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About The
The We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education has been established to fulfill the need for popular education including education, awareness, and knowledge about the Declaration of Independence and every provision of the federal and state constitutions, about the sovereignty of the people whose will the constitutions are designed to express, and about the government they are meant to control through their constitutions. Its educational program works to inform the public, increase awareness, and encourage appropriate government reform through constitutional processes, including the exercise and enforcement of the First Amendment Right to Petition. The Foundation is designed to carry out the professional, broad scale educational program required to counteract the public ignorance and apathy we see as hampering the development of citizen vigilance and the acceptance of popular sovereignty essential to the proper governance of our constitutional democratic republics. The Foundation is an organization devoted to the a-political, public interest, teaching of civility "content" and the expression of the Jeffersonian ideal of a way of life rooted in constitutionality and civic action. Conceptually, the Foundation
exercises philosophical leadership in the total program.
Eventually, combining a highly professional public education
program with the penetrating analytical and legal activity
and advocacy of a public- interest law firm, the Foundation
is a source of vital information and education, supportive
funding and professional legal undertakings on behalf of
situations and individuals suffering from non-constitutional
governance, all aimed at "the re-invigoration of
constitutional constraints on government." The We The People Congress The We The People Congress has been established for the purpose of developing in the public forum, from the ordinary, non-aligned citizenry, a constituency committed to what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as a "militant, non-violent, mass-movement" with the goal of achieving substantial reforms in the structure and process of government, through political activism. The Congress is designed as an advocacy organization, to carry the message vocally and politically to the people and to the various legislative and administrative organizations of government, seeking to influence attitudes of the body politic and legislative actions. This is an organization separate from the Foundation, institutionally, but connected by a mutuality of purpose. The Congress will, by rational, intelligent and professional means make it difficult for those currently wielding political and governmental power to continue in power with a "business as usual" approach and lead the people toward significant improvements in our system of governance. We recognize that the acknowledgment of popular sovereignty as a social and political force is a fundamental need. The Congress is committed to achieving its purposes by all possible means short of violence. The Foundation and the Congress recognize that the requirements for changes in governmental structure and process will include, but not necessarily be limited to: the clarification of the federal power to tax; the teaching in our schools of the history, meaning, effect and significance of every provision of our founding documents; increased accountability, ethics and efficiency; the clarification and strengthening of public-debt-limiting restrictions; the clarification and strengthening of the prohibitions regarding the gifting of public funds for private purposes; legislative reform including the strengthening of representative democracy and participatory democracy; a reduction in and control over the cost and secrecy of the legislatures; easier access to the ballot for independents and party insurgents; weakening of the power of political parties and of government in general; weakening of the desire of special interests to influence legislative bodies; non-partisan elections; a judiciary that is more independent and accountable; and, laws which do not favor public education over private education. Why We Exist Although few are
aware of the battle that rages, our Republic currently faces
its most significant challenge ever -- to restore
Constitutional Order and the reclaim the fundamental
Liberties which have been seized by those that would deprive
us our Freedom. Despite the sacrifices of over 200 years,
our Constitution today hangs only by a thread. Download our
WTP corporate brochure!
Certificate of Incorporation for the Foundation, as amended Dec. 15, 2001 By-Laws of the Foundation, as amended Dec. 15, 2001 Certificate of Incorporation for the Congress, as amended Dec. 15, 2001 By-Laws of the Congress, as amended Dec. 15, 2001 Predecessor organizations:
Tri-County Taxpayers Association (1979)
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