastic move. 

    When Richard Henry Lee introduced his resolution on June 7th stating that “that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states,” there lacked the votes to approve the resolution. Over the month of June, some delegates sought instructions from their States giving them the right to approve the resolution. Some States were divided with some delegates for and some against. By the 2nd of July a compromise was reach to provide for the passage of the Lee resolution. Some delegates who were against it, were absent for the vote allowing their State to vote in favor of it. New York’s delegates abstained from the vote (because they did not feel they could vote in favor of it in the absence of clear direction from their State) allowing the “unanimous” vote required to pass the resolution.

    The Continental Congress had, in anticipation of passing Lee’s resolution, appointed a committee of five to draft the formal declaration to England. Thomas Jefferson of Virginia wrote the first draft of the declaration which was then edited by and with the help of the committee ( John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert R. Livingston of New York). The final draft was presented to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776. Upon the passing of the Lee resolution, the Congress took up the draft of the declaration and the debates and editing lasted until the 4th of July. 

    On July 4, 1776, The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

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