“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.”
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
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 second video from Mr. DeWeese linked below, or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.
They told me if I took the red pill I would be able to see reality – the truth of what is really going on around us. Well, I just happened to have a red pill, and I took it. Suddenly there was a bright light almost blinding my eyes. Then, like traveling through time, I was rushing forward, I grew dizzy, and then, as my eyes cleared and I could stand in a steady manner, everything became crystal clear!
I could see that the American people, and their every action, are being ruled, regulated, restricted, licensed, registered, directed, checked, inspected, measured, numbered, counted, rated, stamped, censured, authorized, admonished, refused, prevented, drilled, indoctrinated, monopolized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, disarmed, dishonored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of suffocation and desperation.
And then, more details started shooting out like fireworks! Policies. Politicians. Pronouncements. Power grabs. Everyday government, at all levels, was growing more out of control, more intrusive in our personal lives, more of a threat to private property – all in total and flagrant disregard of the expressed will of the electorate.
And here’s an unexpected, but shocking truth standing right before us all.
Freedom’s enemy today is already in your house, controlling how you live — and you don’t notice it. The enemy is already in your mind, controlling how you think – and you don’t notice that either. That’s all because of a simple phrase that controls all public policy today – “That’s just the way it’s done – everyone is doing it this way.” We accept that, and the thought process ends.
Those behind it are driving toward their goal of global control. And they have figured out a way to get us to voluntarily surrender our liberties — and actually help THEM control YOU.
Now, what could be such a powerful force that can get the population to help destroy their own culture and liberty, leading to personal destruction?
Fear. That is the weapon. Fear of what? The fear of Environmental Armageddon!
This tactic has given the globalist Left the ability to shoot down any opposition. “It doesn’t matter how many rights you think you have, if you don’t have a planet to stand on.” Wow!
Nearly every policy coming out of every level of government today is based on the excuse of combating Climate Change. The weapon to combat such a threat is called Sustainable Development.
In reality Sustainable Development is simply the trigger word designed to get you to voluntarily surrender your liberties. Today it’s used everywhere, to define farming practices, energy policy, manufacturing, and how you live your life. If it’s not “sustainable” it must be stopped.
Sustainable. Sustainable. Sustainable. People hear that word, and their eyes glaze over and they comply.
Every time you hear the word SUSTAINABLE understand that it has nothing to do with protecting the environment – it’s the actual blueprint to subvert representative governments to global control.
To fully understand what a massive threat this is to everything in your life, the very best description of Sustainable Development was provided by one of its most powerful opponents — The late Rosa Kori, of Democrats Against Agenda 21. She said,
“UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all information, all energy, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL!
This is the tool designed to change our culture of freedom.
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.
“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 Foundersliterally put their lives at risk and spent their own money to achieve limited government and the greatest freedom for themselves and their families.
“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.”
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.
“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.
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.
The Constitution Party does not guarantee the accuracy of any site, nor do we promote or endorse any site over another.
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.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?
“Not to Speak is to Speak. Not to Act is to Act. To do nothing when a house is burning is to do something — it is to let the house burn. To say nothing when a country is burning is to do something — it is to let the country burn.” 1
One of the greatest tragedies of 21st Century America is its lack of education in regard to American history, literature, political philosophy and religious thought. We are drowning in mega-terabytes of information on a daily basis, yet we seem to be more confused and chaotic in our thinking than ever before. More information does not equate to more education. The type of information presented is more important than the amount of information. One of those missing pieces is the lack of knowledge on how to use logic, reasoning, and debate on issues about which we might disagree. As a people, we are becoming increasingly reactionary rather than taking well-thought-out action towards fixing whatever the problem may be. Our conversations often turn into confrontations, bullying, and violence, with no real solutions achieved. When political decisions are made which are in opposition to the founding principles of the Republic, those which violate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; when the representatives of the people are only representing themselves or their financial backers, many people feel that there is no way to repair the damage, except through violence. It’s time to re-educate our people on the art of Civil Disobedience.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Civil Disobedience is peaceful action by a citizen or group of citizens against a law, policy or regulation established by a governing authority.
The first American example of Civil Disobedience was in response to the Quartering Act of 1756. As more British troops arrived in America during the French and Indian War, Parliament decided that the colonies should feed, clothe, house, and provide transportation for them. New York decided that it would not support such a mandate. The state assembly felt that the act of implementing it would send a message to Parliament that they supported the law. Instead, the act of non-compliance sent a stronger message that the colony did not recognize the authority of the state to impose such a mandate. They were later censured for this in one of the Townshend Acts.
Henry David Thoreau, an American transcendentalist author/philosopher who lived in the 19th century wrote an essay called “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. Thoreau was concerned about a lot of government overreach in his day, but specifically slavery and the Mexican American War.It is an enlightening work, surprising in its application to the situation Americans find themselves in today, and I highly recommend reading it.
Rule #1: There must be an official government law, policy, regulation, etc. in place.
Rule #2: That law, policy, regulation, etc. must be deemed to be Unjust. A good example of the concept of what is Unjust comes from the ancient Brehon Laws of Ireland. A flax farmer’s field was adjacent to a sheep herder’s pasture. One day the sheep escaped into the farmer’s field and devoured the flax. This destroyed the farmer’s income for an entire year, until another crop could be raised. The farmer sought compensation by bringing his case before the local Brehon (judge). The Brehon ruled that because the flax had been destroyed, all the sheep must be destroyed. Case closed. A young boy about 14 years of age shouted, “This is an Unjust judgement!” In those times anyone could challenge a case in this manner and of any age, so the boy was asked to prove his statement. He explained that the flax could grow back the following year, but the sheep would not. A Just decision would be to simply order that the sheep be sheared, and the fleece given to the farmer to compensate for the loss of his crop.
Rule #3: All appeals to common sense and calls to reverse the government act in question have been ignored or punished by public officials. A good example of this is found in very recent events in America. Mask mandates and vaccine mandates are both examples of unjust government actions, which spawned spontaneous acts of Civil Disobedience by individual citizens across the country.
Rule #4: The word “civil” has two meanings when applied to the term Civil Disobedience. It refers to government authority, but it also applies to peaceful and logical conduct. Although Civil Disobedience has been practiced in various forms throughout history, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and the 1960’s as well as the American Indian Movement of the 1970’s are two examples many of us remember still. Violence eventually erupted in both these movements and the reasons are varied and complicated. Yet both began as powerful examples of Civil Disobedience. Will the future look back upon the battle to re-establish America’s Constitutional Republic as a beacon of light in a dark world? Only time will tell.
Consequences
There are always natural and unnatural consequences for any choice we make. Newton’s Third Law of Motion applies here in more ways than one: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
If you choose to practice Civil Disobedience, you can expect some sort of reaction from those who would be tyrannical.
There are an endless number of government acts which need to be overcome by exercising this Duty of American citizenship, indeed it can be said to be a Duty of all humans – to defeat tyranny through peaceful and lawful means.
Roger K. Hudnut, 1971; A Sensitive Man and the Christ, page 21. ↩︎
Schultz, Samuel H.J. (2019) “Civil Disobedience: A Constitutional Alternative to Injustice,” Mitchell Hamline Law Review: Vol. 45: Iss. 2, Article 9. Available at: https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/mhlr/vol45/iss2/9 ↩︎
